Publisher: Perseus Books,U.S.
(September 21, 2009)
Paperback: 512 pages
ISBN-10: 0762437960
ISBN-13: 978-0762437962

I have a short story in this anthology. It features vampires. I couldn’t resist the chance to give them my unique spin without committing to a whole novel. I hope you like it!

Tasty Teaser

“So that’s what you’re seeking? Someone to bite you?”

Zane kept his face impassive. “Is that so surprising?”

“A little,” she said. “I wouldn’t have guessed that you want someone to command your will.”

He didn’t, of course. The very idea sent a thrill of horror through him. As a kid, he’d been subject to other people’s whims, a victim of capricious fate, and he never intended to let it happen again.

“Maybe I just want to see what all the fuss is about.”

“Do you truly think you can lie to me?” Her voice carried a queenly resonance, and he wanted to fall at her feet.

He didn’t.

“Why not?” he asked. “You seem to think you can lie to me.”

That surprised her. He saw it in the faint widening of her storm-cloud eyes. “You are a strange creature.”

“Lady, you don’t know the half of it.”

“I know this—you pose a danger to me and mine. If I owned equal measures of caution and prudence, I would bar you from this establishment.”

“But you won’t,” he said, smiling.

He saw her gaze linger on his mouth and he realized he was not without resources in this battle.

“I will not,” she agreed. “The game is met, and I stand eager to learn who rises as the conqueror.”

Zane touched her hand, his fingers light as the first snow in winter. “I am your undiscovered country, Ysabel. You have never met anyone like me.”