Felicity Heaton
Judge a Book by its Cover
It’s great to be
here today at Indy Book Fairy for my guest post in the fantastic spotlight for
my new release, Claimed by a Demon King. I hope you've all been enjoying the
spotlight so far?
In case you
haven’t had a chance to read the previous posts in the spotlight, I’ll
introduce myself. I’m Felicity Heaton, a British paranormal romance author and
a USA Today best-seller. I have been writing since 2005, and went indie in
2006. I love to write big worlds, populated by vampires, shifters, demons, fae
and angels, and I have several series. This little spotlight is all about the
latest release in my Eternal Mates series, which is actually a spin-off from my
Vampire Erotic Theatre series. That series focused on a family of vampires at
one theatre in London but it had glimpses into the wider world outside the
theatre. It’s that world of fae, dark elves, demons, witches, shifters, and
other incredible species that the Eternal Mates focuses on.
Today, I’m going
to talk a little about the cover of Claimed by a Demon King, because regardless
of any old sayings, we do judge books by their covers!
Now, I have a
confession to make—I actually design and create all of my book covers because
I’m a trained graphic designer.
As the writer of
the book, I feel I’m the most qualified to create a cover that perfectly suits
the story. I knew what I wanted for the cover of Claimed by a Demon King. I
wanted a powerful image that conveyed a few key things.
One, this is a
book about a brash demon king who is determined to win the heart of his fated
female and won’t let anything stand in his way. I wanted to show that stubborn
streak in the pose of the man I intended to put on the cover, and couldn’t
resist selecting an image of a man with his arms folded. Powerful arms at that.
This is a strong man, one who won’t easily bend or break. It took me a few
tries to find just the right model for the cover, with exactly the right build
and the right air of power and wickedness. The whole pose is just delicious,
screaming that this is a guy who isn’t going to back down when his lady gives
him trouble. He’s going to keep trying to win her over and claim her heart. I
think it speaks volumes about his determination and strength.
Two, this is a
book set in Hell. All of the books have the same background and style to tie
them together. With the first book, Kissed by a Dark Prince, I went with a
royal purple background that reflected the status of the hero, Prince Loren of
the dark elves, and also his amazing eye colour. With the cover of Claimed by a
Demon King, I wanted it to reflect the hero Thorne, with his blazing crimson
eyes and his kingdom in Hell.
Three, I wanted
it to look hot and dangerous, the sort of book that might just burn you. There
is some serious loving in this book, with wicked dreams and even wickeder
real-world moments between the hero and the heroine. The passion pours off the
pages and I thought that the use of the flaming red/orange background would
convey all that heat to the reader.
Of course, when
all is said and done, it’s your opinion of the cover that counts. So what do
you think about it?
Here’s more
about Claimed by a Demon King.
Intent on achieving the coveted position of
commander at Archangel, Sable leads her small team into the dark underworld and
the Third Realm, to a war where her allies are the very creatures she normally
hunts—vampires, werewolves, and demons. Her eagerness to lead the deadly
mission has everything to do with winning her promotion, and nothing to do with
the kingdom’s brash, lethally seductive demon king—a king who stirred fierce
desire and wildfire heat in her with just a look and an innocent touch when
they first met, and has been in her wicked dreams ever since.
As the gathering storm between rivals
unleashes irresistible passion that flares white-hot and the heat of the battle
brings life-shattering realisations, can Sable place her duty before her heart?
Or will she surrender to her deepest desires and be claimed by a demon king?
Claimed by a
Demon King 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/cbadk
Books in the Eternal
Mates romance series:
Kissed by a Dark
Prince, the first book in Felicity Heaton’s hot new paranormal romance series,
Eternal Mates, is now available in ebook and paperback. You can also download a 6
chapter sample of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/kbadp
Kissed by a Dark
Prince and the Eternal Mates series is set in the same world as the Vampire
Erotic Theatre series, so if you’re a fan of that series, you will love Eternal
Mates. Throughout this series, you’ll have a chance to catch up with the cast
of the Vampire Erotic Theatre series and learn more about their world.
