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 once again snipping from The Choice, book 2 in my vampire trilogy, that’ll be out on January 5!
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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:
Last week had Albert telling the troublemaking humans a story about his past, ending with, “Do you know what happened to Roman soldiers in my division who tried to escape?”
This week’s snippet:
Albert paused, staring at Dennis until the man managed a terse shake of his head.
“No? Do you further know what would’ve happened to me if I’d refused to carry out the order to crucify him? There would’ve been two of us hanging there instead of one.” Albert silently counted to five while the humans in front of him quaked at the visual he’d presented. Neil stood statue-still beside him. Albert had once mentioned to Neil that he had regrets from that time in his life, but he hadn’t yet confessed the unbearable details. Other than those three, everyone else in the room had heard the story.
“That…” Albert continued, “was a sputtered apology that didn’t cut it. Didn’t begin to cut it. You feeling sorry for yourself because you’ve put us in the position of having to force you to choose between a really sweet life as an immortal and painless sudden death? That’s just pathetic.”
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?
Available January 5
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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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This strikes me so very Roman. I love how you’re letting Albert let everyone have it since he’s lived through some of the truly terrifying punishments which took place during ancient times.
Thank you! 😀 Sometimes people need a little perspective.
Albert is bad ass.
Or at least a layer of him is. 😁
And yet… this is going to be a major life change for Dennis. I can’t help feeling a smidge of sympathy! 😉
Indeed. I wouldn’t want to be in Cameron and Dennis’s position, either, regardless of the reasons for it. Difficult choices to be made all around. 😏
I’m loving these snippets! Signed up for your blitz too. 🙂
Yay! Thank you so much! 💖
Well, that told him.
😏
I might actually have a bit of sympathy for his position, or at least more than Albert does.
I do, too. I wouldn’t want to be in that position, either. But, I can also understand why Albert has to do it. An entire world of vampires is in danger if Cam & Dennis pursue outing them. ❤️