Felicity Heaton's Blog, page 94
January 17, 2012
SEDUCE (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series #3) completed in first draft and series news
Although I probably should have rested my shoulder yesterday, as it has been very bad for the past week or so and was hurting when I was writing, I ignored it and battled through the pain with the help of some meds. I know that probably isn't a wise thing, but I really needed to write and nothing can stop me when the mood strikes, especially when it strikes as hard as it did yesterday.My word count and progress on Seduce rose nicely yesterday, bringing me 9000 words closer to the end and up to around 40,000 words. Seduce is turning out a little longer than the first two books in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series , but I think that's because Antoine has a lot in his past that he needs to get off his chest and then there's the whole thing with Snow, his older brother. Now that's a relationship you don't want to come between, although I'm beginning to suspect there are a large number of readers willing to play host to Snow's darkest desires. He's gaining himself quite a fan club. Or should that be fang club?
This morning I woke up and my shoulder was mercifully feeling much better. It's still dodgy, but it no longer hurts when I'm writing. My back is also acting up less. I bought a new office chair when I became a full time writer but I think I need something better for my posture. I have sucky posture. My own fault for living in front of a computer screen.
Back to Seduce.
I brought the book to a satisfying conclusion this afternoon, finishing with it standing at 45,000 words. It will probably grow a little when I edit it, or maybe it will shrink. There are a few things to iron out as the story shifted directions a few times when I was writing it but I'm sure a read through pre-edit will highlight anything that needs tweaking.
Now that Seduce is done, I will be moving on to planning the next three stories in the series, and also the next novel in the Her Angel series. Yes, my astute lovelies, you did read that right. I won't be ending the Vampire Erotic Theatre series on book 4. I am having far too much fun in this world and two candidates have stepped forwards, making their first appearance in Seduce, as the heroes of the extra books.
What does this mean and when the heck do I get my Snow fix? I hear you crying it.
It makes sense for the books to be added in at position 4 and 5, so Snow's book will be moved to book 6. He deserves the finale and I have more I want to do with him before we get to see his story unfold. I think it works better for the series if his book doesn't follow hot on the heels of Antoine's. It makes life far too easy for the brother's, and we all know I'm all about giving my heroes a hard time.
The first hero has already been mentioned in Covet , but not by name. He's Javier's brother, Andreu. The second is another elite vampire with a bit of a secret, and his name is Payne.
Andreu will now be the hero in Enslave, as that book title suits his story far more than it suits Snow's.
Payne's book will be entitled Bewitch.
Snow's book is tentatively entitled Claim.
So, the running order of the series is now as follows:
#1 - Covet (Javier and Lilah) - out now.
#2 - Crave (Callum and Kristina) - 10th March
#3 - Seduce (Antoine and Sera) - 23rd June
#4 - Enslave (Andreu and ?) - 4th August
#5 - Bewitch (Payne and ?) - December
#6 - Claim (Snow and ?) - January 2013
I'd love to get them out quicker but I need to tour with them and give myself time to promote them, and I also need to release Masquerade in my Vampires Realm series and Her Demonic Angel in my Her Angel series .
In other news, I'm considering writing a werewolf equivalent to Vampire Erotic Theatre next year. Interested?
I feel I should duck and cover to avoid the angry swings of the women of the Snow fan club. I promise, you'll get a dose of him in each book!
Teaseday - A sexy introduction to the second book in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series
Since I'm deep in
Vampire Erotic Theatre series
territory at the moment, what with writing Seduce, the third book, and the fact that
Covet
, the first book has just hit virtual bookshelves, I thought I would tease you all this Tuesday with a sexy, hot snippet from Crave.Crave is the second book in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series and features the elite vampire Callum, and a female werewolf Kristina, as the hero and heroine. We've stepped away from the London theatre for a business trip to Paris that will turn into one seriously forbidden pleasure ride.
CRAVE - TEASER
Three weeks had passed since Callum had left London and headed to Paris to scout for performers for a new show at the theatre he ran with three other vampires, and it had been one week since he had last emailed Antoine, the aristocrat pureblood in charge of overseeing the performances at Vampirerotique.
He should have contacted him again by now. It wasn't as though Callum hadn't thought about it. He had booted up his laptop and started to type out the email every morning before retiring for the day. Yesterday, he had even reached the point of typing in his name at the end of the email before deleting the entire thing.
Callum leaned his back against the brass rail that edged the curved dark mahogany bar top, his green gaze scanning the occupants of the crowded room, picking out viable prey, potential performers, and identifying the species of each person his eyes fell on. Part of him was still working and it was that part that kept whispering that Antoine wouldn't be angry with him for disappearing. If he just dropped a brief email or even a text message stating that he was still looking for performers but hadn't spotted anyone worthy of joining the Vampirerotique family in the past week then Antoine would probably forgive him for disobeying his command to contact him daily.
It would be a lie though.
He had seen several vampires, both male and female, at the nightclubs he had been moving between for the past three weeks. All of them would work well in the theatre and draw the crowds. They were exhibitionists who had been more than comfortable performing private acts in front of the gathered dancers. There had been males who had groped and grinded with their human female prey, and female vampires who had engaged in acts just a whisper away from screwing in the open booths where anyone could see them. All of them had been worthy of him approaching them and giving them the hard sell. Not many of their type refused to audition when they gained an all expenses paid trip to London and the chance to try out for a place in a famous theatre.
There was one female who had stood out amongst the usual crowd last week. She was perfect for the new show that Antoine had in mind, could easily be the star performer, but Callum couldn't bring himself to approach her and whenever he thought about mentioning her to Antoine, a knot formed deep in his gut.
Callum had ignored the feeling and just satisfied himself with watching her in the club. He had first seen her with another female, one that he had approached during a lull towards the end of the evening. She had eagerly accepted his offer of an audition, even though she knew the sort of place his theatre was and that it didn't normally look for performers from her species.
Werewolf.
When Antoine had first told him that he would be departing for Paris in search of new talent, and that it wouldn't just be the usual scouting mission this time but would include seeking werewolves for a special performance, Callum had almost choked on his glass of blood.
Vampirerotique had never hired werewolves before. In fact, he was certain that in the hundred years they had been running the theatre, there had never been a werewolf on stage. Their kind rarely interacted with each other, unless you counted the occasional war. Werewolves didn't like vampires. The feeling was more than mutual.
Callum had sent three werewolves to audition so far, all female as requested.
This female would be perfect for the show too. She would steal it and make it hers, just as she stole the attention of the entire club as she moved through it with sensual grace that had the eyes of every male and some females on her, and made Callum think about some therianthropes he had met in the past. She had the moves of a feline shifter rather than a werewolf.
Callum could easily imagine her moving on the stage, how she would sidle over to the large vampire males and bring them to their knees with only a seductive sway of her hips and flash of a sultry smile.
Hell, she had Callum on his knees. He had been following her for a week now, shunning his duty in favour of tracking her down each night and watching her from a distance. His new private pleasure. The club she had chosen tonight catered to a mixed crowd, although the humans didn't know that. One of the male bartenders was a shifter, one was human, and one was a vampire. That surprised Callum. He had never thought he would live to see a vampire working alongside a shifter, but the two young males seemed to get along. He couldn't sense any bad feelings between them so it wasn't an act put on for the sake of the patrons and the human bartender.
Callum's gaze tracked the female through the club, studying how she slid between the dancers, occasionally stopping to work her body against a male. She smiled wickedly at a young human man as he caught her wrist and pulled her against him, twisting her so her back pressed against his front. She wriggled her hips and raised her hands above her head as she slid down the length of her partner and then back up again, almost as tall as he was in her heeled black boots. Her tight dark jeans emphasised lean long legs that Callum had rather disturbingly dreamed about since first seeing her, imagining their slender strong lengths wrapped around his backside as he fucked her. He had dreamed about pushing the loose flowing material of her empire-line top up to reveal the toned plane of her stomach and then kissing it, feeling her body shift beneath him, before continuing and peeling the high waist tucked under her breasts over their full firm globes. He had dipped his head and captured each sweet dusky bud in turn, swirling his tongue around and sucking them until she moaned low in appreciation.
The brunette female werewolf moved on, thanking her temporary partner with a brief brush of her rosy lips across his cheek and a saucy stroke of her palm over his crotch that had Callum ready to speed onto the dance floor and rip the human to shreds.
She was his.
He drew a long slow breath to calm himself, focusing on it and not her, waiting for the need to pass. If he looked at her now, he would be on the dance floor before he realised what he was doing and would be tugging her into his arms, using all of his strength to make it clear to her that she belonged to him now.
Callum shook his head to rid it of the desire to dance with her and feel her body pressing into his, hot and supple under his questing hands. He wouldn't let her go as easily as the male human had.
He watched her move through the dancers again, twirling and smiling, her wavy soft brown hair dancing with her, tumbling over her shoulders and breasts. Each time she lifted her bare arms in the air, the hem of her top rose, revealing a tantalising flash of her stomach or back. Her jeans rode low on her hips, barely covering her backside and crotch.
