Welcome!

This is the official Web site for Maria Lima, author of the Blood Lines series, unrepentant fangrrl and writing geek. The site is a work in progress (mostly because the Web is always being updated!), as is pretty much everything else in my life.

My role models include Tanya Huff, Joss Whedon, Christopher Golden and Charles deLint amongst many, many others.

I love to read, write and watch genre TV. I'm very lucky that people actually pay me to do one of these three things. My series is published by Juno Books, an imprint of Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster.

Praise for the Blood Lines series:

an intriguing and diverse supernatural society
-- Bookloons

Matters of the Blood is filled with plot twists and artful surprises.
-- Breeni Books

Mystery, suspense and things that go bump in the night are all packed into this second part, making the first book weep in envy and the third book having to live up to an even higher standard.
-- Amber Chalmers, PNR

Feisty Keira narrates with a biting sense of humor.
-- Romantic Times 4 star review

It's a complex plot with the requisite twists and turns of a mystery, the passion of a paranormal romance and the unearthly elements of urban fantasy.
-- SF Site Reviews

Ms. Lima spins a suspenseful tale and packs it with paranormal elements that will hold the reader’s attention to the end.
-- Darque Reviews

Order of Blood Lines series

Book 1: Matters of the Blood
Book 2: Blood Bargain
Book 3: Blood Kin

Book 4: Blood Heat (coming late 2010)