Today's blog guest is author Danita Minnis, whose novels including this vampire romance:
Former MI6 agent Xavier Quinn
would say that you're daft if you think he will stop killing for a living. But
that is exactly what is about to happen. Very soon now, Quinn will
start killing to stay alive. On the run after taking out the wrong man, Quinn
would die a happy man if he could just live long enough to ruin the Parliament
member who set him up.
Layla, a 2,000 year old vampire
with a moral code, has other plans for the contract killer. When she awakens to
the sound of a dark rising, she enlists Quinn to join her on a mission to save
humanity from her twin sister Tamara.
But Quinn is just the kind of man
that a cold-blooded killer like Tamara needs in her world. A man like Quinn,
who never believed in humanity, has only one belief: self-preservation. Being a
vampire sounds much better than staying human in the game of kill or be killed.
Will he stay alive long enough to find out how Layla's love can change the
equation?
Excerpt:
Padding into the living room,
she watched as the door across the suite opened and two men walked in. The
first man was big and round enough to block her view of his thinner companion.
Though she chose to remain visible facing them across the large living area,
they had not yet seen her standing in front of the bedroom door. The second man
closed and locked the door behind him.
They didn’t belong here in this
pure, white living room which gave the impression of being up in the clouds.
They wore stiff, dark clothes like Aurelius, but they were not like him at all.
She could smell hatred. There was no other feeling in them. They had killed
many, and they were here for Aurelius.
Ah, praises to Anubis. They
are ripe.
She sighed and closed the
bedroom door behind her.
The murderers turned.
“Where is Quinn?” The heavy man
smiled, while his silent companion went around the room closing the drapes on
the panoramic view of Luxor.
Quinn; the name suited Aurelius
in this life, nimble and smart, as her Roman commander had been.
“He is bathing.” She smiled as
if the two jackals had just come for a visit.
“And what is your name, love?”
The heavy man strolled across the expanse of white carpet to walk around the
u-shaped sectional sofa. His bulbous red-veined nose bore the colors and marks of
a trade route freshly drawn on papyrus. His blood would not be sweet, he drank
spirits too often, but there would be enough to satisfy her craving.
“I am Lay-laah.” She met the man
half-way, near the sofa, keeping her hands to her sides. She must not alarm
them. But she could not stop the bloodlust, she needed so much more blood, and
her fingers flexed in excitement, aching to tear him open.
“Well, Lay-laah.” The man
chuckled, trying to mimic her accent. “Quinn’s got good taste,” He glanced over
his shoulder to his companion, who now held something in his hand. The thin man
pointed the metal spear at her.
“Well, this is unfortunate,” the
heavy man said. “We came for Quinn, but we’ve got two for the price of one.” He
took a similar metal spear out of his jacket and pointed it at her. “It must be
fate.”
“Fate. Yes-sss.” Layla grabbed
him by the neck. The motion was so swift the man still smiled at her while she
sank her teeth into his leathery flesh.
She experienced a moment of
discomfort as the heavy man’s metal spear struck her in the chest several
times. She rose above him and he toppled backward with a shout and fell over
the low glass table in front of the sofa.
The thin man rumbled in
disbelief at what must be to him an unexpected turn of events.
It was ever this way; humans
could not fathom a being like her, they did not believe in monsters. Neither
had she, long ago. But there were many things in the world - seen and unseen -
that this killer would fear if he knew of them.
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Danita Minnis
Born and raised
in the heart of New York City, Danita is a singer, writer and lover of romance.
Her fourth novel, Dark Love Rising is
her first vampire romance. She is the author of the ghostly love story Adderley’s Bride and the Cardiff novels,
Falcon’s Angel and Love Entwined.
Mystery, mayhem,
the fantastic and the fey are as intriguing as Siberian
Huskies - shout out to the Khan Man. One more
hour with her laptop and Danita is living the dream.
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Thanks for featuring Dark Love Rising today! After sleeping 2,000 years, Layla woke up hungry. 😁
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