“If I give up the house,” Brady guessed, his voice bitter.
“Hear me, Brady,” Declan said, his voice low. “If you insist on taking the house and fighting Cole and Zoe for it, you’ll never see me again. If you win and get the house, then toss Cole out, you’ll be forcing me to leave, too. Not because I’m that much of an asshole, but because where Cole and Zoe go, I have to go with them. If you send them away, you’ll be sending me away, too.”
Brady stared at him. He was pulling himself together, thinking things through. “The three of you are together,” he said flatly.
“Forever,” Cole said shortly. “We’re bound in ways you can’t understand.”
“Try me,” Brady shot back.
Declan shook his head. “Not yet. Brady, you’ve spent your life preserving the family and this town. What if I said that they’re both being threatened right now, by forces you can’t even imagine?”
Brady stared at him, thinking hard. “The white-faced man. That was real, wasn’t it?” he breathed.
Declan nodded.
Brady swore. “He twisted my thoughts up. Deliberately. He had me so ready to kill you, Cole….” He shook his head. “That’s the threat?” he said shortly.
“A fragment of the threat,” Declan said. “Cole and Zoe and I…we’re part of the defense against that threat. Work with us, Brady. You know everyone of influence in this town. We can work quietly, arranging things so that no one is alarmed, so life can go on, yet still protect everyone here.”
Brady let out a long slow breath. “How?”
* * * * *
When Brady had gone, Declan came back to the living room where Zoe and Cole waited. He was smiling. “I told you he’d be able to handle it.”
“You realize he’s going to have your mother and every cousin and aunt and uncle here over the next few weeks, to see you?” Cole pointed out.
Declan shrugged. “If it helps convince them the Grimoré are real and the vampeen are coming, I can live with that.” He grinned. “So to speak.” He picked up Zoe’s hand and lifted her to her feet. “You’ve been very quiet, my love.”
She stared at him, her heart beating. “What did you say?”
“You’ve been very quiet.”
She thumped his shoulder, then smoothed her hand over it. It still floored her that she could touch him in that way, that he was solid and real…almost real.
“Of course I love you,” Declan said roughly. “I have loved you for as long as I can remember. Only now I can say it. At last.”
Cole got to his feet and Declan pulled him roughly into the circle of his arms, too.
“You had to die to say it. Ironic, isn’t it?” Cole said.
“So did you, you fanged jock,” Declan pointed out.
“Do you mind, Cole?” Zoe asked diffidently. It had been weighing on her mind for a while now. “No one stopped to ask you anywhere in the panic if you wanted to be turned.”
“I would have said yes, anyway.” Cole shrugged. “Death, or a life undead with the two of you in it? It wasn’t even a question for me.”
Declan kissed him, then Zoe. “Nor me. I don’t know what I did to deserve ending up with both of you. I do know I will spend the rest of my time working off the debt and I’ll do it with pure gratitude.”
The next book in the
Destiny’s Trinities series
Octavia’s War – Book 6 in the Destiny’s Trinities Series.
This is not Octavia’s war.
In the deserts of northern Mexico, Octavia has been fighting her own sneaky war against the cartels, while ignoring her growing feelings for Ángel, the son of the cartel’s leader.
Ángel Garcia hates his family and the family business with a passion. Until he can find a way out of the life he hides how he feels about anything or anyone.
When Bear Dawson, an American businessman, is executed by Ángel’s crazy brother, Ángel and Octavia are forced to run for their lives into the desert, where they are found by a man called Remmy, who has lived for two hundred years. Remmy tells them of the Grimoré who make Octavia’s war seem puny.
The bonding has begun….
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Warning: This short MMF vampire romance features two super-hot alpha heroes, multiple sex scenes, including anal sex, MM sexual play, and MMF sex. Do not read this book if frank sexual language and sex scenes offend you.
