Author: Shannon DrakeTitle: Beneath A Blood Red Moon
Series: The Vampires - BOOK I
Description:
A tale that sweeps the reader from the antebellum South to contemporary New Orleans, the dark, sensuous world of love and immortality -- of the beauty and the beast whom some call vampire...
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Maggie Montgomery, the owner of Magdalena's an elegant New Orleans boutique, gasped when she learned about the mysterious beheading of a local street person, and the trail of blood that led from the corpse to her building. Her shock turned to turmoil when she met Sean Canady, the police officer who arrived to question her...and inspired a dangerous desire.
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Something powerful--and beyond reason--had brought Maggie and Sean together. Something that spoke of an interwoven past, and a passionate torment that began generations before under a blood red moon. For on that night of erotic seduction, Magdalena Montgomery became a vampire, and began a century-long quest to find the one man whose love was pure enough, strong enough to save her from the darkness within...
Author: Shannon DrakeTitle: When Darkness Falls
Series: The Vampires - BOOK II
Description:
WHEN DARKNESS FALLS...
In a windswept Scottish cemetery, Jade MacGregor's carefree vacation abroad is marred by a seemingly random tragedy. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses an oddly familiar face. Coincidence--or something far more disturbing?
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AND TERROR TAKES HOLD...
Surrounded by her friends and engrossed in her work, Jade should feel secure. But somebody is dogging her every move. Somebody who knows what she saw on that long ago afternoon. Somebody who will try to rescue her from the evil that is waiting to destroy her.
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INNOCENCE DIES...
Author: Shannon DrakeTitle: Deep Midnight
Series: The Vampires - BOOK III
Description:
The Hour When Dreams Turn Into Nightmares...
An opulent Carnivale ball in Venice takes a terrifying turn for book critic Jordan Riley. As festivity turns into frenzy, she is rescued by a powerful man disguised as a wolf. But was what she witnessed really just the evening's entertainment--or something far more sinister?
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...And Pleasure Beckons From Beyond
From a de-consecrated church in Venice to a secret society in New Orleans, Jordan is led on a nightmare journey to the razor's edge of reality. Her mysterious savior is always a shadow behind her. A man whose closeness will both torment and tantalize her as darkness falls--and an eternal hunger threatens to consume her.
Title: Realm of Shadows
Series: The Vampires - BOOK IV
Description:
EVERY NIGHTMARE HAS ITS BEGINNING
In an ancient churchyard just outside Paris. archeologists uncover an ancient tomb certain they have stumbled onto the find of the century. But something goes very wrong as the tomb is opened. Something too frightening to imagine...and too terrible to utter.
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AND ITS END
For American visitor Tara Mason, the romantic city of her dreams has suddenly turned sinister. For she has heard the blood-curdling screams in the churchyard and knows that she must run away--from the powerful stranger chasing after her...and from a nightmare she can't be sure is real or imagined.
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IN THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT
At the country estate where she has sought refuge, the shadowy man reappears. He calls himself a guardian, sworn to protect the innocent from an evil most never see. And Tara will have to trust him, because that evil has seen her...and won't stop until it claims her, body and soul.
Author: Shannon DrakeTitle: The Awakening
Series: The Vampires - BOOK V
Description:
The tree-lined streets and mystical shops of Salem, Massachusetts resonate with a seductive and brutal history.
New Orleans musician Megan O'Casey has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform, with her husband Finn, in a weeklong series of concerts, culminating on All Hallow's Eve...and to renew her connection with the past.
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But from the moment they arrive in Salem, Finn seems different - sensual beyond belief one moment; cold and ruthless the next. The locals - even Megan's relatives - regard him strangely, with a distrust bordering on hatred. Megan must soon face the fact that something powerful is rising, a malevolence that may have already claimed Finn for its own...
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As the full moon approaches, Megan senses that she, too, is in great danger. Sinister forces seem to be bringing her closer to darkness in a centuries-old ritual that music cannot tame...and time cannot conquer...
Author: Shannon DrakeTitle: Dead By Dusk
Series: The Vampires - BOOK VI
Description:
The rustic oceanfront village of Bella Vista seems like something from an Italian postcard--until young women start disappearing, only to be found horribly mutilated. The police fear a sexual serial killer is at work--something to be hushed up to keep the tourists calm. But the fear in the eyes of the locals says it all: the murders are starting again...
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For American Stephanie Cahill, Bella Vista is a new beginning--a chance to put her painful past behind her. Yet, from the moment the first body is discovered at the site of an archeological dig, Stephanie feels as if she's being watched, followed, studied...hunted.
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Archeologist Grant Peterson senses something odd about this dig, something that has him locking his door at night. And now, the echoes of a burial site's ancient legend can be found in the chilling signature of a killer on the loose.
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The powerful attraction between Stephanie and Grant is a complication neither can afford as they are pulled into a desperate race against time to keep Stephanie from joining the ranks of the missing. For nothing in Bella Vista is what it seems. No one can be trusted. And those closest to Stephanie may prove the most dangerous of all...
