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December 16, 2013
Teaseday – Kissed by a Dark Prince (Eternal Mates Romance Series Book 1) – Paranormal Romance Novel Excerpt
Today’s tease is another one from the book Kissed by a Dark Prince, which is the first novel in my new series, Eternal Mates. Read on for this Tuesday’s tease…
“Specimen appears to have advanced healing ability. Age of blood around the wounds is indicative of a recent injury, but the wounds in question are already closed and beginning to scab over.” Many demon and fae species had heightened healing. He could be any number of them. Olivia carefully pulled his upper lip back and studied his teeth. “No fangs. Canines appear normal.”
She drew back and something caught her eye. She parted the wild strands of his short black hair and traced the pointed tip of his ear. Was he a demon? They had pointed ears.
Olivia hovered over him, looking down at his handsome bloodstained face. She had never seen a demon as beautiful, mysterious, or deadly as he was.
Deadly.
She could feel it like an aura around him.
He was dangerous.
And waking up.
Olivia scooted backwards and reached for the call button on the wall near the head of the bed. She didn’t make it. His eyes slowly opened and she froze in mid-swing for the button, transfixed by them. They were incredible. She had never seen eyes like his. His irises were the most amazing shade of purple.
His gaze slid towards her but he didn’t move.
“What are you?” Olivia whispered it again as his eyes began to change, shifting to a normal shade of blue, and then his ears changed too, the points dulling until they appeared human. Adapting. He was studying his environment and her, and he was adapting.
It was incredible.
Fascinating.
She lowered her hand to her side and stared at him.
“Specimen appears able to blend into his environment, changing his appearance to conceal himself.”
She had never seen a demon do this. Many of them did it and she had heard the tales from the field agents, but she had never witnessed it.
“You are being held in a secure facility and no harm will come to you.” She hoped he understood English. His blue gaze narrowed with his frown, locked on her mouth as she spoke. Maybe he didn’t understand her.
He sat up in one fluid motion, swinging his legs over the edge of the inspection table, the movement so swift that it startled her and she shot backwards, distancing herself. Her heart thundered in her throat. She should have pressed the call button.
She should have strapped him down.
Stupid.
Her gaze darted to the red button off to her right. Could she make it there and sound the alarm before he attacked?
“Where am I?” The sound of his deep voice sent a fiery tremble through her. It was at odds with his lithe figure. The commanding edge to it had her forgetting the call button and automatically answering him, because he didn’t sound like the sort of man you could piss off and live to tell the tale.
“At a secure research facility in London.” She hoped he didn’t ask what she had been doing to him while he had been unconscious because now that he was awake, very awake, that sense of danger he radiated had only grown stronger. Her shot at resuscitating her ailing career looked as though he might kill her if he didn’t like any of the answers to his questions.
His blue gaze moved around the room, cataloguing everything, a keen edge to it. Strategising. He had adapted to blend into his environment and now he was plotting a way out of it.
“How did you do that?” she said, unable to get her voice above a whisper. His attention snapped back to her.
“How did I do what?” He could definitely grasp her language.
“Your eyes… your ears.” She pointed a shaky finger at them.
He planted his hands on the edge of the table on either side of his hips and she struggled not to look down. Her guest didn’t appear to have any qualms about being naked in front of a stranger. He sat on the table, frowning at the equipment in the room. His gaze caught on the wires attached to the machines and he followed them to his chest. He raised a single black eyebrow and pulled the sticky pads off his body.
“Strange to ask me how and not why,” he said at last and looked up at her through his long black lashes, his blue eyes holding a glimmer of curiosity.
“I’m a medical doctor… a scientist.” She pulled at the chest of her long white coat, drawing his attention to it.
He glanced at it and then back around the room. His gaze lingered on the tray of tools to his left, narrowed, and then slid to her. A threat. She had enough experience of the world to know when someone was silently threatening her. He didn’t intend to use the scalpels and other implements on her. No. He meant to warn her that if she dared to attempt to use them on him, she would come off worse.
Olivia held her hands up in front of her. “Listen, I’m just curious about your species, and the things you can do. I wanted to help you.”
He grimaced and his grip on the edge of the table tightened until his arms shook. He ground out dark words in a foreign tongue and paled further. The edges of his irises turned purple.
The heart rate monitor still linked to his finger went crazy. He scowled at the machine and tried to move to take the clip off. His hands trembled violently.
“You’re not well.” Olivia reached out to steady him, instinct telling her to help him. She caught his upper arms and gasped. He was burning up, shaking beneath her fingers, his skin clammy. “You need to rest.”
“I will be fine… with a little fluids.” Pain grated in his deep voice and he swallowed hard.
“I wasn’t sure what to give you.” Olivia pressed her palm to his forehead. A fever? Was it part of his healing process or was his condition deteriorating? “I wasn’t sure what would harm or help you.”
He leaned forwards and his breath skated over her bare neck. She shivered, a hot rush sweeping through her.
“I know what fluid I need,” he whispered low, his voice barely there and teasing, stirring unbidden heat in her veins and quickening her pulse.
“Tell me and I’ll get it.” She tried to draw back and his hands shot up, fingers closing tightly around her upper arms.
“Oh, you already have it.”
He struck hard on the left side of her throat and her eyes widened. Shock stole her senses for a second before reality came crashing back. He was biting her. He was drinking her blood. Dark memories surged to the surface and she fought his hold on her, struggling like a wild thing. She wouldn’t let it happen to her again. She shoved at his chest, clawing with her short nails, and pounded her hands against it, striking as hard as she could.
He pulled her against his chest, caging her there, his arms steel bands across her back, pinning hers between their bodies. She wriggled, desperate to escape him, fear pounding down on her and making her heart stutter. He was going to drink her to death.
