Elemental Mysteries and World Ebook Bundle
Elemental Mysteries and World Ebook Bundle
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A captivating blend of paranormal mystery and slow-burn romance.
Giovanni Vecchio is a vampire book dealer seeking a quiet life after five hundred years as a deadly assassin. But his solitary world is upended by Beatrice De Novo, a brilliant human librarian whose presence awakens more than just his curiosity. A chance discovery leads them on a high-stakes search for a legendary lost library, and Giovanni must protect Beatrice from a lethal ghost from his past: his own immortal son.
★★★★★ "A slow-cooking romance with a dash of mystery that centers around the search for BOOKS. Really, what's not to love about that?" - Rabid Reading
- Slow-burn romance
- International adventure
- Urban fantasy meets mystery
Excerpt:
“Beatrice?”
“What?
Giovanni chuckled. “You don’t drink much, do you?”
She grinned back and leaned into his shoulder. “Nope.”
Still chuckling, he watched her as she tasted the last scotch, but the laughter died when he saw her close her eyes. She licked her lips, and he could see the flush stain her cheeks.
“This one,” she murmured. “This one’s my favorite.”
He could see the slow pulse in her neck, and he watched as her tongue darted out again to taste.
“Oh?” he asked in a low voice.
She nodded. “Sweet and smoky. It almost—it tingles in my mouth.” Her eyes opened and he realized he had leaned toward her without thinking, her hypnotic tone drawing him in.
He fought the rush of blood in his veins until he realized they were being watched from the corner and her face was tilted toward his as if she was asking her lover for a kiss.
Placing an arm around her waist, he pulled her toward him and leaned down to cover her mouth with his own. He meant for it to be simple, a light kiss to cover the deception of his claim on her, but he tasted the gold whisky on her lips as they moved under his own.
She was kissing him back.
Look Inside: A Hidden Fire
Look Inside: A Hidden Fire
“Giovanni!” Beatrice finally yelled. She felt blind, and she was starting to panic. “What the hell is going on? Why won’t my phone work? And what was that flash that stopped the elevator?”
She stood in the pitch black, waiting for him to speak, for him to do anything. She couldn’t even hear him breathing. He was so still, she almost thought she was imagining his presence in the elevator earlier.
Beatrice was halfway convinced if she threw her arm out, she would meet nothing but dead air.
The charged atmosphere in the elevator seemed to press against her, and her heart began to pound. Finally she heard a pop, as if someone had plugged an old lamp into a socket.
A small blue light shone across from her and her eyes were drawn to it immediately. It grew until it was the size of a lighter flame, then it got bigger, and rounder, its soft blue-green light illuminating the large hand it hovered over.
She couldn’t look away as it swirled and grew, slowly becoming the size of a glowing softball, held hovering over the palm of Giovanni’s pale hand.
She finally dragged her eyes away from the ball of blue-green flame that now resembled the color of his unusual eyes. Her gaze tracked up his arm, the buttons of his black shirt, the still, white column of his neck, and over his grim mouth. Finally, she met his intense stare in the low light of the broken elevator.
Beatrice held her breath and stared in astonishment as the terrifying fire in his hand pulsed and swirled. She could only manage a hoarse whisper. “What are you?”
Giovanni’s gaze was steady and his voice soothing as he looked at her in the pulsing blue light. “Remember Beatrice—remember when you told me at the fair that nothing was inexplicable, just not explained yet?”
She nodded, wondering if he could hear the race of her pulse. Her eyes darted around the compartment, instinctively looking for an escape from the strange, fire-wielding…whatever he was standing across from her.
But there was no way out of the steel box, and she had no idea when anyone would notice the notoriously defective elevator wasn’t running if there was no alarm.
“I’m not asking you to believe in magic, Beatrice. I’m asking you to believe that there are things in this world you don’t understand yet. Things that none of us do.”
Beatrice stared back at the strange blue fire and asked again, “What are you?”
Ebooks included in the bundle:
- A Hidden Fire
- This Same Earth
- The Force of Wind
- A Fall of Water
- Building from Ashes
- Waterlocked
- Blood and Sand
- The Scarlet Deep
- A Very Proper Monster
- A Stone Kissed Sea
- The Stars Afire
- Valley of the Shadow
