title: The Blood Jaguar
author: Sardanas, R. Paul
description: Night & death, temptation & change --- jaguar, brother of blood, bringer of secret passions. Passionate blood and fevered sex --- the second book of the Siobhan Bishop Erotic Underworld series ushers the occult book expert into the superheated world of an exotic vampire subculture thriving on the Gulf Coast of Florida. A package from Miranda Thomas, a childhood friend of Siobhan's, arrives at her bookstore and inside is a priceless 500 year-old manuscript detailing the history and rituals of Mexican Aztec blood magic. Miranda disappears, prompting Siobhan and her lover --- Harvard Professor and fellow mystic Richard Blake --- to travel to the Gulf of Mexico to pursue the mystery surrounding her lost friend. They discover a cult of sun-worshipping Aztec-inspired vampires operating a fabulously successful private resort where the rich and famous journey in secret to experience intense, forbidden raptures. Siobhan, attempting to free Miranda from a dangerous liaison with the hypnotic cult leaders Don Cipriano and Dona Alejandra Rodriguez, instead finds herself drawn into temptations of ecstasy that flow like hot blood.