Tears streamed down her cheeks and her head spun, wooziness threatening to pull her down into the darkness.
“Please,” she whispered, breathless and weak, barely clinging to consciousness as her panic and fear overwhelmed her. “Release me… don’t kill me.”
He immediately pulled his fangs from her throat and she crumpled, only his arms around her keeping her on her feet. His heart beat wildly against her palms, strong when hers was weak, a timid thing that barely beat at all.
Olivia managed to find the strength to look up into his eyes.
They were different again, amethyst and dazzling. He wobbled and shimmered, said something she didn’t hear over the whoosh of blood in her ears. Ears. His were pointed now, more so than they had been before. All his markings were shining too, colourful and beautiful.
Olivia wrestled her right hand free and absently raised it, the action seeming to take forever. She touched his bloodied lips and they parted to reveal his fangs. Her blood. He had stolen her blood. Her head turned and twirled, the bright white room spinning with it. He spoke again, his beautiful mouth moving against her fingertip. She stared dazedly at it, captivated, lost, feeling not quite herself in the presence of this man.
He continued to hold her, cradling her against his body, keeping her on her feet, and stared down into her eyes. His shimmered with something she couldn’t decipher through the haze in her mind. The fog refused to lift and part, even now that her strength was slowly beginning to return.
Olivia grazed the point of one of his fangs with her fingertip. He remained very still and she had the strangest feeling that he was letting her see him like this.
“You’re not… like any vampire… I’ve seen.” Her words swam in her head, disjointed. Was she making sense to him?
His lips quirked.
“Not a vampire,” he whispered and drew her closer, and her gaze lingered on his mouth. Decadent. Profane. A mouth made for kissing. She wanted to kiss him. Olivia shook herself. It was just the blood loss talking. He frowned, a flicker of concern in his purple eyes, and then his expression turned guarded again. “Perhaps I am a forefather of that species.”
He leaned down and she didn’t resist him. His cheek brushed hers, cooler now, and he licked her throat. The gentle sweep of his tongue over her flesh sent a shudder through her and the achy heat returned, making her skin feel too tight.
She lost herself again in that caress, each stroke of his tongue cranking her temperature up another ten degrees, until she was burning inside.
His words swam around her cloudy mind.
“Forefather.” She frowned and the fog began to lift, bringing with it too many questions, all of them centred around the gorgeous male clutching her against his naked body, licking her throat. “How old are you?”
He lifted his head and stared down into her eyes.
Alarms shrieked and the room spun in a blur across her eyes, and suddenly she was behind him, her bottom against the empty inspection table, and he was in front of her. He reached behind himself and grabbed her arm, pulling her closer to his back. Bottom. Oh my. She stared at it, blaming the blood loss for her shamelessness. He had a fine backside. The markings swept above it, meeting on his spine and drifting up his back to his shoulders.
She dazedly reached out to touch them.
The doors burst open and the man jerked her closer, smashing her against his back. She peered past him, touching him forgotten. Two men were there and she didn’t recognise either of them.
The men she worked with didn’t wear black armour like these men. It was like a second skin on their bodies, covering them from jaw to toe. Their helmets were fashioned to cover all but a V across their eyes and rose back into two dragon-like horns. She gasped when the part that swept downwards to conceal their nose and mouth opened, each slat sliding beneath the next.
The man shielding her said something in his foreign tongue.
Olivia pressed herself against his back and eyed the tools just a few feet away from her. A scalpel wasn’t a weapon, but it would suffice in an emergency. This was definitely an emergency.
Were these the men who had harmed the one in front of her?
The alarms continued to shriek and she prayed the resident hunters reached her before it was too late and these men attacked.
She dived for the tray of tools, but wasn’t quick enough. The man grabbed her right wrist and pulled her back to him, the swiftness of the action too much for her in her weakened condition. Her legs gave out and she hit the pale floor of the medical room, her left hand catching on the trolley and sending it crashing into the monitor stands.
One of the other men spoke.
In the same language as her specimen.
He answered them and she looked up at him, on her hands and knees on the floor. The men pressed their hands to their chest in a sort of salute. They were with her specimen. Here to take him from her. He reached for her and voices sounded outside in the corridor. The two men rushed forwards to grab him. The male snarled something dark and looked at her with striking purple eyes that spoke of anger, confusion and regret.
And disappeared in a brief flash of violet and blue light that left a flickering outline of him behind that lasted barely a second.
Olivia stared at the space where he and the two other men had been, blinking slowly, trying to get her head around what had just happened.
Hunters raced into the room, her friend Sable leading the charge. She rushed over to Olivia and helped her stand. He had wanted to do that. He had tried to protect her from men who clearly served him.
Olivia rested against the inspection table, confused and dizzy.
What was he?
She tugged the collar of her white coat up to conceal the marks he had placed on her throat, her fingers lingering over them.
He had bitten her, but said he wasn’t a vampire. A forefather of that species.
Olivia turned her head and stared at the remains of his clothing, replaying everything that had happened after he had bitten her. He had taken care of her, sealing the puncture marks, and then he had protected her.
And then he had held his hand out to her.
She had the weirdest notion he had meant to take her with him and had been angry because the arrival of the hunters had stopped him from doing so.
“Are you alright?” Sable bobbed around in front of her to get her attention, her golden eyes shining with concern.
Olivia focused on her friend and nodded.
Lied.
She didn’t feel alright.
She wasn’t sure she would ever feel right again.
Not until she knew what he was.
Not until she saw him again.
Not until she gave him hell for biting her.