She was a vixen, a real predator as she glanced over every man, even those with partners, looking for tonight's fun. He had seen her leave with a new man every night. A strange urge to follow her and see what she did with them had built inside him until he had no longer been able to resist the need to know. It wasn't what he had thought it would be and an even stranger feeling had swept through him on realising that she was luring males away to feed on them. Like his kind, werewolves enjoyed the taste of blood and needed it to survive, although they could supplement their need with nourishment from food.
Unlike his kind, werewolves couldn't turn a human. Her bite wouldn't change the human into a werewolf. Once she had finished with the man, she had wiped his memory and left him in the alley.
Callum had almost followed her home but had forced himself to return to his hotel instead. The sight of her feeding had given him some seriously erotic dreams and he had woken tonight with a raging erection that hadn't gone down until he had tended to it.
It was coming back as he watched her, his thoughts diving down routes they shouldn't be taking. A vampire had no place desiring a werewolf.
Desiring?
Hell, this hunger went beyond desire and ran deeper in his veins than lust.
He craved her.
Callum turned and flagged down the vampire bartender. The blond man smiled knowingly, nodded, and took down a martini glass. He filled it to the brim with dark liquid that was black in the flashing purple and blue lights of the club and stuck a cherry on a stick in it. Callum held out a twenty euro note at the same time as the vampire placed the glass down on an elegant white napkin and slid it across the bar to him.
"I'll take one of those," a female voice said right beside him, "and tall, dark and sexy here is paying."
He was?
Callum frowned and turned to say that he damn well wasn't paying for her drink and froze as his eyes fell on the female werewolf. He felt the vampire bartender's gaze on him, sensed him waiting to see what Callum's reply would be. Callum glanced at him and nodded. The vampire made up another glass of blood, stuck a cherry in it, and slid it over to her before moving away.
The werewolf raised her glass in a salute to Callum, sipped the blood, and set it back down on the napkin. Her bloodstained lips curved into a wicked sultry smile.
Callum was smitten.
She leaned closer, her bare left elbow resting on the bar, and ran her fingertips down his dark purple silk tie. Her smile widened when she curled her fingers around it, drew it away from his black tailored shirt, and tugged him towards her.
"You've been watching me like I'm a bitch in heat and you're an alpha. What gives?" She wasn't French as he had expected. Her accent was as British as his own.
Callum calmly removed her hand from his tie, straightened it out and smoothed it down. "I'm just here on business, and I'm definitely not an alpha. I'm a vampire."
She smiled and tilted her head to one side, causing the long waves of her brown hair to shift across her breasts and cover the tempting display of cleavage the tight section of her black sleeveless top created.
"A vampire with a definite hard-on for a species most of his kind would see as disgusting and forbidden," she said over the rapid beat of the music, lifted the cocktail stick and cherry from her drink, and popped it into her mouth.
Callum's gaze narrowed on her mouth, transfixed by the sight of her sucking the cherry. She parted her lips and withdrew the glossy red fruit, dipped it back into her blood and swirled it around before raising it back to her mouth and teasing him by licking the crimson liquid off it again. His chest tightened and he struggled to breathe as the tip of her tongue flicked over the cherry, swirling around it. She slowly slid the fruit into her mouth, lips puckering as she sucked, her eyes closing in what looked like pleasure to him. The sight of her ratcheted his hunger up another notch, flooding him with a deep throbbing ache to feel her tongue brushing his in the way it had the cherry, to have her mouth on his flesh and to run his lips over every inch of her bare skin and drive her wild until she was sobbing his name and begging for more.
"I don't have a hard-on for your species... just you." Callum moved faster than she could evade, catching the wrist of the hand she held the cocktail stick in, pulling it away from her lips and claiming them for his own.
She responded instantly, her tongue thrusting past his lips and teeth to slide along his. He slanted his head, slipped his other arm around her slim waist and dragged the full length of her body against his as he seized control of the kiss. She melted against him, as supple and hot as he had dreamed she would be, her breasts pressing into his hard chest, the heat of her driving him to the edge. He tangled his tongue with hers, swallowing her breathy gasps as he dominated her, crushing each attempt she made to reclaim control. Her fight only made him burn hotter for her, made him use his strength on her and tighten his grip on her wrist and side. Her gasps became low rumbling moans. The firmer he was with her, the more of his strength he used, the lower they became and the more she struggled, as though she wanted to feel how much more powerful he was than her.
She liked it.
The female werewolf snapped out of his grasp and slapped him so hard across his cheek that he couldn't fail to realise where he had gone wrong. His fangs cut into his lower lip. He hadn't noticed them extending. Before he could explain to her that it was just the heat of the moment that had brought them out and that he hadn't intended to bite her, she was striding away from him, heading back towards the busy dance floor.
Callum growled, swiftly drank his martini glass of blood to take the edge off his hunger and followed her, intent on explaining and tasting her again.
Was that a tease, or was that a tease?
You'll have to wait until March 10th to get your real taste of Crave, but the first book in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series is out right now.
Covet is available from Amazon Kindle stores, Apple iBookstores, Kobo Books, Smashwords and All Romance eBooks. It will hopefully be available at BN Nook soon.
Download a sample of Covet or grab it in e-book from:
Author's website
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr
iBooks US | iBooks UK | iBooks Australia | iBooks Canada
Kobo Books | Smashwords | All Romance eBooks
January 16, 2012
Oxford - A duck feeding expedition to the setting of some scenes in my Prophecy Trilogy
I remember back when I was writing my Prophecy Trilogy in my
Vampires Realm series
that I just had to include Oxford, my home city. The architecture and age of the city alone make it the perfect place for vampires. Add to that the large parks and plenty of people and what vampire wouldn't want to live there?
If you remember rightly, Oxford was the home to Mathias in the Prophecy Trilogy, and was the place that Valentine took Prophecy to with the intent of leaving her there in relative safety while he trotted on back to his own life before that got wrecked by someone discovering his treasonous behaviour.
There's a specific park featured in one of the scenes in the second book in the vampire romance trilogy, Prophecy: Caelestis and Aurorea, shortly after Valentine and Prophecy have returned to Oxford. Valentine is having a bad day and takes it out on a few humans, two of which happened to walk into a park. The park I wrote about in the book is the one where I like to feed ducks with my husband. Quite the contrast to the activities that Valentine gets up to in the same park. I thought you guys might like to see some pictures of it though, so I snapped some on my phone.
This is Christchurch college, which is there the park is. Such a moody contrast of sunshine and black clouds.
These are the trees where Valentine stalks the couple under the veil of night, and ends up killing them, and the weakling vampire who tries to interfere. Go Valentine.
Geese standing to attention. They really wanted the bread we had. They're biters too.
Christchurch again, looking sunny this time.
I picture Mathias living in a building like these.
I'm sure I mention this building in the book too, which is the Radcliffe Camera.
This is our mini Bridge of Sighs, which also featured in the latest X-Men film.
Awesome sunset... which you could say is like the one Valentine describes to Prophecy in the first book.
I really love writing about places I've been to and including them in my stories. It's not just because writing about somewhere you've been is vastly easier, and more accurate, than writing about somewhere from pictures. It's because I know the feel of the place and can put that into words. Oxford is my home city, so I know it off by heart, and that's probably why I feature in my favourite series. I love London too, and all the cities I write about, but Oxford makes me think about Vampires Realm and that makes me think about Valentine.
:)
It also makes me think of Oneiric, which leads me to Eve and Lilith, and then makes me think about writing Hunger. I've been thinking about Hunger a lot lately. I really hope I can start writing it this year. It's Eve and Tor's story, and is going to be full throttle and hot too.
If you remember rightly, Oxford was the home to Mathias in the Prophecy Trilogy, and was the place that Valentine took Prophecy to with the intent of leaving her there in relative safety while he trotted on back to his own life before that got wrecked by someone discovering his treasonous behaviour.
There's a specific park featured in one of the scenes in the second book in the vampire romance trilogy, Prophecy: Caelestis and Aurorea, shortly after Valentine and Prophecy have returned to Oxford. Valentine is having a bad day and takes it out on a few humans, two of which happened to walk into a park. The park I wrote about in the book is the one where I like to feed ducks with my husband. Quite the contrast to the activities that Valentine gets up to in the same park. I thought you guys might like to see some pictures of it though, so I snapped some on my phone.
This is Christchurch college, which is there the park is. Such a moody contrast of sunshine and black clouds.
These are the trees where Valentine stalks the couple under the veil of night, and ends up killing them, and the weakling vampire who tries to interfere. Go Valentine.
Geese standing to attention. They really wanted the bread we had. They're biters too.
Christchurch again, looking sunny this time.
I picture Mathias living in a building like these.
I'm sure I mention this building in the book too, which is the Radcliffe Camera.
This is our mini Bridge of Sighs, which also featured in the latest X-Men film.
