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February 10, 2016
Fires in the Darkness
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– Nora
Summary
There are only so many times a woman can get kidnapped before she has to reevaluate her life choices.
For me, that day should have come a long time ago.
Who knew getting mixed up with the two sexiest superhumans on the planet would lead to so much more than friction burns in delicate places?
Being betrayed by my best friend? Check. Uncovering a plot to overthrow the city’s government? Check. Ending up in the most unlikely love triangle in history? Check.
Finding out I’m destined to love not one, but two of the planet’s most dangerous men…? Yeah. That too.
But this time, it’s not just my life at stake. It’s everyone in this blasted city, and I’m the only one who can help them.
November 25, 2015
Shades of Darkness is Out!
Book 3 of Kathryn’s adventures with The Shade & Lightning is waiting!
Excerpt
Rage. Blistering, all-encompassing rage mixed with fear so overpowering Lightning’s knees nearly buckled as he stared at the note in his hand.
The glowing “B” carved into her desk was as good as leaving a business card, and it made Lightning’s insides twist. Bright, the sociopathic supe who had risen out of nowhere two years ago to one of the top ranks in their hierarchy, had broken into Kathryn’s home and fucking kidnapped her.
The anger was easy enough to deal with—he would just save it up until he found the scumbag, and then unleash it all in one, lethal round.
The fear… the fear was not so easy to manage.
He knew enough about Bright and the methods he’d used to climb the ladder for his stomach to knot at the thought of Kathryn—soft, breakable Kathryn—in his cruel hands.
A deep snarl tore him from the horrific scenarios the mere thought produced, and he spun around just in time to see a large, dark-clad figure crouch into a defensive position by the window.
“If you’ve hurt her, I’ll rip your throat out!”
The Shade. The fucking Shade.
Lightning’s hands flexed with desire to close around his enemy’s neck, and the rage from realizing that his claimed human had been abducted took over, spiking his adrenaline with a primal urge to kill.
The note rustled with his hand’s movement. Lightning paused, muscles tensed to strike. The note.
If he wanted Kathryn back, he needed The Shade.
A growl he couldn’t control forced its way out of his chest as he straightened from his hunched pose. He wasn’t entirely sure if it was disappointment of not being able to rip into his enemy, or if it was from the sickening knowledge that he needed The Shade’s help to reclaim his human.
“Bright’s got her.”
The same shiver he’d felt himself when he spotted the carved “B” went through The Shade.
“What?” Anger clearly won out for the villain. His eyes blazed as he shifted, pulling the swords mounted on his back out of their scabbards. “What? What did you do?”
“Nothing, you imbecile. I just got here and found this.” He pointed to the desk, where the carved letter shone faintly in the darkened loft.
The Shade glanced to the desk. He clenched his hands around the sword handles, making a barely detectable tremor travel down the blades.
“He left a note.” Lightning dropped the piece of paper on the desk and stepped back to let his rival inspect it.
The Shade cast him a dark look before he stepped over and snatched it up.
His mouth spasmed once as his eyes flickered over the text. When he looked back up, the seething anger was mixed with concern—a rather startling expression on the infamous supe. “How did he know?”
Lightning rubbed a hand over his scalp, trying to ease the unpleasant prickle underneath the mask. All his hyped up senses were on full alert, making his suit feel restrictive.
“I don’t know. Maybe he came to check her out because of that fucking article, maybe he has spies at the mayor’s mansion and got curious when he saw her with me. Right now, it doesn’t really matter. He’s got her, and if we don’t get her back…” He let the rest of the sentence hang suspended in the already tense air between them. There was no need to complete it—they both knew their society’s rules. If a supe relinquished ownership of their human, it was the end of the road for her. It was the only way of ensuring their secrets were not exposed to the human world. If they didn’t show up for the Council meeting, it would be the same as renouncing their claim.
“He has some balls.” The Shade’s growl was low and filled with the promise of murder. “After I’m done with you, I will rip them off before I kill him.”
As much as Lightning’s body ached to rise to the challenge, he clamped his jaw shut around his responding snarl in an attempt to stay in control of himself. “That’s great. And after you’re ‘done with me,’ how are you going to convince the Council that she belongs to you? That’s why he’s got the balls to do this—technically, she doesn’t belong to either of us without the other. The fucker knows we have to both show up and explain how we’re sharing her, if we want her back.”
And he also knew that it would be a cold day in hell before either of them admitted to being bound so tight by a mere human that they’d deign to work together, even for the duration of a Council meeting. Lightning glared at his enemy. Fuck. Not only would waltzing in there, hand in hand with The goddamn Shade, be the most humiliating thing he’d yet to endure—it would also broadcast with unwavering clarity that Kathryn was his one weak point. She’d never be safe again.
