The Devil's Tattoo (28 page)

OTHER BOOKS BY NICOLE R. TAYLOR

The Witch Hunter Saga

The
Witch Hunter (#1)

The
Return (#2)

The Shadow’s
Son (#3)

TITLES COMING SOON…

What
Remains (late 2013)

The
Awakening (#4 in the Witch Hunter Saga) (early 2014)

THE WITCH HUNTER SAGA

BOOK ONE

I was born into the world covered in blood, and that's exactly the way I
left it. 

Ever since, I have been damned to walk the boundary between life and
death alone. Unwillingly turned and left to my nightmare, I have seen men
commit countless horrors and committed many of my own. 

My origins shall remain unknown, my true
self hidden
.
I have been called by many names, but in this life I am known as the Witch
Hunter. I have been asleep these past 150 years, until I was awoken by a
haunting call.

Zachary
Degaud
was
twenty
three
when he died. The problem was
,
he didn't
stay that way.

Present day, he's just another vampire with another unremarkable story.
That is, until he manages to provoke a two thousand year old witch named
Katrin
, who wants to make him pay in the most horrible way
imagined.

Along with his brother Sam, newly made vampire Liz and their only witch
ally, Gabby, his only chance for survival is to summon the ancient and
unpredictable vampire known as the Witch Hunter.

Zac
is just looking for a way out of his
psychopathic witch problems, but instead will find himself falling head first
into a blood feud that has stretched thousands of years.

Aya
has been asleep for the past 150
years, until she was awoken by a haunting call. The witch she has been hunting
for thousands of years,
Katrin
, has resurfaced and
marked a young, annoyingly arrogant vampire by the name of Zachary
Degaud
. Unless she does something, he will die a slow and
painful death. He has given her an opportunity to end the witch, but does she
want to help him or leave him to his fate?

Zac
will get under her skin like no one
else has and she just might find herself making the ultimate sacrifice before
he is gone forever.

They will both have to choose sides and look deep within themselves
before the end. But, what
Zac
learns about himself,
will surprise him most of all.

THE WITCH HUNTER SAGA

BOOK TWO

I've wandered my afterlife believing that I was the monster my maker
told me I was. It was the only thing I knew. Not even my brother, Sam, could
convince me otherwise.

Not until her. Not until
Aya
. She walked into
my life like a hurricane of destruction and nothing would ever be the same
again. None of us could have known what would happen next. What fate had in
store..
.

I finally grew a heart, only to have it ripped out.

Now, I will stop at nothing for revenge.

Zac's
afterlife is just going from bad to worse.
He grew a heart only to have it torn out by the founding vampire,
Arturius
.

Nobody is sure what he wants, but
Zac
doesn't
want to know. He's more interested in finding a way to end him for
good. But, it might just be that he's after Gabby, who's harboring a
secret of her own, one that
Arturius
would do
anything for.

Aya's
past will come back to haunt
Zac
in ways he never thought possible and what he finds out
will alter everything he ever knew about her. He will uncover a deadly secret
that should have remained buried. A secret
Aya
has
fought to keep for thousands of years. One she has killed for.

In the end,
who's
secrets will betray them to
the one man who wants them all dead?
Aya's
or
Zac's
?

They'll need to figure it out sooner rather than later, because death is
not an option.

THE WITCH HUNTER SAGA

BOOK THREE

I am the oldest vampire alive and I am the most feared. Wherever I walk,
death follows.

The downtrodden have the fiercest fire inside of them. Those are
the vampires I want by my side. The pain they have been through only fuels
their thirst for blood. Those I would ask to kill for me, simply because they
bask in the glow of their true nature. The nature I created in my own image.

We are each our own devil and this world is our hell.

I was the first of six and now I am the last. My revenge has only just
begun.

You better start praying, because I'm coming for you first.

When a mysterious stranger from
Aya's
past
shows up in
Ashburton
it's not
all
good
news. Tristan, a man she saved almost a thousand years ago, brings
a warning that will affect not just her, but her new family.

Regulus
is coming.

To protect
Zac
,
Aya
has to destroy the best thing that has ever happened to her. She has to pretend
that their love has been a lie. But, is it really the right thing to do?

Aya
travels to the other
side of the world with Tristan to learn the secret behind
Zac's
blood and to hunt down
Regulus
before he can find them first. Tristan is her way into the Roman's circle, but
she might just find that both her quests are more linked than she ever thought
possible.

Heartbroken again,
Zac
must surrender to the
darkest places inside himself if he ever hopes of coming back.
Even if that means aligning himself with his greatest enemy.
Even if that means turning his back on everything he's worked for and walking
away from his brother, Sam.

Lovers are torn apart, friends are pitted against each other and
families are splintered. But, what they find buried under the streets of London
will change everything they've ever known about their world.
Something
that should have been left alone.

But, what
Regulus
does is the most unexpected
of all. 

I have seen empires crumble and kings and
queens fall.

I have seen mountains of fire and the
bowels of the earth as it was ripped asunder. I have seen plagues of death
claim good along with evil. I have seen war and strife take men, women and
children. I have seen the earth decimated by nature and by man. I have seen the
blood of your ancestors run through my fingers.

I have died a thousand deaths and lived a
thousand lives. I have been called countless names, but only one has
followed me from my tormented birth.

I am the devourer of worlds.

Take a deep breath, my friend, because it
will be your last.

Are you afraid?

You will be.

the
AWAKENING

Book 4 in the Witch Hunter Saga

Coming 2014…

WHAT REMAINS

Coming late 2013

I'd never known true darkness until the lights went out.

I had never known what it was to be hungry.

Everyone I ever knew was dead. If they weren't, then they wished they
were.

I know I did.

Prue
Ashford has been surviving alone in
the Australian bush for the last three years. After an unknown virus wiped out
most of the human population, she escaped the chaos and hid. Every town and
city was locked down into quarantine, but that only led to the inevitable.
Death.

Living off the land, avoiding other survivors turned bad, she's led a
lonely life, surviving on the edge of a very narrow cliff. The moment she
begins to lose hope is when she meets the handsome and enigmatic, Shaw.

He's the first human being that she's seen in three years that hasn't
tried to kill her and she doesn't dare to hope. She'd given up finding anyone
alive that still had goodness inside of them.

Her only option if she wants to live
is
to
trust Shaw and he takes her to the isolated community he calls home. Being
among people again is it's own challenge and
Prue
finds herself tested on every front. Making friends was never easy for her and
making them after an apocalypse is even harder.

Hannah, the town's apprentice doctor, becomes the closest thing
Prue
has to a best friend and Nan fast becomes her
surrogate mother. Shaw brings feelings to the surface that she would
rather forget and Eva, the mayor's daughter, seems hell bent on making her life
a living hell.

In the end,
Prue
must make a decision. Stay in
the town at the end of the world and learn how to love again, or go back into
the wasteland of human civilization and go it alone.

*

What Remains
is a gritty story
of human survival. When society crumbles and chaos reigns, people become
desperate. They turn to violence and resort to extreme measures to go on
living. Parts of this story may be confronting for some people. It
contains violent situations staged by desperate people, the extremes
that people go to
to
show their love and a dose of
bad language. It's recommended for readers 18 and up.