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DEATH'S LOVER
DEATH'S LOVER
CRIMSON NIGHT
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BY
MARIE HALL
Death's Lover
Eternal Lovers series, Book 1
Release Date:
September 3, 2013
Eve Philips thought
she could never love again. After her husband died in a hit-and-run accident,
Eve poured her heart into her potions shop, Witch’s Brew, and hasn’t given any
man a second glance—until Cian. As soon as she locks eyes with him, Eve knows she’ll
never be the same. Gorgeous and mysterious, he incites a passion in her that
she’s never felt before. And it’s almost otherworldly . . .
Cian knows Eve is
special the minute they lay eyes on each other. He’s a supernatural being with
a dangerous duty, and being seen is not part of the job description. But when
he meets the kind, beautiful Eve, all the rules go out the window. Now that his
superiors have gotten wind of it, he has a wicked enemy on his tail. Yet all he
cares about is Eve: loving her, protecting her—and finding the right time to
tell her his dark and terrible secret, a secret that threatens both of their
lives . . .
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Eve Philips gripped her husband’s arm tighter as they walked
across the sidewalk to the mall entrance. She hadn’t felt good this morning;
she’d been haunted by bad dreams all night long. Dreams of blood and violence
and gore. She’d screamed herself awake, clinging to her husband with a vague
unsettling feeling. But as dreams often do, the intensity of it faded until now
all that was left was a lingering echo of it and an annoying headache.
It was almost Christmas, and she and her husband had a
shopping date planned. She refused to wuss out now over some stupid dreams.
Still, the unease of this morning lingered in the darkest corners of her mind.
Usually she could just shake these things. Maybe it was just the old,
burned coffee the java shack had served her this morning. Either way, she
really wanted to stop stressing about it. There were too many other real things
to worry about.
Like the fact that in three days her coven would be required
to vote on the fate of a werewolf who’d been caught stabbing his human wife. No
matter that his wife had tried to kill him first with the aid of a warlock’s
spell. Humans demanded the supernatural folk—or “supers,” as they preferred to
be called—governed themselves as swiftly and brutally as possible, especially
when the crime involved one of their own. That was the life of a witch,
especially one who chose to live in a city in as much turmoil as San Francisco.
Still, there was no other place in the world she’d rather be.
By congressional act, California had granted the first and
only place that the others could come out of hiding and live as they truly
were. Werewolves no longer had to hide in tunnels, vampires could roam the
streets freely at night, and witches could practice their craft without fear of
retribution by the normals. That was ten years ago, and she’d never looked
back.
Not to say that it was one big love fest. A snake could shed
its skin several times in a lifetime, but that would never change its true
essence. In the end a snake would always remain a snake. Just as a vampire
could not help but feed, or a werewolf would go mad by light of the full moon.
Having so many volatile and sometimes dangerous groups in
such close proximity practically begged for the violence to occur.
But she accepted it and moved on, because freedom was worth
any price. Glancing around, she inhaled the sharp nip to the wind. It was a
cloudless, gray day. The type that made her want to curl up in front of a
roaring fire with a steaming cup of chamomile, cocooned against her husband’s
body.
She didn’t notice the small rut in the road and stepped down
hard. Muddy water splashed up her leg. A large black gob of goo landed square
on her blood red pumps.
“Damn it!”
Michael glanced down. One side of his mouth curled into a
half-formed grin. She growled and picked up a dead leaf to scrape off the nasty
mixture.
“I don’t even want to know what that was.” He laughed.
Eve stood and glared at her husband’s smiling face. Turning
her nose in the air, she dropped the leaf with disgust and walked away.
“Honey.” He grabbed her hand and chuckled. “You gotta
admit...it was pretty funny.”
“Ha-ha. I’m just howling with laughter.” She pointed a
finger to her deadpan face. “This is me in hysterics.”
Michael hugged her and slowly she smiled, never really that
mad to begin with, but loving to be a little dramatic all the same.
“Why does that only ever happen to me?”
“Because you’re just so cute, the goddess had to give you
some sort of flaw.”
She nailed him with a glare and then sighed with exasperation
when he refused to look at her. Michael refused to be ruffled today.
The mall was appropriately decorated: a large Christmas tree
sat guard to the entrance, festive lights hung swag from one light post to the
next, and there was, of course, the melee of people shoving against her at a
constant, repetitive pace with barely an apology to be gained. She sighed. To
say she had a love-hate relationship with the holidays was putting it mildly.
But Michael had been acting secretive all day, alluding to
some great gift she’d find under the tree come Yule. In truth, her husband’s
enthusiasm for life was contagious. She wouldn’t miss the annual last-minute
shopping for the world, though she’d never tell him that.
