Golden Anidae (A Blushing Death Novel)
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“Yes,” I answered with a devious smile curling the corner of my mouth.
“You survived,” Dean reaffirmed in a soothing voice that made my Eithina very happy. “Better than that, there’s a light in your eyes again.” If my Eithina had been a cat, she’d be purring at his touch.
“Why’d you do it?” Patrick asked, his voice strained.
I tore my eyes away from Dean’s perfect Caribbean blue wolf irises to meet Patrick’s dark and incredibly intense gaze.
“Why’d I do what?” I asked.
“Why did you risk yourself for those people?” he barked, finally allowing anger to fill his tone.
He was mad at me. No, that wasn’t quite right. He was livid, furious that I’d left. Incensed that I would risk myself for people I had no relationship with, and he was enraged that I would choose those nameless people over him.
“It was the pup, wasn’t it?” Dean asked, stroking my hair.
“He was one of the reasons, yes.” I peered up at Patrick and tried to make him understand. “They took my cousin, destroyed an entire Pack, and Marabelle took someone that was important to Enza. I had to get involved. But Everett, he belonged to me. I had to protect him.”
“If he’s yours, then he’s mine,” Dean said.
“Thank you.”
“I think it’s time we go,” Patrick snarled, and my head snapped up to meet his glare.
WHAT?
I jumped up and out of the bed before either of them could stop me, blocking the door. Patrick’s eyes were wide with surprise.
“NO!”
Patrick was still, his eyes cautious. He was only a few feet away from me and all I wanted to do was reach out and touch him.
“I fucked up,” I blurted out with little ceremony and no elegance. “I know that. You have every right to be mad as hell with me. So be angry with me. Yell at me! Take a shot at me! Do something so that it doesn’t fester and destroy you,” I said, finally pleading with him through a sob.
I expected him to call me an ungrateful bitch or a self-centered idiot but what he did made me hold my breath for fear of moving. Reaching out his trembling hand, slow and gentle, he brushed the outline of my face. His fingertips traced my bottom lip.
“I thought I would never see you again,” he whispered. A crimson tear ruined his perfect alabaster face.
I fell into his arms like a drowning woman clutching to the last life preserver. He wrapped his arms around me, keeping me tight against him. Breathing in his familiar scent, musty old books, blood, and below that the faint lingering smell of the grave tingled along my senses. As odd as it sounded, the scent of death filled my nose, and I knew I was home.
THE BLUSHING DEATH SERIES
by Suzanne M. Sabol
A Pool of Crimson (Book 1)
Killing vampires is easy. Trusting one will be the hardest thing Dahlia Sabin has ever done.
Dahlia has lived a lonely existence as a killer of the undead. Known as The Blushing Death to those that fear her, Dahlia uncovers a plot by Columbus’s Master Vampire, Ethan. He intends to raise a demon from the depths of hell to destroy the city, cement his power, and take control.
In her pursuit to stop a demon from manifesting, Dahlia sinks deeper into the city’s supernatural underworld and discovers that vampires are not only deadly; one in particular could be dangerous to her very soul and her heart. Patrick, the Master vampire’s second-in-command with dark penetrating eyes and a cool, deadly sophistication, can’t stay away and Dahlia can’t tell him no. There’s something that neither of them knows, Ethan wants Dahlia’s unleashed power for himself and is willing to do anything to get it.
Dahlia is in a race against time to send the demon back to hell, at war with her better judgment, trusting a dark and intriguing vampire with his own agenda, while struggling to save her own neck. As the portal to hell opens, Dahlia has only herself to rely on in order to survive, if she can …
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Midnight Ash (Book 2)
It’s all fun and games until a dismembered hand gets nailed to your front door.
When a woman is mutilated and murdered steps from her home, Dahlia Sabin is thrust into the middle of a territorial vampire war with a target on her back and an assassin on her trail.
When a 500-year-old vampire ninja assassin is unleashed on the city to claim Dahlia’s head, she has to convince the men in her life to work together before Midnight Ash and her group of assassins can claim their prize. But being in love with the most powerful and charismatic vampire in the state incites animosity and jealousy as Dahlia sinks deeper into the werewolf Pack, becoming entangled with its Beta.
In her race to uncover the plot behind Midnight Ash, Dahlia is confronted with old arguments, forgotten traumas, and a new complication in the cogent and all tempting Pack Alpha. As she’s driven further into the supernatural world, Dahlia is torn between the vampire she loves and the primal pull of the Pack.
If Dahlia can’t stop Midnight Ash before blood is spilled, she may never find out who has a contract out on her head, what they hope to gain, or if she’s strong enough to survive losing everything.
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Sliver of Silver (Book 3)
Dahlia Sabin is Fertiri, carrying both the ancient magic of the grave and the primal power of the Pack. She’s marked for death by her enemies, protected by the vampire liege in love with her and the Pack Alpha infatuated by her. Strays have moved into the city, terrorizing the innocent and leaving mutilated bodies in their wake as a message that no one is safe.
Hot on the Strays’ trail, Dahlia must stop them before they can destroy the Pack and rule it as their own. As her life crashes and burns around her, Dahlia has to put all her inner turmoil aside and become the Blushing Death to protect the people she loves. If she can’t expose their plans, she could lose everything, and her most fearsome enemy is still hiding in the shadows . . .
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Black Dalliances(Book 5)
The Blushing Death has made a name for herself across the country but her biggest battle is at home. Reigniting old flames and venturing into new liasons, Dahlia Sabin is in a battle for her heart. As she earns back the trust of the men she loves, the Fae are plotting behind her back.
After her lover is kidnapped and hidden in Faerie, Dahlia will venture into an unfamiliar land, battle creatures of myth, and face a foe that will affect the very fabric of power and magic forever. But before they can make the journey home, all will sacrifice something they hold dear.
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