Hunger, the latest book in Felicity Heaton’s vampire romance series, Vampires Realm, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website.
Find out how to enter the Hunger international giveaway (ends May 18th) and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate at her website, where you can also download a 6 chapter sample of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/hunger-vampire-romance-novel.php
Felicity is hosting a Facebook release party for Hunger on May 18th, so join her then for amazing giveaways, Q&A, teasers and more. All the details at: https://www.facebook.com/events/230938143763069/
Here’s more about Hunger, including an excerpt from this action-packed hot vampire romance novel.
Betrayed by one of her own and turned into a vampire, hunter Eve is consumed by her hunger for vengeance and has spent five years surviving hell, driven to take the life of the man she once loved. But just as she is about to close in on the hunter-turned-vampire, an event is set in motion that threatens to see him slip beyond her grasp forever—the leader of her bloodline has sent an escort to bring her to the family’s mansion. To a nest of the very creatures she once hunted and loathes.
A vampire assassin hardened by centuries of service, Tor is a man of discipline and loyalty, never straying from his mission or the rules set out for him, and has purged all his weaknesses, including his emotions.
But the moment he meets the broken, fiery female he is to escort to Oslo, something dangerous awakens in him, something possessive and powerful, and when he is pulled into a deadly game of cat and mouse with the man who betrayed her, Tor discovers he will do anything to protect the woman slowly claiming his heart and give her the vengeance she desires—even break all the rules.
Can Eve embrace her new vampire nature in order to have her revenge and find a reason to live again in Tor? Can Tor and Eve stop the man who betrayed her and the deaths of thousands of innocents? Or will he succeed in creating a new army of hybrid vampires who will rise up against the purebloods?
Hunger can be read out of order with the rest of the series and is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/hunger-vampire-romance-novel.php
“You can’t make me do this, and you know it.”
The black-haired man leaning against the
table opposite Eve in the dimly lit empty nightclub folded his arms in response
to her outburst, his dark eyes glittering with ice, a look she was coming to
know as a sign he wouldn’t budge on his decision.
Eve growled at him and cut the sound off in
her throat when her fangs began to drop, turning her stomach, reminding her
what she had become.
“I’m not going.” She mimicked him by folding
her arms across her chest, squashing her breasts together beneath her plain
charcoal t-shirt. “That’s final.”
“Eve,” he whispered softly and unfurled his
body, pushing to his feet in a graceful effortless move. His broad shoulders
shifted in a silent sigh beneath his black shirt and he reached for her, his
expression softening and the ice in his impassive eyes melting. “It is for the
best.”
It wasn’t, and he knew it. He knew how she
felt about what she had become, and her so-called family. She wanted no part of
it, not even for her sister’s sake. Lilith had become the ruler of the Vehemens
bloodline and the same vampire blood ran in Eve’s veins because of the man
towering before her.
“It isn’t.” Eve rubbed her forehead, trying
to ease the ache in her skull, the constant buzzing that was only growing
louder. Soon, it would become something else, something darker and more
sinister. A hunger for blood. She tamped it down, using everything she had
taught herself over the years since her inadvertent turning, suppressing her
sick desire to feed.
“Eve?” He was closer now and she didn’t tense
as his hand came down on her left shoulder, holding her gently and offering a
modicum of comfort. “Are you unwell?”
She shook her head and pulled herself back
together. She had quickly discovered after her rescue by the man before her
that he would do all in his power to make her take blood if he thought she
required it. Not by force. Not as the betrayer had done. No. This man employed
a more devastating tactic.
Guilt.
Eve raised her head, looked up into the
endless depths of his dark eyes and gave it one last shot, because he wasn’t
the only one who could employ guilt as a weapon. “Father, please.”
He hissed and released her as if she had
burned him with those words, and turned his back on her, shoving his fingers
through the long lengths of his black hair as he paced away. She sensed his
agitation and kept still, unwilling to risk inciting his wrath when she was
weakened by hunger, even when she knew he would never lay a hand on her. Her
vampire instincts were strong though, overwhelming at times, commanding her to
obey them even when she despised the things they made her want to do.
Like attack humans and steal their blood.
Whenever those instincts pressed her, she
pushed back, using all of her willpower to deny them. She had never allowed
anyone to make decisions for her, believed that no one and nothing should have
control over her life, and that extended to her wretched instincts. She was
stronger than the monster inside her, the demon she had become. She would never
embrace it. She had a final mission, and once it was done, so was she.
“Eve,” he said, his voice pained and low, and
turned to her, his handsome face twisted in lines of desperation. The ragged
burn scars down one cheek and side of his neck pulled taut as he growled,
flashing long white daggers at her, and his eyes flared crimson. “Do not think
this does not hurt me too. I do not want you to go… but you must understand… Lilith
needs you, and you need Lilith. I have tried… by the Devil I have tried to make
you see sense but you refuse!”
Eve recoiled as he barked the words at her,
his anger pouring from him in violent waves that rocked her. She had pushed too
far again and, although she had inherited his temper, in a battle of wills he
would win.
Pain surfaced in his eyes as he hissed an
oath and looked beyond her to the main entrance of the nightclub.
“It is for the best.”
Eve had the terrible feeling he was giving up
on her, and the small fragment of her that wanted to survive and somehow
embrace this dark new life, to continue to live with her real family, ached in
response.
She took a step towards him and his gaze
swung to her, the fathomless agony and sorrow in it bringing her up short and
turning the ache into a throbbing pain.
“I’m not ready.” The lie came easily,
slipping freely from her tongue. How many times had she lied to Oneiric
already?