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Kissed by a Dark Prince
Felicity Heaton
Olivia thinks it’s her lucky night when a dangerously handsome unconscious fae ends up on her inspection table. He’s her chance to redeem herself with her employer, the demon-hunting organisation, Archangel. But when the tall, dark and deadly immortal warrior awakes, she gets much more than she bargained for…
Attacked by his enemy in the elf kingdom, the last thing Prince Loren expects when he comes around is a beautiful angel watching over him and medical technology of the mortal realm. Hazy from his injuries, all he can focus on is the pulse ticking in her throat and the sweet allure of her blood.
One single bite reveals she is his eternal mate, triggering a bond between them that will leave him weakened until it is completed… or broken, and pulling Olivia into the crossfire of his ancient feud.
To protect his people and his mate from the machinations of a madman, Loren must risk everything by working with Olivia at Archangel to find a way to break the bond blossoming between them.
But will Loren be strong enough to place duty before desire and give up the one thing he has waited millennia for and craves above all others—his eternal mate? And will Olivia be able to resist the incredible heat that burns between them and the temptation of her dark prince’s kiss?
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Kissed by a Dark Prince Facebook Release Party Winners
I hosted a release party for my new paranormal romance novel, Kissed by a Dark Prince, on Saturday 14th December over at Facebook and the turnout was incredible! I had an amazing time and want to thank all my wonderful readers who took the time to come along and party with my and my eight fantastic author guests! You guys ROCK!
I have now tallied all the entries for every awesome giveaway and the winners are listed below.
Winners have 72 hours to contact me at author@felicityheaton.co.uk to claim their prize (please say what you won) or another winner will be chosen and announced.
WINNERS
Felicity Heaton Giveaway #1 – 3 x Signed paperback of your choice & mini Snow Lego figurine
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Kissed by a Dark Prince
Felicity Heaton
Olivia thinks it’s her lucky night when a dangerously handsome unconscious fae ends up on her inspection table. He’s her chance to redeem herself with her employer, the demon-hunting organisation, Archangel. But when the tall, dark and deadly immortal warrior awakes, she gets much more than she bargained for…
Attacked by his enemy in the elf kingdom, the last thing Prince Loren expects when he comes around is a beautiful angel watching over him and medical technology of the mortal realm. Hazy from his injuries, all he can focus on is the pulse ticking in her throat and the sweet allure of her blood.
One single bite reveals she is his eternal mate, triggering a bond between them that will leave him weakened until it is completed… or broken, and pulling Olivia into the crossfire of his ancient feud.
To protect his people and his mate from the machinations of a madman, Loren must risk everything by working with Olivia at Archangel to find a way to break the bond blossoming between them.
But will Loren be strong enough to place duty before desire and give up the one thing he has waited millennia for and craves above all others—his eternal mate? And will Olivia be able to resist the incredible heat that burns between them and the temptation of her dark prince’s kiss?
Available in e-book from:
Amazon Kindle Stores:
USA/International | UK | Germany | Canada | Australia
Apple iBookstores:
US | UK | Australia | Canada | New Zealand
Other Retailers:
Barnes and Noble | Kobo Books | All Romance eBooks
Available in paperback from:
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk
December 15, 2013
Manday Hotties – Raise your hands for hot new mancandy
Good Monday Morning! It’s time for the Manday Hotties Hop! I have four new hotties today, all with their hands in the air to show of those delicious muscles…
Which shot is your favourite? All those muscles and hot bodies and #1 wins my vote with his smile.
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December 14, 2013
Sensual Sunday – Scorching Hot Snippet from Vampire for Christmas, a FREE vampire romance novella
Sensual Sunday is brought to you today by Vampire for Christmas, which is one of my stand alone vampire romance novellas and perfect for the holiday season. Sensual Sunday’s always feature a hot excerpt from one of my paranormal romance books. Read on for this Sunday’s sensual snippet…
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Shannon mounted the first step on the stairs. “I’ll show you around.”
Rafe followed her, still convinced that he had hit his head harder than he had thought and was unconscious and dreaming all of this. She stopped at the top of the stairs and pointed along a hall that led towards the back of the house.
“The bathroom’s this way.” She motioned for him to follow.
He did, still taking everything in. There were several large bedrooms, all with their doors open. Which one did she use? The agency had only bothered to put a bed in one room of his house, and he was glad of it. He kept the other bedroom doors closed so the house didn’t feel as big. Shannon’s house was at least the same size as his. Both of them felt too large for just one person to live in. Did she feel that way too?
Shannon leaned into a room and turned a light on. He stopped beside her. The bathroom was standard white with a shower cubicle, basin on a vanity, and toilet.
“There should be soap and things.” She didn’t sound sure. “Just toss your clothes on the vanity and I’ll add mine to them. I have a robe you can wear.”
Rafe walked into the bathroom and she closed the door. If the robe she had gone to retrieve was at all feminine in style, he was going to have words. He looked around, stripped off his shirt, jeans and underwear, and left them on the vanity just as she had told him to. He stepped into the shower cubicle and turned the water on. He hissed out his breath at the freezing temperature and stepped back, giving it time to warm up. The water still sprayed onto his feet, numbing his toes. It wasn’t good to lose body heat. It took him a long time to warm up again. The downside to no longer being human. He didn’t have a beating heart to burn energy and warm his blood. The colder his environment was, the colder he was. He had touched Shannon tonight and she hadn’t seemed to mind about the difference in their body temperatures.
He had kissed her.
The memory of their first kiss rose up in his mind, sending it spiralling down paths that twirled ever outwards, multiplying to imagine all the possible outcomes of kissing her again. It would be difficult to keep it as chaste if he kissed her now. At the time of their first kiss, it had been imperative that it had been nothing more than a light meeting of lips. His fangs had been out.
