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Blood Shadows Blackthorn Series Book One
Lindsay J. Pryor
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Bookouture
ISBN: 9781909490000
ASIN: B00AAMO252
Number of pages: 380
Word Count: 117,000
Cover Artist: Henry Steadman
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For vengeance - would you trust a vampire?
For justice - could you betray your family?
For love - are you ready to question everything you believe in?
Gifted with the ability to read the shadows of ‘third species’ beings, Caitlin Parish is the Vampire Control Unit’s most powerful agent. Despite that, her mission to hunt down Kane Malloy – a master vampire – comes with a death wish. Many have tried, but few have survived.
For Caitlin, tracking Kane is about more than just professional reputation. With her parents both mysteriously killed 7 years apart to the day, Caitlin knows that without Kane’s help she is next.
She has four days to make a deal with the wicked, the irresistible, the treacherous Kane Malloy. The vampire who despises everything she stands for.
Or die.
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EXCERPT:
He appeared from behind
her.
His movements were swift and accurate:
snatching the gun from her hand, in the same instant he forced her face-first
up against the wall, her earpiece hitting the ground.
She caught her breath, pressed her palms
and knee to the wall in preparation to push back but his hard body was already
against hers, his power reminding her that the strength she had in spirit was
absolutely no match for the supposedly three hundred-year-old six-foot vampire
who had her pinned to the wall as easily as he would a sheet of paper. And as
she felt the tip of her own gun press below her ribs, she knew all four shots
of the potent sedative, too powerful for the human body, would end it all for
her.
Just
like that.
But instead of firing, his soft lips
brushed her ear, the arrogant upward curl of those enticing bow lips as clear
in her mind as if he were facing her. He tutted playfully, his low rasp raking
beneath her skin. ‘A little girl doing a man’s job – bound to end in tears.’
Caitlin clenched her fists. Brovin and
Morgan had to be less than a minute away. She had to stall him. Her instinct
was to try to reach back and catch his wrist. All she needed was her fingers on
his pulse point and she’d finally know those dark recesses that no expert could
reach – information she so desperately needed. But she knew she wouldn’t have
enough time to wait for that painfully slow vampire heartbeat, even if she was
in a position to get to him. There was only one way she was going to get the
time with him that she wanted and needed.
‘Kane Malloy, I’m detaining you under
section 3.4 of the Vampire Disciplinary Clause…’
He laughed, deep, guttural, terse. ‘You’re detaining me?’
‘On twenty-one alleged accounts of crimes
against members of the third species including your own, thirty-two against
humans…’
‘Delusional as well as reckless. Are you
seriously the best they’ve got?’
‘It’s over, Kane.’
‘You breathe too fast to be convincing,’ he
goaded.
‘You don’t breathe enough to judge me.’
He exhaled curtly. Panic jolted through her
as he deftly unclasped the belt threaded through her jeans. To her disgust, for
the first time on any tracking operation, she froze.
Kill her? Yes, of course the thought had
crossed her mind. No matter how unbelievable or surreal it seemed, she had
known it was a possibility. But rape? With her colleagues closing in there was
no way even Kane would have the arrogance to attempt it in the minutes, maybe
even seconds he had left.
But this was Kane. And if he wanted to
leave a message for the VCU, a dead and violated tracker would ring loud and
clear.
The fact she'd even got this close would be
insult too much for his ego.
She snapped back a breath as he yanked her
belt through the loops. And as his heel cracked the buckle, destroying the only
way the VCU could locate her, she knew it was about to get worse.
Her phone followed next, removed from her
back pocket by his stealthy fingers.
‘You’re lucky you serve a purpose,’ he
said, combing her hair back over her shoulder.
Her heart pounded painfully. ‘What’s that
supposed to mean?’
‘You’re the one who’s obsessed with me –
what do you think?’
As he traced the back of his cool fingers
tenderly down her exposed neck, a caress more sensual than she would have
thought possible for someone with such renowned brutality, Caitlin held her
breath. She was stunned by her own involuntary arousal, suppressing it with
every iota of conviction she had.
‘I think you’d better walk away,’ she said,
battling to get her focus back on the job. ‘Or give yourself up.’
‘Not going to happen, Caitlin.’ Pressing
the tranquiliser gun tighter into her side, Kane made her wince, his reputation
restored. ‘Question is, are you going to walk out of here co-operatively or am
I going to have to carry you?’
About this Author:
Her trademark powerful vampire heroes and utterly combustible sensual romances have earned Lindsay comparisons with both J.R Ward and Sherrilyn Kenyon. A finalist in Mills & Boon’s New Voices competition in both 2010 and 2011, Lindsay has already proved a smash hit with readers.
Comments like “Utterly captivating”, “Jaw-droppingly good”, “Awesome”, “I forgot to blink”, “The sexual tension is off the charts”, “I nearly fainted when he removed her belt”, “I drooled on my keyboard” and even “Tell Kane he can have my soul RIGHT NOW!” convinced Lindsay she just might have what it took to become a published author.
With the launch of Blood Shadows, that dream is now a reality. Her journey to published author though has been a long one.
Lindsay has been creating stories since she was nine years old, when she quickly decided that fantasy was more interesting than reality. She thought she’d grow out of it but hasn’t yet.
Despite years of bashing out stories on an old typewriter, it was the death of her father in 2007 that finally convinced Lindsay to try and become a published author. “One of the last things my dad said to me was to do what I wanted to do in life. After he passed away, I pulled out all my scribbles from over the years and got back to writing what I loved most – paranormal romance.”
If reviews are anything to go by, it was a journey well worth making.
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