“Michael,” she grumbled, “let’s go home. It’s freezing. My
feet hurt, and…” She paused, trying to think of the next excuse to come up
with.
He only smiled as expected. “Love you, shrew.”
She rolled her eyes, trying desperately not to snort with
laughter.
Then as if the weather felt some need to remind her just how
cold it was—and that she had no freaking business being out in the first
place—she was blasted with a sweep of frigid air up her trench coat.
She shivered. “Stupid weatherman. I should hex his ass. He
said temperatures of sixty.”
Michael’s lips twitched. “When are you gonna learn
that were don’t know his ass from his head? The man’s
worthless. Call a toad a toad and a bad weatherman a bad weatherman. Period.”
She nodded. “Hear, hear.”
Crimson Night
Night series, Book 1
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Welcome one and all to Carnival Diabolique-
or what I affectionately like to call, the carnival of the damned. My name
is Pandora, and though my face might not look familiar to you, you do know me.
I'm a Nephilim. What does that mean? I'm half demon, what's my other name?
Lust. I'm the dark craving that drives you mad, makes you want, makes you
reckless and stupid. I'm the drug you'll do anything to get your hands on. But
I'm not all bad. I fight for light, for goodness and truth. I love my job,
killing vampires and werewolves, zombies, and freaks... it's what makes me
happy. But people are starting to disappear and lately I've felt a dark
presence lurking around me. I think it might be a death priest and that's
really bad. There isn't much a demon like me fears, but I fear them. This
should have been easy, me killing the fanged freaks, getting rid of my pesky
priest problem, but I'm about to be betrayed by the one person I thought I
could trust with my life and before the night is through I'll be covered in
crimson...
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NIGHT Excerpt:
“Why do you have this?” He waved the book he’d been reading
at me like one might brandish a sword.
“What?” I shook my head. “The Bible?”
“Yes, the Bible, what’s it doing here?” His mouth set in a
firm line, but I heard what he wasn’t asking. What he didn’t say was: What was
the Bible doing in the home of a hell spawn?
“Over sixty percent of households have one, priest. Is it a
crime?”
“Yes!” He shot to his feet, murderous rage dripped from his
tongue like venom. “You’re a demon.”
I lifted a brow. “Half. Half demon, Priest. You gonna accuse
me of something get it right.”
“You,” he pointed at me, “are an abomination. What would you
know about light?”
Wow, insult the demon. How original. If Billy was looking
for a reaction from me to justify his actions or to salve his conscience then
he was screwed. I wasn’t taking the bait.
“Again, I ask you...why is it here?” His shoulders heaved
with his labored breathing.
Why oh why had I decided to park my trailer so far away from
the safety of the pack? All this yelling would have had my demon hoard—as I’m
sure death god here thought of them—running to my door.
“Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well; the
devils also believe, and tremble. James 2:19,” I finally said.
He looked as if I’d slapped him.
“What I read is my business,” I snapped.
“Ye have heard that it was said of them of old time, thou
shall not kill. Matthew 5:21.” His words were steel tempered in black
velvet, they shivered down my spine. I licked my lips. “I saw you kill a man
tonight. I saw you kill one in Austin. I saw you kill a girl in Venice.”
With each sentence he’d walked a little closer until now his face was back to
within inches of mine. Sandalwood wrapped me up in its heady embrace. “Would
you like me to go on?”
His lips were a feather’s touch from mine. Jeez, he had nice
lips. The kind you wanted to pull into your mouth and suck on.
Then it struck me what he’d said. Venice. The last time I’d
been in Venice was three months ago. I was suddenly more than just a little
scared and fear always made me angry. I hated weakness. Especially in myself.
“Don’t you dare judge me! You know nothing about me.” My chest grew tight,
breathing became harder. I wanted to smack him and lick him all at the same
time. How sick was I?
He snorted. “Of course I do, Pandora.”
The sound of my name rolling from his lips made me shiver.
I narrowed my eyes and could feel the anger turning my normally ice-blue color
a frosty swirling lavender. Anger. Lust. They were both two sides of the same
emotion and my demon was feeding off of it.
“Then kill me, Priest. End this. Go ahead.”
He stepped away from me, it almost appeared involuntary.
“You know me so well do you?”
Again he wore that cold expression I was quickly learning to hate.
“You arrogant bastard,” I snarled, “you think you’re no different than me? Fool
yourself if you want to. Judge me all you want, but you know it’s true. Go ahead,
priest, kill me. And I promise to sit here like a good girl and take it.” I
tilted my head to the side, my hair slid across my breasts. “But this offer is
only good for the next minute. So you think about it real good, because I
promise you, it will never be this easy again.”
He stared at me as if I were something unexpected. An oddity he was both
repulsed by and curious about.