Awesome sunset... which you could say is like the one Valentine describes to Prophecy in the first book.I really love writing about places I've been to and including them in my stories. It's not just because writing about somewhere you've been is vastly easier, and more accurate, than writing about somewhere from pictures. It's because I know the feel of the place and can put that into words. Oxford is my home city, so I know it off by heart, and that's probably why I feature in my favourite series. I love London too, and all the cities I write about, but Oxford makes me think about Vampires Realm and that makes me think about Valentine.
:)
It also makes me think of Oneiric, which leads me to Eve and Lilith, and then makes me think about writing Hunger. I've been thinking about Hunger a lot lately. I really hope I can start writing it this year. It's Eve and Tor's story, and is going to be full throttle and hot too.
Manday Hotties - get your Monday mancandy fix!
It's time for the Manday Hotties Hop again! Be sure to follow the links in the list below to get your full fix of hot sexy mancandy this Monday.
I'll continue my new pictures theme this week... it's such hard work having to trawl the internet for some seriously hot hotties!
My hottie this week is the same as last week but we've had a few requests for his name, which is Aaron o'Connell
You like? Personally I adore those lovely serratus muscles... the ones to the sides of his abs, below his pecs... mmm man numminess.
Don't forget to clicky click him to make him bigger!
Visit the other blogs in the hop:
January 15, 2012
Six Sentence Sunday - Hot scene from Covet
My Six Sentence Sunday today is from my new release (which came out just yesterday). Covet is an erotic vampire romance and the first in my sexy new Vampire Erotic Theatre series of novellas.
Please take a moment after reading and comment (comments are nice) to visit the Six Sentence Sunday site to find the other great authors who are participating, or check out the #sixsunday tag on Twitter!
A little setting info for the scene: Lilah is cleaning empty private boxes during one of the performances at the erotic theatre where she works. She tries to keep her eyes off the show on stage involving vampires and thralled humans, but when her boss and the object of her forbidden affections comes to question her about an incident, she can't block out the show, especially when he turns her to face them.
I wish I could share more of the scene, but I can't. Six sentences only. Maybe next week :)
Covet
Felicity Heaton
They've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.
Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.
Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.
When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah's master keep them apart forever?
ebook price: $2.99
genre: paranormal vampire romance
length: 30000 words / Novella
Book 1 in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series
Available in e-book from:
Author's website
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr
iBooks US | iBooks UK | iBooks Australia | iBooks Canada
Kobo Books | Smashwords | All Romance eBooks
Please take a moment after reading and comment (comments are nice) to visit the Six Sentence Sunday site to find the other great authors who are participating, or check out the #sixsunday tag on Twitter!
A little setting info for the scene: Lilah is cleaning empty private boxes during one of the performances at the erotic theatre where she works. She tries to keep her eyes off the show on stage involving vampires and thralled humans, but when her boss and the object of her forbidden affections comes to question her about an incident, she can't block out the show, especially when he turns her to face them.
Lilah had wanted Javier for so long, had craved the feel of his hands on her body, ached to know what it would feel like to be with him. She had never thought it possible though, had thought her bond to Lord Ashville would prevent it and pain her if she accepted the touch of the vampire she desired with all of her heart.
Javier licked the nape of her neck near her hairline, teasing her, and she couldn't stop herself from arching her backside into him. He groaned and cursed softly in her ear, kissing it and nibbling it with blunt teeth.
"Watch them," he whispered into her ear and licked the lobe, teasing it with the tip of his tongue. "Keep watching them while I touch you."
I wish I could share more of the scene, but I can't. Six sentences only. Maybe next week :)
Covet
Felicity HeatonThey've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.
Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.
Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.
When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah's master keep them apart forever?
ebook price: $2.99
genre: paranormal vampire romance
length: 30000 words / Novella
Book 1 in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series
Available in e-book from:
Author's website
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr
iBooks US | iBooks UK | iBooks Australia | iBooks Canada
Kobo Books | Smashwords | All Romance eBooks
January 14, 2012
Covet - my new erotic vampire romance book is out today!
It's finally come! The official release of Covet, the first book in my sexy new series, Vampire Erotic Theatre, is today.
It has been a manic day so far, but that's nothing unusual. Release days are always hectic. The great news about this one is that the book has finally been approved by Smashwords and it's already available on Apple iBookstores and Kobo Books. It's also available from all Amazon Kindle Stores, Smashwords and All Romance eBooks.
If you're a BN Nook or Sony Reader owner, the book should hopefully be at the stores soon. I'll blog again when it becomes available.
So, here's the blurb and an excerpt for you all to sink your teeth into...
Covet
Felicity Heaton
They've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.
Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.
Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.
When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah's master keep them apart forever?
ebook price: $2.99
genre: paranormal vampire romance
length: 30000 words / Novella
Book 1 in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series
Available in e-book from:
Author's website
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr
iBooks US | iBooks UK | iBooks Australia | iBooks Canada
Kobo Books | Smashwords | All Romance eBooks
EXCERPTThere was one rule his kind honoured above all others: an owned human must never be touched by a vampire other than their master.
Every vampire knew that to lay a hand on a bonded human out of desire or feed from their vein caused them immeasurable pain and suffering, and that their master would know of it and would come to act out the penalty.
Death to the vampire who had broken the sacred law.
Death was not something that Javier was looking for but knowledge that it awaited him should he break the law hadn't stopped the fierce heat of desire from gripping him the moment she had arrived at the London theatre two years ago, sent to work by her master. Javier had been telling himself to forget her ever since. In the time that she had been in the service of the theatre, he had been unable to escape the torment of her presence. The simplest task had become agonizing for him. Giving her orders for the night with the other staff was torture he couldn't endure. Two years and his need for her had only grown worse. His desire had gone from a liquid fire that threatened to make him step out of line if he were in her presence for more than a minute to a crushing need to kiss her whenever he heard the soft melody of her voice in the distance.
It was unbearable.
But bear it he would.
There was no alternative. Her owner was one of the richest of Vampirerotique's patrons and his business partners would stake him if he lost the man's much needed money. That was, if the man didn't kill him first. Lord Ashville was an aristocrat, a pureblood vampire, and almost three times Javier's age and strength. As only an elite, Javier couldn't contend with him. His death would be swift and brutal, and by law he wasn't even allowed to defend himself. If he dared to touch her, to act out his dark urges and needs with the human female, he would have to quietly accept the consequences.
It was madness to desire a human owned by such a man. He would easily sense the violation of the bond. It was madness.
Javier swirled the blood in his crystal whisky glass, staring at it but not seeing it. His head was full of her, his heart rebelling against his better sense that said it was impossible and to give up on his futile desire for her. She would never be his.
The soft lighting in the back of the black limousine turned the blood dark and uninviting. He drank it anyway, forcing it down, and poured himself another glass from the decanter in the small refrigerator built into the back of the driver's seat. He had been drinking more and more often recently in the hope that it would stave off his growing hunger for her.
Lilah.
The car engine purred as they slowed and dread settled in his stomach. This was the moment he always feared whenever he was called away from the theatre. Lilah had been on his mind the whole time during his journey, and the whole month that he had been resident at his remote family home in northern Spain. He could still see her clearly in his mind, could vividly remember how she had looked at him with her beautiful golden brown eyes when he had announced to the staff that he would be leaving them in the capable hands of Callum, and how her heart had set off at a pace, colouring her cheeks when his control had slipped and he had looked directly at her. She was so beautiful, so alluring even in the plain long black dress of her uniform. She had haunted him this past month, had been waiting for him to close his eyes each morning and drift off to sleep before stepping into his dreams and ensuring his desire for her burned fiercer than ever each night he awoke.
A month.
The car pulled to a halt on the road outside the elegant columned Grecian façade of the theatre. Warm floodlights lit the sandstone from below. On a normal night of business, it would have looked inviting to him, his home away from home, the place that housed something so precious to him. Tonight, it looked cold and dark, ominous and frightening.
An icy chill settled in his chest.
What if this time his fears became real and he had returned to find that she was gone?
A month was long enough for Lord Ashville to have decided he needed more servants in his mansion and sent for her. Callum had emailed Javier regular reports on the staff and the theatre while he had been away attending his sister's wedding. His old friend hadn't mentioned Lilah at all but that didn't mean she was still here. Javier had wanted to ask about her so many times, had typed the words in his emails to Callum only to delete them when sense had overcome the desires of his heart. Callum might understand his plight but if word reached Antoine or Snow, the aristocrat brothers who ran Vampirerotique with them, there would be hell to pay.
The car door opened and Javier swiftly necked the glass of blood. He set the glass down and stepped out of the limousine, his polished black leather shoes reflecting the lights of the theatre. He straightened his deep silver-grey tie and fastened the button on his black suit jacket, preparing himself mentally at the same time. The driver nodded and closed the door, and then opened the boot of the vehicle and removed his luggage. Javier took the dark grey suit bags from him, hanging them off his fingers by his side, and looked up at the theatre. Six tall columns supported a triangular block of sandstone. Each carved figure on the frieze had been cleaned during his time away in preparation for the new season. Tonight was the first show, open only to elite vampires. The aristocrats were yet to return from the countryside or abroad.
