Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs, Chapter 4 #4
This week’s snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fangs (which was nominated at InD’tale for best New Adult book). Voting ends today. Would love your support. 🙂 Info after the snippet. 🙂
Chapter 4. This is in Derek’s POV.
Quick update from last week: Derek fought Tim (vampire), wounded him, and the vamp escaped. Derek is left with Sloane who may or may not be a vampire too. He recognized Sloane earlier from a photo that she was an old flame from high school. Sloane has not made the connection. It’s been ten years and Derek isn’t a scrawny teen, and besides she’s had a shock of her life. Vampires are real! Now for the snippet. Sloane is speaking first.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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“He hasn’t been feeling well,” she defended Tim’s actions.
Denial always came first. “Yeah, and how are you feeling?”
She licked her lips then pursed them as she eyed him with suspicion. “If he’s contagious, I need to see a doctor,” she said in confusion and tears sprung to her eyes, making them turn more blue than grey, but then he noticed her hands shook as if she were strung out and in need of a good fix.
“Oh, you’re good,” he drawled.
“What?”
“All innocent and with tears even,” Derek said as he aimed his crossbow at her chest. He couldn’t go soft just because she looked hot in her black-laced shirt that was just short enough to show a bit of skin at her midriff, and damn it if the woman didn’t have the biggest blue eyes he’d ever seen. He’d been a sucker for those eyes in high school and it proved no different now.
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He’s just a tad bit distracted, don’t you think? lol
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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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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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oH, nice little cliffhanger … he’s not going to shoot, though, is he?
Iris,
You’ll have to wait and see. 🙂
He is distracted, thank heavens, or he’d have shot her already with that crossbow! I really wonder is she’s infected… Great job setting the hook, Karen. 🙂
Teresa,
If it had been anyone else but the girl he had a thing for, she’d be staked and dusted.
More than a little, I think! Good luck on your contest. I will give you a vote!
Elizabeth,
Thanks so much for the vote. Greatly appreciated!
Focus man and forget about her eyes! Great snippet. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Heather,
Yes, he needs to get his head back in the game. lol
Oh man, this is taking a turn I hadn’t expected. I’m not complaining. An interesting situation just became enthralling.
Ed,
So glad you’re enthralled. 🙂
His mouth says one thing, his eyes say another… Great snippet!
Amy,
Yes, you could say that. lol
He’s distracted, I don’t want him to have to shoot her…I’m SO invested in this story. Great snippet!
Veronica,
Thank you so much.
I guess in those circumstances it’s better to shoot first and ask questions never, but… shouldn’t it occur to him that she might really be innocent?
Caitlin,
She might be, but she does have those bite marks on her neck.
Definitely don’t fall for it! Stay strong!! 🙂
T.M.,
lol- Let’s hope he takes your advice.
Heck, he’s just looking for an excuse to not listen to his heart, isn’t he? 😉 Nicely done!
Karysa,
You got it. 🙂
He’s contagious, hun, but it’s nothing a doctor can help you with…
P.T.,
She’ll figure this out soon enough.
haha, he read her well and he’s making sure he doesn’t make past mistakes. Great snippet.
Cecilia,
I don’t know he’s a sucker for her blue eyes. lol
I don’t think he should jump to conclusions! Really looking forward to next time!
Joyce,
So glad you enjoyed the snippet.
Oh dear, surely he won’t do anything rash! Great snippet 🙂
What? She is already a vampire? Did she change Tim herself? I didn’t see that one coming!
Linda,
I know it’s been a long time, but in the first snippets it’s explained that a Nosferatu’s bite is lethal. Once bitten, the person is infected and will eventually turn. There’s no cure, no going back.
Fun snippet… You definitely capture that distraction! I love how he runs it down, detail by distracting detail.
Jeff,
So glad you enjoyed the snippet. 🙂