Blood’s Will is a tour de force outlining the rich tapestry of decisions and dilemmas facing two lovers wrestling with decisions surrounding profound life changes against the backdrop of a fantasy dreamscape set in Baltimore, MD. The main characters and their respective friends weave a dramatic course of action throughout a gauntlet of challenges that illuminate their ever-intensifying romantic, obligational, and sexual tensions (is there a vampire and who is it?). Unlike many similar examinations of relationships, this trip through time, back and forth, exposes both the surface and deep workings of soul and mind and, uniquely, exposes what the characters “really think” about each other and their challenges and events progress. Their friends shape and influence the action and decisions made by the main characters as the suspense and tension build to a climax and a startling ending – or is it a beginning? Anyone who has ever had their life shattered and remade by improbable events will identify with the feelings and passions of the all-too-real characters crafted by this new author. The author has written what she knows – deconstructing herself into the kaleidoscope of events and impressions that combine and fuse to predict a book that’s impossible to put down. McDermott weaves an even more fascinating web of ideas a possibilities in her Introduction and Afterword, grist for reading by deep appreciators of literature.