EMBRACE THE DARK
The Blood Rose Series Book 1
By Caris Roane
Published January 29, 2013
Published January 29, 2013
Enter a world of blood-starved mastyr vampires and the rare
women who can satisfy their deepest needs…
How can he resist his blood rose…
Gerrod, mastyr vampire of the Merhaine Realm, never thought
to have his blood-needs satisfied by a mere human. But Abigail is no ordinary
woman. She stuns him with her telepathy as well as the richness of her blood.
However, her human DNA makes her an unacceptable mate. Yet how can Gerrod turn
her away when she alone has satisfied his blood-starvation for the first time
in a hundred-and-fifty-years?
Will she fall to temptation and give herself to a vampire…
When the dreaded enemy of all realm-folk, the Invictus,
attacks at a fae wedding, Abigail’s simple human life gets turned upside down.
She doesn’t know if she has the courage to pursue a path that means giving
herself body and soul to a mastyr vampire. Will she return to her normal
existence in Flagstaff, Arizona? Or will she embrace the dark…
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EMBRACE THE MAGIC
The Blood Rose Series Book 2
By Caris Roane
Published August 31, 2013
Published August 31, 2013
When a blood rose enters Mastyr Ethan’s world, will he
succumb to his deepest needs or lose her forever to an enemy intent on
possessing her at all costs?
He desperately needs his blood rose…
Ethan, mastyr vampire of the Bergisson Realm, never thought
to find his blood rose, the one woman who could ease the blood-starvation he’s
endured for decades. But Samantha carries a surprising level of power as her
newly discovered fae heritage emerges and she connects with his personal realm
frequency, a vibration that ignites his passion. His commitment to ruling Bergisson, however,
has priority, even over his driving need to be with Samantha. As desire rises, and Ethan finds himself
drawn into the web of his driving, relentless need for her, will he be able to
embrace his blood rose or will his guilt over past events prevent him from
living life to the fullest?
How can she give up the life she planned…?
Samantha can’t believe she’s a blood rose, a woman who can
meet the needs of a starved mastyr vampire.
Her plans never included the world of the Nine Realms in which mastyr
vampires rule millions of realm-folk, but learning that she’s half-fae has
changed everything. As Ethan’s
blood-needs become a life-or-death struggle, and cast her into a war against
the dreaded Invictus, how can she choose to embrace her new fae powers and
change her life so completely? Will she
take on the role forever as Ethan’s blood rose?
Or will her desire to follow her life’s ambitions force her to choose
against love, passion, and unbelievable fae power?
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Excerpt from EMBRACE THE MAGIC:
Chapter One
Mastyr Vampire Ethan stared down into Sweet Gorge where two
of his Guardsmen hauled up a body on a sling carried between them. They flew
side by side, matching their movements by long practice. The night air, though
usually fresh in early April, carried a rancid edge, something he’d connected
with this area for a long time.
But he’d lost another of his Guard here at Sweet Gorge,
killed sometime this past week, but located by a search patrol just a half hour
ago. And this was the fourth murder in a month.
Something was on the wind.
“Invictus?” Finn scratched behind his right ear. He was
Ethan’s second-in-command, his long red hair a beacon in any situation.
Using both hands, Ethan shoved his own unruly hair away from
his face. Sweat dripped from his forehead. The temp wasn’t too warm in
Bergisson Realm this time of year, but when his blood-starvation reached
difficult levels, he’d often perspire like he’d been battling for hours. “What
the hell was Paul doing patrolling in this area?”
Ethan didn’t know Paul well, but he felt responsible for
him, as he did for all his Guard. He’d built his force to three hundred strong,
but Paul, as a new recruit, wasn’t well-known to many of the Guardsmen.
“He didn’t have orders to go out here, not with three other
Guardsmen dead in the past few months along the eastern border.” Ethan let his
gaze move from one end of the gorge to the other, then along the monolith to
the east. A familiar heavy guilt clawed at his chest. This part of his realm
was off-limits having been the place of a massacre forty years earlier.
“Maybe his body was
dumped.”
Ethan’s frown tightened his forehead. “Most likely.”
There was a connection between Sweet Gorge and the Invictus.
He just didn’t know what it was.
Sweet Gorge used to be a place of great beauty and had once
been a modest resort, a place his family had been to a lot in its prime. Fae
leadership had also met here often.
Now his mother, father and sister were gone, lost in the
attack, along with many loved ones, over two hundred realm killed all at one
time.
Afterward, the stream had dried up, the source cursed by a
powerful fae of unknown ancestry. No one had seen the fae female or the deed,
only that the stream was blocked and no amount of power had ever released it. A
wall of crystals resided there and none of the fae he knew would go near it.
Besides, there was always the stench to warn realm-folk
away, of something not right, very ancient, and deadly.
He glanced over the wooded ridgeline along the north ridge.
A breeze picked up sending sharp pine scents through the air.
But something else struck his nostrils, the scent of dark
fae magic, as though it waited there. His muscles flexed involuntarily along
the insides of his arms. Yet in all these decades not a single fae of power, in
any of the Nine Realms, had been able to figure out where all that power was
coming from, not even Vojalie, the most powerful fae he knew.
Dii's 4 Star Review:
Sometimes, even when you KNOW who is going to get whom in the end, the journey is the best part and Embrace the Magic by Caris Roane was definitely an adventure. Ethan is an imposing Master Vampyr, a protector, a warrior. Samantha is more than shocked to find she is a Blood Rose, a rare woman whose blood can quench the thirst and aid in the power of a master vampyr. If that wasn’t enough, she finds she is also part fae, a very powerful part-fae. Her heart is torn between the new world she has discovered and the desire to go back to the human realm, but when the fate of the Nine Realms hangs in the balance, she must choose, will her feeling for Ethan tip the scales? Will she return home, never to look back? A dark cloud of doubt hangs over the memory of her mother, of who she was and what she did or did not do and Samantha’ future life is so unclear.
Caris Roane is a master artist as she paints her scenes, her tension, and her characters, then puts it all together in a fast-paced plot filled with deceit, intrigue, honor and the realization that somewhere in the world, there is someone for everyone, and its okay to draw strength for them. With that added splash of sexual tension and the sometimes obstinate personalities of her main characters, this is a fun read, and a marvelous addition to the series.
BIO: Caris Roane has
published nine paranormal novels and novellas and writing as Valerie King,
fifty Regency works. In 2005, Romantic
Times gave her a Career Achievement award in Regency Romance. As Caris Roane, she currently writes
paranormal romance for St. Martin’s Press and also self-publishes the
continuing stories for her Guardians of Ascension series as well as stories set
in other worlds.
Author Links:
Website: http://www.carisroane.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/carisroane
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