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This week I’m sharing an excerpt from my vampire romance the Darkness Therein that’s scheduled for release on November 28th.
In this excerpt, the vampire hero, Jocelyn, goes to find nourishment.
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Kate
Excerpt from the Darkness Therein:
Jocelyn dressed in iron-colored trousers and a matching sweater. He slipped on steel-toe boots. While not the most attractive footwear, they were effective weapons. For years he’d imagined using those boots to kick Edrik’s glistening sharp teeth down his throat. Tonight he’d nearly had the chance, but unfortunately Edrik had been right. Jocelyn was hungry from traveling day and night to reach Charlie. Moving by daylight was draining enough, but he had neither the time nor the inclination to seek the nourishment crucial to his survival.
Fortunately, at the moment he was in the mood to take what he needed.
He strode through the rain-slicked streets, following the collective throb of mortal hearts beating in time to overly loud music. The individual pulses randomly fluctuated when each was excited by too much alcohol, drugs, or impending sexual encounters. Every now and then he caught the scent of other vampires. Like the rogue he was, he didn’t seek them out, and they left him alone. Most vampires were social creatures and felt some comfort knowing others were close by. Not Jocelyn. He saw them as yet another form of danger.
Jocelyn slipped past security and into the glaring, noisy mass of blood-warmed flesh where he waited for a meal to approach him. One always did.
She was tall, dark-haired, pale-eyed, and wore a low-cut black dress that just brushed her lean thighs. Some might consider her small, catlike features attractive. Jocelyn didn’t care if she looked like the back end of a defecating warthog. Pleasure wasn’t on his mind. Food was.
“You look a little lost.” She stared into his eyes and bit her red-painted lower lip in a manner meant to be seductive.
“I’m just looking.”
“Cute accent.” She brushed his arm with her shoulder first and then with the points of her small breasts. “Looking for what?”
Blurb:
Jocelyn has chased his nemesis for centuries. He swore that nothing or no one would stand between him and revenge on the creature that destroyed his life. That same rival leads Jocelyn to the one person who can reconnect him to the human race.
Art student Charlie has no idea that her family history binds her to a creature of legend–until he appears in the form of a tall, beautiful man with a thirst for revenge. The last thing she wants is to follow his orders, but if she intends to stay alive, she has no choice.
Note: The Darkness Therein was previously published. This re-edited version contains additional scenes.
Pre-Order Links: Amazon / Smashwords
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She doesn’t stand a chance. The man is hungry,
blood-warmed flesh – great description.
With my luck, if I were a vampire, the victim I happened upon would probably be the local wino who had been drinking Night Train all evening. Tweeted.