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Authors: Tracy Cooper-Posey
He considered her. “We never really did get that right, did we?” he asked softly.
“That’s because we both were trained to live with humans and hide who we were. Every relationship we’ve had with humans has been one long lie. One long compromise, where we conceded everything, including our real identities, in order to live with them. We don’t know how to keep a relationship going when both of us are vampires. We’ve never had to do it before.”
“You didn’t lie to every human you knew,” Lee reminded her.
“That’s what made me think of this. Kyle knew who I was, and he and David made adjustments to keep me in their lives, anyway.” She gave a small shrug. “I think we both snapped back in the opposite direction, away from compromise, when we no longer had to accommodate a human in our lives.”
Lee pushed his hand through his hair again. “We’re both stubborn as hell, I guess.” It was an admission. He was conceding, just a little.
Hope flared in her chest, hot and bright. “Then say we’ll meet, when I get back. Two days from now. We’ll meet right here and you can do the old fashioned thing and take me on a date.”
Lee smiled. “Very well, then.”
“Good.” She realized she was smiling like a jack-o-lantern herself. Giddy happiness bubbled up inside her.
Lee leaned toward her and she knew he was going to kiss her, so she stepped back, just barely getting her kirtle out of the way. “Not yet,” she said, shaking her head. “We haven’t even had our first date yet. Behave yourself and I might let you kiss me when you drop me at my apartment door.”
Lee’s eyes took on the heated, narrowed look that told her he was already planning her seduction. “Alright then,” he said heavily, his voice thick with promise. “Two days’ time.” He indicated her clothes. “Where are you off to, by the way?”
“Bannockburn. It’s just a day trip. My client wants to see Sterling Castle and the siege.”
Lee nodded. “It’s always interesting back there. I’m glad you shared that time marker with me. I like ancient Scotland.” He stepped further away from her. “Go and play travel host.” He was smiling.
“You’ll be here?” she asked, picking up the hem of her dress. “In two days’ time?”
“I’ll wait,” he promised.
– Book 2 of the Beloved Bloody Time series
Can they love again? Is it too late?
Nayara Ybarra and Ryan Deasmhumhain are the most powerful vampires known to humans in the 23
rd
century. They lead the Chronometric Preservation Agency, welded together yet divided by grief that won’t heal, their lives on hold. Vampires have lived apart from humans in the two hundred years since Nayara and Ryan jumped back in time and killed their lover, Salathiel, to halt the time wave that was destroying humanity
and
vampires.
Now, Càel Stelios, Worlds Assembly member, intends to make humans like vampires any way he can. He knows the vampires must become allies. Their unique strengths and abilities will help humans in the coming battle against the raging psi and their psychotic leader, Gabriel.
While he wages his political and social campaign he hides his true ambitions: to win Nayara and Ryan for himself. But despite being politically powerful, rich, smart and sexually potent, Stelios has a overwhelming disadvantage: He’s human. “No” is not a word he accepts without a fight, however. The psi-filers and Gabriel have plans, though, that will make fighting very real and bloody indeed…
WARNING: This book contains two hot, sexy alpha heroes, frequent, explicit and frank sex scenes and sexual language. It includes heart-stopping sexual scenes between the aforementioned sexy heroes, menage scenes, and anal sex. Do not proceed beyond this point if hot love scenes offend you. No vampires were harmed in the making of this novel.
Byzantine Heartbreak
is part of the Beloved Bloody Time series
Book 1:
Bannockburn Binding
Book 1.1:
Wait*
Book 2:
Byzantine Heartbreak
Book 3:
Romani Armada
(With more to come!)
*Time Twist Tales are short stories and novellas featuring characters and situations from the Beloved Bloody Time series.
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Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes erotic vampire romances, hot romantic suspense, paranormal and urban fantasy romances. She has published over 70 novels since 1999, been nominated for five CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award.
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She is addicted to Irish Breakfast tea and chocolate, sometimes taken together. In her spare time she enjoys history, Sherlock Holmes, science fiction and ignoring her treadmill. An Australian, she lives in Edmonton, Canada with her husband, a former professional wrestler, where she moved in 1996 after meeting him on-line.
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FIRST EDITION: March 2014
Cooper-Posey, Tracy
Wait/Tracy Cooper-Posey—1st Ed.
Romance—Fiction
Paranormal – Fiction