I’m thrilled to have the fabulous, Margo Bond Collins, here on Paranormal Romance Thursday. I’m featuring her latest release,
Sanguinary
a beautiful paranormal romance.
Blurb:
Detective
Cami Davis and her sexy, cowboy-turned-vampire informant are all that’s
standing between humanity and monsters who would rule the world—and all that’s
standing between them having a torrid love affair is the fact that he’s an
enemy of humanity.
THROUGH DARKEST TEMPTATION
When Dallas police detective Cami Davis joined the city’s vampire unit, she planned to use the job as a stepping-stone to a better position in the department. She didn’t know then what she knows now: A silent war rages between humans and their supposedly pacified predators, and the vampires are winning. With the clock running out on her kind, Cami will do whatever she must to defeat the “Sanguinary.”
Enter Reese Fulton, a disaffected ex-cop and a vampire. She can’t exactly trust him, but with his cowboy boots and good-ole-boy drawl he’s the perfect beard for Cami’s fledgling undercover operation. Yet playing Reese’s Claimed—a vampire’s personal bloodgiver—isn’t as straightforward as she was led to believe. His bite is as enthralling as his dimpled smile, and soon Cami is wondering which will pose more of a challenge: subduing the enemies of humanity...or her own desire.
THROUGH DARKEST TEMPTATION
When Dallas police detective Cami Davis joined the city’s vampire unit, she planned to use the job as a stepping-stone to a better position in the department. She didn’t know then what she knows now: A silent war rages between humans and their supposedly pacified predators, and the vampires are winning. With the clock running out on her kind, Cami will do whatever she must to defeat the “Sanguinary.”
Enter Reese Fulton, a disaffected ex-cop and a vampire. She can’t exactly trust him, but with his cowboy boots and good-ole-boy drawl he’s the perfect beard for Cami’s fledgling undercover operation. Yet playing Reese’s Claimed—a vampire’s personal bloodgiver—isn’t as straightforward as she was led to believe. His bite is as enthralling as his dimpled smile, and soon Cami is wondering which will pose more of a challenge: subduing the enemies of humanity...or her own desire.
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Excerpt
“Hey, Bradley.” I beckoned the crime-scene tech, who
had finally arrived and was snapping on gloves. “Is that a piece of paper under
the vic’s head?”
He bent down over my shoulder to get a clearer view
from my line of sight. “It’s tangled in her hair.” He pulled a pair of long
tweezers out of his kit and snagged the sliver. “Yep. There’s a word written on
it.” We both peered at the brownish, spidery writing.
“Sanguinary,”
I said. “Is that written in blood?”
“Maybe. I’ll get the lab to run a basic analysis on
it. If it’s blood, we’ll be able to let you know pretty quick if it’s human
and, if so, what type. DNA will take longer.”
I stared at the woman a little longer. Her dark
hair—almost the same color as mine—spilled out around her, matted with dark,
coagulating blood. The two bloody marks on her neck shone like black stars on a
white background.
Vampire.
I knew that if I lifted her dress, there would be
other puncture wounds all over her body, and strange symbols carved across her
skin: pentagrams within circles and other ritualistic signs. Exactly like the
others. Ten murders in the four weeks since the beginning of September—all
centered in downtown Dallas, and many of affluent victims whose families
demanded action.
The department had been in a barely suppressed
uproar.
I stood up, my knees popping a little. Five years
ago, they wouldn’t have done that.
And five years before that? Vampires hadn’t existed,
except in books and B movies.
It took time for the world to believe. We hadn’t even
realized how to fight back when they’d first shown up.
This victim’s ragged, bloody fingernails suggested
she had tried to resist but obviously failed.
The red dress she wore would have originally matched
the color of the relatively scant splashes of blood surrounding her, but those
stains had dried to a muddy brown, the same color as the writing on the paper
caught in her hair.
Her clothing suggested she’d been at the opera that
evening, though the manager, roused from her bed, swore that the building had
been cleared and empty when she left.
One black, high-heeled pump lay several feet away,
toppled over onto its side, the heel broken, as if she had stumbled out of the
shoe when it failed her as she ran from a pursuer.
Sanguinary.
This was the third time the word had shown up in the
case. The first time it had been left in a victim’s voicemail by a man calling
from an untraceable burner phone: “The Sanguinary expects you at the Blood
House tomorrow night.”
The second time, it had been part of a to-do list in
a victim’s day planner: Meet with vampire
admin. + Sanguinary.
I’d heard the word even before that from vampires I
had taken down—whispered as a threat, shouted as a warning: The Sanguinary is coming. The Sanguinary
will kill you all.
But no one who knew what the Sanguinary was would
admit to it.
That’s why I was about to go undercover among the
vampires.
Find more about Margo here:http://www.MargoBondCollins.com
Love the title and what an exciting excerpt!
ReplyDeleteI am totally with you, Flossie.
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Very spooky and suspenseful excerpt. Sounds like it would make a great read for Halloween!
ReplyDeleteExactly my thoughts, Mae.
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All the books in our tour are great Halloween reads, I think. But a cowboy vampire? That is intriguing!
ReplyDeleteLate again, but I did enjoy the excerpt.
ReplyDeleteI am glad you did, Daisy! Thanks for visiting!
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