First Drop of Crimson (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Spade: Once Baron Charles DeMortimer in England. A Master vampire, and is 256 years old. Is best friends with Bones.
• Denise MacGregor: Denise is Cat's best friend and has known about the undead since Cat saved her from an attack. Was widowed a year ago during an attack by vampires.
• Nathanial: An ancestor of Denise's who made a deal with the devil, so to speak. His deal with Raum, a corporeal demon, sends Denise on a chase to find him in the underground world of vampires.
• Catherine Crawfield: "Cat" , Denise's best friend. Once saved Denise from a vampire attack.
• Mencheres: One of the oldest and most powerful vampires around. He is Spade's maker.
• Emma: Vampire. Spade's "housekeeper"
• Bones: "Crispin Phillip Arthur Russell III" - Master Vampire who is married to Cat. He, Ian and Spade were all prisoners sent to the New World before they became vampires.
• Oliver: A human servant for Spade.
• Giselda: Spade's late human lover. She died in an attack during the Franco-Prussian War.
• Alten: Vampire. Spade's business manager and second in command
• Randy MacGregor: Denise's late husband. He died in the vampire wars while staying with Cat and Bones over New Years'.
• Paul: Denise's cousin
• Raum: A corporeal demon who has the ability to shape shift.
• Black Jack: A vampire drug dealer residing in Las Vegas.
• Fabian du Brac: A ghost who befriended Cat. Only the undead can see ghosts and they usually ignore them.
• Webb: Master Vampire

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• “"About three miles from Crazytown with my foot on the pedal, I'd say."”

  -Denise to Spade

• “That offer of a room still open, mate?” “Why?” Denise blurted. “Don’t care for me, poppet? I suppose it’s those wretched stories Cat must have told about me. Women do like to exaggerate.” “You’re saying you didn’t try to blackmail Cat into having sex with you by threatening to kill some of her soldiers?” “Ah, that? Yes, I did that.”

  Spade, Denise, Ian

• “In case Raum isn’t following you through your brands, it’s important we throw him off from tracking us the normal way, which is why we won’t be on this plane when it lands.” “What? No way. I’m afraid of heights. If you think I can strap on a parachute and go skydiving, you’re crazy. I’ll puke and then pass out before I can even pull the cord.” Spade didn’t say anything, but the look on his face- and the lack of any parachutes on the plane- must have clued her in. “Oh hell no.”

  Spade, Denise

• “Now, Denise-“ “Don’t you, ‘Denise’ me. I don’t care how old, powerful, or stong you are. If you ever do something like that again, I’ll stab you in the heart. Son of a bitch, I can’t believe you threw me out of a plane!” “I didn’t throw you out. I jumped with you. Very different.”

  Spade, Denise

• “A vibrator can last all night, too, vampire”

  Denise

• “Hello, mate.” “Ian!” he exclaimed in an equally cheerful voice. Then he jumped across the boat and punched him hard enough to send Ian catapulting into the ocean. Denise gasped. Cat hid a grin. Crispin just rolled his eyes. “Was that necessary?” “Certainly was.”

  Ian, Spade, Bones

• “I know I’m a rotten bastard, but there are four people in the world I’d never see come to harm, even at the cost of my own life. Two of them are here, yet neither of them trusts me. Believe me, even ruthless sods like me can be hurt by that.” “Yet you do lie, Ian, and you do manipulate, even the two of us.” “Over little, insignificant things. Never over something that could mean your lives.”

  Ian, Bones

• “Where’s Denise? And what are you doing with a bloody cat, Charles? Some sort of mascot for our dear Reaper here?”

  Ian

• “If there was ever a good cause for breaking up with someone, turning into a four-legged creature is it.” “I’m a vampire. My closest friends are vampires and ghouls, and there’s a ghost floating right outside tis room. I’ve dealt with demons, black magic, wraiths, and zombies in the past two years alone, so I’m afraid your shape-shifting isn’t going to send me fleeing away in fear.” “When you put it like that…you sound like a sicko.” “I can accept that.”

  Denise, Spade

• “Ah, could you give me some privacy? I need to use the litter box”

  Denise

• “Wretched unfair, it is. Of the three of us, I’m the one who’s always collected the rare and unusual, yet you two managed to snag the world’s most unusual women. First you, Crispin, with the only living half-breed, who then turned into an even more unusual vampire. And now you, Charles, have bagged a shape-shifter. Thought you were joking when you said Denise was the kitty. I’m simply green with jealousy.”

  Ian

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• “About three miles from Crazytown with my foot on the pedal, I’d say.”

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• Why couldn’t people acknowledge that occasionally, life just sucked? Didn’t they realize that sometimes silence was more comforting than the most sincere expression of sympathy or attempt at showing the deeper meaning behind it all?

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• “Lucifer’s bouncing balls, that’s why you’re acting like a nutter! You’ve gone and fallen in love with her. Bloody hell, if I didn’t see it on your face myself, I wouldn’t believe it.”

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• “You’ll always love him,” he said, as if he’d read her mind. “That doesn’t die just because he did, or because you now love me. Your love for him is part of who you are. It’s a beautiful part, Denise. Don’t be sad of it, and I will never be jealous of it.”

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• “You’ve got a delusional sense of optimism, you know that?”

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• “He’s only being polite. You should look the word up,” Denise settled on. Ian snorted. “And angels fly out of my arse when I fart.

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• ETERNAL KISS OF DARKNESS

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• “There’s no way to describe tonight without using the phrase cluster fuck, is there?” she asked dryly.

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• Perhaps for his next brilliant notion, he’d take up shaving with a chain saw.

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• Humans. Aside from tasting delicious, they were usually more trouble than they were worth.

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• Crimson Fountain: Vampire Club in New York
• St. Louis, Missouri
• Las Vegas, Nevada
• Monaco
• London, England

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Followed by Eternal Kiss of Darkness.

Preceded by Destined for an Early Grave, and followed by Eternal Kiss of Darkness.

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1. Jeaniene Frost (Author) - Jeaniene Frost lives with her husband and their very spoiled dog in Florida. Although not a vampire herself, she confesses to having pale skin, wearing a lot of black, and sleeping in late whenever possible. And while she can't see ghosts, she loves to walk through old cemeteries. Jeaniene also loves poetry and animals, but fears children and hates to cook. She is currently at work on the next novel in her bestselling Night Huntress series.

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• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 3072 vol. 15
• Dewey: 813.54

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Some sexually explicit scenes

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• Books › Romance › Vampires
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy

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