Heat in the Night
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ISBN
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9781419949197
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Book Length
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Naughty Nooner or Scintillating Sample
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Publisher
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Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.
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Ellora’s Cave: http://www.ellorascave.com/heat-in-the-night.html
DESCRIPTION
Vampires don’t fall in love with each other. When a female
enters one of her rare heat periods, she chooses a mate for a night or two of
raw sex to satisfy their mutual lust and possibly conceive a child. But young
vampire Ingrid, brought up by human foster parents, has absorbed human notions
about love and romance.
When she begins her first estrus, she gets thrown together
with her dear friend Bron, who can’t stand to let any other vampire have her
first. Realizing she has fallen in love with Bron, Ingrid embarks on a night of
wild passion, determined to keep him from learning her shameful secret—that one
night will leave her with a yearning for love that would baffle and repel most
of her kind.
A Romantica® paranormal erotic romance from
Ellora’s Cave
Margaret L. Carter received a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, M.A. from the University of Hawaii, and Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, all in
English. She has taught literature and composition courses at various colleges
and presently works as a part-time proofreader for the Maryland General
Assembly.
Her first two books were paperback anthologies, CURSE
OF THE UNDEAD andDEMON LOVERS AND STRANGE SEDUCTIONS. She has
published several works on vampirism in literature, including SHADOW OF
A SHADE: A SURVEY OF VAMPIRISM IN LITERATURE, the anthology DRACULA:
THE VAMPIRE AND THE CRITICS, and THE VAMPIRE IN LITERATURE: A
CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY. Her stories have appeared in several of Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Darkoveranthologies, and
her “Voice from the Void” appears in THE TIME OF THE VAMPIRES,
edited by P. N. Elrod and Martin Greenberg. The Design Image Grouppublished her
werewolf novel, SHADOW OF THE BEAST, in 1998. Her vampire novel, DARK
CHANGELING, appeared in electronic form in June, 1999, from the Hard Shell Word Factory and won
the 2000 Eppie Award in Horror.
Two vampire romances in the same universe, SEALED IN
BLOOD and CRIMSON DREAMS, and WILD SORCERESS,
a fantasy novel in collaboration with her husband, Leslie Roy Carter, have been
published by Amber Quill Press. Other
fiction is in progress from Ellora’s
Cave and Amber Quill.
Favorite Quotes
His hands seared her skin through the light cloth. “Bron!
What the hell are you doing here? I was supposed to meet someone named Leon
Marcato.”
“Leon.” He practically spat the name. “As soon as I learned
Morella chose him for you, I contacted him and told him to forget about it.” He
shifted his grip to her bare upper arms and dug his fingers into her flesh.
An ache spread between her legs. Fighting to ignore it, she
said, “What made that your business? How did you even find out?”
“You thought I’d forget you’re almost thirty and ready to go
into heat for the first time? Or I wouldn’t hear about it when Morella starting
looking for a stud? I got her to tell me what she’d arranged.”
“But why?” Ingrid’s head was spinning from his aroma and
touch. She couldn’t surrender to the stimulation until she got this puzzle
straightened out.
“Why didn’t you ask me first?” he countered. “Aren’t we
supposed to be friends?” He reached around her to pull down the zipper of the
dress.
“If we have the relationship I thought we did, I should
initiate you, nobody else. Hell, I suspected you passed me over because of my
lack of experience.”
“Your what?” She didn’t know a thing about his sexual
history.
“I’ve never been chosen to mate before. After all, I’m not
much older than a hundred and fifty. I assume that’s why Morella didn’t bother
to approach me.”
“I don’t give a damn about your experience. My reason was
just what I said.” Wandering down his chest with a life of their own, her
fingers reached the snap of his jeans.
“I want to make tonight the best possible for you. There’s
no valid reason it has be impersonal rutting. Now that we’ve cleared that up,
let’s get out of these blasted clothes.”
Her eyes widened at the fire in his. “You really want to
mate with me?”
He buried his face in her neck and inhaled a long, hissing
breath. “Ah, gods of night, you have the most intoxicating fragrance. What do
you think I want?” Clasping her hand, he guided it to a hard ridge in the front
of his pants. “I didn’t expect the reaction to build so fast.”
This story was given to me in exchange for an honest review.
This is a novella and is a different
kind of vampire story then what you are probably used to. Ingrid is a vampire who grew up in in the
human world. She read and saw her foster
parents in love so that exactly what she wants but doesn’t believe she would
ever find love or if it was even out there for her. She has love her vampire friend Bron and is
determined not to tell him because she doesn’t want to lose their friendship.
Bron does not want another vampire to ever be with Ingrid so he will do
whatever it takes to keep her with him.
What will happen when she tells him how she feels? Will he leave her?
As I said this is a short novella and it is different from
other vampire stories I have read. This
is a sensual story that it begins with a dream and ends with well I can’t tell
you without giving it away. Bron is a
vampire who knows what he wants and will do anything to get what he wants. I would not mind having a man or vampire
wanting me that bad.
FOUR VAMPIRE ANGELS
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