Blurb:
Professor James opens his Welshire Coven vault
and presents the earliest manuscript from the fantastical archive, but the 13th
century was not a happy time for scorned vampire mistress Ann. She leaves
the then young Vampire Family and its cheating patriarch Antonio Welshire
behind to travel across Britain in search of, well, she doesn’t know what.
Desire? Belonging? When Ann encounters a handsome and wayward Viking named
Eric, however, her dead heart is rekindled. Can Ann accept her true
vampiric nature or will her dark desires conflict with her Nordic lover and
their high seas adventure?
This man was handsome. He was worn
in the face from battle, yes, but fair, with no blood upon his cropped
beard. Ruthless and careful in his skill he was, surely, but nonetheless
sexual and charming. Why had he killed his own warrior? This was no
small question, but it was somehow trivial to me. For the first time in a
great while, I was thinking as a woman, not a vampire, and I wanted this strong
man to know me as such. As my blood desires faded, I felt my eyes calm
and my fangs dull. The warrior noticed these changes with a smile, for he
was no more afraid of me than I was of him.
“You are not like the women of this
realm, are you?” His speech was softer than his brutish companion, more
distinct and learned, but firm.
“No.” I held my tone in his
air. Antonio had no room for me. I was not his wife. This
strange man, however, in his foreign armor from his embellished ship—I knew he
was my equal.
“Are you of the old ways? A witch as some
say inhabits this land?” His eyes were upon me, as if he knew the answers to
what he asked.
“Not truly.”
Love: Ann and the Viking buy links:
Kristin Battestella writes for her hometown
newspaper The Cumberland County Reminder in New Jersey and has been writing non
fiction, speculative fiction, dark fantasy, paranormal, and horror for fifteen
years. She enjoys being at home with her family, collecting records, and
creating web pages in her spare time. Along with numerous sports articles,
online reviews (Her review of the film 300 earned 11,000 hits and crashed the
Fire Fox News server!), and fiction work; Kristin's first eBook was published
in 2005. She is a member of EPIC, the Friends of the Mount Laurel Library, and
has her eyes set on joining the Online Film Critics Society. Kristin's first
full-length work The Vampire Family has been re-released with Eternal Press;
and in addition to numerous reviews, interviews, chats, and blog appearances,
Kristin recently attended the Philadelphia and Collingswood Book Festivals.
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Thanks for having us Rachel!!!
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