Warrior vampire Garrick Labar guards the secrets of the Guild.
His comrade--vampire and sorcerer Ramon Travere--enforces the uneasy alliance
between mortals and immortals. When Larissa Devine moves into town, both
Garrick and Ramon are mesmerized and enraptured by her. They crave to claim her
as their crimson swan and lover. But a new arrival is fair game and if they
don’t claim her first, a band of renegades will.
Larissa
finds a blistering-hot ménage with her protectors too intoxicating to resist.
The immortals can’t deny their sexual attraction for her and sense her blood
pulsing hot and furious when they’re close. Erotic desires thrust her into a
world of danger and seduction. When the renegade vampires attempt to destroy a
hundred years of peace, Larissa is caught in the crossfire. Eternal love and
carnal nights can be her future if she survives.
Here's an excerpt to tempt your palate:
Vampires
from both Edmund Manor and the Beaumont House entered the dining hall and quickly
took a seat around the long table. This wasn’t a formal meeting, only eight out
of the dozen guild members were present, but all were dressed elegantly out of
respect to Bastian who sat at the head of the table.
Anger
overriding proper etiquette caused Garrick to slam his fist on the mahogany
table hard enough to crack the wood. He glared at Lazaro and Kashia sitting
across from him then faced Bastian and lowered his gaze. “My apologies,
Bastian. Larissa’s my claim, she resides on my land. I demand she remain under
my protection until she willingly is drawn into the Guild.”
The
elder for the Guild tapped his fingers on a leather–bound book as he stared
across the room. Garrick knew he had to move fast, convince the other elders to
make Larissa off limits or mark her as his own.
“Laws
for the New Hope Guild allow anyone of us to make a claim on a new arrival,
regardless of their residence. The number of claimed crimson swans should not
be determined by the amount of landownership,” Lazaro argued.
“I
agree.” Kashia stood up. “The benefit is for all who reside in the Guild. How
many crimson swans does one member need?”
Garrick
growled at the female vampire. She had more offerings in one week than Garrick
took in a month. “Kashia, if we’re going to take head counts—”
“Enough.”
At the end of the table, Bastian stood from his carved wooden
Bastian
spoke from old wounds. His mate, the lovely Claire Fulton, was beheaded by a
female vampire slayer in the mid-1800s shortly after Garrick arrived from New
Orleans. Many of their kind were killed by this slayer, until she was destroyed
within the underground chambers and her ashes tossed into the river. Garrick
understood the pain of losing one’s master, especially since the vampire who
turned him was also his lover. He too, lost his master and lover in New
Orleans. The loss of Jeannette Durant still bore deep.
A
week before Claire’s death Bastian arranged for an artist to do a portrait of
her as a gift, but she never received the painting. Bastian told Garrick to
destroy the artwork but he didn’t have the heart. The painting that hangs in
Larissa’s apartment, next to another by the same artist, Ramon. The second one
was of Garrick in front of the Beaumont House. These Ramon infused magical
powers into the oils. “I don’t have claim to many crimson swans. Not nearly as
many as Kashia implies,” Garrick said. “Larissa is working and living on my
property, therefore, she’s my claim if I chose. It’s convenient and less
conspicuous.”
Bastian
growled loudly, his fangs protruding. At four hundred years, no one dared
challenged the elder. Garrick had to remember this. “Then make your claim, or
another will do so.”
While
he waited for the right time, he’d have to keep a close eye on her. Thankfully
Ramon’s painting would help with that.
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About the Author, Kathy Kulig:
Kathy Kulig
is a New York Times & USA Today Bestselling author of erotic romance whose
works include paranormal, contemporary, BDSM, and suspense.
She has published
(or has contracted to publish) nearly 20 novels, novellas and short stories
with various publishers and via self-publishing. Besides her career in writing, she has worked as a
cytotechnologist,
research scientist, medical technologist, dive master and stringer for a
newspaper. In her spare time, she can be found mountain biking,
traveling, lounging on the beach with a good book or having dinner out with her
husband. Kathy resides in eastern Pennsylvania.
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