Curse the darkness…before it curses you.
Tattoo artist Riley Poe thought she knew the shady side of Savannah -- until her brother was taken by a cult of vampires. Allying herself with hot-blooded vampire Eli Dupré, she got her brother back. But her courage -- and her one-of-a-kind blood... read more
“Riley, you will always carry some of their DNA. And that makes you more than a little unpredictable. But I can handle you. We will work through this. Together. I won’t leave you alone for a second. Understand?”Eli
“It kills me to see you in agony, and that I can’t do a goddamn thing about it pisses me off even more.”Eli
“I was silent for a moment, then cleared my throat. “Okay, so here we are, on another barrier island, isolated, with unpredictable teeth-gnashing scary me in my freaking panties, straddling your brother. How ’bout a little privacy, huh?”Riley
“And to prove I’m not just some horny vampire who only wants in your pants, we’re heading back to camp. Now.” With a lot less grace than I’d imagined, Eligius Dupré dumped me right into the Atlantic and walked back to the beach. “Wait!” I said, sitting in the water. “It’s totally cool if you only want in my pants!”
“...the front door of my ink shop flew open and Nyx bounced out like some crazed Jack Russell on crack, an excited, barking Chaz on her heels.”
“Soon, it would be pitch-black outside—everdark (the Gullah pronounced it evah-dock). It meant, pretty much, everlasting darkness. That was what it felt like, too—an endless night.”
“Men, whether mortal or otherworldly, were just freaking babies.”Riley Poe
“Weenies! You all think with your weenies!”Riley Poe to Noah Miles
“All the ways you wish you could be, that’s me. I look the way you wanna look, I fuck the way you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways you are not.”Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”Highlighted by 4 Kindle customers
Part One - TAINTED
Part Two - VOICES
Part Three - TERRORS
Part Four - MINDLESS
Part Five - MERCILESS
Part Six - POSSESSIVE
Part Seven - BLOODLUST
Part Eight - MELEE
Part Nine - CAPTIVE
Part Ten - TORMENTED
Preceded by Afterlight, and followed by Eventide.
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