The Blood of Kings

by John Michael Curlovich

 

The Blood of Kings

John Michael Curlovich

Alyson Publications

 

This 256-page paperback has all the elements most people never think about: gay lovers, ancient Egypt, blood and murder. A young man, Jamie, decides to take a course on Egyptology and finds his professor, Dr. Danilo, is the same one whom he met at an Egyptian exhibit on campus, the same one who caught his attention when they first met. As far as the murders, a serial killer is on the loose on the campus, killing and cutting up male students.

Soon, Jamie is swept up in a passionate affair with the good professor and leaps at the chance to travel to Paris and Egypt with his new lover. However, Jamie’s love is soon tainted with a strange feeling when he notices that an exhibit of Egyptian artifacts at the Louvre includes a relief of a pharaoh kissing his son and successor, who bears more than a slight resemblance to Danilo. Jamie becomes even more uneasy when he learns that a murder, like that of the serial killer back on campus in the states, has just taken place in Paris.

Danilo ultimately reveals to his young lover the details of an ancient cult of kings, connected by a single bloodline extending through the centuries. Now Jamie must choose whether to return to the world he has known, or join his lover and mentor in a life of passion, power and blood.

(as published in Family & Friends Magazine, February 2005)