Here’s more
about Kissed by a Dark Prince, including an excerpt from this paranormal
romance novel.
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…
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?
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
Olivia folded her arms across her chest.
“Your enemy could have killed you rather than dump you at my door. I still
don’t get why you haven’t just killed him before. You’ve been at war for four
thousand years. There must have been opportunities.”
“I almost succeeded once.” He began pacing
again, long strides eating up the stone floor with ease. The man couldn’t keep
still whenever he felt agitated and watching him pace only served to agitate
her. It showed off his body in far too good a light and gave her a terrible
excuse to stare. “I came close to killing Vail’s ki’ara... it would have given
me a chance to capture him.”
Olivia didn’t miss that he had said capture
him. Not kill him. Now she knew why they had been fighting for so long. The
prince couldn’t bring himself to kill this psychopath. Why not?
“What’s a ki’ara?” She figured it was safer
than probing about his reasons for not killing his enemy.
He glanced across at her. “It is our term
for our fated female... our eternal mate. You are my ki’ara. The dark witch
named Kordula is Vail’s ki’ara.”
So his enemy was another elf, and he had a
fated female too, and the prince had tried to kill her.
“Do you get like a harem of them... or is
it a one-time deal?” She hoped he didn’t say that each elf only got one ki’ara,
but the solemn edge to his purple eyes warned that he was going to shatter that
hope the moment he spoke.
“We have one fated female.” He looked away
from her again, his head lowered now, his focus on his knee-high black boots.
Whatever this ki’ara thing was, she had the
impression that elves placed a lot of value on it and it wasn’t something they
gave up lightly. She couldn’t imagine having just one shot at true love. The
prince was five thousand years old and now he had found his ki’ara, in her, and
he didn’t need to say it aloud for her to know that he was thinking about
giving her up. He didn’t act or look like a man who was happy to have found his
soul mate and was going to fight to keep her.
“What happened with Vail and his ki’ara?”
Olivia said and he stopped pacing, his gaze on the floor and his eyes widening.
He frowned and spat out what she could
imagine was a vile curse.
“I am a fool. I have been looking at this
all wrong.” He threw his head back and growled, his fangs sharp and ears
pointed again. “Vail will seek you out and torture you to drive me to the
brink. He is seeking revenge and desires me to suffer as he had. He will use
you to hurt me.”
Olivia’s blood chilled to sub-zero
temperatures and she stared at him, struggling to get past the part about this
madman torturing her.
She managed to reach the end of what he
said and realised that what he had told her earlier hadn’t been something
romantic or noble at all. He had meant it literally. If someone hurt her, then
he would feel it. He would share her pain.
Olivia couldn’t comprehend that. It was too
much. She couldn’t breathe as the weight of it pressed down on her and the
thought of being tortured closed her throat. Her head spun, the room viciously
turning with it.
“Calm yourself!” he bellowed, a dark
commanding snarl.
No. She was damned well going to have
herself a major panic attack and he could damned well deal with it. She was
sure that a panicking woman wasn’t on his list of things he enjoyed dealing
with, but he had just announced that someone was out to torture her and
considering this man had beaten the crap out of the prince, she felt her demise
at his hands was somewhat inevitable.
“Female,” the prince gritted out and Olivia
tried to focus on him.
He wobbled into focus and she frowned when
she saw he was clutching his chest and was paler than ever, on the verge of
collapse too.
Oh my God. He didn’t only share her pain.
His knees gave out, sending him crashing to
the floor, and he whipped out a vicious curse in English this time, his
handsome face contorting, revealing how much he despised what was happening to
him. Olivia rushed to him and crouched before him. He inhaled hard, his
shoulders heaving with each breath, struggling for air just as she had been a
moment ago. She laid her hand on his shoulder. He was shaking like a leaf.
Olivia ran her hand along his jaw and
lifted his chin, and studied his eyes. She tilted his head towards the light
and away, monitoring the responsiveness of his pupils.
