Provocation

by Katja Desjarlais

Rhys Kaius was chosen and groomed to be the perfect vampire: Resourceful, remorseless, and unscrupulous. He's spent centuries running the underground Tender trade in the haunt, training women as courtesans for the vampire elite and trading them for wealth, favors, and reputation. Idolized by few and despised by most, his list of enemies runs as long as the requests for his curated companions. But when his favorite Tender goes rogue, neither his reputation nor his wealth can keep his fate untangled from hers.
Lis Bruckner made headlines with her tale of being a Tender within the vampire world and now finds herself captured and held in the cells below the place she once called home.
The countdown has begun and the clock is ticking. Will Rhys and Lis manage to break free from their prison or will their story become the Shakespearean tragedy the public demands?

322 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 18, 2022

About the author

Katja Desjarlais is a music teacher by day and a paranormal romance writer by moonlight. She is an unapologetic music addict and has an obsession for bad Bach puns despite her irrational aversion to Baroque. Her favorite words include 'plethora' and 'dapper', and she is physically repulsed by the word 'moist'.
Desjarlais recently moved into the Okanagan valley with her husband, three children, and polydactyl cat. Her ideal summer vacation is spent driving Route 66 with her family and attending heavy metal concerts.

Releases:
CONNECTION: The Haunt Vault Book One (The Wild Rose Press, October 2018)

JUNKYARD DOG (Tule Publishing, September 2019)

Reviews

[Kimberly Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

Thank you Netgalley, Katja Desjarlais and The Wild Rose Press for this eARC in exchange for my honest review. This book was a well written vampire story in the modern age. I thought the pacing was good and the characters well established. You really end up routing for Rhys and Lis. I wish I had read the first 3 books first, though I think this was good as a stand alone.

[Gwendolyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Thank you netgalley and Backlit PR for allowing me to read this book. DNF. I was really excited to read a vampire romance for a change but I was immediately lost from the start. I know people said you can read it as a stand-alone but I disagree. I couldn’t keep up with all the different characters and the story line. I was hoping to get more into the book as it went on I just couldn’t.