Javier managed a smile when the wooden shutters on the other side of the windows and glass doors drew back, revealing the sumptuous red and gold interior of the theatre and his friend. Callum's steps were swift and sure, his handsome face a picture of darkness as he hurried down the wide marble staircase in the middle of the entrance hall, tying his long black hair back into a ponytail. He shoved the doors open, leaving one of the staff to hurriedly wipe his handprints off the glass, and briskly took the five stone steps that led down to the pavement and Javier.
"It's a nightmare." Callum raked long fingers through his hair, messing it up again. It was a habit of the elite vampire's when he was under stress. His green eyes flashed with irritation and Javier could sense that he was angry about something as well as see it.
"Hello to you too." Javier's smile widened and he motioned for the driver to come to him.
Callum snatched the black designer suitcase from the driver, stuffed a large tip in the man's breast pocket, and waved him away. Like Javier, Callum wasn't used to the attention of servants and being waited on. It had taken them both years to get used to having humans and weaker vampires fetch them things or do menial tasks such as carrying their baggage. Clearly Callum still had difficulty with the latter.
Javier looked beyond him to the foyer of the theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of Lilah. Was she working tonight?
He frowned, his sandy eyebrows knitting tightly, and stared at Callum. What if his nightmare had something to do with the staff?
"Has something bad happened?" He fought to keep the note of worry from his voice. Callum would see straight through him if it slipped out. They had spent years together at the finest vampire academy in England even though Callum was a century younger than he was and had remained in touch after graduating. They had always been close friends, even when they had been hundreds of miles apart and in two different countries.
"Victor got into a fight and got his nose broken. He's a bloody mess." Callum practically growled the words, his British accent hardening the final two and emphasising his anger.
Javier could understand his distress now. Victor was one of their best performers and often took the lead in the final act of the show, seducing a human thrall before feeding from them in front of the audience. He was a favourite among the female theatregoers because of his good looks and the fact that he was happy to engage with male as well as female partners on stage, and could handle more than one human at a time. He had been with the theatre for almost a decade and was a big draw. Even the aristocrat females liked him and he wasn't averse to giving some of them private performances to keep them sweet and keep the money rolling in for the theatre. They needed Victor on form and on stage. On a normal night, Javier might have felt more concerned by the news, but the flight from Spain had felt as though it had taken days rather than a couple of hours and his frayed nerves were telling him to find somewhere quiet to rest, at least until he knew that Lilah was still here.
Still temptingly close.
Once he knew that, he would be able to function again and find his usual calm edge and the emotional balance he needed in order to face a crisis. He couldn't think straight at the moment, let alone deal with the drama of their star performer having a broken nose when he was due to go on stage tonight.
"So tell Antoine." Javier swept his suit bags over his shoulder, resting the back of his hand on the soft material of his black suit jacket. "He deals with the performers, not me."
"Antoine is busy with Snow, and I have good reason for coming to you first." Callum mounted the sandstone steps again and led the way into the brightly lit foyer of the theatre. The black haired elite vampire looked over his shoulder at Javier, his vivid green eyes still dark. "It was one of the staff who hit him."
"One of the staff broke his nose?" Javier found that one difficult to digest. All of the staff were either human or of weak vampire lineage. Victor was of elite blood. His family weren't as strong as Javier's or Callum's, their blood diluted by too many turned humans in their ranks, but he was still powerful enough to deal with any of Javier's staff.
"A woman." Callum dumped Javier's expensive luggage down in the middle of the marble floor. He waved to one of the passing male staff and the man came over to them. "Take these things to Javier's office."
The man dutifully picked up the suitcase and then held his hand out to Javier. He stared at it.
"I was going to freshen up and change before the performance tonight. It has been a long journey, Callum. I'm sure this can wait."
The look on Callum's face said it wouldn't. Javier sighed and handed the dark grey suit bags to the man. He bowed his head, hurried across the foyer to the side of the double-height elegant room and opened the plain wooden door that led to the staff only areas of the theatre.
"The show starts in under an hour. We need to get Victor fixed up and then you need to speak with the woman who hit him and find out what happened before Antoine hears. He has enough problems on his plate at the moment. Snow is going through a rough patch again. I doubt he will tolerate this, regardless of who her owner is."
"Owner? The female is human?" Javier said and Callum nodded. "Who was it?"
Callum's dark eyebrows rose and he shrugged his broad shoulders, shifting his black designer suit jacket. "You know I'm not good with their names."
Javier knew that. Callum dealt with the darker side of the theatre business, tracking down vampires who could become good performers from cities all over Europe and sourcing human victims for the final act and other parts of the show the theatre hosted each week. His friend had long ago given up finding out anything about the humans. He had said it made his work easier. Javier took that to mean that his old friend was growing a conscience about what he was doing. He had even given the sourcing of victims over to a firm of vampires recently, letting them deal with it all, and had focused on finding vampire performers to bring into the Vampirerotique family instead.
Callum started across the foyer in the direction the man had taken and Javier followed. An hour wasn't a long time to fix this mess without Antoine hearing about it. If Snow was in a bad way again, Antoine would be in the mood for bloody murder. Whenever his older brother went off the rails, Antoine's temper degenerated into nothing short of vicious.
"Can you describe her?" Javier suspected that Callum would be able to manage that at least. He had an eye for detail, especially when it came to human females. The prettier the better to him.
"Tall, reddish brown hair... fiery... great tits... and had the strangest golden eyes."
Javier stopped dead. Callum paused with his hand on the wooden door, holding it open, and looked back at him.
Lilah had hit Victor?
Before he could ask Callum more about it, a female member of staff appeared out of the gloom on the other side of the open door. She bowed her head to Callum, who still held the door, and then Javier and walked through. Javier's gaze tracked her, his head tilting to one side as he took in what she was wearing.
"Do you like it?" Callum said and when Javier looked back at him, he was smiling, all trace of anger and concern gone from his eyes. "I thought it suited the theatre more and it means the staff can move around during the performances without being an eyesore for those attending."
Javier turned back to stare at the woman again. She stood near the glass doors, speaking to one of the male staff as he polished the windows.
"I leave you in charge for a month, and you change the uniforms?" Javier couldn't quite believe it. Callum thought that the incident with Victor was a nightmare. This was a nightmare to Javier.
The male uniform hadn't changed much. The material of the black formal outfit the man wore was a little finer than before, and the cut was tailored now so it fit snugly to his figure, but the long tail of the jacket still made him resemble a butler.
The female uniform.
Javier couldn't stop staring at it.
It looked as though Callum had gone to a sex shop and bought out every French maid uniform they had. The puffed sleeves of the black dress were lined with black lace, and the neck scooped so low that Javier was surprised he couldn't see her nipples. Perhaps he could if he was close enough. The lace that trimmed the material there was probably obscuring them from this distance. The horror of it didn't stop there. The previous uniform dress had reached the ankle of the wearer. The new one barely reached mid-way down her thighs, revealing creamy flesh and long over-knee black socks. The only thing that had remained the same was the black pumps and the colour.
If he saw Lilah in such an outfit, it would be the death of him.
And he had to find her and find out why she had punched Victor.
The Devil help him, he wasn't going to be able to resist her any longer.
It would be a miracle if he even managed to utter a single question before finally succumbing to his need for her.
Callum's intent gaze on him roused him from his thoughts and he turned a blank look on him.
"You don't like it." Callum let the door drift shut. "We can change it back. I just thought it gave the guests something to look at between acts. Antoine thinks it's a good idea."
"I like it," Javier lied and forced another smile. "We should speak to Victor before Antoine comes down to speak to the performers prior to the show."
Javier hoped that Victor would tell them everything and then he wouldn't need to find Lilah and speak to her. Callum opened the door again and Javier strode down the dimly lit black corridor with him, heading for the area to the side of the stage where stairs led up to the offices and hallways led backstage and off to the staff quarters. They were almost at the end of the hallway and out into that brighter double-height expansive room when several females crossed before him. Lilah was among them, carrying a broom and a red plastic box of cleaning equipment, her dark chestnut hair twirled up in a bun at the back of her head.
She said something he didn't hear to the three other women and then broke away from them and struggled to open the heavy wooden doors that led to the area in front of the stage in the theatre. Her broom knocked against the door when she managed to open it, fell from her grasp and clattered on the floor. She cursed softly and Javier echoed her in Spanish when she let the door close again and bent to retrieve her fallen broom.
The frilled black skirt of her dress hid nothing from view as she picked up the broom, her back to him. He stared at her bottom and her black knickers, blood pounding in his temples, his hunger for her kicking back into life and threatening to seize control of him. He pictured crossing the scant few metres that separated them, sliding his hands over the firm peachy globes of her backside, and drawing her back against the raging erection tenting the black material of his tailored trousers beneath his jacket.
Lilah straightened so fast that he jumped and she whirled to face him. Her cheeks coloured, rosy and dark, and the startled edge to her round eyes captivated him. She blinked, shuttering her beautiful golden irises, and then dipped in a curtsey. Her gaze stayed downcast this time, her head slightly to one side, so the cord of her neck remained taut and tempting.
