Bloodlust is a very erotic, extremely intense love story with a difference. It is also a vampire story in the finest tradition of Anne Rice's sexy novels, but much more explicit and set in contemporary Australia. The central character of Bloodlust is a young woman called Carmilla, who is attractive, headstrong, curious, sexually aggressive and wildly independent. She is also a vampire. An invader of the normal, a loner, hungry for experience and dedicated to her search for meaning. And blood. She meets a young man, Jonathan, at a party, and they are instantly and fatally attracted to each other; they begin a wild sexual affair that will not satiate their desires, and gradually they begin to explore sexual bloodsports, eventually luring others to their house to feed their fetish and fantasy games. Or at least Jonathan thinks they are games - but even he becomes alarmed by the lengths to which Carmilla is prepared to go to satisfy her lusts...but by then his life is so entangled with hers he cannot break free from her spell... A dark, thrillingly erotic and chilling novel of sex and horror from a young writer of disturbing and powerful talents, Bloodlust is also a metaphor for the modern world. We live in an age of vampires - lusty, hungry, obsessed and isolated. Has the need for love gone underground? Do people disguise it, not admit they need it, seek it in other forms? Vampires embody society's social anxieties, particularly on the brink of a new milennium. They also at times fear life and long to die...Bloodlust explores the cruelty and primal lusts that lie just below humankind's surface respectability as well as hidden and forbidden power, life beyond the everyday, and the extraordinary within the ordinary.