The Light’s Duty to Protect
A war over the fate of mankind sparked the creation of the Ancients - Light and Dark - one divinely-created guardians, the other hell-spawned killers. The conflict raged within the Realm for millennia, neither faction triumphant in its purpose. In recent history the Darks have adopted a more surreptitious path - the boom of technology allowing the Dark One to insinuate himself into the midst of those he would most like to destroy. Tragic consequences result when the Ancients of Light pursue the Darkness into the Outer Realm. The Prophecy continues…
Darkness Claimed Her Soul
The adversity of Kylie’s youth forged an indomitable spirit. A vibrant and strong woman determined to plot the course of her life with room for nothing beyond the next measure of success, Kylie believed in only herself, and most certainly neither destiny nor love. All those tenants were derailed with a single encounter, but the same man that tempted her to live again drew her into the middle of an aged war, the consequence being her own destruction, plummeting her into a hellish existence.
A Warrior
Haunted by His Failure
Sayer’s mission was only to foil
the latest plan of the Darks in the Outer Realm and return a few Vampire to Hell.
Finding a perfect mortal that tempted him beyond all reason was an unforeseen
complication. Just when Sayer realizes that his eternity is meant for one
alone, Kylie is destroyed and the loss drives him to the pits of despair,
revealing events of the past that would best remain buried.
Tragedy will
Reveal Those of Divine Purpose
Sayer’s appearance in her life was
the catalyst to fulfilling a destiny that existed since Kylie’s creation. Their
fate thwarted by Darkness, both shattered by tragedy, Kylie and Sayer must
return to the love that once was while finding absolution or perish apart. Only
once all that was broken is returned to unblemished will God’s own Warriors
rise. The beginning of the beginning…
Excerpt
She tore into his throat,
reveling in the violence of it as much as the taste of Witch, while a
thunderous banging began on the other side of the barred door. The magic that
kept her within was also most effective at keeping the others out, Kylie had
gambled on that. The Vampire could not shadow inside to reach her and neither
they nor the Witch could break the magic barrier coupled with the strength of
her own Vampire abilities holding the door. Cade could undo the spells, but it
would take him any number of minutes and by then she would drain the Warrior
Caste leader.
Giggling, she tore another
gaping wound into his flesh and purred while she lapped up the blood, his
struggles already weakening, “Mmmm….you taste as sweet as you look, Kendrick,
like cotton candy and sugar cookies .” She took another bite just as the door
exploded inward. The force rocketed Broderick across the room with the remnants
of the door, a large thud echoing when he collided with the far wall. He had
not regained his feet when Lorcan and Sayer rushed in.
Kylie calmly withdrew her bite
and eyed them. Kendrick was too weak to resist her, and satisfaction gleamed in
her eyes, “If you come near me, I will tear his throat so wide there will be no
hope that you can heal him.”
Her eyes sparkled with evil
when she locked on Sayer, “I waited for you, honey, just like Cade suggested. I
even saved you some – to share.” She extended a hand, as though offering him a
taste. The thick blood that ran from Kendrick’s throat coated both her hands
where she had them knotted in the front of his tunic. No small amount of the
same was smeared over her cheeks and mouth. Kylie knew she looked monstrous and
she delighted in Sayer’s horror.
She was eyeing Kendrick’s
throat like a starved lion, and Sayer attempted to talk her down, “Kylie, give
Kendrick to Lorcan and I will take you home.”
It only irritated her, souring
her expression, “You should address me as Callie because Kylie is unlikely to
listen to you.”
Sayer’s jaw clenched tight and
his reaction made her want to dig deeper at his pain points, “Do you know why
my eyes are always veiled in black, love?” She chuckled and made an exaggerated
lick at Kendrick’s throat to give Sayer time to hazard a guess. When he didn’t,
she went on nastily, “It is because your little Kylie harbors so much hatred
for you….thin line betwixt love and hate and all that. Why do you think it was
so easy for me to slip here and take over?
Kylie is strong, so for me to gain foothold, she had to surrender. The
girl would rather be dead than be here, with you, in the Realm.”
About the whole series and author:
http://vampysramblings.blogspot.com/2014/07/welcome-to-realm-inthe-beginning-there.html
http://vampysramblings.blogspot.com/2014/07/welcome-to-realm-inthe-beginning-there.html
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