“What’s wrong?” She checked his pulse,
pressing her fingers against his neck. It was fast, far quicker than it had
been when she’d had him hooked up to the machines in the lab.
She dropped her hand away.
It matched hers.
“Not used to the pace,” he ground out. He
was talking about his heartbeat. Her heartbeat. She swallowed, stunned by the
reality before her.
The bond between them was so deep that it
affected him physically. It linked them right down to their hearts.
Incredible.
He sat back in front of her and drew in
slow breaths and her eyes widened when her pulse began to slow. He was the one
making it happen.
Olivia tried to help him, seeking calm
amongst the raging storm of her feelings, but it was hard. She was in a strange
environment, felt threatened and overwhelmed, and someone was out to torture
her. Just thinking about that had her pulse picking up again.
“Calm yourself.” He was back to commanding
her again.
“I’m trying... it’s... I can’t... it’s too
much.” Olivia’s panic spiked, her hand shaking against his face.
He looked deep into her eyes and then she
was in his arms, held close to him, and they were kneeling together on the
floor.
Familiar scents swirled around her and she
instantly felt more relaxed. “What did you do?”
He drew back from her and she found that he
had taken her home and they were kneeling in the middle of her small living
room on the cream carpet, between the beige sofa and the TV.
The prince brushed cool fingers across her
brow. “You feel better now.”
She nodded, her heart levelling out again,
the soft feel of the carpet beneath her knees and the familiar surroundings
making her feel comforted and safe.
He sighed.
“I cannot remain here... and that means you
cannot either... but I will not rush you,” he said in a low voice, one laced
with a solemn note.
She appreciated that because she could see
how difficult this was for him. He was a man used to issuing orders and having
someone instantly obey. He was a man unused to having a weakness and she knew
that was what she was. She didn’t want this bond between them either. She
wanted it undone or broken or just gone somehow. She didn’t care how.
“Is there a way to undo it?” she whispered,
afraid to hope that there was.
“It is possible it may fade if we do not
complete it. I will have my men look into it and we will know soon enough if it
is possible to break the bond. If it is possible, you will be free to go.”
She didn’t like the sound of that. “And if
it isn’t?”
“If it is not possible, then my only choice
will be to complete the bond. Completing the bond will restore my strength,
because it will make you immortal, stronger.” He held her gaze, unflinching as
she glared at him, thinking about giving him another piece of her mind. “You
must understand... I must defeat my enemy and to do that, I need to regain my
strength, whether that is through breaking or completing our bond.”
In other words, she wasn’t getting a
choice. He was just going to make that decision for her.
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 and a fantastic 6 chapter downloadable sample of the book, at her
website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/kbadp
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.
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Here’s more
about Her Wicked Angel, including an excerpt from this long angel romance
novel.
Her Wicked Angel
The King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man, Asmodeus is a dark angel born of evil and created for destruction. When his master orders him to venture into the mortal world and retrieve a female for him, he seizes the chance to leave Hell for the first time, uncaring of what the Devil has planned for her… until he sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he has ever seen—a female who awakens new feelings within his black heart, unleashing passion so intense that it controls him and desire he cannot resist.
He will not let his wretched master have her. She will belong to him.
Liora is a witch with a bad reputation and an obsession with fighting demons. A mission gone wrong sees her sent to Paris to cool off, but when a dark and deadly warrior with a gaze of golden fire lands in her life, she ends up burning hotter than Hell for the wicked angel. Nothing will stand between her and the immense, forbidding male. Not her cousin. Not Asmodeus’s sworn enemy and twin, Apollyon. And certainly not the Devil.
Caught up in a tempest of danger and soul-searing passion, can they survive against the odds and seize their forever after?
The King of Demons and the Devil’s right hand man, Asmodeus is a dark angel born of evil and created for destruction. When his master orders him to venture into the mortal world and retrieve a female for him, he seizes the chance to leave Hell for the first time, uncaring of what the Devil has planned for her… until he sets eyes on the most beautiful woman he has ever seen—a female who awakens new feelings within his black heart, unleashing passion so intense that it controls him and desire he cannot resist.