"This is the one, Javier," Callum said and Javier almost barked that he knew that already and barely stopped himself from throttling his friend for interrupting his perusal of her neck.
He cleared his throat instead. "I will deal with you later."
Callum moved on. Javier remained where he was, his feet firmly planted to the dusty floor, his eyes glued to her, waiting to see her reaction.
Lilah's gaze slowly rose, bringing her head up with it. When it touched on his, the colour on her cheeks darkened and he forgot to breathe. He stared at her, mesmerised, lost in the black abyss of her dilated pupils.
Enthralled.
She didn't take her eyes away from his as expected. She held his gaze, steady and unafraid, no trace of fear in her scent. The way she looked at him spoke of desire and he had a hard time telling himself that he had to be imagining it. Her bond with her master made it impossible for her to feel anything for Javier. The gentle rhythm of her heartbeat called to him, luring his gaze down to her cleavage, and he fought his desire to step closer so he could reach out and run a lone finger over the luscious curves of her breasts. Touching her would only bring her pain. He couldn't. No matter how much he needed to have her warm soft skin beneath his fingertips and know the feel of her at last. It would hurt her. He didn't care. No. He did care. If it hurt her, he would stop. He would never harm Lilah. To pain her was to pain himself. He cared about her too much.
"Are you coming?" Callum's voice shattered the spell she had cast on Javier and he glanced at him and nodded.
When he looked back, the door was closing and Lilah was gone.
He rubbed the bridge of his nose, drew in a long deep breath, catching the enticing scent of her in the air, and followed Callum backstage.
Later.
He would be in her presence. Alone.
And he wouldn't be able to resist her any longer.
If it hurt her, he would stop, but he needed to touch her.
He needed to know the feel of her and her taste.
Even if that one taste was all he could ever have.
Even if it signed his death sentence.
Do you all want yourself a slice of Javier now?
It has been a manic day so far, but that's nothing unusual. Release days are always hectic. The great news about this one is that the book has finally been approved by Smashwords and it's already available on Apple iBookstores and Kobo Books. It's also available from all Amazon Kindle Stores, Smashwords and All Romance eBooks.
If you're a BN Nook or Sony Reader owner, the book should hopefully be at the stores soon. I'll blog again when it becomes available.
So, here's the blurb and an excerpt for you all to sink your teeth into...
Covet
Felicity HeatonThey've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.
Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.
Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.
When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah's master keep them apart forever?
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genre: paranormal vampire romance
length: 30000 words / Novella
Book 1 in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series
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EXCERPTThere was one rule his kind honoured above all others: an owned human must never be touched by a vampire other than their master.
Every vampire knew that to lay a hand on a bonded human out of desire or feed from their vein caused them immeasurable pain and suffering, and that their master would know of it and would come to act out the penalty.
Death to the vampire who had broken the sacred law.
Death was not something that Javier was looking for but knowledge that it awaited him should he break the law hadn't stopped the fierce heat of desire from gripping him the moment she had arrived at the London theatre two years ago, sent to work by her master. Javier had been telling himself to forget her ever since. In the time that she had been in the service of the theatre, he had been unable to escape the torment of her presence. The simplest task had become agonizing for him. Giving her orders for the night with the other staff was torture he couldn't endure. Two years and his need for her had only grown worse. His desire had gone from a liquid fire that threatened to make him step out of line if he were in her presence for more than a minute to a crushing need to kiss her whenever he heard the soft melody of her voice in the distance.
It was unbearable.
But bear it he would.
There was no alternative. Her owner was one of the richest of Vampirerotique's patrons and his business partners would stake him if he lost the man's much needed money. That was, if the man didn't kill him first. Lord Ashville was an aristocrat, a pureblood vampire, and almost three times Javier's age and strength. As only an elite, Javier couldn't contend with him. His death would be swift and brutal, and by law he wasn't even allowed to defend himself. If he dared to touch her, to act out his dark urges and needs with the human female, he would have to quietly accept the consequences.
It was madness to desire a human owned by such a man. He would easily sense the violation of the bond. It was madness.
Javier swirled the blood in his crystal whisky glass, staring at it but not seeing it. His head was full of her, his heart rebelling against his better sense that said it was impossible and to give up on his futile desire for her. She would never be his.
The soft lighting in the back of the black limousine turned the blood dark and uninviting. He drank it anyway, forcing it down, and poured himself another glass from the decanter in the small refrigerator built into the back of the driver's seat. He had been drinking more and more often recently in the hope that it would stave off his growing hunger for her.
Lilah.
The car engine purred as they slowed and dread settled in his stomach. This was the moment he always feared whenever he was called away from the theatre. Lilah had been on his mind the whole time during his journey, and the whole month that he had been resident at his remote family home in northern Spain. He could still see her clearly in his mind, could vividly remember how she had looked at him with her beautiful golden brown eyes when he had announced to the staff that he would be leaving them in the capable hands of Callum, and how her heart had set off at a pace, colouring her cheeks when his control had slipped and he had looked directly at her. She was so beautiful, so alluring even in the plain long black dress of her uniform. She had haunted him this past month, had been waiting for him to close his eyes each morning and drift off to sleep before stepping into his dreams and ensuring his desire for her burned fiercer than ever each night he awoke.
A month.
The car pulled to a halt on the road outside the elegant columned Grecian façade of the theatre. Warm floodlights lit the sandstone from below. On a normal night of business, it would have looked inviting to him, his home away from home, the place that housed something so precious to him. Tonight, it looked cold and dark, ominous and frightening.
An icy chill settled in his chest.
What if this time his fears became real and he had returned to find that she was gone?
A month was long enough for Lord Ashville to have decided he needed more servants in his mansion and sent for her. Callum had emailed Javier regular reports on the staff and the theatre while he had been away attending his sister's wedding. His old friend hadn't mentioned Lilah at all but that didn't mean she was still here. Javier had wanted to ask about her so many times, had typed the words in his emails to Callum only to delete them when sense had overcome the desires of his heart. Callum might understand his plight but if word reached Antoine or Snow, the aristocrat brothers who ran Vampirerotique with them, there would be hell to pay.
The car door opened and Javier swiftly necked the glass of blood. He set the glass down and stepped out of the limousine, his polished black leather shoes reflecting the lights of the theatre. He straightened his deep silver-grey tie and fastened the button on his black suit jacket, preparing himself mentally at the same time. The driver nodded and closed the door, and then opened the boot of the vehicle and removed his luggage. Javier took the dark grey suit bags from him, hanging them off his fingers by his side, and looked up at the theatre. Six tall columns supported a triangular block of sandstone. Each carved figure on the frieze had been cleaned during his time away in preparation for the new season. Tonight was the first show, open only to elite vampires. The aristocrats were yet to return from the countryside or abroad.
Javier managed a smile when the wooden shutters on the other side of the windows and glass doors drew back, revealing the sumptuous red and gold interior of the theatre and his friend. Callum's steps were swift and sure, his handsome face a picture of darkness as he hurried down the wide marble staircase in the middle of the entrance hall, tying his long black hair back into a ponytail. He shoved the doors open, leaving one of the staff to hurriedly wipe his handprints off the glass, and briskly took the five stone steps that led down to the pavement and Javier.
"It's a nightmare." Callum raked long fingers through his hair, messing it up again. It was a habit of the elite vampire's when he was under stress. His green eyes flashed with irritation and Javier could sense that he was angry about something as well as see it.
"Hello to you too." Javier's smile widened and he motioned for the driver to come to him.
Callum snatched the black designer suitcase from the driver, stuffed a large tip in the man's breast pocket, and waved him away. Like Javier, Callum wasn't used to the attention of servants and being waited on. It had taken them both years to get used to having humans and weaker vampires fetch them things or do menial tasks such as carrying their baggage. Clearly Callum still had difficulty with the latter.
Javier looked beyond him to the foyer of the theatre, hoping to catch a glimpse of Lilah. Was she working tonight?
He frowned, his sandy eyebrows knitting tightly, and stared at Callum. What if his nightmare had something to do with the staff?
"Has something bad happened?" He fought to keep the note of worry from his voice. Callum would see straight through him if it slipped out. They had spent years together at the finest vampire academy in England even though Callum was a century younger than he was and had remained in touch after graduating. They had always been close friends, even when they had been hundreds of miles apart and in two different countries.
"Victor got into a fight and got his nose broken. He's a bloody mess." Callum practically growled the words, his British accent hardening the final two and emphasising his anger.
Javier could understand his distress now. Victor was one of their best performers and often took the lead in the final act of the show, seducing a human thrall before feeding from them in front of the audience. He was a favourite among the female theatregoers because of his good looks and the fact that he was happy to engage with male as well as female partners on stage, and could handle more than one human at a time. He had been with the theatre for almost a decade and was a big draw. Even the aristocrat females liked him and he wasn't averse to giving some of them private performances to keep them sweet and keep the money rolling in for the theatre. They needed Victor on form and on stage. On a normal night, Javier might have felt more concerned by the news, but the flight from Spain had felt as though it had taken days rather than a couple of hours and his frayed nerves were telling him to find somewhere quiet to rest, at least until he knew that Lilah was still here.
