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Blood Shadows
Blackthorn Series Book One
Lindsay J. Pryor
Lindsay J. Pryor
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Bookouture
ISBN: 9781909490000
ASIN:
B00AAMO252
Number
of pages: 380
Word
Count: 117,000
Cover
Artist: Henry Steadman
Blurb :
For vengeance - would you
trust a vampire?For justice - could you betray your family?
For love - are you ready to question everything you believe in?
Gifted with the ability to read the shadows of ‘third species’ beings, Caitlin Parish is the Vampire Control Unit’s most powerful agent. Despite that, her mission to hunt down Kane Malloy – a master vampire – comes with a death wish. Many have tried, but few have survived.
For Caitlin, tracking Kane is about more than just professional reputation. With her parents both mysteriously killed 7 years apart to the day, Caitlin knows that without Kane’s help she is next.
She has four days to make a deal with the wicked, the irresistible, the treacherous Kane Malloy. The vampire who despises everything she stands for.
Or die.
About the Author:
Lindsay J. Pryor
is a British Paranormal Romance author who writes dark, intense stories set in
the dystopian world of Blackthorn.
Her trademark powerful vampire
heroes and utterly combustible sensual romances have earned Lindsay comparisons
with both J.R Ward and Sherrilyn Kenyon.
A finalist in Mills
& Boon’s New Voices competition in both 2010 and 2011, Lindsay has
already proved a smash hit with readers.
Comments like “Utterly
captivating”, “Jaw-droppingly good”, “Awesome”, “I forgot to blink”, “The
sexual tension is off the charts”, “I nearly fainted when he removed her belt”,
“I drooled on my keyboard” and even “Tell Kane he can have my
soul RIGHT NOW!” convinced Lindsay she just might have what it took to
become a published author.
With the launch of Blood
Shadows, that dream is now a reality. Her journey to
published author though has been a long one.
Lindsay has been creating
stories since she was nine years old, when she quickly decided that fantasy was
more interesting than reality. She thought she’d grow out of it but hasn’t yet.
Despite years of bashing out
stories on an old typewriter, it was the death of her father in 2007 that
finally convinced Lindsay to try and become a published author.
“One of the last things my dad
said to me was to do what I wanted to do in life. After he passed away, I
pulled out all my scribbles from over the years and got back to writing what I
loved most – paranormal romance.”
If reviews are anything to go
by, it was a journey well worth making.
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Out What Readers Have to Say About Blood Shadows:
“Lindsay J. Pryor easily
earns a place alongside Paranormal Romance's best writers!” ~
Michele Hauf
“An incredible voice for paranormal.” ~ Rhyannon Byrd
“An incredible voice for paranormal.” ~ Rhyannon Byrd
“I drooled on my keyboard.”
“Wow! This is just soooo
good.”
“Utterly captivating.”
“Flawless, tight, sensual,
electrifying!”
“Tell Kane he can have my
soul RIGHT NOW!”
“Every moment was dripping
with tension.”
“I forgot to blink.”
“Girl, you can WRITE! And you
can write sexxxy!”
“Fang-a-licious!”
“I nearly fainted when he
removed her belt.”
“The sexual tension is off
the charts.”
“After Kenyon’s Zarek, I
thought I’d never fall for another bad boy again...”
“Jaw-droppingly good... I’d
want to shout ‘Bite Me!’”
Excerpt:
He
appeared from behind her.
His movements were swift and accurate:
snatching the gun from her hand, in the same instant he forced her face-first
up against the wall, her earpiece hitting the ground.
She caught her breath, pressed her palms
and knee to the wall in preparation to push back but his hard body was already
against hers, his power reminding her that the strength she had in spirit was
absolutely no match for the supposedly three hundred-year-old six-foot vampire
who had her pinned to the wall as easily as he would a sheet of paper. And as
she felt the tip of her own gun press below her ribs, she knew all four shots
of the potent sedative, too powerful for the human body, would end it all for
her.
Just
like that.
But instead of firing, his soft lips
brushed her ear, the arrogant upward curl of those enticing bow lips as clear
in her mind as if he were facing her. He tutted playfully, his low rasp raking
beneath her skin. ‘A little girl doing a man’s job – bound to end in tears.’
Caitlin clenched her fists. Brovin and
Morgan had to be less than a minute away. She had to stall him. Her instinct
was to try to reach back and catch his wrist. All she needed was her fingers on
his pulse point and she’d finally know those dark recesses that no expert could
reach – information she so desperately needed. But she knew she wouldn’t have
enough time to wait for that painfully slow vampire heartbeat, even if she was
in a position to get to him. There was only one way she was going to get the
time with him that she wanted and needed.
‘Kane Malloy, I’m detaining you under
section 3.4 of the Vampire Disciplinary Clause…’
He laughed, deep, guttural, terse. ‘You’re detaining me?’
‘On twenty-one alleged accounts of crimes
against members of the third species including your own, thirty-two against
humans…’
‘Delusional as well as
reckless. Are you seriously the best they’ve got?’
‘It’s over, Kane.’
‘You breathe too fast to be convincing,’ he
goaded.
‘You
don’t breathe enough to judge me.’
He exhaled curtly. Panic jolted through her
as he deftly unclasped the belt threaded through her jeans. To her disgust, for
the first time on any tracking operation, she froze.
Kill her? Yes, of course the thought had
crossed her mind. No matter how unbelievable or surreal it seemed, she had
known it was a possibility. But rape? With her colleagues closing in there was
no way even Kane would have the arrogance to attempt it in the minutes, maybe
even seconds he had left.
But this was Kane. And if he wanted to
leave a message for the VCU, a dead and violated tracker would ring loud and
clear.
The fact she'd even got this close would be
insult too much for his ego.
She snapped back a breath as he yanked her
belt through the loops. And as his heel cracked the buckle, destroying the only
way the VCU could locate her, she knew it was about to get worse.
Her phone followed next,
removed from her back pocket by his stealthy fingers.
‘You’re lucky you serve a
purpose,’ he said, combing her hair back over her shoulder.
Her heart pounded
painfully. ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’
‘You’re the one who’s
obsessed with me – what do you
think?’
As he traced the back of
his cool fingers tenderly down her exposed neck, a caress more sensual than she
would have thought possible for someone with such renowned brutality, Caitlin
held her breath. She was stunned by her own involuntary arousal, suppressing it
with every iota of conviction she had.
‘I think you’d better
walk away,’ she said, battling to get her focus back on the job. ‘Or give
yourself up.’
‘Not going to happen, Caitlin.’ Pressing
the tranquilizer gun tighter into her side, Kane made her wince, his reputation
restored. ‘Question is, are you going to walk out of here co-operatively or am
I going to have to carry you?’
Review
Aahhh,
vampires… hot, sexy, adorably honorable despite their reputation. Caitlin is a
detective in the supernatural unit. She “reads”
shadows, or auras. And she is going
after the biggest, baddest vamp of them all, Kane. And he wants her. When the bust doesn’t go as planned, she is
put undercover as Kane’s girlfriend.
But
undercover work doesn’t exactly turn out as planned and she learns some things
her family would have preferred best unlearned.
This turns into the worst time ever, but through it all her big strong
handsome vampire is there keeping her safe.
And somewhere along the way, love surprised them both.
I give
this book 4 out of 5 clouds.
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