He will not let his wretched master have her. She will belong to him.
Liora is a witch with a bad reputation and an obsession with fighting demons. A mission gone wrong sees her sent to Paris to cool off, but when a dark and deadly warrior with a gaze of golden fire lands in her life, she ends up burning hotter than Hell for the wicked angel. Nothing will stand between her and the immense, forbidding male. Not her cousin. Not Asmodeus’s sworn enemy and twin, Apollyon. And certainly not the Devil.
Caught up in a tempest of danger and soul-searing passion, can they survive against the odds and seize their forever after?
Her Wicked Angel
is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple
iBooks stores and many other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the
links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Wicked%20Angel
(Wicked Angel)
He growled under his breath, his fangs
itching to descend, and turned away from her, casting his hand out at the same
time and calling a portal. The black swirling maelstrom formed before him. He’d
had enough of this world. It did not live up to his expectations at all. It was
noisy, bright, irritating and rude, and he didn’t like how uncertain and
off-balance he felt. No one respected him here.
They could all go to Hell.
Asmodeus grinned. Perhaps he could make
this place Hell and teach them all a lesson they would never forget, because it
would be the last thing they knew before they died. His claws sharpened. That
sounded good.
“Wait!” Liora grabbed his left arm and
tugged it backwards, her warm hands clasping it tightly. “Don’t go… please… I
didn’t mean to sound pushy or upset you.”
“I am not upset,” he said gruffly and
yanked his arm free.
He glanced over his shoulder at her. A
mistake. She was so close to him, and so beautiful as she looked up at him with
a strange mixture of fear and hope in her entrancing eyes. He should leave. He
would if he could bring himself to move. He felt as though she had cast a spell
on him and he was powerless to resist her. His fury melted away again, leaving
him calm and docile, confused as to why he had been angry to begin with. His
claws shrank back and his fangs ascended.
She wanted him to wait, and so he waited.
“I’ve been rude,” she whispered and then
tipped her chin up and a spark of confidence broke through the fear and hope in
her eyes. “I’m sorry. It’s a flaw. My mouth just starts running and I can’t
stop it. I’ll tamp it down and think before I speak if you stay. It’s just
excitement.”
“Excitement?” That had him turning to face
her. What was she excited about?
His mind supplied that he was the reason
for her excitement. A stupid idea. No one had ever been excited to meet him.
Scared. Terrified. Having a near-death experience. Or possibly a pre-death
experience since he was normally there to kill them. Not excited though.
He had caught the way she had glanced at
his extended claws and the fear that had followed her seeing them. There was no
possible way she could be excited by his presence.
Liora nodded again. “I was excited to meet
you.”
That was a definite first, and it only made
him feel more out of place and confused by this world and this slight willowy
female before him. “Most people are afraid to meet me.”
She shrugged her slender shoulders. “I’m
not most people. I’ve wanted to meet angels all of my life and I’ve studied
them all I could, and then Serenity fell in love with Apollyon and I met one,
but… and don’t tell her this… he seems very stuffy.”
Asmodeus smiled. He couldn’t help it. The
sight of it seemed to bring out her smile too. It was dazzling this time, as if
she had found someone she could swap notes about Apollyon’s faults with and was
over the moon.
“So, when I heard about you, I really
wanted to meet you… because I figured essentially you should be the opposite of
Apollyon.”
Asmodeus cocked an eyebrow. “Evil?”
She had wanted to meet him?
She laughed, the sound sending a pleasant
shiver through his body. “No. Fun.”
Fun? He really didn’t think she would see him
as that if she knew the things he had done that he had considered fun. The
thought of massacring these irritating mortals swarming around him was fun.
Watching a demon’s head melt off in one of the lakes of lava while he held him
fast, forcing him deeper into the fiery magma, was fun.
