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Thank you for
having me here again at your blog, Will! This time, I’m here to share an
excerpt from my new release, Kissed by a Dark Prince, which is the first book
in my hot new paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates.
Kissed by a Dark Prince (Eternal Mates Romance Series Book 1)
Felicity Heaton
Olivia thinks it’s her lucky night when a dangerously handsome unconscious fae ends up on her inspection table. He’s her chance to redeem herself with her employer, the demon-hunting organisation, Archangel. But when the tall, dark and deadly immortal warrior awakes, she gets much more than she bargained for…
Felicity Heaton
Olivia thinks it’s her lucky night when a dangerously handsome unconscious fae ends up on her inspection table. He’s her chance to redeem herself with her employer, the demon-hunting organisation, Archangel. But when the tall, dark and deadly immortal warrior awakes, she gets much more than she bargained for…
Attacked by his enemy in the elf kingdom, the last thing Prince Loren expects when he comes around is a beautiful angel watching over him and medical technology of the mortal realm. Hazy from his injuries, all he can focus on is the pulse ticking in her throat and the sweet allure of her blood.
One single bite reveals she is his eternal mate, triggering a bond between them that will leave him weakened until it is completed… or broken, and pulling Olivia into the crossfire of his ancient feud.
To protect his people and his mate from the machinations of a madman, Loren must risk everything by working with Olivia at Archangel to find a way to break the bond blossoming between them.
But will Loren be strong enough to place duty before desire and give up the one thing he has waited millennia for and craves above all others—his eternal mate? And will Olivia be able to resist the incredible heat that burns between them and the temptation of her dark prince’s kiss?
Kissed by a Dark
Prince is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook,
Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the
links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/kbadp
Kissed by a Dark Prince – Excerpt
“Specimen appears to have advanced healing
ability. Age of blood around the wounds is indicative of a recent injury, but
the wounds in question are already closed and beginning to scab over.” Many
demon and fae species had heightened healing. He could be any number of them.
Olivia carefully pulled his upper lip back and studied his teeth. “No fangs.
Canines appear normal.”
She drew back and something caught her eye.
She parted the wild strands of his short black hair and traced the pointed tip
of his ear. Was he a demon? They had pointed ears.
Olivia hovered over him, looking down at
his handsome bloodstained face. She had never seen a demon as beautiful,
mysterious, or deadly as he was.
Deadly.
She could feel it like an aura around him.
He was dangerous.
And waking up.
Olivia scooted backwards and reached for
the call button on the wall near the head of the bed. She didn’t make it. His
eyes slowly opened and she froze in mid-swing for the button, transfixed by
them. They were incredible. She had never seen eyes like his. His irises were
the most amazing shade of purple.
His gaze slid towards her but he didn’t
move.
“What are you?” Olivia whispered it again
as his eyes began to change, shifting to a normal shade of blue, and then his
ears changed too, the points dulling until they appeared human. Adapting. He
was studying his environment and her, and he was adapting.
It was incredible.
Fascinating.
She lowered her hand to her side and stared
at him.
“Specimen appears able to blend into his
environment, changing his appearance to conceal himself.”
She had never seen a demon do this. Many of
them did it and she had heard the tales from the field agents, but she had
never witnessed it.
“You are being held in a secure facility
and no harm will come to you.” She hoped he understood English. His blue gaze
narrowed with his frown, locked on her mouth as she spoke. Maybe he didn’t
understand her.
He sat up in one fluid motion, swinging his
legs over the edge of the inspection table, the movement so swift that it
startled her and she shot backwards, distancing herself. Her heart thundered in
her throat. She should have pressed the call button.
She should have strapped him down.
Stupid.
Her gaze darted to the red button off to
her right. Could she make it there and sound the alarm before he attacked?
“Where am I?” The sound of his deep voice
sent a fiery tremble through her. It was at odds with his lithe figure. The
commanding edge to it had her forgetting the call button and automatically
answering him, because he didn’t sound like the sort of man you could piss off
and live to tell the tale.
“At a secure research facility in London.”