“Why did you let us leave earlier?” he asked in a voice so low I almost hadn’t
heard him say it.
“I keep asking myself that same question.” I narrowed my eyes. “What do you
think I am, Priest?” I don’t know why I asked that.
“Evil,” he said without skipping a beat. “You are pure sin.”
Right Now
Moment series, Book 2
Release Date:
September 15, 2013
Sometimes in
life....
Things were supposed to get better when Ryan met Lili. I was supposed to move on, get a life... but I'm stuck and lost. Things with my father are not good. There are demons in our closet, big ones. Ones I want to kill him for, I'm seeing a shrink, I'm trying to get better... but my life feels out of control, like I'm a raft adrift on the sea. I don't know where to look, how to get anchored again, and then I meet Zoe Stone. Something about her draws me out of my rut, makes me laugh for real, smile, and for the first time in years I want to be more. But what will she think when she discovers who I really am?
...all we have...
When Alexander Donovan, aka The Golden Adonis, walks into my tattoo parlor, I know I'll do anything to make that man mine. There's an instant connection, a need to know more about him. Everything about him. But there's also a mystery surrounding the guy, when people look at him they only see the man that laughs, that cracks jokes and makes the world think that everything's okay, but I see the truth... I see the darkness that lurks so deep inside few would ever recognize it. I want to help him, I want to be with him, now I just have to make him trust me enough to let me in.
Is Right Now
Things were supposed to get better when Ryan met Lili. I was supposed to move on, get a life... but I'm stuck and lost. Things with my father are not good. There are demons in our closet, big ones. Ones I want to kill him for, I'm seeing a shrink, I'm trying to get better... but my life feels out of control, like I'm a raft adrift on the sea. I don't know where to look, how to get anchored again, and then I meet Zoe Stone. Something about her draws me out of my rut, makes me laugh for real, smile, and for the first time in years I want to be more. But what will she think when she discovers who I really am?
...all we have...
When Alexander Donovan, aka The Golden Adonis, walks into my tattoo parlor, I know I'll do anything to make that man mine. There's an instant connection, a need to know more about him. Everything about him. But there's also a mystery surrounding the guy, when people look at him they only see the man that laughs, that cracks jokes and makes the world think that everything's okay, but I see the truth... I see the darkness that lurks so deep inside few would ever recognize it. I want to help him, I want to be with him, now I just have to make him trust me enough to let me in.
Is Right Now
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Excerpt 3:
Her eyes were roaming my body and my skin prickled under her
hot gaze. I knew I wasn’t bad to look at—dusty blond hair with an athlete’s
body and gunmetal silver eyes that girls always fawned over.
But looking at her and looking at me, we couldn’t be more
opposite.
“Vanilla?” I asked.
Giving a very satisfied smirk, she hopped up on the counter
and crossed her legs, showing off very feminine curves and the tiniest, most
delicious pair of ankles I’d ever seen. A gold ankle bracelet jingled as she
bounced her foot.
“Means you look like you took a wrong turn.” She gestured to
the room, never taking her molten brown gaze off me.
My lips twitched and I leaned forward, resting an elbow
beside her. Close enough that I felt her heat, close enough that her scent of
jasmine tickled my nose, made me hungry and crazed. Damn, she was hot.
“Those kids looking at the wall look just like me.” I lifted
a brow and she leaned in, so close her minty breath washed over my lips.
My entire body tensed up and I had to curl my fingers into
the counter to stop myself from yanking her hot, little body against mine and
having my way with her.
“Yeah, but you can spot the posers a mile away. The ones who
would never do something like this when they’re totally sober. So…” she walked
her finger across my collarbone, making my flesh shiver and heat flash down my
spine, “what are you doing here, va-nil-la?”
The way she broke up the word, the way she eased closer into
me, damn…I was coming apart. She hadn’t even really touched me and already this
was the best foreplay I’d ever had in my life.
Turning on the charm, I smiled and eased my hips just a
little closer. She wasn’t the only one able to play this game.
“I want you to draw on me.” I threw down the gauntlet, hell
she could draw a grim reaper all down my back if she wanted, so long as her
hands touched me, somehow, someway.
Shaking her head, the flower in her hair brushed against my
forehead. “I’m not an artist, yet. I do body modification.”
I got hard as a rock. My gut got hot; my thighs shook a
little, because I knew that almost everyone who did it also owned some metal on
them somewhere.
Looking at her again I looked for the piercings. And sure
enough, I was right. Her ear lobes were stretched. Not as big and gaudy as some
I’d seen, just small little holes that were actually dainty looking on her.
Flicking hair across her shoulder, she grinned. “Sorry,
vanilla, the rest you don’t get to see.”
I gulped, only able to imagine where she had them.
She laughed and I’m sure my eyes were as wide as saucers.
