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Title:
Sanguinary
Series: Night
Shift #1
ISBN: 978-1942886686
Book Length: 188
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group
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DESCRIPTION/Blurb
Detective Cami Davis and her
sexy, cowboy-turned-vampire informant are all that’s standing between humanity
and monsters who would rule the world—and all that’s standing between them
having a torrid love affair is the fact that he’s an enemy of humanity.
THROUGH DARKEST TEMPTATION
When Dallas police detective Cami Davis joined the city’s vampire unit, she
planned to use the job as a stepping-stone to a better position in the
department. She didn’t know then what she knows now: A silent war rages between
humans and their supposedly pacified predators, and the vampires are winning.
With the clock running out on her kind, Cami will do whatever she must to defeat
the “Sanguinary.”
Enter Reese Fulton, a disaffected ex-cop and a vampire. She can’t exactly trust
him, but with his cowboy boots and good-ole-boy drawl he’s the perfect beard
for Cami’s fledgling undercover operation. Yet playing Reese’s Claimed—a vampire’s
personal bloodgiver—isn’t as straightforward as she was led to believe. His
bite is as enthralling as his dimpled smile, and soon Cami is wondering which
will pose more of a challenge: subduing the enemies of humanity...or her own
desire.
EXERPTS
“Hey, Bradley.” I
beckoned the crime-scene tech, who had finally arrived and was snapping on
gloves. “Is that a piece of paper under the vic’s head?”
He bent down over my
shoulder to get a clearer view from my line of sight. “It’s tangled in her
hair.” He pulled a pair of long tweezers out of his kit and snagged the sliver.
“Yep. There’s a word written on it.” We both peered at the brownish, spidery
writing.
“Sanguinary,” I said. “Is that written in blood?”
“Maybe. I’ll get the
lab to run a basic analysis on it. If it’s blood, we’ll be able to let you know
pretty quick if it’s human and, if so, what type. DNA will take longer.”
I stared at the woman
a little longer. Her dark hair—almost the same color as mine—spilled out around
her, matted with dark, coagulating blood. The two bloody marks on her neck
shone like black stars on a white background.
Vampire.
I knew that if I
lifted her dress, there would be other puncture wounds all over her body, and
strange symbols carved across her skin: pentagrams within circles and other
ritualistic signs. Exactly like the others. Ten murders in the four weeks since
the beginning of September—all centered in downtown Dallas, and many of
affluent victims whose families demanded action.
The department had
been in a barely suppressed uproar.
I stood up, my knees
popping a little. Five years ago, they wouldn’t have done that.
And five years before
that? Vampires hadn’t existed, except in books and B movies.
It took time for the
world to believe. We hadn’t even realized how to fight back when they’d first
shown up.
This victim’s ragged,
bloody fingernails suggested she had tried to resist but obviously failed.
The red dress she
wore would have originally matched the color of the relatively scant splashes
of blood surrounding her, but those stains had dried to a muddy brown, the same
color as the writing on the paper caught in her hair.
Her clothing
suggested she’d been at the opera that evening, though the manager, roused from
her bed, swore that the building had been cleared and empty when she left.
One black,
high-heeled pump lay several feet away, toppled over onto its side, the heel
broken, as if she had stumbled out of the shoe when it failed her as she ran
from a pursuer.
Sanguinary.
This was the third
time the word had shown up in the case. The first time it had been left in a
victim’s voicemail by a man calling from an untraceable burner phone: “The
Sanguinary expects you at the Blood House tomorrow night.”
The second time, it
had been part of a to-do list in a victim’s day planner: Meet with vampire admin. + Sanguinary.
I’d heard the word
even before that from vampires I had taken down—whispered as a threat, shouted
as a warning: The Sanguinary is coming.
The Sanguinary will kill you all.
But no one who knew
what the Sanguinary was would admit to it.
That’s why I was
about to go undercover among the vampires.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Margo Bond Collins writes urban fantasy, contemporary
romance, and paranormal mysteries. She lives in Texas with her daughter and
several spoiled pets. Although writing fiction is her first love, she also
teaches college-level English courses online. She enjoys reading romance and
paranormal fiction of any genre and spends most of her
free time daydreaming about heroes, monsters, cowboys, and villains, and the
strong women who love them—and sometimes fight them.
Author (Contact
Links)
Amazon Author Page: http://www.amazon.com/author/margobondcollins
Email: MargoBondCollins@gmail.com
Website: http://www.MargoBondCollins.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MargoBondCollin @MargoBondCollin
Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/vampirarchy
Facebook Author Page: https://www.facebook.com/MargoBondCollins
Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/mbondcollins/
Review:
Every
time I think I’m so over vampires a book comes along to change my mind. I love the mythos in this story. Think of “Blade” movies meets COPS or
NCIS. Human police woman Cami meets a
rare vampire who wants to take down the bad guys from the inside. Can a human vampire hunter and a vampire
trust each other and work together? And
where exactly do those vampires come from?
Add conspiracy theories, an out of control bite addicted cop and the
feds and things are definitely going to get interesting.
This
story is not like the “popular” vampire movies and myths. It is dark, dangerous, and sexy.
I
give this story 4 out of 5 clouds, and a definite 5 on the chili pepper rating.
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