LYRIC’S GIFT

 Blurb & Excerpt Below

Book 1 in the Gray Falls Trilogy, LYRIC’S GIFT, is now available as an EBOOK in the following locations.

When psychic burlesque dancer, Lyric Morrison, is saved from a would be attacker by a vampire, she’s more than a little surprised. Jade Kenyan is certainly an unlikely savior. A killer with little conscience, it is the act of saving Lyric that stirs something inside Jade that he hasn’t felt in a very long time. Drawn to her, Jade knows that he can’t risk her life by being part of it. He doesn’t trust himself or his eternal bloodlust.

When Lyric has a vision that Jade will become endangered, she is willing to do just about anything to find him. Someone has a serious desire to see Jade truly dead. His dark past has come back to haunt him. A  reunion with Lyric is inevitable. Unable to resist her, Jade is forced to face his sordid past and finally let it go. But can he learn to love again without fear?

Contains: M/F Paranormal Romance

Excerpt:

   “Why? Tell me why you took me in there. What is it that you want me to know about you? And, why do I have to be subjected to that disgusting and total madness?” Her dark blue eyes blazed with anger. Lyric crossed her arms over her heaving chest, and Jade unsuccessfully fought the urge to let his gaze wander to her sensational cleavage.

   She looked positively furious, and Jade wanted nothing more than to kiss that glare right off of her face. Eyeing the petite dancer before him, he was impressed by her ferocity. It brought a smile to his lips, which he quickly squelched before it could really piss her off.

   “I don’t know, Lyric.” Her name felt so right rolling off his tongue. “I wanted you to see how bad it can get. The world that you are exposing yourself to every moment that you’re with me.”

   The glare on her beautiful face didn’t waver. In fact, it seemed to darken. “In case you didn’t notice, Jade, the world that I live in is just as bad as that. It was a human that would have killed me if you hadn’t been there that night. A human.” She kicked a rock near her feet, wincing when it bounced off the side of his car. “Vampires may feed from the blood of the living, but we are all feeding off each other in some deranged way or another. You don’t have to go out of your way to prove to me that you are a monster. Serial killers are monsters, but their mothers still love them. What you are is not always who you are, Jade.”

   She was right. He was going out of his way to ensure that she knew what he was. Yet, he was not doing enough to show her who he was. Did he even know himself anymore?

   “What if I don’t know who I am anymore, Lyric?” The words tumbled out on their own, but they came naturally. “I only know that I never started to care again until I met you. And now, I’m afraid that you will see beyond the man that saved you to the vampire that wants to bleed you, and you will run.”

   Jade couldn’t deny that a part of him wanted her to flee him, to tell him that she never wanted to see him again. Then he wouldn’t be able to hurt her. The fear that he would uncontrollably kill her plagued him like a disease, unrelenting in its intensity.

   Her expression changed to one of curiosity, and Jade tensed, knowing what was coming next. He knew that he couldn’t continue to hide the cause of all his fear.

   “What is it that you’re really worried about?” She reached to take his hand. The warmth of her touch on his cool skin made him long for more. “Tell me the truth, please.”

   He desired to feel all of her again, warm and soft against him. If he confessed his secret to her, that might never happen. That was a chance he’d have to take. Lying to her was just not an option.

   “I murdered my wife.” The words felt strange as he spoke them. Other than Griffin, nobody knew this secret. “I was newly turned, and I returned home and drained her dry. That about sums it up. And, I will face hell a hundred times over before I let myself do that to you.”

   He waited then, allowing her to absorb this information. A series of emotions crossed Lyric’s face, and Jade watched them all in tense silence. Her eyes fell to their joined hands. He expected her to pull away, but she didn’t. People went in and out of the building behind them, but neither of them seemed to notice.

   When at last Lyric reacted, it was to step away from him, towards the Shelby. “You’ve had hundreds of years to deal with that, Jade. I care about who you are now, not who you used to be.” A protest formed on his lips, and she held a hand up, as if expecting it. The next words out of her mouth shocked him to the core. “The way I see it, you have two choices. You can continue to live in fear of yourself and rob us both of a potentially beautiful thing. Or, you can take me home and make love to me the way I know you want to.”