{"id":1846,"date":"2017-06-19T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2017-06-18T23:08:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T03:08:49","slug":"story-sample-dark-flight-by-cynthia-sax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kate-hill.com\/compellingbeastsblog\/2017\/06\/19\/story-sample-dark-flight-by-cynthia-sax\/","title":{"rendered":"Story Sample: Dark Flight by Cynthia Sax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Title:<\/strong> Dark Flight<\/p>\n

Author:<\/strong> Cynthia Sax<\/p>\n

Blurb:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dark Flight<\/strong><\/p>\n

His mission. His challenge. His forever.<\/p>\n

Orol, the Refuge\u2019s second-in-command, has been given what he believes is a simple mission\u2014escort two human females to the settlement. The winged warrior arrives at the meeting site to find one of the females missing and the other aiming a gun at his head. To rescue the first, he must capture the second. Once he has Rhea in his talons, however, he realizes he never wants to let her go.<\/p>\n

Her enemy. Her captor. Her everything.<\/p>\n

Rhea doesn\u2019t trust anyone. She certainly doesn\u2019t follow commands issued by a gorgeous flying male with glittering eyes, a beautiful face, and a seductive touch. Orol is dominant, edged with darkness, and determined to find her sister. Rhea will do anything to prevent that, even if it means playing sensual games of submission with her powerful enemy, seducing him into forgetting everything except her.<\/p>\n

Dark Flight is a STAND-ALONE SciFi Romance set in a gritty, dark world.<\/p>\n

You Can Pre-order Now:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Excerpt<\/strong><\/p>\n

His female extracted a dagger from one of his sheaths. \u201cThis looks promising.\u201d She tilted the weapon back and forth. Sunlight reflected off the blade.<\/p>\n

Orol narrowed his eyes.<\/p>\n

\u201cUse that and I\u2019ll drop you.\u201d He warned her. \u201cIf you hit the ground, you\u2019ll die.\u201d<\/p>\n

They soared high above the sand dunes. She was human, delicate, breakable.<\/p>\n

\u201cI might die or I might live.\u201d Her hands shook, the first sign of weakness he\u2019d observed in his tiny warrior. \u201cI\u2019ll take my chances with the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

She toyed with the blade, finding the gap between his chest covering and his ass covering. The tip of the dagger pricked his skin. He stiffened.<\/p>\n

His damn female pushed the dagger home, slicing through his flesh, stabbing him in the gut, her big brown eyes blank of all emotion.<\/p>\n

Orol howled, pain surging through him, acute and intense. It wasn\u2019t enough to break his hold on her. The Humanoid Alliance had tortured him more severely for many human lifespans.<\/p>\n

But he had promised to drop her.<\/p>\n

Orol released his female and yanked out the dagger. She fell. While he licked the blade clean and placed it back in the sheath, he trailed her descent.<\/p>\n

The pain eased. The blood stopped gushing. The wound closed. He\u2019d been genetically designed to heal quickly, his nanohumanics speeding the process.<\/p>\n

His female continued to plummet. She spun in the air, flaying her arms and legs, as though reaching for something, anything, to break her fall.<\/p>\n

His tiny warrior didn\u2019t scream, didn\u2019t make a single sound.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re fierce, mate.\u201d He swooped downward, clasped her waist, pulled her upward, retrieving her before she splattered her pretty face all over the white sand.<\/p>\n

This time, he didn\u2019t flip her over. Facing away from him, she wouldn\u2019t be able to reach his remaining daggers, inflict more damage on him.<\/p>\n

Dampness coated his fingers. Orol gazed downward and his heart squeezed. Her flight suit dripped with blood, too much blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re bleeding out.\u201d He could lose her. She was human. They hadn\u2019t yet mated. He hadn\u2019t fed her his blood. She didn\u2019t have his nanohumanics to help her heal.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll be dead within moments.\u201d Her voice was barely audible, even with his enhanced senses. \u201cBefore this planet rotation, I had never broken a promise to her.\u201d<\/p>\n

She must be talking about her sister.<\/p>\n

His female\u2019s body went alarmingly limp, her head and limbs dangling. \u201cYou did it. You can tell your masters, the Humanoid Alliance, that you killed us. You ended whatever threat they believed two small human females posed to their magnificent cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou won\u2019t die.\u201d Orol carried her to the top of the highest mountain. They\u2019d be safe there. Steep cliffs surrounded the plateau at the pinnacle, making it accessible only from the air. \u201cYou\u2019ll keep your promise to your sister. And the Humanoid Alliance are not my masters.\u201d<\/p>\n

He hated them, would kill them all if he could.<\/p>\n

Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

About Cynthia Sax<\/p>\n

USA Today bestselling author Cynthia Sax writes contemporary, SciFi and paranormal erotic romances. Her stories have been featured in Star Magazine, Real Time With Bill Maher, and numerous best of erotic romance top ten lists.<\/p>\n

Sign up for her dirty-joke-filled release day newsletter and visit her on the web at www.CynthiaSax.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Website:\u00a0 http:\/\/cynthiasax.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Newsletter:\u00a0 \u00a0http:\/\/tasteofcyn.com\/2014\/05\/28\/newsletter\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Facebook:\u00a0 facebook.com\/cynthia.sax<\/a><\/p>\n

Twitter:\u00a0 @CynthiaSax <\/a><\/p>\n

Blog:\u00a0 http:\/\/tasteofcyn.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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