Immortal Reckoning by Tara Fox Hall
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Promise Me Series Book 18 (Origin Story)
Genre: Paranormal, Historical Fiction, Suspense, Romance
Publisher: Melange Books
Publication Date: February 27, 2018
Through the love and loss of the ages, immortality brings only one certainty: vengeance.
Disinherited and poverty-stricken, bastard Danial clutches at the slim chance to earn a living as a guard, until a night attack leaves both him and his half-brother Devlin vampires. After finding true love with the aristocrat Lacey, Danial comes to the attention of James, the devious Vampire Lord of France. Enslaved by James, his love murdered, Danial plots to escape, his complex plan of years finally succeeding only to result in all of Europe’s demonic forces on the hunt for him.
After a reunion and subsequent falling out with Devlin, Danial travels to the new world of America in pursuit of a new life. Settling in the west, Danial forms alliances with native vampire Valerian and the witch Cheyenne to survive a game of cat and mouse with Devlin and protect his new love Kathryn amid his rapidly changing world. Triumphant yet nursing a broken heart, an undeterred Danial protects his friends and thwarts his enemies, determined to find a life of peace…until unexpected news comes of James’s presence, the one man on whom Danial has waited centuries to get revenge.
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Excerpt #1
I woke at dusk, to men shouting. Flames were flickering in torches on the wall. I ran toward the noise, coming face to face with Cerdan, in all his armor. “You bastard,” he said, baring his fangs and pointing his sword at me. “You have much to answer for.”
I didn’t reply, just braced for attack.
He circled me. “Hunters have attacked all over France. Easily a hundred werewolves are dead, and as many humans. Cannibal is missing, and presumed dead. Veronique is safe, but some of my best men are dead.”
“Leave now, or you will die, too.”
Cerdan lunged for me, and I evaded him, grabbing up a sword. He parried my thrust, then attacked in earnest. I defended myself, but he was older, and faster. He spitted me on the end of his sword in a few moments. With a shove, he pinned me to the oak door of the rectory. “I’ll bring your upper half back to James, so he can know you were faithful to death,” he said with an evil laugh, drawing his dagger. “A small comfort, to be sure.”
As he went to cut me, a dozen red furry forms launched at him, biting ferociously. He cut them to pieces, littering the ground with dying foxes as the bites rapidly healed up. But as he turned to deliver my killing blow, an arrow burst through his neck, the bloody head appearing under his chin. He staggered, but didn’t go down.
Charlise appeared, a bow in her hand. She stepped in front of me, and put another arrow through Cerdan’s right eye, then his left one. He cursed her, blinded, trying to pull them out. She turned to me and tugged at the end of the sword, freeing it. “Kill him,” she said, giving me the sword.
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Other Books in the Series
In the Promise Me series, Sarelle, a mortal woman, encounters a wounded (and sexy and handsome) vampire, Danial. Without knowing who he really is (a murderer for hire, for one), Sarelle begins a romantic relationship with him a little too fast. Interestingly, Sarelle also finds herself attracted to Danial’s best friend, the werecougar, Theo. What will happen to Sarelle’s relationship with Danial? Where does Theo fit in? Amidst new obstacles and relationship problems, Sarelle has to decide where her future lies.
Book #1: Promise Me: https://www.amazon.com/Promise-Me-Tara-Fox-Hall/dp/1612354173
Book #2: Broken Promise: https://www.amazon.com/Broken-Promise-Book-Me/dp/1612354726/
Book #3: Taken in the Night: https://www.amazon.com/Taken-Night-Tara-Fox-Hall/dp/1612355439/
Book#4: Taken for His Own: https://www.amazon.com/Taken-His-Own-Tara-Hall/dp/1612356222/
Promise Me Series Page (this will change in a day or so, as soon as they add the newest book):
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B00YT7BYFK/
Excerpt #2
Paris was like nothing I had ever seen before. I was unused to so many people, but as I’d hoped, it was easy to lose myself in the crowds, and for me to find blood in the bad parts of town. Lacey’s home in Nanterre was just outside the city, so there were several large fields for Bear to enjoy with his small herd, and with care, the horses regained the strength that spring. I was sad to arrange the sale of my small farm back in Spain, but with summer coming, I wanted someone to enjoy the land as I had, not see it fall to the ruin it had been when I had first taken possession. I put the money from the sale into a small savings account and left it there. I had my hands full running Lacey’s investments her husband had left her.
I hadn’t lost my skills in the years I’d been a farmer, to judge a good investment from a bad one. As I had in the past, I grew the investments Lacey left me to manage until we had a comfortable living. And in time, I fell deeply in love with the woman who had saved me, just as I had saved her.
Lacey was the first real love of my life. I loved the affectionate way that she spoke to her two horses, the kindness with which she treated her staff and her stepchildren, and the empathy she shared with everything that graced her life, from street children to the small wild foxes which frequented our estate. But I did not share my feelings with her for a long time, though looking back, she must have known very early on how I felt about her.
Lacey was glad to be a widow and to have a measure of freedom which she had never had as a 17th-century wife. I was happy to be her anonymous chaperone, to finally have a kind of peace and security. My vampire nature was enough to deal with, causing no end of difficulty with the low-class people I was forced to engage with every week to obtain blood. There was a real and constant threat of exposure and discovery. I worried that if Lacey and I began a real relationship, she might come to be in harm’s way from one of them, or that what I was would in time force us apart.
I kept this to myself and thought I hid it well until she confronted me one night. “Danial, talk to me. You have been avoiding me.”
“I have not.”
“You have,” she accused. “Is there someone you go to, the nights you leave here?”
“You know there is not, at least the way you mean. There is no woman in my life save you.” I took her hand. “I would not want another.”
“Then why have you never tried to kiss me?” she whispered, coming closer to touch me on my shoulder. “Or put your arms around me? Is it because I am older?”
“We are the same age,” I replied, letting my eyes caress her lovely features. “And you are beautiful to me, Lacey. I just don’t want to lose what we have.”
“But we can have more if you wish it.” She leaned up on her toes and kissed me on my lips.
I was taken aback by her brazenness, but the warmth of her lips on mine was intoxicating. I lost myself in the kiss, then surrendered to her completely. Taking her in my arms, I kissed her throat, her cheeks, her face, her lips. My desire, so long dormant, raged to be sated. I picked her up, and carried her upstairs to her bedroom, pushing open the door with my back.
I lay her on the velvet coverlet and began to undress her slowly, kissing every inch of newly revealed skin. Delighting in her supple legs and soft bottom, which I had fantasized about but never seen, I finally tossed the last of her undergarments aside, reveling in her delicate lace and cotton bralette and small panties.
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Blurb:
Disinherited and poverty-stricken, bastard Danial clutches at the slim chance to earn a living as a guard, until a night attack leaves both him and his half-brother Devlin vampires. After finding true love with the aristocrat Lacey, Danial comes to the attention of James, the devious Vampire Lord of France. Enslaved by James, his love murdered, Danial plots to escape, his complex plan of years finally succeeding only to result in all of Europe’s demonic forces on the hunt for him.
After a reunion and subsequent falling out with Devlin, Danial travels to the new world of America in pursuit of a new life. Settling in the west, Danial forms alliances with native vampire Valerian and the witch Cheyenne to survive a game of cat and mouse with Devlin and protect his new love Kathryn amid his rapidly changing world. Triumphant yet nursing a broken heart, an undeterred Danial protects his friends and thwarts his enemies, determined to find a life of peace…until unexpected news comes of James’s presence, the one man on whom Danial has waited centuries to get revenge.
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