Midwinter Blood

Sedgewick, Marcus. (2013). Midwinter Blood. NY: Roaring Book Press.  Eric Seven in 2073 visits an island where no one ages and no one is born.  Eric is a young journalist and when he arrives at the island know one knows he has arrived.  A young woman named Merle and an old man named Tor seems to be familiar to Eric, which is odd because they have never met. Eric becomes very relaxed on this island and they keep giving him tea.  The book goes back in time and tell the previous life of Eric and Merle. There are 5 stories in the plot of this book.  The Archaeologist is a about a group of archaeologist who wants to make something of themselves; The Airman who travels far from home; The painter who has not painted in years; The unquiet grave is about a ghost; vampire is when two siblings are seperated by a vampire.  This book is a gothic love story that interwines other stories going back and forth in time.  This story covers Kohlberg's social development of postconventional level of moral development.  Eric and Merle are recognizing that laws and social rules conflict.