If he had kissed her with the force of the passion burning inside him, he would have caught her tongue on them. He wasn’t sure what he would do if he tasted her blood.
The thought of it stirred him and he stepped into the cold water to chase his desire away. The water started to warm, as though wanting to foil his attempt to keep his ardour under control, and he grabbed the shower gel from the chrome rack in the corner of the cubicle.
Their second kiss had caught him off guard. He had been nervous about whether she would let him in, distracted by it enough that he didn’t want to risk kissing her as he had wanted to.
If she gave him the chance now, he would kiss her with all the hunger and desire he felt for her.
The bathroom door opened.
Rafe paused. His senses fixed on her.
She must have come to take his clothes and to bring him the bathrobe to wear.
He waited for her to leave.
She didn’t.
She opened the frosted glass door of the cubicle.
Rafe’s gaze instantly dropped to her bare body, taking in every luscious curve and the swell of her breasts. His eyebrows rose. His breath hitched in his throat.
Why was she standing naked in front of him?
Was he dreaming?
He seriously considered pinching himself and then forced his eyes up to meet hers. Her cheeks coloured deeply, tinted rose pink. She stared at his chest and spoke to it rather than him.
“I just want to get clean.”
He didn’t believe that for a second. If she only wanted to get clean, she would have told him to shower second, or to hurry up. Getting clean was the excuse she was hiding behind. Not that he cared. He stepped aside, backing into the jet of warm water, and made room for her. She hesitated still. Her gaze rose a little higher, almost reaching his jaw, and then dropped back to his chest.
And then it dropped down for a split second and darted away to her left.
Her cheeks blazed.
Rafe smirked.
She might have an excuse for being here, but her body betrayed her. He listened to the rapid beat of her heart and the rush of her blood that carried heat to the surface of her skin and filled the air with the scent of her arousal. She wanted this to be more than a shower.
But he was going to play the gentleman.
If his body got the message that was.
His groin throbbed and he kept his gaze firmly on her face and told himself to get a grip. She had said she just wanted a shower, and that was what he would give her. When she wanted more from him, she would only have to say the word.
But she would say it.
He wasn’t one to overstep boundaries laid out by women, and he didn’t want to mess anything up with Shannon. As excruciating as the thought of showering with her but not touching her was, he would bear it and would abide by her rules.
Rafe kept still as she took the shower gel from his hand, squeezed some onto her palm, and then tiptoed and rubbed it into his dark hair. The feeling of her little fingers working the soap into his scalp, nails catching occasionally, and the gentleness with which she cleaned around the cuts along the side of his head, was divine. She leaned closer to him when she tried to reach the back of his head and her breasts pressed against his bare chest. They both froze.
Her heart hammered against his chest.
He moved back an inch, so their bodies no longer brushed, and she took to cleaning his shoulders instead. It was torture. He couldn’t take the feel of her hands on him, smoothing soapsuds over his skin, when he wanted to touch her too. This wasn’t just showering. She had to see that.
Rafe hesitated and then placed his hands on the arc of her waist. She didn’t scream, shout, pull away or slap him. He took it as a good sign and slid his hands up towards her breasts. He detoured when he reached them, sweeping the bare curve of them, and she shivered. Her nipples tautened, dusky peaks tempting him to swirl his tongue around them, or at least brush his thumbs over them. Minx.
Instead, he took the shower gel from her and pulled the band out of her fair hair. She turned her back to him and he ran his fingers through her wet hair, untangling the strands. She sighed when he started to wash her hair, gently cleaning the golden lengths, and tilted her head back. Rafe ran his eyes down her back to her bottom and his cock twitched. He tried to focus on just washing her hair but it was impossible. He was a man after all. When faced with such temptation, with the bare form of the woman he wanted most in the world, no man would be able to resist.
She gasped when he stepped close to her, nestling his erection against the crack of her buttocks, and then arched into him. Rafe groaned and rolled his eyes closed. He grabbed her hip with one hand and dropped the shower gel from the other. He held her firm and ground against her backside. She sighed and wriggled. The Devil he wanted to be inside her.
He reined himself in instead and moved backwards, bringing her under the spray of water and rinsing her hair out for her. His cock ached and throbbed, demanding attention, but he kept his focus on the simple task of washing her.
Any excuse to touch every inch of her.
Did you enjoy today’s hot little snippet?
Caris Roane is also posting a Sensual Sunday snippet from one of her paranormal romance books, so be sure to check out her blog and read it!
Vampire for Christmas
Felicity Heaton
It was one last mission. Shannon, a demon hunter with the agency, is looking forward to leaving behind the small town and the vampire she’s been stuck with for the past two years. Things are getting complicated fast and she wants out. A fresh start, free of her vampire partner, awaits her if she can survive their final mission and the lonely Christmas holidays.
It was one last mission. Rafe, a vampire doing time with the agency, watches it approach with dread weighing heavily in his stomach. Two years of working with Shannon has been difficult, especially since he started falling for her, but he doesn’t want their partnership to end. He has barely a few days to make her face her feelings and stop her from leaving, and he intends to do just that.
When a slimy demon threatens the season of peace and goodwill, it’s the chance Rafe has been waiting for and the moment Shannon secretly fears. Rafe’s determination to prise open her heart and her own resolve to keep it closed clash as violently as they do with the demon, and threatens to end as messily.
Can Rafe make Shannon see that his love for her is real and that she feels something for him too? Can Shannon face her fears and her past, and stop herself from running away from both? Will a wish on a star bring her what her heart truly desires—a vampire for Christmas?
