Dear Readers – The next book
of the Mageverse series is out now! I hope you’ll take a look.
After combat news cameraman Adam Parker covers a Times Square attack by
blue- skinned aliens that costs hundreds of lives, the invaders try to kidnap
him. Fortunately, the attempt is foiled by a sword-swinging Knight of the Round
Table and his witch partner. But when the vampire knight removes his helmet,
Adam realizes Sir Baldulf is the father who abandoned him and his mother when
he was ten.
Ulf swears he and Opal Cassidy are Adam’s only hope of survival.
Otherwise the aliens will keep coming after him. Furious, Adam wants nothing to
do with either of them -- especially after Opal uses her magic to force him to
run from the aliens instead of doing his job.
Opal has been ordered to seduce Adam and transform him into a vampire.
Still grieving for a previous partner after more than a decade, the witch wants
nothing to do with the handsome, cynical mortal. But orders are orders, so
seduction it is.
Despite Adam’s bitterness
and her grief, the two discover they have red-hot sexual chemistry. As the
stakes climb and passion turns to love, Opal and Adam realize that if they
don’t take a chance on each other, humanity will pay the price.
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Here’s the Excerpt:
“Okay, fine.” He stepped
over to her. She controlled the impulse to retreat. “But if we’re going to do
this, I want to call the shots.”
“What do you mean by that?”
“I mean I take the lead this time instead of you
pulling my strings.”
Opal met his gaze and blew out a breath. Tried not
to think about Joaquin. “All right.”
She waited for the kiss, but it didn’t come. Instead
Adam just stared into her eyes. Opal shifted uncomfortably, but she had
discipline, by God, and so she made herself wait.
“You don’t have to do anything,” he murmured, his
voice low and seductive. “Leave it all to me.”
“Fine,” she said, and started to cross her arms.
Realizing that was self-defeating, she dropped them again and forced herself to
meet his eyes. Found herself staring. Joaquin’s had been a warm, velvet brown,
but Adam’s were a vibrant turquoise. He really was ridiculously handsome, with
that straight nose, high cheekbones, and a neatly trimmed honey beard framing
his jaw line. His hair was the most gorgeous she’d ever seen on a man, a
hundred shades from rich brown to gold to sun-kissed honey. And yet she’d never
seen him use the hair, never caught him shaking it out or arranging it to draw
a woman’s eye. “Doesn’t that mane get in the way?”
“Sometimes.” He reached for hers, combed his fingers
through her curls, caught one, drew it out, watched it bounce back. “Does
yours?”
“I keep it braided when I fight.” Her voice sounded
a little rough, and she had to stop and clear her throat. “And I wear a helmet.”
“It’s soft,” he breathed. He released the curl, let
his hand drift to her lower lip to brush his thumb delicately across its curve.
She was surprised at how rough and calloused his skin was. Somehow she’d
thought his hands would be soft. Licking her lips, she realized he tasted
faintly salty.
Opal stared up into his eyes and had the sudden
sensation that she was falling, as if her entire consciousness was being pulled
up into those amazing eyes. Looking closer, she saw there were thin threads of
gold in his irises, and she wondered if that was an illusion created by the
hair.
This close, she could feel the magical buzz of the
Gift deep in his cells. She couldn’t smell him the way vampires could scent a
Latent, but she’d have known he was Ulf’s son just from the contours of his
face. His lips were a little fuller than his father’s, though, with more of a
curve to the upper lip. And there was something in the shape of his eyes that
wasn’t quite the same. It made her wonder what his mother looked like.
Adam bent his head. He did it slowly, giving her
plenty of time to retreat. Asking permission. She didn’t retreat, of course. It
was only as his lips touched hers that she realized duty had nothing to do with
her willingness.
She wanted to know how he tasted.
Thanks! Let me know what you think.
Angela
