Monday 23 September 2013

Blood Flesh Gold : A Vampire Forsaken 3

Just published... After way too long from the Forsaken world I've finally been able to continue the entwined stories of icy, enigmatic Marius, angelic Mina and dominant, masterful Blaise ... not to mention new players, rock star Ethan Canning and Selene, Viking warrior goddess turned vamp.

Oh, and a ghost that is hungry for life, at ANY cost. Dark magick, wild lust, love, and souls for barter ensue. Nuff said!

I had tons of fun with this and hope you do too. Their story will continue...

COVER REDESIGN: Oh, and for those that may have read Blood Lust Blood Lost or Blood Sex Magick, they've had a cover redesign. I've moved the Forsaken series away from the sepia look.

Right now I'm overcompensating big-time for the break from their world. I'm finishing up a separate novel interlinked with some of the Forsaken characters. It feeds into my love of history, research, and the roaring, arty twenties. I'm more envious than ever of those émigrés to Paris in the twenties who sampled that amazing city in that astonishing decade.

It's even wilder when you throw in guardian angels, illicit love, vampires, and the full panoply of the supernatural world. Wicked fun. Out soon.


Thursday 19 September 2013

Blood Sex Magick : A Vampire Forsaken 2

This is the second in the Vampire Forsaken series. I wrote it, as I did all the Vampire Forsaken titles, so that it can be read totally as a standalone, but with the intent the Forsaken story be followed through all of the Vampire Forsaken novellas. 

All of them have a building history, threads of story and certain of the cast of characters that follow through from Blood Lust Blood Lost, and survive (in one form or another ;-) through into Blood Flesh Gold.

Here you go with the blurb... and more of the uber sexy alpha Blaise de Sevigny...

AN EROTIC VAMPIRE ROMANCE... Sequel to Blood Lust Blood Lost.

Australia, present day

Mina Lees, half fallen angel, wholly witch and freshly in possession of her powers, has been given one task.


Steal the infamous, supernatural object, the Vial of Agrippina, for the warlock Stephen Rafferty, or die.


The only problem: it hangs about the neck of magnificent master vampire Blaise de Sevigny. All who have attempted its theft before have died.
But Blaise has an allure Mina cannot resist and she knows that either way, her life hangs in the balance.
Even with her powers, stealing the Vial will kill her. If she succumbs to Blaise, his gallery of enemies will become hers. The battle about to break out in the vampire world will also become hers.


And either way, the Vial of Agrippina remains the most powerful and hunted object in the supernatural universe. What will be its fate?

Xan

Saturday 14 September 2013

Blood Lust Blood Lost : A Vampire Forsaken 1

I gotta admit, of all the Vampire Forsaken titles, this one actually had me sitting at the computer teary eyed as I finished writing it ... and I'm a tough broad! ... if you've read it you may understand what I mean by waterworks (I hope, or I haven't done my job as a writer very well).

It's the only historical of the series (update: bar the prequel, Blood Moon of the Incubus), and is set in 1892. I do love history and researching the tons of small details.

It does have what would have been one of the vampire worlds hottest couples, Agrippina and Blaise. Or menages, actually, considering the delicious and mysterious Marius. I had great fun writing this even if it did make me go all sob city at the end, goddammit!

It is totally standalone though, so there are no wicked cruel cliffhangers. If one slice of the chocolate cake keeps you going, you're set. HOWEVER, the characters, in one form or another, do continue through the successive titles in the A Vampire Forsaken series, so if you've fallen for Aggie, Blaise, Marius or are just plain curious about what happens next, keep going, because more wild stuff and Otherworldly and earthly characters are in store...

I'll key in the blurb here, lotsa lurve, X.

AN EROTIC VAMPIRE ROMANCE...

‘Time slowed as if the Gods had stopped an eternal clock, held their fingers, stilling, upon its mechanical, relentless hands … The silver cap had mutated, reformed, curled in sinuous silver claws about the blood filled glass claw itself, sealing it shut, tight. Secure.’

London, 1892

Blaise de Sevigny, 500 year old vampire, exists in decadent splendour in the Mayfair mansion he shares with his lover, the notorious, formidable Agrippina. Agrippina, known also as the Whore of Rome from her days as a slave in that city, milleniums before, and their friend and associate, the cool and enigmatic Marius.
All hell is about to break loose in the vampire world. A vampire druglord is determined to expand his empire and exploit all human weakness. The three have vowed to stop him. Before the battle is over human innocents will have been slaughtered, the trio will be torn apart, and nothing will be the same again within the vampire universe.

26,000 words