ESTHER SLADE BOOKS
tithe of blood
Esther Slade's latest novel, Tithe of Blood, is available now at Amazon.
Set in Washington, DC and the Caribbean islands of St. Croix and Antigua, Tithe of Blood is the coming of age story of Hope Mae Taylor. Growing up in Contentment, a small, close-knit community in St. Croix, Hope is a feisty, energetic, beauty who believes that a person can achieve any goal by sheer determination and hard work. She is also ambitious and her political aspirations have no limits. In high school, Hope is valedictorian and president of her senior class and voted ‘most likely to succeed’ by her peers.
When she arrives on the Howard University campus in Washington, DC her freshman year, she meets and falls in love with the buff , smooth-talking, Wesley Carter, a former Army Sergeant. However, when Wesley’s plans for the future do not coincide with her political goals, Hope quickly ditches him for the political insider Trent Williams. On the surface, Trent appears to be a successful attorney and political advisor to Washington’s elite, underneath he is a functional manic depressive with dark secrets from his childhood. As his mental condition deteriorates, Hope becomes the target of his psychotic, violent episodes, and she must choose to keep up appearances or leave Trent and jeopardize the political career she has worked so hard for.
Her choice will forever change her life and the lives of the people around her.