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December 11, 2013
Winter Warmers Giveaway Hop – Win signed paranormal romance paperbacks
It’s time for the Winter Warmers Giveaway Hop hosted by me, Felicity Heaton, and Indie Romance Books. The hop runs from December 12th until December 14th, and my giveaway is international.
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December 9, 2013
Teaseday – Kissed by a Dark Prince (Eternal Mates Romance Series Book 1) – Paranormal Romance Novel Excerpt
Today’s tease comes from the book Kissed by a Dark Prince, which is the first novel in my new series, Eternal Mates. Read on for this Tuesday’s tease…
Olivia had never seen anything like the male specimen on the inspection table in front of her.
Her heart raced. She hadn’t experienced this explosive combination of uncertainty, anticipation and enthusiasm in a long time, ever since her superiors had stripped her of her rank and sent her to this satellite facility in London, taking away her high-level privileges and forcing her to work on studying demon and fae species already extensively researched. It still felt as though they had shoved her out of sight, burying her in the Archangel equivalent of a basement to punish her for her mistake. She had lost all hope of removing the taint it had left on her name in the organisation.
Until now.
The specimen lying right in front of her was her chance to prove herself again, a gift that some higher power had literally dumped on her doorstep.
Blood stained his neck and splashed across his jaw, and pooled at the left corner of his mouth too, luring Olivia’s gaze to firm sensual lips that had her staring blankly, lost in their perfection. She blinked herself out of her trance. Time was of the essence. She needed to get her study underway before her guest woke up or one of the other doctors belonging to the facility barged in and tried to take over.
She shook her hands to steady them, pulled her digital recorder from the pocket of her white coat, and turned it on. She set it on the silver trolley filled with all the equipment she thought she might need to complete her inspection of their unconscious guest.
Olivia tugged on a pair of latex gloves and ran her fingers over the scalpels and tools, and settled on a pair of shears. It had been a long time since she had been able to work on a live specimen and she wanted to start by getting his vitals monitored.
She picked up the shears and cut down the middle of his long black tunic style jacket. Red stained her cream gloves.
“Specimen appears to have suffered severe injuries, worse than at first thought, resulting in a high level of blood loss.” She reached the end of his jacket and peeled the two sides back. She paused, her eyes widening at the impressive display of taut honed muscles under tight bloodstained and bruised skin. “Specimen also isn’t wearing anything under his coat.”
Completely unprofessional of her but she had expected at least some sort of undershirt, and she certainly hadn’t anticipated a body like this. She drew in a shaky breath, mentally told herself to get it together, and cut upwards along each of his sleeves. She peeled the two sides of his ruined jacket away from his body and set them down on the tray.
“Multiple lacerations and abrasions on his torso and arms. Many appear to be claw marks. Possible demon attack. Subject wears matching black and silver metal bands on each wrist.” Olivia spread her fingers and stroked along the lines of four long slashes over his left deltoid. She gasped. “Specimen has markings on his body that hadn’t been visible prior to interaction with him.”
Olivia tracked the symbols with her fingertips, following them as they formed a curl over his deltoid to his shoulder. Whenever she moved along the line, more symbols appeared, luring her fingers. The colourful swirls and glyphs shimmered through the blood staining him. They swept over his shoulder and under his collarbone, and suddenly she was caressing his left pectoral, chasing them as they followed the shape of his muscle downwards over his heart and around across his torso, and then curled under his nipple to end in a point there.
She had never seen anything like this. It fascinated her. The ones that curled around his deltoid were already fading, disappearing into his skin.
She had made it her business to study the written languages of the fae and demons, because many non-humans bore markings like this and it made it easier to identify the species of the owner. Incubi were born with lines of symbols on their skin that not only changed colour to show their mood, but also detailed their lineage, proudly displaying their heritage in the paternal line. The symbols inked on this male’s skin weren’t that of the common fae language though. They were new to her.
“Specimen’s markings seem limited to his upper torso.” She leaned over him and swept a single finger across his right pectoral, and sure enough, markings appeared there too, perfectly mirroring the design she had followed. Olivia used the shears to cut through the waist of his black trousers and froze when more markings shimmered over his hipbone. “Correction. Specimen’s markings continue on his lower body, notably his hips.”
Olivia flicked a glance at the front of his trousers. If this lean, unusual male didn’t wear an undershirt, what were the chances he wasn’t wearing underwear too?
She curled her fingers into fists and stifled the blush that crept onto her cheeks. She had seen plenty of nude men during her years as a doctor and in her personal life too. He was just a specimen. Her gaze roamed to his handsome face, taking in its sculpted perfection. A very gorgeous specimen.
Her heart beat harder and she rolled her shoulders. She had to get a grip. This was her chance. If she had never seen anything like this man, then there was a chance neither had the other scientists employed by Archangel. All those scientists that were currently enjoying a soiree at headquarters, leaving her as the only medical staff in the building. If she could document everything about this male, and figure out what species of demon or fae he was, then her superiors would have to give her some credit, and maybe she could get back to doing what she loved most—studying new species.
So, she had to do this. He was just another subject.
Olivia cut away his trousers, running the shears straight down each long, toned leg. She removed the central part and swallowed as her gaze betrayed her, darting to his groin. No underwear. Her face flushed. Oh my. The man was built like a god with not an ounce of fat on his lithe body. All powerful muscle.
She set the shears down and took another steadying breath before touching the fading marks on his left hip. They brightened again and she followed them.
“Specimen’s markings curl over his hip from behind. Cannot risk moving specimen without harming him to investigate them. They move down past his… groin… and then sweep back around to curl over his hip.” Her heart ran away with her again, her blood rushing through her ears. She hadn’t needed to follow the marks all the way to make the ones that arced around towards his buttocks appear. Her fingers had brushed the ones closest to the dark thatch of curls around his genitals and they had appeared.
