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Three Things Thursday: Uraboku

3 more things I've learned from watching.... Betrayal Knows My Name

1. Big words from baby heroes **should** end in them getting their snotty-nosed asses kicked. It might sound harsh but when a brand new wet-behind the ears kid starts spouting trash, I just simply hold my breath waiting for the smack-down.Then giggle with glee...

2. Being saved by the bad guy is always a nice change of pace. This is one I will remember for writing. Characters (even bad guys, maybe especially bad guys) need to be complex. As long as it makes sense eventually I really got a thrill when they acted up and did the unexpected.

3. Good and evil come from the heart and mind, not from the blood and genes... I know there are stories that can pull off the born evil theme, but I just prefer seeing how the (past) events mold the characters' personalities and actions.

Shannon
www.lshannon.net

Six Sentence Sunday: Blood Justice

His fingers brushed her jaw, thumb rubbing over her lower lip in a quick caress that had her flinching and jumping back from the fiery touch. “If you fail to kill me, I win your body, your passion. Three times you can try. Three times I will lay claim my prize.”
“And if you die under the first attack?”
“Then it is as it should be, and we will both finally discover peace.”This Sunday my six are from Blood Royals 3: Blood Justice. Available June 4, 2012 with Liquid Silver Books.


ABOUT THE BOOK
After Sadaen tires of vengeance, he longs only for justice and redemption. He finds both in the arms of an angel determined to execute him. Lyna is convinced he deserves to die and she’ll do anything to bring him to justice, even if it means betraying everything she holds dear. 
Despite their long history of combat he’s sure that only Lyna can offer him a future worthy of his past. He’ll either burn as the rogue demon he’s become or redeem himself through the flames of her passion. His only hope is to bind them together with a deal that could destroy them both.

Want to know a little more about Blood Justice? You can find excerpts and related books here. And check out my other sixes here! Can't get enough sixes? Check out sixes by other authors at http://www.sixsunday.com/

Shannon
www.lshannon.net

Three Things Thursday: Uraboku

3 things I've learned from watching.... Betrayal Knows My Name

1. There is no such thing as too much angst. If (and a big if) it's done right. In this case, Angst comes with great backstory and rockin' music.

2. Tsukumo and I have the same eating habits. How come he's so skinny? Oh yeah, right. He's animated and my snacks have three d calories.Bummer.

3. Sodom is one cute little demon!

This is my first 3 things post. Right now I'm just testing the waters but if I like the format this may become a regular thing. Hope you enjoy a glimpse at my entertainment in little bites of three random thoughts.

Shannon
www.lshannon.net

New Release: Blood Justice

Blood Royals 3: Blood JusticeBetween death and desire awaits a love that could destroy them both.
By: L. Shannon |  L. Shannon books at ARe
Published By: Liquid Silver BooksISBN # 9781595788870Buy it at Liquid Silver Books | All Romance eBooks

About the book
After Sadaen tires of vengeance, he longs for only justice and redemption. He finds both in the arms of an angel determined to execute him. Lyna is convinced he deserves to die, and she’ll do anything to bring him to justice, even if it means betraying everything she holds dear.
Despite their long history of combat, he’s sure that only Lyna can offer him a future worthy of his past. He’ll either burn as the rogue demon he’s become or redeem himself through the flames of her passion. His only hope is to bind them together with a deal that could destroy them both.
An excerpt from the book PrologueNiflheim, Land of the Dead, A Long Time Ago
Dead.

Raylina, his wife and mate of countless centuries, was dead and gone. Sadaen’s demon heart cried out at the unexpected cruelty. How could she be taken? Why? Questions swirled through him, but each was a knife slashing through his soul.

Holding her lifeless body tight, he let the pain flood over him, out from him, did nothing to restrain it or keep it from destroying everything around him. He welcomed the rising darkness and let it whirl outward and consume the royal chambers, reaching farther, filling the marbled halls with his pain, suffering and loss. Roaring in anguish, he told all in their realm the queen was dead.