She hoped he didn’t ask what she had been doing to him while he had been
unconscious because now that he was awake, very awake, that sense of danger he
radiated had only grown stronger. Her shot at resuscitating her ailing career
looked as though he might kill her if he didn’t like any of the answers to his
questions.
His blue gaze moved around the room,
cataloguing everything, a keen edge to it. Strategising. He had adapted to
blend into his environment and now he was plotting a way out of it.
“How did you do that?” she said, unable to
get her voice above a whisper. His attention snapped back to her.
“How did I do what?” He could definitely
grasp her language.
“Your eyes... your ears.” She pointed a
shaky finger at them.
He planted his hands on the edge of the
table on either side of his hips and she struggled not to look down. Her guest
didn’t appear to have any qualms about being naked in front of a stranger. He
sat on the table, frowning at the equipment in the room. His gaze caught on the
wires attached to the machines and he followed them to his chest. He raised a
single black eyebrow and pulled the sticky pads off his body.
“Strange to ask me how and not why,” he
said at last and looked up at her through his long black lashes, his blue eyes
holding a glimmer of curiosity.
“I’m a medical doctor... a scientist.” She
pulled at the chest of her long white coat, drawing his attention to it.
He glanced at it and then back around the
room. His gaze lingered on the tray of tools to his left, narrowed, and then
slid to her. A threat. She had enough experience of the world to know when
someone was silently threatening her. He didn’t intend to use the scalpels and
other implements on her. No. He meant to warn her that if she dared to attempt
to use them on him, she would come off worse.
Olivia held her hands up in front of her.
“Listen, I’m just curious about your species, and the things you can do. I
wanted to help you.”
He grimaced and his grip on the edge of the
table tightened until his arms shook. He ground out dark words in a foreign
tongue and paled further. The edges of his irises turned purple.
The heart rate monitor still linked to his
finger went crazy. He scowled at the machine and tried to move to take the clip
off. His hands trembled violently.
“You’re not well.” Olivia reached out to
steady him, instinct telling her to help him. She caught his upper arms and
gasped. He was burning up, shaking beneath her fingers, his skin clammy. “You
need to rest.”
“I will be fine... with a little fluids.”
Pain grated in his deep voice and he swallowed hard.
“I wasn’t sure what to give you.” Olivia
pressed her palm to his forehead. A fever? Was it part of his healing process
or was his condition deteriorating? “I wasn’t sure what would harm or help
you.”
He leaned forwards and his breath skated
over her bare neck. She shivered, a hot rush sweeping through her.
“I know what fluid I need,” he whispered
low, his voice barely there and teasing, stirring unbidden heat in her veins
and quickening her pulse.
“Tell me and I’ll get it.” She tried to
draw back and his hands shot up, fingers closing tightly around her upper arms.
“Oh, you already have it.”
He struck hard on the left side of her
throat and her eyes widened. Shock stole her senses for a second before reality
came crashing back. He was biting her. He was drinking her blood. Dark memories
surged to the surface and she fought his hold on her, struggling like a wild
thing. She wouldn’t let it happen to her again. She shoved at his chest,
clawing with her short nails, and pounded her hands against it, striking as
hard as she could.
He pulled her against his chest, caging her
there, his arms steel bands across her back, pinning hers between their bodies.
She wriggled, desperate to escape him, fear pounding down on her and making her
heart stutter. He was going to drink her to death.
Tears streamed down her cheeks and her head
spun, wooziness threatening to pull her down into the darkness.
“Please,” she whispered, breathless and
weak, barely clinging to consciousness as her panic and fear overwhelmed her.
“Release me... don’t kill me.”
Kissed by a Dark
Prince is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook,
Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find all
the links at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/kbadp
Books in the Eternal
Mates romance series:
Claimed by a
Demon King – coming February 2014
About Felicity
Heaton:
Felicity Heaton
is a USA Today and international
best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. In her books
she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense
emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly
vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot
demons!
If you're a fan
of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena
Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your
angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you.
If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm
series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for
vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the
best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed
worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to
demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the new Eternal
Mates series.
If you want to know more about Felicity,
or want to get in touch, you can find her at the following places:
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