His hip twitched beneath her fingertips.
Olivia quickly pulled her hand back and froze. He didn’t move again. The breath she had been holding rushed out of her.
“I am going to proceed with monitoring the specimen’s vitals.” She picked up several of the pads used as contacts for the machines and stuck them to his chest and below his ribs on the left side. If he had a similar physiology to a human as many fae species did, chances were high that she could pick up and monitor his heart rate this way. She connected the wires, switched on the machine, and placed a clip over his index finger. The heart rate monitor beeped slowly but everything else was off the charts. “Specimen shows extremely high levels of oxygen in his blood, beyond normal parameters. What are you?”
She ran her gaze over him. He had taken a severe beating before they had found him unconscious outside the building, as if someone had wanted them to find him.
Sable, her friend and demon hunter extraordinaire, had taken one look at him and her gift had told her that he wasn’t mortal.
The hunters who had helped her bring him in had believed he had crawled to them or had made his own way to their doors. Sable didn’t believe that and neither did Olivia.
No demon or fae in their right mind would place themselves at the mercy of Archangel.
No. Someone had dropped this male on their porch and left him there, wanting Archangel to bring him inside. Why?
It could be a trap and it would be just her luck if it were.
“Specimen appears mortal. Markings on his skin appear fae possibly.” But they hadn’t captured a fae in years and he was nothing like the fae she had read about in the database or seen firsthand. “Specimen is male, estimated six-feet-six, one hundred and eighty to two hundred and twenty pounds. Black hair.”
Olivia inspected his stomach, pressing in to feel his organs. He felt human but something about him, something other than his mysterious markings, told her that he wasn’t. She peered closer at the severe wounds on his stomach and chest.
“Specimen appears to have advanced healing ability. Age of blood around the wounds is indicative of a recent injury, but the wounds in question are already closed and beginning to scab over.” Many demon and fae species had heightened healing. He could be any number of them. Olivia carefully pulled his upper lip back and studied his teeth. “No fangs. Canines appear normal.”
She drew back and something caught her eye. She parted the wild strands of his short black hair and traced the pointed tip of his ear. Was he a demon? They had pointed ears.
Olivia hovered over him, looking down at his handsome bloodstained face. She had never seen a demon as beautiful, mysterious, or deadly as he was.
Deadly.
She could feel it like an aura around him.
He was dangerous.
And waking up.
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Kissed by a Dark Prince
Felicity Heaton
Olivia thinks it’s her lucky night when a dangerously handsome unconscious fae ends up on her inspection table. He’s her chance to redeem herself with her employer, the demon-hunting organisation, Archangel. But when the tall, dark and deadly immortal warrior awakes, she gets much more than she bargained for…
Attacked by his enemy in the elf kingdom, the last thing Prince Loren expects when he comes around is a beautiful angel watching over him and medical technology of the mortal realm. Hazy from his injuries, all he can focus on is the pulse ticking in her throat and the sweet allure of her blood.
One single bite reveals she is his eternal mate, triggering a bond between them that will leave him weakened until it is completed… or broken, and pulling Olivia into the crossfire of his ancient feud.
To protect his people and his mate from the machinations of a madman, Loren must risk everything by working with Olivia at Archangel to find a way to break the bond blossoming between them.
But will Loren be strong enough to place duty before desire and give up the one thing he has waited millennia for and craves above all others—his eternal mate? And will Olivia be able to resist the incredible heat that burns between them and the temptation of her dark prince’s kiss?
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Kissed by a Dark Prince – Blog Barrage Day 9 – Win $150 in Gift Cards in my Giveaway!
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Download a 6 chapter sample of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/kbadp
Kissed by a Dark Prince is the first novel in the Eternal Mates romance series, which is set in the same world as the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series, but it takes a look at the wider world outisde the theatre. There are hot dark elves, sexy shifters of all species, witches, demon-hunters, demons and many more paranormal species in this series of novels. If you loved the world of the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series and those characters, be sure to read this new series to learn more about it and catch up with your old favourites.
Kissed by a Dark Prince
Felicity Heaton
Olivia thinks it’s her lucky night when a dangerously handsome unconscious fae ends up on her inspection table. He’s her chance to redeem herself with her employer, the demon-hunting organisation, Archangel. But when the tall, dark and deadly immortal warrior awakes, she gets much more than she bargained for…
Attacked by his enemy in the elf kingdom, the last thing Prince Loren expects when he comes around is a beautiful angel watching over him and medical technology of the mortal realm. Hazy from his injuries, all he can focus on is the pulse ticking in her throat and the sweet allure of her blood.
One single bite reveals she is his eternal mate, triggering a bond between them that will leave him weakened until it is completed… or broken, and pulling Olivia into the crossfire of his ancient feud.
To protect his people and his mate from the machinations of a madman, Loren must risk everything by working with Olivia at Archangel to find a way to break the bond blossoming between them.
But will Loren be strong enough to place duty before desire and give up the one thing he has waited millennia for and craves above all others—his eternal mate? And will Olivia be able to resist the incredible heat that burns between them and the temptation of her dark prince’s kiss?