Still temptingly close.
Once he knew that, he would be able to function again and find his usual calm edge and the emotional balance he needed in order to face a crisis. He couldn't think straight at the moment, let alone deal with the drama of their star performer having a broken nose when he was due to go on stage tonight.
"So tell Antoine." Javier swept his suit bags over his shoulder, resting the back of his hand on the soft material of his black suit jacket. "He deals with the performers, not me."
"Antoine is busy with Snow, and I have good reason for coming to you first." Callum mounted the sandstone steps again and led the way into the brightly lit foyer of the theatre. The black haired elite vampire looked over his shoulder at Javier, his vivid green eyes still dark. "It was one of the staff who hit him."
"One of the staff broke his nose?" Javier found that one difficult to digest. All of the staff were either human or of weak vampire lineage. Victor was of elite blood. His family weren't as strong as Javier's or Callum's, their blood diluted by too many turned humans in their ranks, but he was still powerful enough to deal with any of Javier's staff.
"A woman." Callum dumped Javier's expensive luggage down in the middle of the marble floor. He waved to one of the passing male staff and the man came over to them. "Take these things to Javier's office."
The man dutifully picked up the suitcase and then held his hand out to Javier. He stared at it.
"I was going to freshen up and change before the performance tonight. It has been a long journey, Callum. I'm sure this can wait."
The look on Callum's face said it wouldn't. Javier sighed and handed the dark grey suit bags to the man. He bowed his head, hurried across the foyer to the side of the double-height elegant room and opened the plain wooden door that led to the staff only areas of the theatre.
"The show starts in under an hour. We need to get Victor fixed up and then you need to speak with the woman who hit him and find out what happened before Antoine hears. He has enough problems on his plate at the moment. Snow is going through a rough patch again. I doubt he will tolerate this, regardless of who her owner is."
"Owner? The female is human?" Javier said and Callum nodded. "Who was it?"
Callum's dark eyebrows rose and he shrugged his broad shoulders, shifting his black designer suit jacket. "You know I'm not good with their names."
Javier knew that. Callum dealt with the darker side of the theatre business, tracking down vampires who could become good performers from cities all over Europe and sourcing human victims for the final act and other parts of the show the theatre hosted each week. His friend had long ago given up finding out anything about the humans. He had said it made his work easier. Javier took that to mean that his old friend was growing a conscience about what he was doing. He had even given the sourcing of victims over to a firm of vampires recently, letting them deal with it all, and had focused on finding vampire performers to bring into the Vampirerotique family instead.
Callum started across the foyer in the direction the man had taken and Javier followed. An hour wasn't a long time to fix this mess without Antoine hearing about it. If Snow was in a bad way again, Antoine would be in the mood for bloody murder. Whenever his older brother went off the rails, Antoine's temper degenerated into nothing short of vicious.
"Can you describe her?" Javier suspected that Callum would be able to manage that at least. He had an eye for detail, especially when it came to human females. The prettier the better to him.
"Tall, reddish brown hair... fiery... great tits... and had the strangest golden eyes."
Javier stopped dead. Callum paused with his hand on the wooden door, holding it open, and looked back at him.
Lilah had hit Victor?
Before he could ask Callum more about it, a female member of staff appeared out of the gloom on the other side of the open door. She bowed her head to Callum, who still held the door, and then Javier and walked through. Javier's gaze tracked her, his head tilting to one side as he took in what she was wearing.
"Do you like it?" Callum said and when Javier looked back at him, he was smiling, all trace of anger and concern gone from his eyes. "I thought it suited the theatre more and it means the staff can move around during the performances without being an eyesore for those attending."
Javier turned back to stare at the woman again. She stood near the glass doors, speaking to one of the male staff as he polished the windows.
"I leave you in charge for a month, and you change the uniforms?" Javier couldn't quite believe it. Callum thought that the incident with Victor was a nightmare. This was a nightmare to Javier.
The male uniform hadn't changed much. The material of the black formal outfit the man wore was a little finer than before, and the cut was tailored now so it fit snugly to his figure, but the long tail of the jacket still made him resemble a butler.
The female uniform.
Javier couldn't stop staring at it.
It looked as though Callum had gone to a sex shop and bought out every French maid uniform they had. The puffed sleeves of the black dress were lined with black lace, and the neck scooped so low that Javier was surprised he couldn't see her nipples. Perhaps he could if he was close enough. The lace that trimmed the material there was probably obscuring them from this distance. The horror of it didn't stop there. The previous uniform dress had reached the ankle of the wearer. The new one barely reached mid-way down her thighs, revealing creamy flesh and long over-knee black socks. The only thing that had remained the same was the black pumps and the colour.
If he saw Lilah in such an outfit, it would be the death of him.
And he had to find her and find out why she had punched Victor.
The Devil help him, he wasn't going to be able to resist her any longer.
It would be a miracle if he even managed to utter a single question before finally succumbing to his need for her.
Callum's intent gaze on him roused him from his thoughts and he turned a blank look on him.
"You don't like it." Callum let the door drift shut. "We can change it back. I just thought it gave the guests something to look at between acts. Antoine thinks it's a good idea."
"I like it," Javier lied and forced another smile. "We should speak to Victor before Antoine comes down to speak to the performers prior to the show."
Javier hoped that Victor would tell them everything and then he wouldn't need to find Lilah and speak to her. Callum opened the door again and Javier strode down the dimly lit black corridor with him, heading for the area to the side of the stage where stairs led up to the offices and hallways led backstage and off to the staff quarters. They were almost at the end of the hallway and out into that brighter double-height expansive room when several females crossed before him. Lilah was among them, carrying a broom and a red plastic box of cleaning equipment, her dark chestnut hair twirled up in a bun at the back of her head.
She said something he didn't hear to the three other women and then broke away from them and struggled to open the heavy wooden doors that led to the area in front of the stage in the theatre. Her broom knocked against the door when she managed to open it, fell from her grasp and clattered on the floor. She cursed softly and Javier echoed her in Spanish when she let the door close again and bent to retrieve her fallen broom.
The frilled black skirt of her dress hid nothing from view as she picked up the broom, her back to him. He stared at her bottom and her black knickers, blood pounding in his temples, his hunger for her kicking back into life and threatening to seize control of him. He pictured crossing the scant few metres that separated them, sliding his hands over the firm peachy globes of her backside, and drawing her back against the raging erection tenting the black material of his tailored trousers beneath his jacket.
Lilah straightened so fast that he jumped and she whirled to face him. Her cheeks coloured, rosy and dark, and the startled edge to her round eyes captivated him. She blinked, shuttering her beautiful golden irises, and then dipped in a curtsey. Her gaze stayed downcast this time, her head slightly to one side, so the cord of her neck remained taut and tempting.
"This is the one, Javier," Callum said and Javier almost barked that he knew that already and barely stopped himself from throttling his friend for interrupting his perusal of her neck.
He cleared his throat instead. "I will deal with you later."
Callum moved on. Javier remained where he was, his feet firmly planted to the dusty floor, his eyes glued to her, waiting to see her reaction.
Lilah's gaze slowly rose, bringing her head up with it. When it touched on his, the colour on her cheeks darkened and he forgot to breathe. He stared at her, mesmerised, lost in the black abyss of her dilated pupils.
Enthralled.
She didn't take her eyes away from his as expected. She held his gaze, steady and unafraid, no trace of fear in her scent. The way she looked at him spoke of desire and he had a hard time telling himself that he had to be imagining it. Her bond with her master made it impossible for her to feel anything for Javier. The gentle rhythm of her heartbeat called to him, luring his gaze down to her cleavage, and he fought his desire to step closer so he could reach out and run a lone finger over the luscious curves of her breasts. Touching her would only bring her pain. He couldn't. No matter how much he needed to have her warm soft skin beneath his fingertips and know the feel of her at last. It would hurt her. He didn't care. No. He did care. If it hurt her, he would stop. He would never harm Lilah. To pain her was to pain himself. He cared about her too much.
"Are you coming?" Callum's voice shattered the spell she had cast on Javier and he glanced at him and nodded.
When he looked back, the door was closing and Lilah was gone.
He rubbed the bridge of his nose, drew in a long deep breath, catching the enticing scent of her in the air, and followed Callum backstage.
Later.
He would be in her presence. Alone.
And he wouldn't be able to resist her any longer.
If it hurt her, he would stop, but he needed to touch her.
He needed to know the feel of her and her taste.
Even if that one taste was all he could ever have.
Even if it signed his death sentence.
Do you all want yourself a slice of Javier now?
January 13, 2012
Winter Warmers - Paranormal Romance Ebooks from $0.99 - Ends Sunday!
My fantastic Winter Warmers deals end this Sunday so it's your last chance to grab a copy of my books at a discount price. It will be a while before I run any more discounts, especially on these paranormal romance ebooks.
