Hemo Sapiens

These women are out for blood.

Detective Luke Stockton is preparing for his first child with his wife, Beatrice, but balancing work and home is a challenge as she is behaving with increasing strangeness. Beatrice begins to frequent a medspa offering mysterious prenatal checkups, leech treatments, and vampire facials. And, against his will, Luke finds himself irresistibly drawn to the spa's sophisticated owner, Cleo, who has a deadly secret to keep.

The pressure builds for Luke as he investigates a series of murders involving exsanguinated runaway boys. Trailing a perplexing killer, and bent on protecting his wife and their child, Luke is thrust into a shadowy, erotic world of wealth, subterfuge, and danger. And the closer he gets to the truth, the more danger he courts for himself and his family.

Hemo Sapiens is an audacious and bloodthirsty fairy tale, pitting one man against a community beyond good and evil, in a modern tale of intrigue and female sexuality.

Emily A. Weedon is an award-winning screenwriter and the author of Autokrator. She lives in Toronto.

ISBN: 9781459755673
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: September 30, 2025

A razor-sharp, seductive plunge into a world where the line between predator and prey blurs, and nothing - least of all your assumptions - can be trusted. With witty, biting dialogue and a dark, glittering edge, Weedon delivers a vampire tale that redefines the genre.