I’ve joined the Rainbow Snippets group on Facebook. From their description: “Rainbow Snippets is a group for LGBTQ+ authors, readers, and bloggers to gather once a week to share six sentences from a work of fiction–a WIP or a finished work or even a 6-sentence book recommendation (no spoilers please!).” Pretty cool, eh? Don’t forget to “Like” my Facebook page and/or my Facebook profile while you’re over there checking out this fantastic group!
This week I’m snipping from The Choice, book 2 in my vampire trilogy, that’ll be out on January 5!
RELEASE BLITZ (with ARC REVIEW option) info is at the bottom of the post.
Blurb & Links
As a freshly turned vampire, Neil had frozen in panic when he’d found himself face-to-face with his ex-boyfriend, Cameron. Neil thought that misstep and its associated danger was all in the past, but Cameron’s current boyfriend, Dennis, is like a dog with a bone, and a keen imagination. When the two men’s curiosity progresses to the point the vampires consider their secrecy to be endangered, choices must be made.
Now that faction leader Albert has a blood-mate, he finds himself second-guessing his decisions. Neil would be crushed knowing his mistake led to human deaths, but Albert shouldn’t factor that into the difficult choices he must make. Will Albert’s indecision put the entire vampire establishment in danger? Or is redemption only a flamethrower away?
Links – Available January 5
Publisher | Kindle (Universal Link) | Books2Read Universal Buy-Link
Goodreads | QueeRomance Ink
This is a scene from Chapter 4. Two people, Dennis and Cameron, have become a risk to the vampire faction, threatening to expose them. They are being presented with a choice. Join them—and have as much to lose by exposure as the existing vamps—or die. In this scene, faction leader Albert is confronting them.
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From Albert’s 3rd-person POV:
This week’s snippet:
Albert clenched a fist. “What’s the matter, Dennis? You think your situation is so awful that a sincere apology for the minor misstep Neil made that you snowballed into this predicament isn’t good enough? Uh-uh.” Albert shook his head. “Let me tell you a story…two millennia ago, before I’d ever seriously considered vampires truly existed, when I was human and a Roman soldier”—Albert ignored Dennis’s gasp and continued without pausing—“my best friend couldn’t take the horror and cruelty of the battles anymore. He went AWOL. He was captured. Do you know what happened to Roman soldiers in my division who tried to escape?”
The Choice is a 28,700 word novella, book #2 in The Faction series. While I tried to include enough backstory so readers who start with this book won’t be completely lost, I highly recommend first reading book #1, The Recruit, which sets up my unique vampire world and the drama that wasn’t as resolved as our heroes had thought.
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You can’t stop his story there! I want to hear the rest of it!
LOL…oops!😁
Actually that’s a good point…much as I sympathize with the mortals, I can see where Albert is coming from.
Yay! “Torn” is right where I want you. 😁
Intense. Great snippet
Thank you! 💞
Oh, this is such a tense scene – and considering shell-shocked young men were shot in WW1 for cowardice, I don’t like to think what happened to the Romans. 🙁
Indeed. 😔 It’s depressing just knowing how barbaric and unfeeling humans are capable of being.
Such a tense snippet.
Thank you! 💖
Very tense
Yep! 😬♡
Tense moment indeed! Really enjoying the first book too 🙂
Thank you so much! 💞