Available in e-book from:
Amazon Kindle Stores:
USA/International | UK | Germany | Canada | Australia
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US | UK | Australia | Canada | New Zealand
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Available in paperback from:
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Kissed by a Dark Prince Blog Barrage Dates
Saturday, November 30th
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Sunday, December 1st
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♥ Stitch – Read – Cook
Monday, December 2nd
♥ One More Chapter Reviews
♥ Books and Tales
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Tuesday, December 3rd
♥ Wicca Witch 4 Book Blog
♥ Amethyst Daydreams
♥ Close Encounters with the Night Kind
Wednesday, December 4th
♥ The Fiction Enthusiast
♥ Romance Book Junkies
♥ Riverina Romantics
♥ Book Reviews by Lynn
Thursday, December 5th
♥ MsRomanticReads
♥ Cover Reveals
♥ Paranormal Haven
♥ Blood, Lust and Erotica
Friday, December 6th
♥ Bex n Books
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Saturday, December 7th
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Sunday, December 8th
♥ Book Lovin Mamas
♥ Reading Between the Wines
December 8, 2013
Manday Hotties – Four Sexy New Mancandy Hotties for you to devour
Good Monday Morning! It’s time for the Manday Hotties Hop! I’m warming up your winter with four hot new mancandy offerings today…
Which shot is your favourite? Mine might be #4 today… rawr.
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December 7, 2013
Sensual Sunday – Hot Vampire Romance Novel excerpt from Hunter’s Moon (Vampires Realm Series Book 6) plus FREE Ebook!
Sensual Sunday is brought to you today by Hunter’s Moon, which is book 6 in my popular Vampires Realm romance series. Sensual Sunday’s always feature a hot excerpt from one of my paranormal romance books. Read on for this Sunday’s sensual snippet…
You can get your hands on the first book in this series, PROPHECY: CHILD OF LIGHT, for FREE right now on selected Amazon Kindle, Nook, Kobo and Apple iBooks Stores. Find out more at my Paranormal Romance Ebook Offers page.
Nicolae started when Tatyana leaned towards him. Her brown eyes brightened, turning the colour of amber flecked with gold, and her lips parted. The barest hint of fang showed between them. She slipped her hand down to his jaw, her fingers softly stroking the line of it, and then trailed them over his throat. He swallowed when she peeled off the sticking plasters on the curve of his left shoulder and her gaze fell to the marks they had hidden.
What was she going to do?
“I will not bite you,” she whispered in a voice so barely there that he wondered if he had imagined her speaking, and then lowered her head and ran her tongue over the bite mark.
He shivered. A wave of desire chased through him, spreading outwards from the point where her tongue caressed his flesh, and he rolled his eyes closed. Instinct said to push her away, that she was lying and she was only after his blood. She would bite him. The rest of him said to let her stay, that she only meant to help him as he had helped her.
She licked his neck again, slowly as though savouring the taste of him. With each sweep of her tongue, the spark inside him grew hotter, steadily turning to flames that burned in his blood and then into an inferno that drove him to beg her to surrender to her hunger and taste his blood properly. He wanted to feel her lips around the marks, ached to have her suck on the wound and draw his blood into her body. It was wrong of him to feel anything like he did for her after the living hell that the vampires had put him through, but he wanted her.
Images of her danced across his closed eyes, flashbacks to ways she had looked at him tonight with dark desire in her eyes. Was she thinking the impossible too? Did she want him?
He bit back a groan when she placed her hands on his bare chest, cool against his burning skin, and licked his throat harder.
“You are not healing,” she sighed into his ear.
Nicolae knelt before her, lost, drifting on the feel of her touching him, teasing him with her tongue.
“Vampire bites are a pain in the backside,” he said distantly, feeling as though he wasn’t quite with the world. He was floating somewhere between Heaven and Hell, battling the forbidden desire to feel her fangs in his throat. No good would come of it. Barely hours ago, he had vowed that he would never let her do that again, and now he was dying for her to go through with it. If he let her, he wasn’t sure how he would end up feeling about it. She was the enemy. Her kind had put him through so much endless pain and suffering. How could he so easily forget it?
It was as though she was erasing it from his mind piece by piece with each sweep of her tongue over his skin.
“Werewolf ones aren’t much better,” she said with a smile in her voice and then lowered her mouth back to his throat.
And sucked.
And damn, it felt as though pure bliss was running through his veins. Nicolae couldn’t fight it anymore. He buried his left hand into her hair, tangling the golden threads tightly around his fingers, and held her against his throat. She sucked again, sending another wave of pleasure rippling through him, and then licked the wound.
Every thought he’d entertained when she had touched him earlier and then said that he hated her came crashing back. He held her near as he had wanted to then, no longer afraid of being so close to her. It fed his desire to touch her, to lower his mouth and kiss her bare shoulder and then her cheek.
And then her lips.
He burned with the need to gather her closer still and feel her cool soft body against his.
What was he doing? He had barely known her a moment, not even a full day, but he ached with a fierce need to possess and protect her.
He had felt a glimmer of the feelings now pounding through his blood when he had first seen her in the woods.
Then, it had driven him to care for her and save her.
Now, it compelled him to kiss her and beg her to kiss him.
A vampire’s kiss.
His breathing turned heavy. “Our species just aren’t made for getting along.”
She raised her head and her cheek brushed his, her breath teasing his ear. “I think we can get along.”
God, he wanted to surrender to her but he couldn’t. He couldn’t let her bite him, not yet, not now. If she did it while she was still healing, he would never know whether she had bitten him because she had desired him or whether everything had been done out of a need for fresh blood in order to heal.
It was bad enough living with the knowledge that he felt something for her. He didn’t think he could bear trying to live knowing that she had used him for blood and he had been foolish enough not to realise that was all she had wanted from him. He could endure the memory of what the compounds had done to him, the physical torment the vampires had put him through, but he wouldn’t be able to endure such direct emotional torture by one of her kind. It would break him.
Did you enjoy today’s hot little snippet?