I have a few books on offer for just $0.99, but others are available for only $2.99. Prices will go up on Sunday. The offers are available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader, Apple iBooks / iBookstore, and more.
Here's some info about the books on offer right now:
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...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Kobo Books
Smashwords
Her Dark Angel (Her Angel series #1)
Felicity Heaton
An angel without a mission, Apollyon lives trapped in Hell guarding the bottomless pit. Surrounded by endless darkness, he longs to fly free on Earth once more but his master hasn't called him in centuries. When the call finally comes, it's to serve a new master, a beautiful woman he has often watched over, a woman who has always captivated him...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
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Kobo Books
Smashwords
Ascension
Felicity Heaton
A witch on the verge of achieving phenomenal power, Lealandra must turn to her half-breed demon ex-lover Taig for protection from the dark force that is after her and also from her own magic. With her Counter-Balance dead and her coven against her, Taig's blood and power is the only thing that can help her control her magic and survive the ascension and gain the strength to defeat her enemy...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Smashwords
Forbidden Blood
Felicity Heaton
In a dark world where vampires exist and where Source Blood, a rare human blood type, can bestow godlike powers upon them, the vampire Venators of the Sovereignty fight to protect the humans by banishing those who drink it to the endless dark. Exiled from his family and with only his duty to sustain him, Kearn has been on the trail of an elusive Source Blood abuser for three years. When he saves a beautiful human female from the vampire's grasp, it turns out she's the lead he's been waiting for. Amber is a Source Blood and the perfect bait, but for who?
Available for $2.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
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Smashwords
Prophecy: Child of Light (Prophecy Trilogy #1 / Vampires Realm series #1)
F E Heaton
A vampire unlike any other, Prophecy lives life in the dark until the night she encounters Valentine, a gorgeous vampire who is both her enemy and the man who will change her life forever. Convinced that the prophecy about her is wrong and unable to ignore the vision of them that he saw in her blood, Valentine goes against his orders to execute Prophecy and kidnaps her instead. The attraction between them grows as they search for the truth behind the prophecy, battle a dark evil that threatens to destroy the world, and attempt to evade their families and the Law Keepers...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
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Smashwords
Prophecy: Caelestis and Aurorea (Prophecy Trilogy #2 / Vampires Realm series #2)
F E Heaton
The final battle draws closer. Prophecy's world becomes darker and more dangerous, pushing her to the limit and testing her strength and her heart, almost breaking her. Old friends turn their backs, leaving her to fight with the help of an unlikely ally and forcing her to call on the devastatingly seductive and powerful Lord Hyperion for assistance...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Smashwords
Prophecy: Dark Moon Rising (Prophecy Trilogy #3 / Vampires Realm series #3)
F E Heaton
An enemy with unimaginable power and bloodlines with centuries of hatred bred into them, two things that threaten to tear Prophecy and Valentine apart as they fight for their lives and their future together. Their vain attempt to join their houses into one army drains the last of their strength, leaving them more vulnerable than they've ever been. The tension escalates between the bloodlines, and, more dangerously, between Valentine, Prophecy and Venturi. As everything crumbles around them, defeat seems inevitable...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Smashwords
Seventh Circle (Vampires Realm series #7)
F E Heaton
Born with powers similar to a vampire's, Lilith has spent her life hunting demons for Section Seven. On the same night as she watches a vampire kill her best friend, she is faced with her worst nightmare—a client who is not only attractive but a vampire...
Available for $2.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
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Kobo Books
Smashwords
Winter's Kiss (Vampires Realm series #8)
F E Heaton
Their lord drinks blood and they are dead men walking. The tales of the mansion don't stop Nika from falling for one of the guards, but when wolves attack her and he rides to her rescue, she discovers that her knight is anything but saintly. He is a vampire and she is becoming a werewolf, and love between their species is forbidden—the penalty death...
Available for $2.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Kobo Books
Smashwords
Find out more about the books, including excerpts and reviews, and these great offers at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/paranormal-romance-ebook-offers.php
I have a few books on offer for just $0.99, but others are available for only $2.99. Prices will go up on Sunday. The offers are available on Amazon Kindle, Barnes and Noble Nook, Sony Reader, Apple iBooks / iBookstore, and more.
Here's some info about the books on offer right now:
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...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Kobo Books
Smashwords
Her Dark Angel (Her Angel series #1)
Felicity Heaton
An angel without a mission, Apollyon lives trapped in Hell guarding the bottomless pit. Surrounded by endless darkness, he longs to fly free on Earth once more but his master hasn't called him in centuries. When the call finally comes, it's to serve a new master, a beautiful woman he has often watched over, a woman who has always captivated him...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Kobo Books
Smashwords
Ascension
Felicity Heaton
A witch on the verge of achieving phenomenal power, Lealandra must turn to her half-breed demon ex-lover Taig for protection from the dark force that is after her and also from her own magic. With her Counter-Balance dead and her coven against her, Taig's blood and power is the only thing that can help her control her magic and survive the ascension and gain the strength to defeat her enemy...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Smashwords
Forbidden Blood
Felicity Heaton
In a dark world where vampires exist and where Source Blood, a rare human blood type, can bestow godlike powers upon them, the vampire Venators of the Sovereignty fight to protect the humans by banishing those who drink it to the endless dark. Exiled from his family and with only his duty to sustain him, Kearn has been on the trail of an elusive Source Blood abuser for three years. When he saves a beautiful human female from the vampire's grasp, it turns out she's the lead he's been waiting for. Amber is a Source Blood and the perfect bait, but for who?
Available for $2.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Smashwords
Prophecy: Child of Light (Prophecy Trilogy #1 / Vampires Realm series #1)
F E Heaton
A vampire unlike any other, Prophecy lives life in the dark until the night she encounters Valentine, a gorgeous vampire who is both her enemy and the man who will change her life forever. Convinced that the prophecy about her is wrong and unable to ignore the vision of them that he saw in her blood, Valentine goes against his orders to execute Prophecy and kidnaps her instead. The attraction between them grows as they search for the truth behind the prophecy, battle a dark evil that threatens to destroy the world, and attempt to evade their families and the Law Keepers...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Kobo Books
Smashwords
Prophecy: Caelestis and Aurorea (Prophecy Trilogy #2 / Vampires Realm series #2)
F E Heaton
The final battle draws closer. Prophecy's world becomes darker and more dangerous, pushing her to the limit and testing her strength and her heart, almost breaking her. Old friends turn their backs, leaving her to fight with the help of an unlikely ally and forcing her to call on the devastatingly seductive and powerful Lord Hyperion for assistance...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Smashwords
Prophecy: Dark Moon Rising (Prophecy Trilogy #3 / Vampires Realm series #3)
F E Heaton
An enemy with unimaginable power and bloodlines with centuries of hatred bred into them, two things that threaten to tear Prophecy and Valentine apart as they fight for their lives and their future together. Their vain attempt to join their houses into one army drains the last of their strength, leaving them more vulnerable than they've ever been. The tension escalates between the bloodlines, and, more dangerously, between Valentine, Prophecy and Venturi. As everything crumbles around them, defeat seems inevitable...
Available for $0.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Smashwords
Seventh Circle (Vampires Realm series #7)
F E Heaton
Born with powers similar to a vampire's, Lilith has spent her life hunting demons for Section Seven. On the same night as she watches a vampire kill her best friend, she is faced with her worst nightmare—a client who is not only attractive but a vampire...
Available for $2.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Kobo Books
Smashwords
Winter's Kiss (Vampires Realm series #8)
F E Heaton
Their lord drinks blood and they are dead men walking. The tales of the mansion don't stop Nika from falling for one of the guards, but when wolves attack her and he rides to her rescue, she discovers that her knight is anything but saintly. He is a vampire and she is becoming a werewolf, and love between their species is forbidden—the penalty death...
Available for $2.99 from
Author's website
Amazon Kindle | Kindle UK | Kindle Germany | Kindle France
Apple iBookstore USA | iBookstore UK | iBookstore Aus | iBookstore Canada
Barnes and Noble Nook
Sony Reader Store
Kobo Books
Smashwords
Find out more about the books, including excerpts and reviews, and these great offers at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/paranormal-romance-ebook-offers.php
As a reader, what do you like authors to post on their blogs?
As a writer, I do my best to write quality books that provide value to the reader, gives them an escape from the daily grind, and leaves them feeling satisfied when they reach the final page. If I can give the reader a story and characters that stay with them, and perhaps has them wanting to re-read it, then that's all the better. But being a writer is really only half of my job.
The flip side of the writer is the author. The author is the one who has to talk about the book, and seeks to engage readers. Sometimes this is hard. It's the one thing I find really difficult and nothing I try works well.
