Welcome to Snippet Sunday.
Enjoy a snippet from last week: Flowers and Fangs Chapter 3 #3
This week's snippet is another snippet from Flowers and Fangs.
This is still Chapter 3. Skipping ahead a few paragraphs. Sloane has invited Tim in, but she's sensing there is something off with him. He pulls her into an embrace. "Don't be scared," he tells her, and she promptly tells him she's not...
Tim is speaking first.
*The excerpt may have been modified to fit the 10 sentence limit.
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"Your heart is beating fast."
Her brows drew together as she said, "How do—" She didn't have a chance to finish her question. He captured her lips and her words were swallowed into a passionate caress. His tongue swept inside her mouth and she met his passion, but something pricked her lip and she drew back in alarm. Her hand flew to her mouth, and when she looked at her fingers, she spotted drops of blood coloring the tips. "You bit me." Again, she thought the last to herself.
"You say it as if it is a bad, thing." He stalked toward her, and this time there was no mistake; his eyes gleamed with a weird sheen before turning red.
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Does Tim seem a little pleased to be invited in?
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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Ruuuuuuuuun! There it is, too late now, huh? There has to be some way to save her. Some way…
Good snippet, Karen. 🙂
Teresa,
She’s just starting to realize Tim is not the boyfriend she once knew.
You say it as if it were a bad thing …. well it’s not usual… nice snippet. wonder what happens next
Iris,
I’m with you on this. No love bites for me. lol
As Teresa wrote-too late to run. And I say YIKES. She bites the proverbial dust. Regular gal, no more. Terrific snippet.
Charmaine,
Things are never going to be the same.
Eeek! I think she’s finally getting the message that something is wrong. Hopefully it’s not too late.
Christina,
She’s not doomed yet…
Oh, what a terrifying last line! I hope there’s a way out for her, but it doesn’t look good. Fabulous snippet!
Joyce,
Is it terrible to say I’m glad you were terrified. lol
Bit her “again”?
That last line is chilling.
PT,
Yep, this is the second bite. He did a little nibbling the day before. Hmm…could be why she’s not feeling so well.
I’m with him, biting isn’t always a bad thing. 😉 Great snippet.
Jennifer,
lol- I’m a little worried about you.
This poor girl! Of course it’s a bad thing for him to bite her…but excellent excerpt. The way you’re telling this story is all the more fascinating for having some unusual aspects.
Veronica,
So glad you’re enjoying the tale.
Yeah, not the stuff hits the fan. Great snippet, Karen. 🙂
That should’ve said “now.”
It’s hard to see how she can escape him now…but that’s probably what you want us to think.
Ed,
You’ll have to wait and see. 🙂
Oh my! Get the heck outta there now, girl! Nice snippet!
Thank you, Frank.
I’m thinking it’s too late for running. She might need to fight!
Caitlin,
Most likely she will.
Yowza… that’s one intense snippet. The pacing is just right & the prose is dead on. Nice work!
Jeff,
So glad you enjoyed the snippet.
I’m glad she has a dog. She might need all the help she can get to run out of here.
Linda,
Only she put Lad outside.
You say it like it’s a bad thing! Love it! Can’t wait to see what she does next!
Emmy,
So glad you enjoyed the snippet.
Doesn’t she know you never invite someone in who bites? Now he can come back whenever he wants. I’m thinking it may be too late for her, poor girl.
Say it as if it’s a bad thing… Gee, I wonder why it IS a bad thing.
Ruuuuuuun!! Or, well, it’s probably too late to run now.
Daelyn,
You just might be right.
uh oh! Blood red eyes…not a good.