He had seen what mortals considered fun in
the pool in Hell. Riding bicycles. Ponies. Playing various dull sports that
didn’t involve severed demon heads and spears. The closest thing that mortals
considered fun that he had also found interesting was hunting animals, and even
that had seemed tame and dull once he had realised it involved distance
weapons, not hand-to-hand combat with feral creatures capable of maiming or
even killing the hunter.
Everything mortals did seemed sanitised and
harmless, designed to thrill without any real risk to the participants.
No, he did not think Liora and he were on
the same page, or even in the same book, when it came to what was fun.
“Will you stay a moment, Asmodeus?”
He huffed. “Why?”
“Because I would like to know more about
you.”
He tipped his head back and frowned at the
blue sky. Pale clouds spotted it now, adding interest. If he lingered, the
Devil would want to know why. He would grow suspicious.
Asmodeus found he didn’t care. The Devil
couldn’t leave Hell. He could only send his minions to find him, and they were
no match for him. Besides, they were all busy clearing up the pests and
bringing him other females. Perhaps those females would keep the Devil occupied
while he entertained Liora long enough to understand why the Devil wanted her
in particular.
“What would you like to know?” he said and
slowly lowered his head, bringing his eyes down to meet hers.
She was far shorter than he was. As petite
as her cousin, but as different as he was from Apollyon. He had seen Serenity
in the pool, had watched her with Apollyon, trying to understand the
complexities of relationships and what had attracted Apollyon to the female in
the first place. Serenity was annoyingly good, sickly sweet, and came across as
weak and in need of protection despite the immense power she could command if
she put her mind to it.
Liora was nothing like her. In a handful of
minutes, she had proven herself a little bit wicked, daring, confident, and a
woman who knew she could handle herself. She didn’t need a male to protect her.
Strange how that made Asmodeus want to do
just that.
Liora nibbled her lower lip and then cast
another glance over him. Her pupils expanded to swallow some of the colour in
her irises and her teeth sank deeper into her lip, tugging on it.
What did she think to make her appearance
change so dramatically?
He was not used to mortal behaviour or
reactions, other than overwhelming fear. Their pupils expanded then, but he
knew without a doubt it was not fear that caused hers to dilate.
“Why are pieces of your armour missing?”
Her gaze darted up to his and then away, and he had the sense that she feared
offending him again.
He much preferred her choice of wording
this time.
He looked himself over, able to see beyond
his own glamour to the gold-edged worn strips of metal that covered his black
loincloth and the black leather boots and greaves that protected his shins.
“I have lost pieces in the years of my
life, during battles in Hell against angels and demons.” Asmodeus took hold of
one of the pointed strips that covered his right hip and ran his thumb over the
battered metal that had served him well in the many centuries of his existence.
He would not deny that he missed his other pieces if she asked. He had often
thought about finding a way to retrieve them and complete his armour. “There is
no way for me to get those pieces back unless I fashion myself new armour… or
the Devil sees fit to give me replacement pieces.”
“Or you steal Apollyon’s,” she said and his
eyes snapped up to meet hers, shock rippling through him. He amended his
observation. She was more than a little wicked. She was positively mischievous.
A blush of crimson climbed her cheeks. “They would be a perfect fit.”
“True, but I do not think the male would
allow me to simply take his armour. It would be a more interesting way to
complete my armour though.” He liked how she thought and how easy it was
becoming to talk to her. He had witnessed mortals talking like this. Banter. He
was making banter with her and he was enjoying it.
He also liked the idea of taking Apollyon’s
armour, leaving him appearing incomplete.
“You would have to fight him for it. Are
you good at fighting?” She narrowed her gaze on his, as if trying to see the
answer in it.
He nodded and held his hands out. His two
golden curved swords materialised in his hands. Her eyes widened.
“You can do magic too!” She smiled and then
did something he hadn’t anticipated and that stole his voice so he couldn’t
tell her it wasn’t magic as she knew it.
She reached out with her left hand and idly
ran two fingers down the length of his right blade, stroking the metal and
following the blunt curve. Her smile turned wicked and his heart missed another
beat, and part of his anatomy that had never known a female’s caress stirred
beneath his armour.
