Waiting on Wednesday #2

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted over at Breaking the Spine and spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly awaiting.

I really, really want to read:

Blood Magic

(The Blood Journals #1)

by Tessa Gratton

Publication Date UK: July 7th 2011

Publisher: Doubleday Childrens

Summary (courtesy of Goodreads):

For Nick Pardee and Silla Kennicot, the cemetery is the center of everything.
Nick is a city boy angry at being forced to move back to the nowhere town of Yaleylah, Missouri where he grew up. He can’t help remembering his mom and the blood magic she practiced – memories he’s tried for five years to escape. Silla, though, doesn’t want to forget; her parents’ apparent murder-suicide left her numb and needing answers. When a book of magic spells in her dad’s handwriting appears on her doorstep, she sees her chance to unravel the mystery of their deaths.
Together they plunge into the world of dark magic, but when a hundred-year-old blood witch comes hunting for the bones of Silla’s parents and the spell book, Nick and Silla will have to let go of everything they believe about who they are, the nature of life and death, and the deadly secrets that hide in blood.

Why I want to read this:

Blood, magic, a hundred-year-old witch, secrets and a budding romance. What's more to want? If it is as dark as the summary promises then it sounds like it's up my alley exactly.