Caris Roane is also posting a Sensual Sunday snippet from one of her paranormal romance books, so be sure to check out her blog and read it!
Hunter’s Moon
Felicity Heaton
The horror of the night he failed to save his werewolf pack from the cruelty of their vampire masters has haunted Nicolae for one hundred years, driving him deep into the Canadian wilderness in search of peace. That peace is threatened when unfamiliar hunters and the scent of blood lead him to a beautiful woman and a hard decision—face his past and help her or risk losing everyone he cares about again.
Bearing a heart filled with grief and with vengeance on her mind, Tatyana is intent on killing the hunters she’s tracking and returning to her vampire bloodline, but her plan didn’t include being shot with poisoned arrows or rescued by a glowering alpha werewolf who stirs forbidden hunger in her.
When the hunters make their move, will Nicolae be able to stop them before it’s too late? Will he be able to overcome the darkness in his heart and embrace his desire for a vampire? And can Tatyana face her fears and risk her life for the sake of forbidden love?
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You can get your hands on the first book in this series, PROPHECY: CHILD OF LIGHT, for FREE right now on selected Amazon Kindle, Nook, Kobo and Apple iBooks Stores. Find out more at my Paranormal Romance Ebook Offers page.
If you haven’t had a chance to read any of the books in the Vampires Realm romance series yet, they’re all available at major ebook retailers and some are available in paperback, and you can find the links and samples of the books at my website:
Prophecy: Child of Light (Vampires Realm Romance Series #1)
Prophecy: Caelestis & Aurorea (Vampires Realm Romance Series #2)
Prophecy: Dark Moon Rising (Vampires Realm Romance Series #3)
Eternity: The Beginning (Vampires Realm Romance Series Short Story)
Spellbound (Vampires Realm Romance Series #3.1)
Reunion (Vampires Realm Romance Series #3.5)
Seventh Circle (Vampires Realm Romance Series #4)
Winter’s Kiss (Vampires Realm Romance Series #5)
Hunter’s Moon (Vampires Realm Romance Series #6)
Masquerade (Vampires Realm Romance Series #7)
Kissed by a Dark Prince – Blog Barrage Day 8 – Win $150 in Gift Cards in my Giveaway!
It’s day 8 of the Kissed by a Dark Prince Blog Barrage! Have you been enjoying it so far?
The Kissed by a Dark Prince Blog Barrage will run from November 30th – December 8th and we’re visiting some fantastic blogs in that time. I’m also celebrating the release by holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at my website where you could be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate.
Enter the Kissed by a Dark Prince international giveaway (ends December 8th) at my website, where you can also download a 6 chapter sample of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/kbadp
Kissed by a Dark Prince is the first novel in the Eternal Mates romance series, which is set in the same world as the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series, but it takes a look at the wider world outisde the theatre. There are hot dark elves, sexy shifters of all species, witches, demon-hunters, demons and many more paranormal species in this series of novels. If you loved the world of the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series and those characters, be sure to read this new series to learn more about it and catch up with your old favourites.
Kissed by a Dark Prince
Felicity Heaton
Olivia thinks it’s her lucky night when a dangerously handsome unconscious fae ends up on her inspection table. He’s her chance to redeem herself with her employer, the demon-hunting organisation, Archangel. But when the tall, dark and deadly immortal warrior awakes, she gets much more than she bargained for…
Attacked by his enemy in the elf kingdom, the last thing Prince Loren expects when he comes around is a beautiful angel watching over him and medical technology of the mortal realm. Hazy from his injuries, all he can focus on is the pulse ticking in her throat and the sweet allure of her blood.
One single bite reveals she is his eternal mate, triggering a bond between them that will leave him weakened until it is completed… or broken, and pulling Olivia into the crossfire of his ancient feud.
To protect his people and his mate from the machinations of a madman, Loren must risk everything by working with Olivia at Archangel to find a way to break the bond blossoming between them.
But will Loren be strong enough to place duty before desire and give up the one thing he has waited millennia for and craves above all others—his eternal mate? And will Olivia be able to resist the incredible heat that burns between them and the temptation of her dark prince’s kiss?
Available in e-book from:
Amazon Kindle Stores:
USA/International | UK | Germany | Canada | Australia
Apple iBookstores:
US | UK | Australia | Canada | New Zealand
Other Retailers:
Barnes and Noble | Kobo Books | All Romance eBooks
Available in paperback from:
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk
Kissed by a Dark Prince Blog Barrage Dates
Saturday, November 30th
♥ Mad Hatter Reads
♥ The Book Nympho
♥ The Reading Cafe
♥ Pure Textuality
Sunday, December 1st
♥ Book Loving Pixie
♥ The Demon Librarian
♥ eBook Sharing
♥ Stitch – Read – Cook
Monday, December 2nd
♥ One More Chapter Reviews
♥ Books and Tales
♥ Paperbacks and Pastries
Tuesday, December 3rd
♥ Wicca Witch 4 Book Blog
♥ Amethyst Daydreams
♥ Close Encounters with the Night Kind
Wednesday, December 4th
♥ The Fiction Enthusiast
♥ Romance Book Junkies
♥ Riverina Romantics
♥ Book Reviews by Lynn
Thursday, December 5th
♥ MsRomanticReads
♥ Cover Reveals
♥ Paranormal Haven
♥ Blood, Lust and Erotica
Friday, December 6th
♥ Bex n Books
♥ Wicked Readings by Tawania
♥ My Book Chatter
Saturday, December 7th
♥ The Darkest Reader
♥ Endless Reading
♥ Books, Books and More Books
Sunday, December 8th
♥ Book Lovin Mamas
♥ Reading Between the Wines
