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From Amazon Romantic Suspense, Mystery Romance and Fantasy Bestselling Author Nicola Claire comes a seductive and fast paced world of beautiful relationships, explosive environments, and a group of friends who look out for each other. "One night eight years ago and you ran, angel. One night now and you're gone again. I won't let you run this time without giving chase." Eight years ago Evangeline Rowe met her ice-blue eyed, perfect cowboy, but she was running from a past he would have kept her trapped within. One night of unbelievable passion, a lost and consequently broken heart, and only ...

From Amazon Romantic Suspense, Mystery Romance and Fantasy Bestselling Author Nicola Claire comes a seductive and fast paced world of beautiful relationships, explosive environments, and a group of friends who look out for each other. "Don't for a minute believe I want you any other way, Jason Cain. The second you stop being you is the moment you should fear most." For several months now Katie Anscombe has tried to hide her attraction to Jason Cain. That's what everyone expects of Katie. And of course, it helps that he basically ignores her too. But something about the ex-special forces ...

Ever wondered how the Norm War started? Now's your chance to find out. This Christmas Special Novella (approx. 23,000 words) from Michel's POV is set between DREAMING OF A BLOOD RED CHRISTMAS and DARKLIGHT. A sweet surprise full of a few Kindred secrets, wrapped up in a Michel package, just in time for Christmas. "Lucinda smiles that soft smile of hers, the one that tells me she has a secret. I would die a thousand Final Deaths to know all of her secrets. I have caused a thousand more to keep them secret for her. I had not realised that love could be so beautifully brutal until I met ...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best. The walls of Dökkálfa have ears. They have ears and they whisper. And what they have to say can be chilling, but not all fairies hear them. Only those blessed by the Old Gods. And the one they call Skilja. Separate. Kara Middleton wasn’t always a fairy. Heck, even now, she couldn’t be called completely Fey. Because the Queen of Ljósálfar made her what she is and what she is…is frightening. A monster. But there is one fairy who is not afraid of Kara and the devastating power she wields as if her ...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best. Games are afoot in the High Court Realm of Dökkálfa. The type of games a girl from Earth can get soundly beaten playing. Fairies, though, don't play fair at all, it seems. But Kara Middleton, former human, now something else entirely not even the Dark Fey are in agreement about, has learned a thing or two since she was stolen from her world and brought to Faerie. Ask no questions. Tell no lies. Give no thanks. Never trust a fairy. Rules to live by. Rules Dökkálfa's Champion has taken to heart. Rules that ...

You wanted more? Well, here it is! A Christmas Special Novella (just over 16,000 words) from Michel's point of view, set after the end of book eight in the Kindred Series: Kiss Of The Dragon. A sweet surprise full of a few Kindred secrets, wrapped up in a Michel package, just in time for Christmas. "When I look at her, I see the strong, independent, courageous woman I have always seen. The sexy, confident, alluring hunter she was the first day I watched her handle a stake. The love of my life. The very air I breathe. The very blood that fuels my veins. She is everything to me. And not once ...

'His whole body jerked against mine, his arms tightened and a low growl mixed with a decidedly sexy moan came from the back of his throat. I could tell he was having an instant response to my biting him, I could feel exactly where his mind had taken the moment to. I gasped at his reaction, thinking this was having way more of an effect on him than me. And then the taste of his blood hit my tongue.' Working as a bartender at the most popular club in town, dating a handsome, sexy and ever so slightly mysterious Englishman, Georgia thought her life was finally going somewhere. Then one night a...

To survive, she must become one of them. To thrive, she must become the best. Something is rotten in the realm of Dökkálfa. And it has nothing to do with their newest fairy. But try as she might, Kara Middleton - former human and current member of the Dark Fey - can't find the root of the foul magic that is consuming her adopted homeland. That's the trickery of magic, though; it can hide its face so very well. Evil stalks the Dökkálfa, but can Kara uncover its secrets in time to save the one fairy she loves the most? Or will the spell cause unimaginable damage to her, to Aliath, ...

"I wanted to hold him. I wanted to kiss him. I wanted to show him how much I loved him and had missed him. I wanted five minutes, ten, the rest of our eternal lives. I wanted long enough to make love to him, to taste him, to be tasted by him, to reaffirm our Bond. But I felt a Dark shadow above me, all around me, pressing in from every side and every angle, that threatened to cut our time short." Recovering from the fallout of a vampire virus, Lucinda Monk-Durand, vampire hunter by birth and Kindred to the Champion of the Iunctio, has had to dig deep to keep her fractured heart beating. Her...

“Six weeks of utter hell had led to this. Six weeks of chasing breadcrumbs across Ljósálfar and finding nothing. Six weeks of popping in and out of Fey portals, covered in the scent of new season peaches, hungry, exhausted, desperate. Six weeks of finding Isoleth’s spies for Sofiq and meeting the terms of my agreement with Aliath… and not finding Kara. Six weeks.” The Valkyries are riding, and Odin has woken up. War is brewing in Álfheimr, and it’s spilling over onto Earth. As if that isn’t bad enough, the Queen of the Light Fey thinks Georgia killed her only son. And revenge...