She had no intention of embracing her new
life as a vampire. It was too hard for her. She had been born and raised a
hunter, one of the best at Section Seven where she had lived with her sister.
For most of their lives, they’d had no idea that their unknown mother had given
them their father’s DNA through genetic manipulation.
Eve had uncovered the information one night
but had failed to grasp the magnitude of what it meant for her and Lilith, and
had kept it to herself.
Oneiric had explained that Lilith had found
out about it while she had still been human, working for Section Seven, and had
met her mate, Lincoln, who was another Vehemens vampire.
Eve had found out the full consequences of
their mother’s tampering the even harder way. She had been betrayed and killed,
and had risen from the dead as a pureblood vampire.
She wrapped her arms about herself and
squeezed hard as a chill came over her, freezing her to her soul.
“Eve.” Oneiric crossed the room and pulled
her into his arms. It was impossible to resist leaning into his hard chest and
resting her cheek against the cool wall of muscle beneath the soft black cotton
shirt. Waking as a vampire had been confusing and painful enough, but
discovering that Adam had betrayed her had hurt like hell, and the torture that
had come afterwards, the years of pain and fury…
She shuddered and Oneiric rubbed her back.
“Do not think about it, little one.” He often
called her by the pet term, even though she railed at him about it most nights,
telling him that she was a grown woman and not a child.
She hated that he treated her as if she were
a child, something fragile and weak, unable to fend for itself.
But at the same time, she loved it when he
doted on her, when they spent the night talking about his life and hers before
she was turned, and he told her things about her mother. Then, she accepted the
pet term, savouring having one parent in her life and being able to know her
other one through him. During those quiet times, she felt close to him and at
ease with herself, finally knew what it was like to have parents, and she knew
it affected Oneiric in a similar way.
Vampires couldn’t procreate, and Oneiric had
admitted to being shocked when he had discovered that he had fathered twin
daughters, and that he was still coming to terms with it.
He was gunning for father of the century in
her opinion. Not only had he helped her sister save Lincoln, her mate, but he
had saved Eve too. He had moved Heaven and Earth to find her and bring her home
with him, and it touched her more than she could express in words.
That protective, fatherly streak in him was
the reason he wasn’t going to give up and let her have her way. He wanted her
to go home, to their bloodline’s home, to a mansion filled with vampires.
Eve pulled down a deep breath as her throat
tightened in response to the thought of being surrounded by hundreds of
vampires and exhaled it slowly. “Don’t make me do this. Let me stay here a
little longer.”
Oneiric drew back and cupped her cheeks in
his palms, tilting her head up so her eyes met his. “Will you feed then?”
She shook her head. “You know I can’t.”
“Then you know I can’t either. I cannot allow
you to go on like this, slowly killing yourself. Lilith will be able to make
you see sense.”
Sense.
Sense to Oneiric was hunting humans and
feeding from them. It was listening to the call of the night and embracing all
that it meant to be a vampire.
Sense to her was hunting her betrayer, Adam,
and repaying him in kind.
If Oneiric sent her to Oslo, to the Vehemens
stronghold where Lilith reigned with Lincoln, her chance at revenge would slip
through her grasp.
She couldn’t stop now. She was close. She
knew it.
If she told Oneiric of her desire to hunt and
kill the bastard who had betrayed her, it would only make him send her to Oslo
sooner. He would want to protect her and would place her safety above
satisfying the hunger that drove her.
She could flee him, but that would only cause
him and Lilith pain, and he would come after her.
She could spin another lie and say she would
make her own way to Oslo, but someone was already on their way to collect her
and take her there. They had received word from Lincoln about it five hours
ago, at sunset, and had been arguing ever since.
Fleeing was beginning to look like her only
option.
A bolt of awareness shot down her spine and she
stiffened. Oneiric tensed too and lifted his head. Crimson fire flickered
around the edges of his dark irises.
“We have company.” The note of warning in his
deep voice said it wasn’t her escort.
Eve grabbed the two large hunting knives on
the round black table close to her and reached out with her senses, scouring
the area around the club. People were coming. Close to a dozen of them.
Vampires.
The double doors of the main entrance burst
open, the heavy steel panels crashing into the walls on either side, allowing a
rush of cold damp air to bring tangled unfamiliar scents to her. Behind her,
another bang sounded as the back door of the club shot open. Male voices poured
into the darkness.
Four ahead of her and seven behind.
She took a deep breath to steady herself and
flexed her fingers around the grips of the short blades to stop them from
trembling. It wasn’t fear making her hands shake. It was hunger. It gnawed at
her insides and clouded her mind, dampening her senses and stealing her strength.
She almost started to wish she had taken the animal blood Oneiric had offered
her on waking tonight, but she had been so angry about being shipped off to
Oslo that she had refused.
“I will handle the back,” Oneiric said and
then he was gone and she was alone in the dimly lit room, only a dozen tables
and chairs between her and the four advancing men.
Eve cursed her weakness and shifted her
booted feet, adopting a stance that was second nature to her, preparing for the
fight ahead.
The vampires emerged from the darkness,
golden eyes flickering with hunger as they landed on her and lingered.
Weaklings.
The same breed of bastard that had killed
her.
A
growl curled up her throat and she launched herself forwards.
Hunger can be read out of order with the rest of the series and is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback.
Find all the links, a fantastic 6 chapter downloadable sample of the book, and also how to enter the giveaway and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate at her website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/hunger-vampire-romance-novel.php
Books in the Vampires Realm paranormal romance series:
Felicity Heaton is a USA Today and international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. In her books she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!
If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the new Eternal Mates series.
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