EMBRACE THE DARK
BY
CARIS ROANE
EMBRACE THE DARK
Book one
in the Blood Rose series
Available in Both Digital and Print at Amazon
Enter a world of blood-starved mastyr
vampires and the rare women who can satisfy their deepest needs…
How can he resist his blood rose…
Gerrod, mastyr vampire of the Merhaine Realm,
never thought to have his blood-needs satisfied by a mere human. But Abigail is
no ordinary woman. She stuns him with her telepathy as well as the richness of
her blood. However, her human DNA makes her an unacceptable mate. Yet how can
Gerrod turn her away when she alone has satisfied his blood-starvation for the
first time in a hundred-and-fifty-years?
Will she fall to temptation and give herself to a vampire…
When the dreaded enemy of all realm-folk, the Invictus, attacks at a fae wedding, Abigail’s simple human life gets turned upside down. She doesn’t know if she has the courage to pursue a path that means giving herself body and soul to a mastyr vampire. Will she return to her normal existence in Flagstaff, Arizona? Or will she embrace the dark…
Will she fall to temptation and give herself to a vampire…
When the dreaded enemy of all realm-folk, the Invictus, attacks at a fae wedding, Abigail’s simple human life gets turned upside down. She doesn’t know if she has the courage to pursue a path that means giving herself body and soul to a mastyr vampire. Will she return to her normal existence in Flagstaff, Arizona? Or will she embrace the dark…
Abigail
chuckled once more, which brought Gerrod’s attention sharply back to
the woman who had been tormenting him for an entire year. Her laughter
glided over his nerves like a fine oil, which simply sent his temper
into the top of his head all over again. Why did the human have to be
here and why, by all that was worthy in his world, did he have to be
drawn to her?
He
cast about for the source of her laughter. She looked off to the right
so he followed her gaze. One of the trolls had imbibed far too much
wedding punch and was listing about. He had already bumped into a few of
the guests. Next he jostled a large vampire, who in turn picked him up
by the lapels of his lavender silk coat, and glared at the troll face to
face. The wedding guests drew a combined gasp.
Vampires were not known for their sweet tempers. Fucking understatement that.
But
the troll smiled sloppily and kissed the vampire on the nose. The
vampire grimaced, called out a loud growling ‘ack’, spat off to his left
side, but released the troll. The guests breathed again and many
chuckled, especially Abigail, as the troll turned and shambled away.
By all the elf-lords, the damned woman laughed too much.
More
than anything, he wished he had never heard of Abigail of Flagstaff, a
mere human, a bakery owner, the latter being the why of her presence in
his realm.
He
had opposed the Merhaine Council approving her partnership with a fae to
open a bakery in the nearby county of Hollow, one of Merhaine’s seven
counties. He had believed from the first it was a mistake. However, and
this for reasons he could not explain, Abigail was a favorite among
realm-folk. She had been providing the sweet-loving trolls, faeries, and
elves of his realm with cupcakes—for all the Nine Realms, cupcakes!—for well over a year. His castle even had a standing weekly order with her Flagstaff enterprise, a place called Just Too Sweet! Yes, with an exclamation point.
And now he felt like spitting.
Some
of the council were looking to expand into the human world as well,
which he believed to be a mistake of enormous proportions. Some of the
drugs of the human world had already infected the less prosperous
portions of his realm. Didn’t his realm have enough trouble managing the
constant threat of the Invictus?
And
yet, as he sniffed the breeze that flowed over the woman’s long red
tresses, he could scent rosemary again, and he knew exactly what her
skin would taste like beneath his tongue. His body reacted, sharpening,
hardening, shuddering, until he was once more grateful for the long
leather coat of his Guardsman uniform, and the snug buckled leather
pants that held all his absurd firmness well in place.
The woman be damned.
His
gaze shifted back to the drunken troll, who now listed sideways and
fell into the three-tiered sage-and-honey wedding cake. The fae bride
cried out and the groom’s cheeks showed an angry wash of red.
The guests, however, began to laugh and Abigail joined them.
He was angry all over again. How dare she laugh?
It was time he took her down a slat or two.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Caris Roane
has published nine paranormal novels and novellas and writing as Valerie King,
fifty Regency works. In 2005, Romantic
Times gave her a Career Achievement award in Regency Romance. As Caris Roane, she currently writes paranormal
romance for St. Martin’s Press and also self-publishes the continuing stories
for her Guardians of Ascension series as well as stories set in other
worlds.
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GIVEAWAY DETAILS:
Caris
is giving away the following prizes at the end of her tour. There are two types of prizes: The
Tour Grand Prize and 1 Prize at Each Stop
TOUR GRAND PRIZE: $25.00 Amazon e-Card, signed copy of ASCENSION, e-Copy of EMBRACE THE DARK, versatile calendar, notepad, notecards, sticky notes and romance trading cards!
1 WINNER at each stop
receives: an e-Copy of EMBRACE THE DARK and an e-Copy of
THE DARKENING
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