{"id":9986,"date":"2023-09-27T01:05:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9986"},"modified":"2023-09-26T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T02:16:58","slug":"take-what-you-want-mfrwhooks-vampireromance-romantichorror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/?p=9986","title":{"rendered":"Take What You Want &#8211; #MFRWHooks #vampireromance #romantichorror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Wednesday and time for the MFRW Book Hooks Blog Hop!<\/p>\n<p>This week&#8217;s excerpt is from Through My Heart, my vampire romance that&#8217;s scheduled for release on October 1st. This excerpt is from Adrian and Anna&#8217;s first meeting in Pompeii.<\/p>\n<p>For more excerpts from MFRW authors, stop by <a href=\"https:\/\/mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kate<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Excerpt from Through My Heart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Her beauty overwhelmed me. Why was a creature like this selling herself on the street? Yes, she was a prostitute, a slave, but surely her master saw that she was a rare commodity. She didn\u2019t belong here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you ready?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Are you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no choice, and it no longer matters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why do you despair? You&#8217;re young and beautiful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She furrowed her brow, a hint of anger in her eyes. &#8220;Why do I despair? Look at my life. I would rather be dead than live here another second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The scent reached me again\u2014pungent. The mountain of death loomed over the city. Her wish might soon come true.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please. Take what you want and get it over with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9981\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Through-My-Heart-350-\u00d7-560-px-188x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Through-My-Heart-350-\u00d7-560-px-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Through-My-Heart-350-\u00d7-560-px-300x480.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Through-My-Heart-350-\u00d7-560-px.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>Through My Heart<\/strong><br \/>\nby Kate Hill<br \/>\nSeries: Romantic Moments<br \/>\nFormat(s): Ebook<br \/>\nHeat Level: Spicy<br \/>\nPairing(s): M\/F<br \/>\nGenre\/Themes: Vampires, Romantic Horror, Historical Romance<br \/>\nLength: Short Story<br \/>\nPreorder Link:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Through-Heart-Romantic-Moments-Book-ebook\/dp\/B0CH2KLRYZ\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Adrian<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0\u2013 I am a vampire whose physical ugliness intensified with my immortality. For centuries I hunted alone, disguising myself from prey, preferring illusions to brutal attacks. Others of my kind spurned me. Some tried to destroy me, and on them I unleashed my wrath. I suffered the agony of eternal loneliness, and then I met Anna.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\"><strong>Anna<\/strong> \u2013 My life was almost unbearable until a tall, black-haired stranger with fiery eyes and needle sharp teeth drank my blood and swept me into an unimaginable world. From the night we met, I gave\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">Adrian<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">\u00a0my heart, but a lie spun by a jealous enemy drove us apart. I swore I would never give him the chance to hurt me again, but denying my love for him was harder than I thought.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Note: Through My Heart is a very short horror romance featuring vampiric love. It has a spicy heat level, violence, and a HEA. This Romantic Moments story is the perfect length for a lunch break, before bed, or any time you want a quick, romantic read.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!-- start LinkyTools script --><\/p>\n<p><b>Powered by Linky Tools<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkytools.com\/wordpress_list.aspx?id=310211&amp;type=basic\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to enter your link and view this Linky Tools list&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7387 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Book Hooks Blog Hop\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/mfrw-book-hooks400.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&rsquo;s Wednesday and time for the MFRW Book Hooks Blog Hop! This week&rsquo;s excerpt is from Through My Heart, my vampire romance that&rsquo;s scheduled for release on October 1st. This excerpt is from Adrian and Anna&rsquo;s first meeting in Pompeii. For more excerpts from MFRW authors, stop by https:\/\/mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com\/ Kate Excerpt from Through My Heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1096],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-through-my-heart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9993,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions\/9993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}