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Authors: Lacy Danes
Warning: Watch out for oiled-up, naked trinespined warriors battling for top position, feisty tracer females that fit oh-so-snugly in between, and sexy nights that segue into complex relationships. Beware of tebitcheckers wielding those nasty little contulators at illegal, testosterone-drenched cage confrontations
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Enjoy the following excerpt for
Haevyn:
The stillness of the night closed in around her, and Haevyn hugged the warm cloak closer. Quickly drawing in a breath of stinging, salty sea air, she attempted to clear her head and regain some measure of composure. She should not be lusting after such a man. She’d learned firsthand the true nature of a humanotic. The education she’d received as the doxy of just such a humanotic should have been long-lasting and far-reaching. She’d joined the Compsociates in part to get away from his kind.
Haevyn had promised herself she wouldn’t think about the past. What had gone before she couldn’t change, no matter how much she wished it were otherwise. There had been purpose to it, but still the scar remained firmly etched into her
sporiti
. Somehow, she hadn’t expected the sensation of…filth to remain with her. She’d learned to live with it, learned to adjust and to bear the stain. There were moments… Ah, yes, there were moments when she came close to forgetting her past. Grisha helped soothe her
sporiti
. He never judged her for her choices, never demanded. He understood her as no one else could.
Still, out of the ashes of her past had been formed this twisted attraction, like flutterflies to a flame, drawing her to the heart of destruction. Hot, bright and painfully savage. Scars formed from the fires of retribution now made her
need
, so much more than ever before, to escape the numbing that shut her off from dangerous emotion.
Her boots thumped against the old wood boards. At least the choices she’d made, though survival had necessitated them, had been her own. She’d clawed her way out of the factories, away from Rollin Trader, and with luck, she’d managed to keep herself out of the hands of humanotics and far away from the Factorium that created them. Even if it did mean fighting her own base urges as well.
“You shouldn’t be out walking these docks alone.”
She whirled around, a hand going to the weapon in the deep pocket of her cloak. Instinct kicked in.
It was him, the humanotic champion from the Cockrage. Her fingers curled around the unyielding handle of the revolver. Just that act alone offered some security. She should have scented him, known he was near. Facing him, though he stood some distance away in deeper shadows untouched by the bright moonlight, she took a cautious step back. He reeked still of game-savage intensity. And the scent of that barbarian earthiness appealed to her in a way it shouldn’t. But now, at least, he was partially clothed, though the trousers fit him all too snugly.
“Are you following me?” she asked in a deceptively deep tone, still trying to mask her sex.
He stepped forward, lamplight spilling over him, glinting on his bare, skinmetal chest. Gods help her, why was she drawn to this stranger so peculiarly? She fought the attraction with everything she had, but it was almost more than she could withstand. Something seemed…different about him. Or maybe it was just the energy of the night still drenching her from the games. Aberrant attraction. She would be the cause of her own destruction if she wasn’t careful.
Waterfall
Lacy Danes
It’s easy to fall in love. Destiny requires tooth and claw.
Dragon’s Fate, Book 1
Curses are designed to be cruel, but the one afflicting Jordan and his brothers is almost beyond bearing. A dragon born by blood magic, he is an immortal trapped in human form, with only one hope of finding his eternal mate. He must bite her—and pray she lives.
One dark night, he senses the wounded heartbeat of a woman in the shadows, begging him to end her life. Ever the gentleman, he chivalrously obliges her wish. Only to discover three days later that she lives. And has married another.
Celeste always dreamed of marrying for love, but the nightmare of living in her father’s home drives her to wed the Duke of Hudson. Yet on her wedding eve, she is compelled to follow a mysterious man who professes to know her secret. A man with curious blue scales on his muscular arms—whose shadowed eyes reflect a dangerous mix of destiny and desire…
Warning: This novel contains explicit sex, sex in water, four super-hot dragon brothers, and a curse born from magical power that has left them wondering who they are all their lives.
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Waterfall
Copyright © 2013 by Lacy Danes
ISBN: 978-1-61921-449-1
Edited by Linda Ingmanson
Cover by Kanaxa
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electronic publication: January 2013
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