Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs #6
This week’s snippet is from Flowers and Fangs. We’re skipping ahead a few paragraphs.
The three Hayes brothers arrived at the Wilkins’ home. They’ve dusted the Nosferatu (one of the more nastier vampires and the most lethal), and they’ve just found out T. Wilkins(newly made vamp) has a twin, who’s been compromised. Wade promises to let Wilkins go if he cooperates and tells them where his brother is and if his brother has turned his girlfriend. The vamp realizes he doesn’t have much of a choice…
This is in Derek’s POV, but Wilkin’s is speaking first.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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“Tim’s my brother and his girl is Sloane McBride.”
Derek’s gaze narrowed onto the vamp with renewed interest. He’d known a Sloane McBride in high school. Thick dark hair, light eyes, kissable lips… His breath hitched at the thought of her, but really, what were the chances that it was the same girl? Crap, he really hoped it wasn’t. He really liked her. He had kissed her… more than a few times. He shifted his weight uncomfortably and focused his attention on Trent’s next words.
“Don’t know if my brother has changed her or not,” Trent rambled on.
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The stakes are high (no pun intended…sort of…). Derek may have to dust his former girlfriend, and it sounds like he really misses those kisses. lol Wonder if he’ll tell his brothers he knows the girl. What do you think? Will he kiss and tell?
About Flowers and Fangs, “Stake and Dust series, Book II”:
Derek Hayes and his family are preternatural hunters. Stake and dust is their motto, but Derek has a difficult time accepting his sworn duty when Sloane McBride, his ex-girlfriend from high school, is the one he’s been sent to eliminate. Once infected from a Nosferatu bite, there is no turning back. Sloane has been bitten and she will eventually change.
It proves a race against time when Derek puts aside his core beliefs and teams up with Sloane. The Nosferatu wants Sloane for his own, Derek’s brothers are hunting her, and every second brings Sloane closer to changing into the very fiend they want to kill.
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Stake and Dust, Book I- These are stand alone stories.
A Lamia, a sea creature worthy of John Keats’ prose, teams up with a vampire with serial tendencies. When young promising artists are found dead, the Preternatural Bureau sends Cassandra Hayes to the Hamptons to help a fellow hunter track down this lethal duo. She’s only spoken to Mr. Green once on the phone and when she meets him in person, he is not what she expects. His hunting skills are spot on, but there is something the man is hiding, and she’s determined to find out what it is despite the attraction developing between them.
Tremayne Graystone, a vampire from one of the oldest septs, is not pleased when he finds a dead hunter left on the doorstep of his pub. He should have never answered the hunter’s phone, but someone is trying to frame him and he wants answers. Surely he can masquerade as Mr. Green, the hunter Cassandra is supposed to meet, before she figures out his true identity and stakes him. She’s a Hayes, from a long line of vampire hunters, and fraternizing with the enemy is simply not done, but as they work together and follow the clues, the lines become blurred when he falls for the hunter’s charms.
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This situation is rife with possibilities that could turn the story in any one of many different directions.
Interesting snippet today.
A cliff hanger here. Will he or won’t he tell. It’s a quandry and I love it.
Hmmm, this should be interesting. Great snippet!
Why do I get the feeling it will be the girl he remembers. No doubt she will bring complications. Can’t wait to read more.
I bet it’s going to be her. It has to be, doesn’t it? 😉
Well, so I choose to believe there’s hope yet for the kissable girl! Excellent excerpt, as Ed says, gives us so many possibilities for where the story can go.
Great snippet! And I’m also willing to put my money on it being Sloane. Just because that would create so many delicious problems. 🙂
Somehow I don’t quite believe that Trent is telling the whole truth…
I love this. It sets you up to go anywhere you want with the story. Me? I’m hoping for mayhem, because one can never have enough mayhem in a story.