Free Book Friday Last Vampire Standing by Nancy Haddock

I have a treat for you this week, a copy of Last Vampire Standing by Nancy Haddock.

Haddock's vampire series has been described as beach books with bite featuring a heroine that has been compared to Gidget...with fangs.

Interested yet? Yeah, me too. Last Vampire Standing is the 2 book of the series, the first is LA VIDA VAMPIRE.

LAST VAMPIRE STANDING Blurb –

Cesca Marinelli is on an afterlife high until a budding stand-up comic, Jo-Jo the Jester, escapes from his Atlanta nest looking for sanctuary. Jo-Jo may put a new bite in comedy, but things hidden in the shadows aren't so funny. Will Cesca get the last laugh, or will a killer be the Last Vampire Standing?

LAST VAMPIRE STANDING Excerpt –

There are times when I want to roll my eyes so far back in my head, I’m sure I’ll see my brains. That’s one way to have them examined.

And this was one of those times.

High above the wind-whipped whitecaps, I stood quaking in my sneakers on the temporary Bridge of Lions spanning Matanzas Bay.

“Guys, for the last time, I am not taking a flying leap off this bridge. Somebody’s watching. I can feel it, and they’ll report me as a jumper.”

“Cesca, it’s nearly two in the morning. There is no traffic, and I called the city police and the sheriff’s office to tell them we’re conducting an experiment.”

“In what? Doing belly busters off the bridge?”

“You’re not going to fall, honey. You’re going to fly.”

“Besides, Highness,” Jo-Jo said, “you’re the one who insisted we practice over water.”

“I didn’t mean from a million feet in the air.” Another strong gust blew, and I death-gripped the railing. “Why can’t I jump off something shorter?”

“Like what?” Saber asked.

“Like a curb,” I snapped.

“My lady, you have to be high enough to catch the updrafts,” Jo-Jo reminded me.
I could tell his patience was waning, but me jump off the bridge? Not in this afterlife.

Saber rubbed his forehead. “Jo-Jo, can you take Cesca up for a test spin?

“Like a tandem parachute jump?” Jo-Jo looked uncomfortable. “I can if Highness will allow me to touch her person.”

Both men looked at me.

“Face and conquer your fear, honey,” Saber challenged.

I squared my shoulders. “Fine. How do you want to do this, Jo-Jo?”

“By your leave, my lady, I’ll hold you in front of me. You’ll be able to feel the liftoff better from this position anyway. May I demonstrate?”

His arms around my rib cage, he told me to start walking with my right foot. I stepped when he did. One. Two. Three.

“Good, Princess. Now we do it for real.”

“We’re not going to climb on the rails?”

“No. Hold on.”

His leg nudged mine.

One step. Gulp.

Two steps. Eek.

Three steps. Panic.

My rubbery legs suddenly locked, and I dug the heels of my tennis shoes into the concrete.
Jo-Jo tripped over me, and we stumbled forward like a couple of stooges.

“Are you all right, Princess?” Jo-Jo asked when we’d righted ourselves, his arm still curled around my waist.

At that moment, a flash of golden fur landed smack in front of us, and a brain-rattling “Rrryyow” rent the night.

Jo-Jo screamed, “Aaaiiieeee,” tightened his hold around me, and vaulted away from Pandora.

Next thing I knew, I was dangling from Jo-Jo’s crooked arm, ten feet away from the bridge and a hundred feet over dark, churning water.

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