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Blood Price is the first novel in Tanya Huff's series about private investigator Victoria ("Vicky") Nelson, her new, immortal helper, bastard son of Henry VIII, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, or simply, Henry Fitzroy, and her former lover and colleague Detective - Sergeant Mike Cellucci. It was published in 1991, and followed by four subsequent novels: Blood Trail (1992), Blood Lines (1992), Blood Pact (1993), Blood Debt (1997), and one short stories collection - Blood Bank. Blood Price is also the title of first two episodes of the Lifetime series, Blood Ties, which is based on Tanya Huff’s books. The Vicki Nelson book series is also known as ″Blood Books″.
Usage examples of "blood price".
To keep Silvertree safe you need fresh swords, and put out the call, urging friendly barons to do the same, proclaiming a blood price on this dark legacy of darker Blackgult, come down on fair Aglirta like thieves in the night.
Afterward, he hunted the Merikit and killed one for each member of his lord's family and his own to pay the blood price.
Njal himself was exiled for being too poor to pay blood price over a man he had killed.
He and your mother had their painful past, which we know to be the true reason behind his refusal to erase the blood price on your family.
If, as his kin, we fail to come to his aid, cannot he exact from us the blood price ten times over, according to our law?
That blood price would still be paid, yet stone walls and high towers could no longer hold back an assault.
What more reasonable than that someone should return that head to Navahk to claim blood price, and so prove his death to all the world?