Red Leopard (The Vistaria Affair Series)
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“Then...?”
He glanced at her and she recognized discomfort in his expression.
“What?” she asked, a spurt of fear touching her.
“La dama fuerte,” he said softly. “I never asked you if you wanted this. If you wanted...me.”
“Oh,” she said inadequately.
“Calli, you’re never going to have a normal life with me. I can’t offer you a damned thing. Not even a nation to reside in. It’s just me. And I’m...” He took a breath, let it out. “I’m afraid it won’t be enough. I’ve done nothing but push you away, I know that. I’ve put you through, well, a war. But I want you to say yes. I want you to stay with me. Always.”
She considered this for a moment.
“The lady stays silent,” Nick murmured to himself, but she could hear the note of worry in his voice.
She gave a little laugh. “You’d better start teaching me Spanish, Nick. It seems to be the one thing I can’t teach myself out of a book.”
He plucked her from the deck, put her on his lap and wrapped his arms around her. Before she could gasp her surprise, he kissed her, and this time it was not a brief one. When he let her draw a full breath again, she said, “The wheel!”
“I am watching it,” he assured her, his voice low, deep, the way she remembered it from the first time they had met.
“Always, Nick?” she asked softly, not quite able to believe he wanted her to stay with him forever.
“Until the end, whenever that may be.” He cleared his throat. “Duardo said it best. Even if the end was tomorrow and we only have this day in which I can call you mine, I’ll take that. I will grab it with both hands and be proud and very grateful that you stayed.”
Book 2 of The Vistaria Affair Series
Black Heart
Facing the heart of the enemy.
Vistaria is controlled by the insurrectos and chaos reigns.
Minerva Benning (Minnie) is the only one who believes her beloved Duardo still lives and can’t convince anyone to help her find him. Nicolás Escobedo, the bastard half-brother of Vistaria’s assassinated president, is too busy trying to win back his country. Calli, Minnie’s cousin and Nick’s lover, is busy learning to be the partner of a national leader.
When Minnie attempts to find Duardo herself she is captured by Zalaya, the head of the insurrecto’s intelligence and security. Zalaya is a cool-headed man of secrets and strong appetites that he indulges fully with Minnie. Despite the eye patch and cane, Zalaya looks like Duardo—especially at night when Zalaya coaxes Minnie to indulge herself with him. Chained to his bed, she sees Zalaya’s control over Serrano, the leader of the insurrectos, crumble. As the danger surrounding both of them grows, Zalaya’s manipluations and Minnie’s quest collide...and the results are fatal.
Black Heart will be available very soon!
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Book 3 of The Vistaria Affair Series
Blue Knight
A game of seduction where a mistake means death.
Held hostage by the insurrectos for weeks and forgotten by the world, Olivia has watched Daniel bed every women but her, who he can’t see. Daniel lives dangerously and is forced to use her window one night to avoid the guards. Naked and faced with a long-legged woman who doesn’t want him, his curiousity is piqued.
Under the hostile, suspicious gazes of the guards they begin a game of heated seduction where the stakes are so high, no one, not even their fellow hostages, must suspect there is a connection between them. As Daniel teaches her how to defy the guards the tension between them, both sexual and personal, spirals until it threatens to shatter.
Olivia learns that Daniel is not quite who she thought he was. Now she is fighting for Daniel’s life, too, for if the insurrectos find out who he really is, then the man she has come to love will be instantly executed….
Blue Knight will be available very soon!
To Julie—who started it all.
Other books by
Tracy Cooper-Posey
Blood Knot Series (Urban Fantasy Paranormal Series)
• Blood Knot
• Blood Stone
• Blood Unleashed (Upcoming)
• Blood Revealed (Upcoming)
Beloved Bloody Time Series (Paranormal Futuristic Time Travel)
• Bannockburn Binding
• Byzantine Heartbreak
Kiss Across Time Series (Paranormal Time Travel)
• Kiss Across Time
• Kiss Across Swords
• Kiss Across Chains (Upcoming)
Guardian Bonds (Gargoyle Paranormal Series)
• Carson’s Night (As Teal Ceagh)
• Beauty’s Beasts (As Teal Ceagh)
• Sabrina’s Clan (Upcoming)
Destiny’s Trinities (Urban Fantasy Romance Series)
• Beth’s Acceptance (As Teal Ceagh)
• Mia’s Return (As Teal Ceagh)
• Sera’s Gift (As Teal Ceagh)
Short Paranormals
• Solstice Surrender
• Eva’s Last Dance
Guns ‘n’ Lovers Series (Romantic Suspense)
• Red Leopard
• Black Heart
• Blue Knight
• White Dawn (Upcoming)
• Silver Noon (Upcoming)
• Golden Day (Upcoming)
Go-get-‘em Women (Short Romantic Suspense Series)
• The Royal Talisman
• Delly’s Last Night
• Ningaloo Nights
• Dare to Return
• Sian’s Run (Upcoming)
Jewells of the Morrow series (Historical Romantic Suspense)
• Diana By The Moon
• Heart of Vengeance
• The Perilous Maiden (Upcoming)
• To Soothe a Savage Heart (Upcoming)
• The Heart of the Enemy (Upcoming)
• The Cherlebury Rose (Upcoming)
• The Duchess of Winter (Upcoming)
• Despite The Sands Of Time (Upcoming)
Scandalous Sirens (Historical Romance Series)
• Forbidden
• Dangerous Beauty
• Rhys Davies’ untitled story (Upcoming)
Romantic Thrillers Series
• Fatal Wild Child
• Dead Again
• Dead Double
• Terror Stash (Upcoming)
Contemporary Romances
• Lucifer’s Lover
• An Inconvenient Lover
The Sherlock Holmes Series
• Chronicles of the Lost Years
• The Case of the Reluctant Agent
About the Author
Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes erotic vampire romances, hot romantic suspense, paranormal and urban fantasy romances. She has published over 50 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 three times for Book Of The Year. 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 sewing, history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
Her website can be found at http://TracyCooperPosey.com
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