Time ceased to exist. With Raylina gone, the only truth that mattered was he had failed her, let her die, might as well have killed her. His demands had designed the end for her. Even if he hadn’t been the one to drain her soul away, he’d brought her here. He’d expected her to fill a role she’d never have seen if not for him.

His gaze landed on the Tascrina pendant resting so peacefully over her still heart. That misshapen trinity symbol and all its unwanted responsibility. How dare it touch her now after all it had done?

It had been the last of the holy weapons she’d created. The last and the greatest, a creation filled with so much of her soul that the forging of it had stolen her life. It was one weapon the Fathers of Trinity would never touch.

He resettled her carefully and unclasped the delicate chain, removing it from her narrow pale neck. When his fingers brushed the pendant, fire burst over his skin and up his arm, burning agony. And he welcomed it. Enfolding the warm metal in his fist, he held on, rocking his mate, holding the fire, and despising the fates.

Minutes or perhaps lifetimes later…

Fingers tightened over his shoulder. He looked up and met the glistening gaze of Raylina’s young sister, Delyna.

“Dear Creator.” The whispered words sounded less prayer and more curse than he’d ever heard pass the angel’s lips before. “How could she be gone? What happened?”

He couldn’t hold her blue gaze. Far too like Raylina’s. Yet behind the blue crystal, the young angel looked just as lost as he felt. It was more than just their similar blue eyes. He felt exposed before Delyna. She’d seen the truth. She’d seen his guilt.

Instead, he brushed back the curly dark hair from Raylina’s face. She’d been his fallen angel, living here in Hell and loving his demons like her own kin. She had given up everything to take on a duty never meant for her or her kind.

She’d done it all for him.

And she’d died because of that choice.

“Sadaen.” Lyna’s voice cut across his pain, ripping the wound open wide. “Sadaen, she’s gone.”

He held his mate tighter, denying the truth he didn’t want to face, wasn’t strong enough to face.

“She must be taken home.”

“You can’t have her!” he snarled at her. Black power twisted in angry tendrils along the floor. Unlike the mortal souls he and his demons worked to protect, Raylina would not be reborn. She, who could have lived forever, was now gone forever. And because of the damn holy men, the Fathers of Trinity, she could not even return to the Creator. She was forever lost, with her soul broken and trapped within their damn weapons.

“You can’t stop this, Sadaen.”

“How could you understand?” Young Lyna had been born to this new age. She might be Raylina’s sister in every way that mattered, but she couldn’t possibly understand how cruelly the world worked.

“How can I understand?” Lyna’s voice echoed angrily off the chamber walls. “She was the only family I ever had. Without her I wouldn’t even be accepted to my calling. Even with her support I face ridicule every day. Without her in my life… Without her, I have no purpose, no joy and no hope of better days. So don’t you dare tell me I can’t understand pain and loss.”

He heard it all, but it didn’t matter.

Her voice was iron. “I’m taking her soul. You can’t stop me.”

Pain, grief, and guilt warred within him. So long as his mate was in his arms it wasn’t real. It could be changed. “I can fix this.” He could control time and space and everything in between. Surely he could still save her.

“Sadaen…”

“Leave it be, child. You can’t have her soul. Not now, not ever.” Settling Raylina’s body onto their bed, he devoured the beauty of her face for several long minutes before finally leaving her and the realm behind.

Read More: http://www.lshannon.net/BLOODROYAL/3-BloodJustice.html

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Six Sentence Sunday: Blood Justice

Finding Sadaen was far easier than she’d expected.
His dark magic rippled out across the realms like tides. And in the center of his maelstrom waited complete and utter devastation. She found him standing still as a statue with his immense red and black wings whipping out behind him. His black power twisted outward in search of any remaining life, and it found none.
She knew this place, knew what it had been, and would have been if given enough time to grow and bloom... the newly risen holy place had been torn back down to the earth.


This Sunday my six are from Blood Royals 3: Blood Justice. Available June 4, 2012 with Liquid Silver Books.


