Memories
may mean survival, but will they help her resist her vampire protector?
Exploring Gwen's deliciously
spooky and long abandoned childhood home in the company of her handsome
neighbor, John, sounds like a brilliant way to break her dating dry spell
and recover a few missing memories. Unfortunately, that's her first
mistake. Because John is a vampire and her house is not exactly empty.
Secrets—and the dead—don’t always stay buried, and John’s extraordinary
strength and determination may be all that can withstand what awaits them.
A frightened woman
must unlock her memories if she's to survive the deadly company of her
Vampire Protector and keep the past from destroying her future.
In this very brief
passage, Gwen and John are exploring her abandoned, childhood home.
To their dismay, they discover it is not as empty as they expected…
As she fumbled with a gun, another
figure filled the doorway. Its eyes gleamed seductively silver in the
wavering light. Then it blinked, its face registering shock. The vampire
took a step back.
“John?” she called.
“Here.”
A quick glance to her right revealed
him standing near the bed, holding his blade in his hand. The metal was
stained and dark.
Clicking more rounds into place, she
studied the doorway. The vampire in the hallway seemed to stare past her
shoulder. Then, inexplicably, it melted away into the shadows filling the
corridor.
“Gwen, come here—toward me,” John said.
His voice was oddly calm and overlaid with that false, brittle heartiness
police adopt when trying to talk a suicidal jumper down from the ledge.
He stared over her shoulder as he slid
his sword into his belt.
An intense, frigid wave cascaded down
her back.
Her fingers fumbled over the curved
trigger guard. Her joints ached with cold. She could scarcely feel the
smooth metal trigger.
Jesus Christ in Heaven, what is
behind me?
Holding out his hand, he said, “Right
now! For God’s sake, Gwen, don’t look back. Just come toward me.
Now!”
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