Asmodeus cleared his throat, sent his
swords away and took a step back from her. Her smile faded into a frown and he
could see she thought she had done something wrong again.
He had the oddest urge to reassure her.
What was wrong with him?
Had she cast a spell on him?
The way he reacted to her fascinated and
disturbed him at the same time. She had somehow calmed him twice now, erasing
his dark hunger to maim and destroy, and had brought to the surface feelings
and a part of himself that he had buried deep.
The longer he was in her presence, the more
comfortable he felt around her, and the more he wanted to remain, but he also
felt uncomfortable and wanted to leave too, and he knew why.
He had never felt his failings before
meeting Liora, and the more time he spent with her, the more keenly he felt
them. He was born evil, everything dark, cruel and deadly in Apollyon distilled
into him. He had lived his life in Hell, doing as he pleased, trained by his
master to embrace his darkest nature and inflict pain and terror upon others.
He had been happy with that life.
Asmodeus stared down into Liora’s stunning
eyes, losing himself in them all over again, forgetting his mission and feeling
that part of him he had kept hidden for millennia stirring again.
There was no room for good in Hell. Good
was weakness. Concern and care were faults. Affection was a sin. All of them
made him a weak male, one undeserving of respect and the position he held. He
did not need them.
He clenched his fists and struggled against
them, battling them until they were subdued and he could shove them back into
the place where they would remain secret, hidden from everyone. Hidden from his
master.
The Devil would think him a failure if he
knew of them.
Liora frowned and moved a step closer to
him, stealing his attention and bringing it back to her.
What would she think of him?
She already thought him incomplete and
false. A clone. Nothing but a shadow of Apollyon.
He tried to take a step back to keep some
distance between them but his feet refused to move. He stood towering over her,
his fists trembling at his sides, his thoughts running at a million miles an
hour, bombarding him and threatening to unleash his softer emotions again. What
was she doing to him?
She lifted her right hand and his heart set
off at a dizzying pace, slamming against his ribs, making his limbs shake. Weak. She made him weak. He cast a
nervous glance at her hand as she raised it towards his face.
He had never known a female’s touch.
There had never been someone he desired.
“Asmodeus?” she whispered and stared up
into his eyes. “What are you thinking in there? Your eyes are swirling like
gold fire.”
A product of his emotions. They were
slipping beyond his grasp and he had the strangest desire to embrace them and
the sliver of good he held locked deep within.
Because of her.
What did the Devil want with her? He had a
feeling it wasn’t to breed with her. She was Serenity’s cousin. A witch. She
would produce powerful offspring and might be strong enough to bring a child to
term, but she would also be likely to fight the Devil just as Erin had and
refuse to surrender her babe.
Her soft hand cupped his cheek.
His eyes closed against his will and he
inhaled sharply. Heat spread outwards from where they touched, surging through
his body and setting his feelings free and his blood on fire.
Whatever the Devil’s plans for her, they
would not come to pass.
Asmodeus would not let him have her.
Liora would belong to him.
Her Wicked Angel
is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple
iBooks stores and many other retailers. Also available in paperback.
Find all the
links, a fantastic 6 chapter downloadable sample of the book at her website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/ebooks.php?title=Her%20Wicked%20Angel
Books in the Her
Angel romance series:
Find out more about the Her Angel series at Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/series/54822-her-angel
This series sounds like an utterly captivating saga! I love the world you've created and the characters are rich and complex. Your book covers are none too shabby either ;)
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Love that cover!
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I would totally have to get Claimed by a Demon King if I won! I get Felicity's newsletter and I've read all the excerpts of Claimed. It was TERRIFIC!! I loved the chocolate, coffee and bacon hangover cure:)
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I love the covers. Thanks for the giveaway.
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I didn't use to care much about covers but the more I read, the more a cover feels special. I haven't read the book but what you described about the Demon King seems to be exactly what you conveyed on the graphics. Job well done!
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I do judge by the cover & WOW!!
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