"You are my most magnificent obsession, Lucinda. My treasure. My saviour. My heart. I care not if the Bond chooses to remind me of this fact. I wish never to lose that knowledge again. It is a small sacrifice to have it work its wonder." After battling possessed shapeshifters and reanimated corpses, Lucinda Monk-Durand thought she could handle anything thrown at her by the Old Gods. After all, she's a vampire hunter by birth and Kindred to the Champion of the Iunctio. But Apep, God of the Underworld, is not finished using her in his eternal war against Ra. And he has allies that are capable...

The smart thing to do would have been to send Samson to Jett, so the Master of the City had a heads-up on what we'd found out before we tipped our hand to the Iunctio. The smarter thing to do would have been to have avoided the Plaza Hotel altogether, and get Samson to ask Lucinda the questions I needed answers to. The smartest thing to do of all would have been to have gone home, climbed into bed and shown my mate just how much I loved him. Let's just say, I'm not always smart. With the Master of the City still seeking a kindred-joining, you'd think Georgia Deverell, half-vampire/half-...

"What was wrong with me to antagonise a vampire of his standing to such a degree? I knew I had become too rebellious, too sure of my own place in this world. I was aware that Dark had been encroaching, that I played so often in its shadow I was losing sight of the sun, of my Light. There were times when I truly felt consumed in anger, for all that had happened, for all that I had suffered and lost." Leaving Auckland and moving to London, Lucinda has to learn new rules and assimilate into a new life she has no love for. Rebelling against everything that just doesn't seem fair, Lucinda upsets...

"I felt hot tears streaming down my cheeks at his words. Spoken so carelessly, but with such shameless intent. He knew how I felt. How I had been feeling. How lost and alone and full of grief my days had been. Avery was not a friend. Not even a trusted acquaintance. But he understood what I was going through. Even if he didn't have a compassionate bone in his entire buffed body, he knew what I had suffered. I didn't have to justify my behaviour to him." Walking out on her life and hiding in the only place she can think of that the Iunctio - the vampire governing body - and in particular,...

“I'm supposed to be the one that calls him back toward the Light. ' I am the Light to your Dark. You call to me as I call to you. I will always hold you dear.' But it was getting harder. I loved him and it's not as if I never knew it would be difficult loving a vampire. I just never knew the degree of difficulty it would entail." Michel battles his rising Dark, all but losing his Light within. His line falters, his life is in turmoil and Lucinda is ultimately shut out. Without his kindred to draw him back to the Light, just how Dark will Michel become? And can Lucinda survive ...

"You do realise," he whispered, his hand reaching up to brush my hair from my face. He began twining a strand around one of his fingers. "That you are my most magnificent obsession." Magnificent obsession. I think I liked that. I certainly understood it. He was mine too. Confronted with yet another curve ball, Lucinda finds herself in Álfheimr at the mercy of the Dökkálfa. And the Fey have unusual rules, rules which even the Dark Fairies like to stretch. Throwing herself into the political machinations of her hosts, Lucinda must negotiate her release. But what could the ...

Two hearts. Two souls. And they have chosen. Ellie Durand had no idea what she was getting herself into when she agreed to leave her home in Auckland with Hakan Bahar, a Vampire Prince of Mhachkay. Telling herself that she’d do anything to help her twin brother, Luc, she blindly stepped through a portal to wherever the hell he was taking her. But no sooner had she arrived in Istanbul than the infuriatingly sexy vampire disappeared. Right after her brother. But Éliane is a Durand. And Durands don’t give up. They also never show fear. Never give an inch. And always stay on guard. Armed ...

One bite. One drop. Two hearts. Two souls. Éliane Durand is entwined with a Prince of Mhachkay; something she didn’t even know was possible until recently. But that’s not all that has the daughter of the Champion worried. Her brother is still missing. Her father’s spymaster along with him. And something has corrupted the Light Fey. A moment to catch her breath would have been nice, but the instant she steps foot back on Earth from Faerie all hell breaks loose. With a side order of megalomania and a liberal coating of familial dysfunction. Armed with a sword, two silver stakes, and a ...

“I wanted to tell him I loved him. I wanted to touch his cheek, tip his lips down to mine. I wanted to look in those beautiful blue eyes and see my love reflected back at me. But I knew it was all a lie.” Time heals all things, they say, but it can also wear them down. Even if time, to an immortal, is but a fleeting thought. Faced with an eternity of wear, Lucinda Monk, vampire hunter by birth, confronts the hardest challenge of her everlasting life. A marriage that has been worn down by time. Such a simple thing, and yet, the Prophesied never once thought her relationship with the most...

Dive into the raw and real premiere of the Leak & Sip Podcast, where hosts Nic and Claire start things off with a candid chat about life, friendship, and the wild ride of balancing it all.