I love to blog, and I love talking on Facebook and Twitter. Blogging is my primary love though because I feel I can say more here, and talk about my books and other things that catch my eye or I'm obsessed with at the time, like TV shows or books I've read. My blog is like my journal, but it's not for other authors so much as it's for readers. I know there are a lot of writers out there who pen posts about writing, sales, marketing, promotion etc. I have very little interest in doing that. It's great for attracting comments and people to your blog, but if you think about it, who are you attracting and engaging by posting about writing? Certainly not your readers. You're attracting other authors. That's great, but it's not the sort of thing I want to do on my blog. The purpose of my blog is giving something back to readers.
I want to engage you, the reader. Hello! Yes, you.
I love being social, and chatting to people in comments on my blog, or through my social networks. The trouble is, sometimes it's difficult to know what will encourage you all to step out of hiding and leave a comment. This is where you come in.
In 2012, I want to get to know you all better. Yes, every single one of you. It's not about selling you books. It's about providing posts that are of value to you, that you get some enjoyment out of, and perhaps gain some insight or get to learn something new about me or my writing. In turn, I might learn something new about you, or discover we share a common interest (Vampires... angels... our favourite coffee... a band we both love).
So, I'm asking you to lend me a hand. What I really want to know is what do you enjoy about authors' blogs?
What has you commenting or coming back for more? Is it posts about the books they're writing at the moment? Cover reveals? Blurb reveals? Excerpts? Talk about the series you like on TV? Or perhaps them discussing their own book series and what might be just around the corner in it?
On the flip side, what are your turn offs when it comes to authors' blogs?
The purpose of asking you this is purely for the reason I said above. I want to get to know you all better and give you something back in the form of blog posts that you enjoy reading and might take a moment to comment on. There isn't much point in me blogging about things you all hate! :)
Please take a minute or two to answer in the comments section with what you love about authors blogs and what sort of posts keeps you coming back for more. I really do appreciate it and I do answer commenters.
Thanks!
The flip side of the writer is the author. The author is the one who has to talk about the book, and seeks to engage readers. Sometimes this is hard. It's the one thing I find really difficult and nothing I try works well.
I love to blog, and I love talking on Facebook and Twitter. Blogging is my primary love though because I feel I can say more here, and talk about my books and other things that catch my eye or I'm obsessed with at the time, like TV shows or books I've read. My blog is like my journal, but it's not for other authors so much as it's for readers. I know there are a lot of writers out there who pen posts about writing, sales, marketing, promotion etc. I have very little interest in doing that. It's great for attracting comments and people to your blog, but if you think about it, who are you attracting and engaging by posting about writing? Certainly not your readers. You're attracting other authors. That's great, but it's not the sort of thing I want to do on my blog. The purpose of my blog is giving something back to readers.
I want to engage you, the reader. Hello! Yes, you.
I love being social, and chatting to people in comments on my blog, or through my social networks. The trouble is, sometimes it's difficult to know what will encourage you all to step out of hiding and leave a comment. This is where you come in.
In 2012, I want to get to know you all better. Yes, every single one of you. It's not about selling you books. It's about providing posts that are of value to you, that you get some enjoyment out of, and perhaps gain some insight or get to learn something new about me or my writing. In turn, I might learn something new about you, or discover we share a common interest (Vampires... angels... our favourite coffee... a band we both love).
So, I'm asking you to lend me a hand. What I really want to know is what do you enjoy about authors' blogs?
What has you commenting or coming back for more? Is it posts about the books they're writing at the moment? Cover reveals? Blurb reveals? Excerpts? Talk about the series you like on TV? Or perhaps them discussing their own book series and what might be just around the corner in it?
On the flip side, what are your turn offs when it comes to authors' blogs?
The purpose of asking you this is purely for the reason I said above. I want to get to know you all better and give you something back in the form of blog posts that you enjoy reading and might take a moment to comment on. There isn't much point in me blogging about things you all hate! :)
Please take a minute or two to answer in the comments section with what you love about authors blogs and what sort of posts keeps you coming back for more. I really do appreciate it and I do answer commenters.
Thanks!
January 11, 2012
SEDUCE (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series #3) first draft progress
I'm making good progress on the first draft of Seduce, the third book in my Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series, now. There have been highs and lows with writing this one, and my word count per day is lower than my normal full-speed output. I blame the fact that it's a novella and therefore it isn't meticulously planned out. I tend to be more flexible with novellas and let them take the lead.Speaking of taking the lead. Antoine, the aristocrat vampire hero of the book, has taken it upon himself to dictate a few changes. Seduce is supposed to be as hot as the first two books, but this vampire has a lot of emotional torment that he needs to get off his chest and he's refusing to cooperate with the erotic side of romance. I had expected him to act stand-offish considering his heroine (an elite vampire!) but the man has decided that HE will tell the story, not me. I do so love it when heroes take over the book. It does happen from time to time. At the moment, the only change was a scene earlier than anticipated and an extra one. I'm sure once we get this out of the way, he will be feeling lighter and will respond when I whip him into behaving wickedly.
I did get to write an on-the-fly unplanned scene today that I probably enjoyed a little too much.
Is it wrong of me to enjoy writing a crazed vampire?
Snow is just so delicious when he's having a nuclear and terribly animalistic meltdown. Snow lovers out there will find a few surprises in this book.
I'm up to around 26,000 words now. This one may run to closer to 40,000 words in the end. I have a few things to add into the opening chapter already and will go back and tweak it when I hit the end. I'll up the ante in other scenes too, layering in the erotic since Antoine is intent on trying to scupper me. Strange to have a hero refusing to get down and dirty. I did manage to write 10,000 words today, but it took me close to 7 hours. Normally, I could write 10k in 5. I haven't written for a while though, so I'm out of practice.
Still, this nice tidy amount of progress today means that I have now reached a total of 6.5% progress on my year's writing target of 400,000 words. Yay!
If you're new to the Vampire Erotic Theatre series, the first book, Covet is due for release on January 14th, but it's available right now at Amazon Kindle Stores! It has been receiving great reviews at various websites, including a 4.5 Star Top Pick from Night Owl Reviews!
CovetFelicity Heaton
They've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.
Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.
Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.
When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah's master keep them apart forever?
Available right now from Amazon Kindle:
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr | Amazon.es | Amazon.it
January 10, 2012
Early reviews for Covet (Vampire Erotic Theatre series #1) are in and they're awesome!
I was supposed to have stopped working an hour ago, but I'm pushing my day into the 9 hour mark once again to quickly post about the wonderful early reviews that COVET, the first book in my new Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series, has been receiving.
This is nothing but good news considering that I'm currently working on the third book in the series.
So, what have reviewers been saying about this erotic vampire romance novella?
Covet is due for release on January 14th, but it's available right now at Amazon Kindle Stores!
Covet
Felicity Heaton
They've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.
Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.
Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.
When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah's master keep them apart forever?
Available right now from Amazon Kindle:
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr | Amazon.es | Amazon.it
This is nothing but good news considering that I'm currently working on the third book in the series.
So, what have reviewers been saying about this erotic vampire romance novella?
"Covet was a fast paced, blood-rushing, erotic romance story. Felicity Heaton is a great writer. It was a definite pleasure to read this book. I can't wait until the next book comes out because Covet left me needing MORE, I will be buying her next book in this series for sure!" -- Simply Kayla's Book Reviews, 5 out of 5! (read the full review)
"Covet is a great introduction into Felicity's new Vampire Erotic Theatre series. It's filled with longing, love, passion and lust- smoking hot sex ... Kick arse action and characters I'm sure you will adore." -- PageFlipperz, 5 out of 5! (read the full review)
"All I can say is wow!! This was one darkly erotic read full of debauchery, lust, and obsession. So needless to say, I loved every second of it. From the word go I was attracted to Javier, and curious about his craving need to have Lilah, a human who belonged to another." -- Madame D's Boudoir, 5 out of 5! (read the full review)
"I'm so stuck for words for this one, the story was amazing, so not what I expected. I expected it to be good but not this good. It had me reading and reading because I didn't want to put it down." -- Satin's Bookish Corner, 5 out of 5! (read the full review)
Covet is due for release on January 14th, but it's available right now at Amazon Kindle Stores!
CovetFelicity Heaton
They've burned for each other for two years, the forbidden attraction between them growing each night. Now resisting the sinful desires of their hearts is becoming impossible.
Javier knows better than to succumb to his hunger for Lilah. The mortal female belongs to a powerful aristocrat patron of Vampirerotique, the theatre he runs with three other vampires. A single touch is all it would take to break the sacred law of his kind, sentencing himself to death, but his passion for her has become too fierce to ignore and he will risk everything to make Lilah his.
Lilah has fought her desire for Javier since arriving at his theatre as a servant but each glance he has stolen, his eyes promising pleasure that will satisfy her longing for him, has chipped away at her defences and she can no longer deny her need and her forbidden feelings for the powerful vampire male.
When they find themselves alone in a private box during one of the erotic performances, will they surrender to their passion and live out their wildest fantasies in a night of wicked pleasure or will the threat of Lilah's master keep them apart forever?
Available right now from Amazon Kindle:
Amazon.com | Amazon.co.uk | Amazon.de | Amazon.fr | Amazon.es | Amazon.it
