PGExcerpt from:
SERAFINA AND THE SILENT VAMPIRE
(Serafina’s, Book 1)
By MARIE TREANOR
Ebook available 28th
August from Amazon and B&N
She felt her way
around two intertwining apple trees and found Tam.
She stopped dead
with shock. His large frame was unmistakable in the flashlight beam, but she’d
never before seen it slumped in the brutal hold of an attacker who seemed to be
strangling him or squeezing him to
death. Which would be quite an achievement considering the size of Tam’s
muscular body. And the fact that his opponent, although about equal in height,
was far lighter and leaner in weight. And wearing a kilt, as if he was, or was
pretending to be, one of the Bells’ guests. Tam’s arms flailed as if trying
feebly to fly free. That was terrifying in itself: Tam the Tank physically
helpless.
Sera’s hand
wavered, and the beam from her flashlight shifted over a shock of dark chestnut
hair. There was a tiny instant when she imagined she’d steeped herself too
deeply in this vampire nonsense, because it almost looked as if the stranger
had his face buried in Tam’s throat. It sent a weird, almost sensual shiver
down her spine before she yanked her brain back into line.
Who the hell was
this? Ferdy’s stalker? Sera didn’t wait to find out. As he began to turn his
head, granting her a glimpse of his shadowed face and gleaming eyes, she hurled
herself at him feetfirst. Both her boots connected jarringly with hard flesh;
her whole being jolted as if she’d been shot.
It took an
instant to realize that she lay on the ground on her back, winded, while Tam’s
attacker, and Tam himself, remained upright. Jesus, she couldn’t have lost her
touch to that degree! She’d slammed
into him. She should at least have knocked him off balance! But then, she
should have landed on her feet, not her back, and been ready to jump him before
he recovered.
As she struggled
to rise, her blurred vision cleared enough to show her, by the crazily waving
beam of the torch, that the kilted thug had released Tam, who leaned one
massive shoulder against the tree, shaking his head as if to clear it. Thank
God, at least the bastard hadn’t killed him. And now they were two against one,
however strong this maniac was.
“Tam! Now!” she
commanded in an urgent stage whisper and ran at the curiously still figure of
the enemy.
Tam muttered
something that might have been, “Don’t, Sera.”
Her quarry
sidestepped her with a blur that surely spoke more for the intensity of her
previous winding than for his genuine speed. Whatever the cause, it was enough
to unbalance Sera. Fortunately, Tam leapt and caught her in his muscled arm—all
that prevented her from falling over again.
She whirled
around, poised to face a counterattack, snatching the only weaponry she carried
in her pocket—one of the ridiculous pointy sticks—and for the first time looked
into the shadowed face of her enemy. Remembering belatedly about her flashlight
still clutched in her bruised left land, she shone it directly into his face.
The eerie crisscrossing of shadows on his skin disappeared in the golden glow,
but he made no effort to hide from the light. Two large, dark brown eyes stared
at her from a lean, still face. There was no doubt he was good-looking enough
to turn heads, with a high forehead, long, thin nose, and full, expressive
lips, all framed by a shock of thick, dark hair streaked with auburn. The
combination of high, broad cheekbones and leanness gave him a slightly
cadaverous look that somehow didn’t detract in the slightest from his male beauty.
All these
jumbled impressions Sera absorbed in an instant. But chiefly what caught and
held her attention was the trickle of red blood running from the corner of his
mouth and down the side of his chin.
“Oh for f…!”
Sera hurled the pointy stick to the ground. “What the hell do you think you’re doing?” she raged. “This is our show.”
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SERAFINA AND THE SILENT VAMPIRE
Serafina’s Book One
By Marie Treanor
Coming 28th August
Silence has never been so sinful…
Welcome to Edinburgh's unique psychic investigation agency, Serafina's.
Serafina MacBride is psychic - but not strictly honest. While staging a hilarious vampire attack at a client's party, Sera is stunned to encounter a real vampire - annoying, gorgeous and inaudible to everyone but her. When her client's son is found dead with puncture wounds in his neck, she tracks the silent vampire to his lair.
But the amoral and seductive Blair is also on a mission - to find and kill a nest of young vampires who've invaded his territory. Soon Sera is drawn into the bizarre world of the undead, where danger lurks in the shadows along with forbidden sensual delights - and a murderous conspiracy to flood the world with financially astute vampires who talk.
Supported and hindered by Blair's eccentric, undead friends, and by her own motley crew from Serafina's, Sera and Blair uncover surprising truths about each other and about the mysterious Founder from whom all vampires are descended.
In the end, Sera draws on powers she never knew she had in a frantic fight to defeat the forces of evil and preserve the strange, complicated being she's trying so hard not to love.
Marie Treanor lives in Scotland with her eccentric husband and three much-too-smart children. Having grown bored with city life, she resides these days in a picturesque village by the sea where she is lucky enough to enjoy herself avoiding housework and writing sensual stories of paranormal romance and fantasy.
Marie Treanor has published more than twenty ebooks with small presses, (Samhain Publishing, Ellora’s Cave, Changeling Press and The Wild Rose Press), including a former Kindle bestseller, Killing Joe. Blood on Silk: an Awakened by Blood novel, was her New York debut with NAL.
Website: www.MarieTreanor.com
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4 comments:
Congrats on the release!! This looks so good.
lizzi0915 at aol dot cm
This book sounds really interesting! Congrats on the new release :)
I wonder if the name Serafina holds a special meaning or the author just liked the name?
Congrats on the book! I enjoyed the excerpt.
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