ABOUT THE BOOK
After Sadaen tires of vengeance, he longs only for justice and redemption. He finds both in the arms of an angel determined to execute him. Lyna is convinced he deserves to die and she’ll do anything to bring him to justice, even if it means betraying everything she holds dear. 
Despite their long history of combat he’s sure that only Lyna can offer him a future worthy of his past. He’ll either burn as the rogue demon he’s become or redeem himself through the flames of her passion. His only hope is to bind them together with a deal that could destroy them both.

Want to know a little more about Blood Justice? You can find excerpts and related books here. And check out my other sixes here! Can't get enough sixes? Check out sixes by other authors at http://www.sixsunday.com/

Shannon
www.lshannon.net

First Kiss Friday: Blood Justice

“Wait! You can’t do this to me. You can’t just decide to not let me fulfill our bargain. Don’t you understand what failure means? Do you even give a shit if I’m killed for your whims?”
Of course he cared. He cared too damn much. Lyna had become his reason to live. She’d kept his passion for life alive long past any he could find on his own.
“Answer me, Sadaen!”
“Or what? You’ll kill me? Seems to me you keep trying.”
“Damn right I will, and the next time I try, you will be ended. What do you think about that?”
“Most days I’d call that a blessing,” he whispered up at the statue of Raylina portrayed with the widespread perfect wings, which she’d given up to be with him. Not that she’d lost her wings. No, but they’d darkened to black, never again to glow that pristine white.
“What did you say? Can’t you even look at me while casting my life aside?”
He looked.
Her angry flushed face looked slightly up at him. Her eyes glittered, and her fists clenched. With power whipping around her blowing hair and feathers wildly, she was gorgeous. “You’ll be punished too. If my suffering means nothing, then think about your own.”
Why couldn’t he take her? It was wrong, yeah, but refusing was wrong too. Wasn’t it? And if there were no right choice, then why couldn’t he offer them both pleasure? With the damage already done, why not at least show her what real passion could be? Should be?
He grabbed her hard in his arms and crushed her mouth under his own, devouring her in a long demanding kiss, so deep it stole as much as it gave.
She didn’t kiss him back. She didn’t struggle.
He took and took from her, letting the kiss be as wild and ferocious as he wanted, as he needed. It was wrong, and it felt so damn right.
Shoving her away, he sucked air into lungs that had forgotten how to breathe. Every cell in his body screamed to kiss her again, take everything she offered, take more than she offered, take everything she was.
Destroy her, like he had her sister.
White feathers danced on the wind, swirling around them. Her feathers, torn free by his violence.


This First Kiss Friday is from Blood Royals 3: Blood Justice. Available June 4, 2012 with Liquid Silver Books.


ABOUT THE BOOKAfter Sadaen tires of vengeance, he longs only for justice and redemption. He finds both in the arms of an angel determined to execute him. Lyna is convinced he deserves to die and she’ll do anything to bring him to justice, even if it means betraying everything she holds dear. 
Despite their long history of combat he’s sure that only Lyna can offer him a future worthy of his past. He’ll either burn as the rogue demon he’s become or redeem himself through the flames of her passion. His only hope is to bind them together with a deal that could destroy them both.

Want to know a little more about Blood Justice? You can find excerpts and related books here. check out my other First Kiss Friday posts. Or just stop back in every Friday.

Shannon
www.lshannon.net

Six Sentence Sunday: Blood Reign

His every thought and emotion was bared before her.
Only one fact mattered. Pahele loved her. He had always loved her. He would always love her.
But in this world ruled by desire and death, would love be enough?

This Sunday my six are from Blood Royals 2: Blood Reign. Available May 7, 2012 with Liquid Silver Books.

