Bloodgifted
By Tima Maria Lacoba
Release
date: August 7th, 2013
Paranormal Romance
What’s a girl to do when she learns
she’s descended from a vampire? Being unable to age is only the beginning…
Laura Dantonville is a Primary
school teacher with one wish—to marry her boyfriend, Detective Matt Sommers.
When her aunt Judy reveals a frightening family secret that explains her rare
genetic mutation, it threatens to propel her into a dark underworld where her
true family waits.
Laura’s future with Matt hangs in
the balance.
Alec Munro never wanted to become
guardian to a Dantonville regardless that her blood is coveted by his
vampire-kind. But his sire, Lucien Lebrettan, gave him no choice. Now he’s
faced with not only protecting the girl, but fathering a child with her in order
to end his servitude—and a centuries-old curse.
… which some among his kind will do
anything to prevent.
He got up from his chair and circled me where I sat.
It was such a gracious, fluid movement, so like a predator, that for a moment I
understood what a gazelle must feel like when stalked by a panther. A second
later his hands were on the arms of my chair and he was leaning toward me, his
eyes pale as near-luminescent orbs, the pupils narrowed into the vertical slits
of a serpent.
I gasped and froze in my seat.
‘This is what I am and have been for nearly a century.
Satisfied that I’ve been telling you the truth?’ His voice was like honey over
ice; both seductive and cruel at the same time.
After the initial shock I gathered together my
courage, for strangely enough, there was something about his close proximity
that excited me.
‘If that’s all it is,’ I said, trying to keep the
tremor, which had little to do with fear, out of my voice. ‘Then it’s not that
scary.’
His eyes widened, even in that form. ‘You want to see
more?’ He straightened up, ran his hand through his hair and went to lean
against the wall behind me.
‘It gets worse?’ I swivelled around in my chair to
face him.
‘Oh yes,’ he warned.
Ever since I was a child I was incredibly
curious—wanting to know how everything worked, where things came from, how,
why? I drove my parents crazy. I should have outgrown it by now, but hadn’t.
‘Show me!’ I said and hopped out of my chair to stand
in front of him.
Alec appeared to be fighting some inner battle, for
his eyes changed back into human form and then narrowed again as I watched. ‘If
I do, you must not show fear. Do you understand, Laura?’
Before I could answer, a low growl escaped his lips
and I found myself pinned against the wall, my hands held securely above my
head. Long pointed fangs slid down from his upper jaw. I didn’t have to touch
them to know they’d be razor sharp as well.
‘Scary enough for you?’ His voice hissed down at me.
‘Never bait a vampire, darling, it could prove fatal!’
If only I’d bitten my tongue earlier. My body began to
tremble and I wanted nothing more than to break free from his powerful grip.
The pressure of his hands on my wrists was starting to hurt. His alien eyes
bored into mine, while his cool breath fanned my face and the fear which he
warned me about, took hold. His nostrils flared and he leaned down toward my
throat where I felt the merest brush of his fangs against my skin.
I screamed.
**Oh my God!! This excerpt reminds me of several books turned into movies/ tv series. And it makes me want to read it. It did the trick!
My
name is Tima Maria Lacoba and this is my first novel.
For the last seventeen years I’ve taught English and History in a high school
in southern Sydney. Before taking up teaching I was a practicing archaeologist,
working on several digs around the world. Unfortunately, steady contracts in
this field were hard to obtain, hence my gravitation to teaching. It was
fantastic being able to teach my field to Year Eleven and Twelve students and
then take them on overseas excursions to visit the amazing sites they’ve only
seen in books.
Two years ago I
resigned and surrendered to the itch of writing. After a many years of reading
and correcting my students’ creative writing tasks and essays, I decided it was
time to write my own. I couldn’t hold it in any longer.
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