Today, I am pleased to bring you the news that Limerence II by Claire C. Riley has been released! In celebration the first book, Limerence is FREE! Book 2 is $0.99/£1.02!
Limerence 2 blurb
When you see life through the eyes of a vampire, you see the
true colours of the world.
It’s been almost a year since Mia’s life was
forever altered, and each day is a battle as she fights the dark vampire
trapped within her. She is strong, and powerful, and she wants control. She
will do anything to be free. Even if it means destroying them both.
Evan, a strong Bastion vampire is fighting a
darkness of his own. And though their Queen won’t allow it, Mia’s connection
with him is intense & addictive. They find it impossible to stay apart. But
as their emotions grow stronger, Mia fears Evan’s secrets will destroy the very
strength she needs to keep her inner vampire under control.
Is she strong enough to survive a love which is
not allowed, while fighting the monster within?
The Queen is sick and the world Mia has only
just come to know is changing. In the end, there can only be one survivor.
Limerence II excerpt
“Don’t play this game with me, Evan. You know
you’re going to lose this time.” I smirk and give him a playful wink.
“Oh, Little Mia,”
Evan scoffs with a deep laugh. “Your confidence will be your downfall, pretty
girl.”
Rocking back on my
heels, my knees bent and ready to pounce, I laugh at his patronising name for
me. I can’t stop the gleam in my eye no matter how much I want to.
“Are you ready?”
he asks.
I roll my eyes at
him. “Please, I was born ready—”
He jumps, his legs
wrapping around my waist, and suddenly I’m beneath him, pinned to the floor by
his hard body, my shoulders digging painfully into the crude stone flooring.
His arm muscles twitch as they hold me in place and I try to fight him off, but
he doesn’t budge and I scream in frustration.
“I wasn’t ready,
damn it!”
Evan laughs again
and I squirm even more. “You said you were born ready, did you not?”
I scream out
loudly. “You cheated!” I kick my legs as hard as I can, my hands flailing out
and beating against his rock-hard stomach as he releases them.
He leans over me,
his chest pressing against mine as he battles to control my body.
“Get off me,” I
scream in his face, my temper tantrum getting the better of me.
“Not until you say
sorry.” It’s his turn to smirk now, which only infuriates me more.
“Sorry? For what?”
“For accusing me
of cheating. I never cheat, Mia. Now if you won’t apologise, then I really must
insist,” he pauses, “upon a kiss.” He smiles, knowing that I won’t be happy
with either option.
“Just get off me,
Evan, and we can start again. This time with no cheating.” I glare up at him,
feeling hot under his gaze. His face is close to mine, making us almost nose to
nose.
“Now, now, don’t
be such a sore loser. A kiss or an apology, that’s all I want, then I’ll let
you up and we can be in this same position in less than five minutes.” Evan
roars with laughter.
©Copyright
Claire C Riley 2014
Limerence II second excerpt.
The door swings
closed behind me, and I’m embraced in the darkness. I follow Lora along the
darkened hallway, my hand clutched firmly in hers to stop me running away. We
reach another door, and behind it I feel like I’ll find my nemesis, my saviour,
and maybe even freedom. Lora turns to look at me with a sly grin, her eyes
gleaming and red-tinged with hunger, and as I stare at the aura floating around
her in a cloud of colourful commotion, I know that this was a ridiculously
stupid idea. We’re friends—as much as selfish vampires can be friends anyway—but
when it comes down to it, in her eyes her happiness, her freedom, will always
come first. I will be forgotten and abandoned in favour of her own desires and
needs. I don’t take offence to this: that’s just the way things are; that’s
just the attraction of blood and what it does to you. Like any addiction, it
strangles everything out of your life.
She swings the
door wide open, pulling me inside with her, and I am swallowed into the lion’s
den.
It’s dark in here
also; of course it is—isn’t this the typical cliché of things to come? The room
is full of writhing bodies both warm and cold. With the Queen away, it seems
everyone has gone wild. Perhaps this is a normal vampire’s way of letting off
steam. Perhaps. Or this could be just a normal way of life here in this
particular coven. Either way it screams danger, fun, and temptation. And I know
it was a stupid decision to come here, but I can’t back down now—couldn’t even
if I really wanted to; my own inner demons are excited, my nerve endings
spitting out sparks.
Music plays, but
nobody dances; instead they sway, the music more like a backdrop to set the
mood for everyone. Almost everyone is huddled with another vampire either
talking, feeding, or…doing something that under normal circumstances would be described
as inappropriate in public, but here it’s okay. Here everyone is safe. We
protect our own, watching over them as they feed, or fornicate. Nobody feels
shame: it’s hard to believe that this could ever be wrong when so many are
doing it. And I feel myself being swallowed easily into the sensual atmosphere.
My body shivers in
anticipation, travelling up and down my spine like a tiny trail of ants
marching towards something dangerous.
We make our way
across the room to another lounge area lit up with red lights like a cheap
brothel, and Lora pulls me over to the human in the corner on tap for everyone
to use. She kneels down between the human’s thighs and drops her face to his
inner thigh, biting down and drinking deeply. I watch, growing thirstier by the
second. Mad Donny is the steward tonight, of course—as if he would ever let one
of his humans escape his clutches.
©
copyright Claire C Riley 2014
Claire short bio.
Claire C Riley is a Best Selling British Horror writer.
Her
work is best described as the modernization of classic, old-school horror. She
fuses multi-genre elements to develop storylines that pay homage to
cult-classics while still feeling fresh and cutting-edge. She writes characters
that are realistic, and kills them without mercy.
Claire lives in the UK with her husband,
three daughters, and one scruffy dog.
Her works namely include, old school
vampires and apocalyptic zombie ridden worlds, with several full-length books,
and short stories to her name, with plenty more coming up in 2014.
Awards and Accreditations.
Odium.
The Dead Saga is a top #100 dystopian selling book on Amazon.com for 2013, ‘Indie book of
the day’ winner December 2013 and ‘Indie Author Land 50 best self-published
books worth reading 2013/14’
Limerence
featured book in the ‘Guardian newspaper for best Indie novel 2013’ and is a
finalist for the eFestival of Words ‘best novel’ category.
Odium
II The Dead Saga is a #1
Best Selling British Horror book and top #100 dystopian book.
She is
also a very proud contributor to the ‘Let’s
Scare Cancer to Death’ charity anthology as well as several other
anthologies such as ‘State of Horror
Illinois’ & ‘Fading Hope:
Humanity Unbound’.
She
can be stalked at any of the following.
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