BLURBSadrina would give anything to protect her son. She chooses to sacrifice her freedom and bargain her body to the lord of hell, returning to the arms of the one demon she’s always loved and the place she fears the most.
Pahele has no intention of sacrificing his lover. Instead of a slave, he expects her to become his queen. But to prove her right to rule at his side she must complete tests including passing judgment over the most notorious of her kind—her father, Sadaen. Through it all, she’ll have the lord of hell at her side an in her arms whether she’s ready for him or not.
Want to know a little more about Blood Reign? You can find excerpts and related books here. And check out my other sixes here! Can't get enough sixes? Check out other sixes by other authors at http://www.sixsunday.com/

Shannon
http://lshannon.net/

Six Sentence Sunday: Blood Reign

Sadrina marveled that Pahele made it seem that she had a choice and yet none at all with the very same words. If Pahele willed it, she would be forced to accept it, and that sounded like imprisonment and enslavement to her.
Yet, she felt his gentle restraint. His domineering strength was held in check in every way. His fingers held her secure, but it was a gentle prison. His powers locked her within the realm, but he was also allowing her to have a will of her own.

This Sunday my six are from Blood Royals 2: Blood Reign. Available May 7, 2012 with Liquid Silver Books.

BLURBSadrina would give anything to protect her son. She chooses to sacrifice her freedom and bargain her body to the lord of hell, returning to the arms of the one demon she’s always loved and the place she fears the most.
Pahele has no intention of sacrificing his lover. Instead of a slave, he expects her to become his queen. But to prove her right to rule at his side she must complete tests including passing judgment over the most notorious of her kind—her father, Sadaen. Through it all, she’ll have the lord of hell at her side an in her arms whether she’s ready for him or not.

Want to know a little more about Blood Reign? You can find excerpts and related books here. And check out my other sixes here! Can't get enough sixes? Check out other sixes by other authors at http://www.sixsunday.com/

Shannon
http://lshannon.net/

Six Sentence Sunday: Blood Reign

Hell simply wasn’t the same without her, but what had finally brought her back to him? He reined in his physical response and opened his mind to her. As always, the connection supplied all that was lacking in his soul. His essence pulsed with power. He couldn’t let her leave him again. No matter what had brought her back, he would bind her here, to his side.

This Sunday my six are from Blood Royals 2: Blood Reign. Available May 7, 2012 with Liquid Silver Books.

BLURBSadrina would give anything to protect her son. She chooses to sacrifice her freedom and bargain her body to the lord of hell, returning to the arms of the one demon she’s always loved and the place she fears the most.
Pahele has no intention of sacrificing his lover. Instead of a slave, he expects her to become his queen. But to prove her right to rule at his side she must complete tests including passing judgment over the most notorious of her kind—her father, Sadaen. Through it all, she’ll have the lord of hell at her side an in her arms whether she’s ready for him or not.
Want to know a little more about Blood Reign? You can find excerpts and related books here. And check out my other sixes here! Can't get enough sixes? Check out other sixes by other authors at http://www.sixsunday.com/

Shannon
http://lshannon.net/

Six Sentence Sunday: Blood Reign

Pahele shuddered as his realm of Niflheim shifted and came into balance once more. The returning balance could only mean one thing.
His queen had returned at last.“Master?” Sadrina entered the throne room and knelt before him in absolute submission. She was more beautiful than ever.
This Sunday my six are from Blood Royals 2: Blood Reign. Available May 7, 2012 with Liquid Silver Books.
BLURBSadrina would give anything to protect her son. She chooses to sacrifice her freedom and bargain her body to the lord of hell, returning to the arms of the one demon she’s always loved and the place she fears the most.
Pahele has no intention of sacrificing his lover. Instead of a slave, he expects her to become his queen. But to prove her right to rule at his side she must complete tests including passing judgment over the most notorious of her kind—her father, Sadaen. Through it all, she’ll have the lord of hell at her side an in her arms whether she’s ready for him or not.
Want to know a little more about Blood Reign? You can find excerpts and related books here. And check out my other sixes here! Can't get enough sixes? Check out other sixes by other authors at http://www.sixsunday.com/

Shannon
http://lshannon.net/