Saffron Nights (24 page)

 

She calls herself Valerie Tate. One of the few vampires left on
earth, as beautiful as she is powerful, Valerie has resisted her
craving for human blood for years, just as she once hid her true
gender. But the night she lays eyes on the most enticing man
she’s ever seen, her appetite can no longer be denied. He radiates
goodness and light—and searing sexual energy. Valerie must
have him. Taste him. Consume him. For he is temptation—and he
is her destiny . . .

Lance Soleil is a rugged war veteran who runs a homeless shelter
in Portland. At first gaze, he knows what Valerie is—and wants
her even more. But when he welcomes a pack of werewolves into
his shelter, he attracts the attention of Valerie’s oldest rival—her
bloodthirsty brother, Radu, who hopes to become the first
vampire President of the United States. Valerie knows Radu has a
hidden agenda, and with Lance’s help she is determined to stop
his unholy rise to power. But first, she must risk their growing
love by fully revealing herself—as the one and only Dracula . . .

 

It’s a fact that vampires do not get pregnant. But Valerie is
definitely pregnant. Worse, six months ago her lover, Lance
Soleil, abandoned her. Determined to find answers, Valerie goes
on a quest—one that leads her to Lance’s childhood friend, John
Janté, a man with whom she shares a strong bond—and an intense
lust. But when John is kidnapped, Valerie’s attempt to rescue him
uncovers more than she bargained for . . .

Scouring parallel realms and pocket dimensions, Valerie soon
finds that Lance has regained Paradise as Angel of the
Lost . . . John is hostage in a bizarre world that resembles
Victorian London . . . and most shocking of all, Valerie’s greatest
love may be within her reach once more. For the soul of
Dracula’s dead wife, Ilona, is trapped within John’s captor, a
madwoman robbed of her humanity and manipulated by a
conspiracy of Fallen Angels. Now, torn between past and present
loves, Valerie must contend with emotions that threaten to break
her. And in a desperate showdown, the reunited triad of a
vampire, an angel, and a human must face their deepest fears—
with the future of an unborn angel-to-be in the balance . . .

Detective Tom Hanson has a string of grotesquely mutilated
bodies on his hands and no answers—aside from the fact that the
victims were members of an underground sex club catering to
singular erotic tastes. Tastes the long, lean detective has sampled
himself in the arms of his former lover, a fiery redhead who
offered the most erotic, irresistible sex he’d ever encountered.
Until the night she’d begged for the one thing he couldn’t give,
and he lost her forever.

Gina Larsen is the only one who can guide Hanson through the
fringe world of dark fantasy and desire that lies hidden deep
beneath the Bible Belt. Lured into her lair by a quest for justice,
Hanson discovers his hunger for Gina has only grown stronger
and deeper . . . beyond the edge of control. Soon he’s shedding
his last inhibitions in the search for answers, but the more she
draws him into her erotic web, the less he can distinguish between
passion and duty, pleasure and pain . . . good and evil.

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