No non-humans were harmed except for large numbers of Grimoré, who died with satisfactory squeals…
This book is part of the Destiny’s Trinities series:
Book 1.0: Beth’s Acceptance
Book 2.0: Mia’s Return
Book 3.0: Sera’s Gift
Book 3.5: The First Trinity – Novellas 1-3
Book 4.0: Cora’s Secret
Book 5.0: Zoe’s Blockade
Book 6.0: Octavia’s War
Book 6.5: The Second Trinity – Novellas 4-6
Book 7.0: Terra's Victory
A Vampire Ménage Urban Fantasy Romance
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You can’t help but get caught up in the forces pulling at these three people and drawing them together.
Tracy does a great job of making us fall in love with the characters in a short amount of time.
I dare you to read just one [in this series].
You will enjoy the chemistry, mystery, things that go bump in the night, and chemistry – yeah, I listed chemistry first AND last – for a reason.
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About the Author
Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes romantic suspense, paranormal, urban fantasy, futuristic and science fiction romances. She has published over 65 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.
She turned to indie publishing in 2011. Her indie titles have been nominated four times for Book Of The Year and Byzantine Heartbreak was a 2012 winner. Faring Soul won a SFR Galaxy Award in 2016 for “Most Intriguing Philosophical/Social Science Questions in Galaxybuilding” She has been a national magazine editor and for a decade she taught romance writing at MacEwan University.
She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
Other books by Tracy Cooper-Posey
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Blood Knot Series (Urban Fantasy Paranormal Series)
Blood Knot *
Southampton Swindle
Broken Promise
Vale
Amor Meus (Anthology)
Blood Stone
Blood Unleashed
Blood Drive (Boxed Set, Bks 1-3)
Blood Revealed
Blood Ascendent (upcoming)
Beloved Bloody Time Series (Paranormal Futuristic Time Travel)
Bannockburn Binding *
Wait
Byzantine Heartbreak
Viennese Agreement
Romani Armada
Spartan Resistance
Kiss Across Time Series (Paranormal Time Travel)
Kiss Across Time*
Kiss Across Swords
Time Kissed Moments I
Kiss Across Chains
Kiss Across Deserts
Kiss Across Kingdoms
The Kine Prophecies (Epic Norse Fantasy Romance)
The Branded Rose Prophecy
The Stonebrood Saga(Gargoyle Paranormal Series)
Carson’s Night*
B
eauty’s Beasts
Harvest of Holidays
Unbearable
Sabrina’s Clan
Destiny’s Trinities (Urban Fantasy Romance Series)
Beth’s Acceptance*
Mia’s Return
Sera’s Gift
The First Trinity (Anth.)
Cora’s Secret
Zoe’s Blockade
Octavia’s War
The Second Trinity (Anth.)
Terra’s Victory
Interspace Origins (Science Fiction Romance Series)
Faring Soul
Varkan Rise
Cat and Company
Short Paranormals
Solstice Surrender
Eva’s Last Dance
The Vistaria Affair (Romantic Suspense)
Red Leopard*
Black Heart
Blue Knight
White Dawn
Go-get-‘em Women (Short Romantic Suspense Series)
The Royal Talisman
Delly’s Last Night
Vivian’s Return
Ningaloo Nights
Jewells of Tomorrow (Historical Romantic Suspense)
Diana By The Moon
Heart of Vengeance
Scandalous Sirens (Historical Romance Series)
Forbidden*
Dangerous Beauty
Perilous Princess
Romantic Thrillers Series
Fatal Wild Child
Dead Again
Dead Double
Terror Stash
Thrilling Affair (Boxed Set)
The Endurance (Science Fiction Romance Series)
5,001
Greyson’s Doom
Yesterday’s Legacy
Promissory Note
Xenogenesis
Contemporary Romances
Lucifer’s Lover
An Inconvenient Lover
The Sherlock Holmes Series (Romantic Suspense/Mystery)
Chronicles of the Lost Years
The Case of the Reluctant Agent
For reviews, excerpts, and more about each title, visit Tracy’s site and click on each title in turn: http://tracycooperposey.com/books-by-thumbnail/
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FIRST EDITION: July 2016
Cooper-Posey, Tracy
Zoe’s Blockade/Tracy Cooper-Posey—1st Ed.
Romance—Fiction
Paranormal – Fiction
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