Monday, November 10, 2014

HOT VAMPIRES and a giveaway?? Yes PLEASE!! Thank you DB Reynolds!



Sinaloa, Mexico . . . haunting deserts, hot nights, and vampires, who’ve been there for hundreds of years, watching from the shadows, playing their games, manipulating humans, and surviving at any cost.

Vincent Kuxim, powerful and charismatic, was made vampire by an ambitious leader looking for soldiers to pave his way to the rule of all Mexico. But more than a century later, Vincent’s Sire is looking over his shoulder as Vincent closes in for the kill, ready to claim the title Lord of Mexico for himself.

Lana Arnold is a bounty hunter, smart, beautiful, and determined to chart her own future. So when the most powerful vampire lord in all of North America enlists her help in tracking down a very old and elusive bloodsucker, Lana sees nothing but opportunity. There’s only one catch. The client wants her to take Vincent—a vampire she neither knows nor trusts—along on her hunt. Then again, maybe it’s herself she doesn’t trust, because Vincent Kuxim is sex walking in a pair of tight black jeans.

Thrown together by circumstance, Vincent and Lana soon find themselves battling an evil they didn’t know existed in a fight that makes Vincent all the more determined to destroy his Sire, seize Mexico for himself . . . and keep Lana by his side forever.


Excerpt

Tucson, Arizona
          
Lana Arnold spun the dial on her home safe and reached inside. She was heading out on a new job and needed a backup weapon and cash. Her next job would take her to Mexico and cash was king down there. And the gun was simple common sense.

She had her usual Sig, and of course, she was never without a few knives hidden about her person, but more fire power was always better. That same principle meant she should be taking one of her bounty hunter dad’s guys along for the ride, but this was her job, no one else’s. She was a bounty hunter, too, and the contract hadn’t come to her dad’s agency, but to her personally. Besides, this was the kind of assignment she hoped to do more of. It was a job for a private investigator, not a bounty hunter. Not that she didn’t enjoy following in her dad’s footsteps; she just didn’t see herself chasing criminals for the rest of her life. So when the request had come in from the attorneys representing Cynthia Leighton and Raphael, she’d jumped on it.

At first glance, it seemed to be a simple missing person’s case. But she suspected there was nothing simple about it. First of all, Raphael happened to be a vampire—a very powerful vampire if rumors were true—and he wanted a message delivered to some old guy named Xuan Ignacio who’d been hiding in Mexico forever. Second was the money. The fee they were offering was significant and would put a nice bump in the fund she’d set up toward opening her own investigations firm someday. Apart from a desire not to be chasing skips at forty, she wanted to forge her own path, to be someone other than Sean Arnold’s daughter.

She also figured the job must be important to Raphael, and if she did well, maybe they’d send more business her way. Of course, it was entirely possible that the high fee was only intended to compensate for the danger she might be walking into. But Lana trusted that Leighton would have warned her about any specific threats up front, so it probably wasn’t an issue.


Apart from the money, though, there was a twist to the case that pretty much eliminated the idea that this was a simple job. And that was the letter from Raphael to a vampire named Vincent Kuxim, asking him to assist Lana in locating this Xuan Ignacio. Lana had Googled Kuxim, hoping to find out why Raphael would want him involved, but she’d come up with nothing. All she knew was what Leighton’s attorneys had told her over the phone prior to sending the documents. They assured her that while Raphael’s note to Kuxim might appear to be a request, it was phrased in a way that all but guaranteed Kuxim would agree to help her. Lana wrote this off to vampire politics, since the request seemed perfectly ordinary to her, and no one seemed inclined to educate her any further on the subject. The lawyer had made it very clear, however, that Raphael wanted Vincent Kuxim with her when she found her quarry.
         
Lana wasn’t sure how she felt about that. She supposed that ultimately, it would all depend on who Vincent Kuxim was. The only details the attorneys offered were that he was a vampire—no surprise there—and that he controlled the city of Hermosillo in Mexico. What no one had come out and told her—but what she’d happily bet money on—was that Xuan Ignacio was a vampire, too. Supposedly, he’d been hiding out in Mexico a long time. Lana was guessing “a long time” meant centuries rather than decades.
         
She tucked her backup weapon—a 9mm Glock—into her backpack and put the cash in an outside zippered pocket. On a whim, she grabbed a couple of flashbang grenades from the box in her safe, then slammed the safe door, and spun the dial to secure it. She stood and got ready to leave, activating the alarm on her security system, then making sure the door was locked behind her. Within minutes, she was on her way to Hermosillo, Mexico.
         
 She only hoped Vincent Kuxim was in town when she arrived. And that he was inclined to do Raphael a favor.


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About the Author:
D. B. Reynolds is the RT Award-Winning author of the popular Vampires in America series of Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy and an Emmy-nominated television sound editor. She lives with her husband of many years in a flammable canyon near the Malibu coast, and when she’s not writing her own books, she can usually be found reading someone else’s. 

Visit her BLOG for details on all of her books, for free stories and more. 
 

D.B. Reynolds Giveaway
1st Prize a copy of VINCENT e or print (signed) winner's choice, 
PLUS a $25 Amazon gift cert

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PLUS a $10 Amazon gift cert


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6 comments:

  1. What can I say? VINCENT is another brilliant story from the Vampires in America series and Ms Reynolds continues to captivate her readers with tales of powerful Vampire Lords and the explosive and intensely HOT relationships they have with their mates!!

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  2. this is another magnificent read just like the all series...You will love this bad arse Vampires....The author Ms Reynolds brings her book alive and gets better and better...you can't go wrong with this book and series..i love her work and theses Vampires and their mates....I never can get enough...Keep them coming!!!!!!!!!!!!Thank you for this magnificent series....

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  3. Every book is better than the last one. Rafael will always be the classic, of course.

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  4. Loved the excerpt, I haven't read any of this series but will start looking for it. Sounds like an awesome read so I must check it out. Thanks for the great giveaway.

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  5. DB - thank you for bringing great books for our readers to get lost in. They are loving your contest, too! Thanks to all the readers who are stopping by.

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