Feeling like a prepubescent teen all over again, I wiped my sweaty palms on my
jeans.
“What’s your name?” I asked, because I had to know. I wanted
to know.
A secret smile danced across her face, brown eyes twinkled.
“You mean you haven’t figured it out yet? I’m hurt, really I am.”
I frowned. “What are you—”
“Z,” the guy who’d been drawing the tat of the dragon and
tiger, looked up with a hard fix to his square jaw. “He bothering you?”
Her smile still firmly in place, she shook her head. “Nah,
I’m good.”
Dude looked pissed and suddenly I was too.
I don’t know why, but some caveman crap came over me and I
narrowed my eyes right back at him. I didn’t care if he was the boyfriend or
not, actually I did… because something about ‘Z’ (and I really had to find out
her name quick) sparked a heat of fire inside of me I hadn’t felt ever.
“You dating?” I tried, but couldn’t keep the growl from my
voice.
She hopped off the counter and my balls just about shriveled
up, I didn’t want her to walk away. I wanted to talk to her, to… what… was I
seriously wanting to talk to her?
Since when?
Z turned to go and I brushed her arm, desperate to keep her
around.
“Look,” she glanced at my hand, which I dropped quickly,
“we’re not dating anymore. Ryko’s a good guy, but he’s also slightly
territorial.” She narrowed her eyes back at Ryko, who was still glowering at
me. “He also happens to own the shop and doesn’t like to see me loafing. I’ve
got work to do. It’s been nice, vanilla, but since you don’t have an
appointment and we’re booked until closing, either make one for later or I’ll
see you around.”
“Wait.” I forked my fingers through my hair. “Pierce
me.”
Her lips twitched. “What?”
Fuck me, what the hell was I doing? From a tattoo to a
piercing? The universe had to be laughing at me.
“I want a piercing.”
She licked her upper teeth, and my heart clenched at the
sight of her pink tongue. Were they pumping drugs through the ventilators here?
My head was fuzzy and spinning and all I could smell was her jasmine and I know
my pants were tenting and I could care less.
“I thought you said you wanted to be tatted?” Her eyes took
on a knowing glint.
How many drunken losers hit on her every night?
Why did that thought make me want to punch one of them? I
curled my fist.
“I don’t expect you to understand my reasons, Z,” I smirked
when her eyes went slightly bedroom on me at the use of her nickname, “but I’m
not leaving tonight without doing it.”
Planting her hands on her hips, she lifted her chin. “Fine.
Far be it from me to kick out a paying customer. Even if he is stupid and is
gonna regret it tomorrow morning.”
“I won’t.”
“We’ll see.” Hooking a finger, she turned around. “Follow
me, frat boy.”
What the hell? Did I just scream frat, vanilla, loser to her
or what? Somehow I didn’t think her nicknames were meant to be cute at all, but
I wasn’t arguing.
Tipping my head at the guy standing next to me who was still
ogling her ass, I sprinted around the counter and followed her into a private
room with a black curtain in front of it.
The room was dark inside, with only a blue glow coming off
the lamp in the corner. A body table lay pushed up against the wall.
“Get on,” she pointed.
Pulse thundering, nerves strung a little tight, I hopped up
on the table.
Her movements were brisk and efficient as she walked to a
medicine cabinet and pulled out a pair of latex gloves, snapping them on her
hands a second later. Pushing her fingers together to get the gloves down
properly, she lifted a brow at me. “So, what’ll it be?”
She was calling my bluff, because she knew as well as I did
that I didn’t have a clue.
Why the hell had I decided to listen to a sheet of paper
anyway?
I scrubbed my face. “What do you like?”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Marie Hall has always had a dangerous
fascination for creatures that go bump in the night. And mermaids. And of
course fairies. Trolls. Unicorns. Shapeshifters. Vampires. Scottish brogues.
Kilts. Beefy arms. Ummm... Bad boys! Especially the sexy ones.
On top of that she’s a confirmed foodie, she nearly went to culinary school and then figured out she could save a ton of money if she just watched food shows religiously! She’s a self-proclaimed master chef, certified deep sea dolphin trainer, finder of leprechaun’s gold at the end of the rainbow, and rumor has it she keeps the Troll King locked away in her basement. All of which is untrue, however, she does have an incredibly active imagination and loves to share her crazy thoughts with the world!
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On top of that she’s a confirmed foodie, she nearly went to culinary school and then figured out she could save a ton of money if she just watched food shows religiously! She’s a self-proclaimed master chef, certified deep sea dolphin trainer, finder of leprechaun’s gold at the end of the rainbow, and rumor has it she keeps the Troll King locked away in her basement. All of which is untrue, however, she does have an incredibly active imagination and loves to share her crazy thoughts with the world!
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