But if they didn’t, she was as good as dead.
“Fuck!”
“She was all mine, until you marked her again.” The Shade flexed his hands, probably to ease the same sort of agitation as was coursing through Lightning’s veins at that moment. “He would never have gotten away with kidnapping a claimed human who only carried one mark.”
Lightning narrowed his eyes into slits. “I claimed her first, if you recall. Don’t remind me how you forced her to submit to you, or I’ll forget I need you to get her back.”
“If you had marked her properly, I could never have claimed her. You were too weak to take her, and you are too weak to give her what she needs. You want her back? She wasn’t yours to begin with. You left her—twice!”
Guilt—that uncomfortable, new sensation in his gut—pulled on Lightning at The Shade’s words. Yeah, he’d left her, because he was scared of her power over him, and now she was in danger. Again. The girl was a fucking magnet for trouble, and he should have stayed by her side, fear of the churning emotions she brought out in him be damned. Knowing she was in the hands of someone like Bright was much, much worse.
The guilt and shame tipped into anger, and he gratefully grabbed on with both hands. Anger, he knew how to deal with.
Lightning bared his teeth at The Shade. “She was mine when you took advantage of her fear and marked her, and she is mine now. And once she is safe, I will ensure that my mark on her neck is the only valid claim on her.”
The Shade’s nostrils pulled up with his responding snarl, but he nodded in acceptance of the challenge. “Once she is safe. But I’m warning you now—this time, I’m not holding back. You fight me for her, and you will die.”
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October 31, 2015
Demon’s Mark Cover Update!
Aren’t they gorgeous?
My cover artist has been hard at work over the span of October, and I just wanted to brag a bit.
Other news:
I’m hard at work on Book 3 of the Darkness series, I promise! And I’m almost done. I just have a pesky bit of writer’s blog to overcome, but it’s getting there.
And as it’s Halloween, let me distract you with the cutest black cat ever:
I may be slightly biased, of course, but I’m pretty sure our over sized kitten could win prizes for that cute/demonic little face!
August 13, 2015
Hidden in Darkness Release Date
Setting a date before the book is finished always makes me fret something will go wrong and/or blow up, but not this time! I’ve even booked my editor well in advance, so I won’t be throwing a manuscript at her last-minute with an all-caps email going “I NEED THIS DONE YESTERDAY!!!” again.
I’ve been told this way is less stressful for everyone involved.
In book 2, Kathryn delves deeper into the...
June 30, 2015
Be Swept Away by Darkness
I’m super excited to introduce the ‘Darkness’ series with the first installment launch today!
if you liked ‘Demon’s Mark’ and ‘Taken by Darkness’, I’m pretty sure you’ll love this one. It’s filled with corruption and politics, and dangerous bad boys who don’t take ‘no’ for an answer – and of course lots of deliciously dirty smut.
If you are a Kindle Unlimited subscriber, it’s free, and if you’re not, it’s only 0.99!
Sy...
June 10, 2015
Into the Darkness Cover Reveal!
It’s getting close! Launch day for the first book in the upcoming Darkness serial, that is.
If you loved Demon’s Mark, and like your book boyfriends to be Bad, capital ‘B’, now’s the time to get excited!Into the Darkness, book one in the serial, is all about supremely sexy bad boys and all the delicious trouble a girl can get into when she starts snooping around in the bad part of town.
It’s a paranormal erotic suspense romance, and will as usual be pretty heavy on the steam. Don’t read this...
May 20, 2015
May Newsletter
In preparation for myupcoming series ‘Darkness‘ I am sharing the book that started the idea with you all, in case you haven’t read it yet!
The first book in theDarknessseries,Into the Darkness, is based on my short erotica standaloneTaken by Darkness, but I found the idea of sexy superheroes and villains way too intriguing to not elaborate on it.
You do not have to readTaken by Darknessto follow my upcoming series, but it is a quickandveryspicy read – and for now, ab...
April 26, 2015
ARC Team Open for Applications!
I hope youenjoyed Demon’s Mark 6: Cherished!
I know a few of youwant more yummydemons in yourlives, and are sad to see the end of the series.
Well, so am I. While writing ‘Cherished’ I developed a minor crush on Kesh, so look out for a new series set in the same world later this year, or possibly start of 2016.
But before we return to the demons, there are a bunch ofvampires, werewolves and superheroes in need of some loving, which brings us to my next rele...
April 23, 2015
It’s Out!
Synopsis:
Yet when the mate he claimed to ease his guilty conscience needs his protection once again, he can’t stop his possessive urges from taking over. She is all he wants and everything he needs – and he will lay the world in ruins to keep her by his sid...
