Welcome to the Blood Shadows blog tour!! This book is sooo good!
I'm almost finished and will be posting my review soon.
Title: Blood Shadows (Blackthorn series #1)
Author: Lindsay J. Pryor
For vengeance - would you trust a vampire?
For justice - could you betray your family?
For love - are you ready to question everything you believe in?
Gifted with the ability to read the shadows of 'third species' beings, Caitlin Parish is the Vampire Control Unit's most powerful agent. Despite that, her mission to hunt down Kane Malloy - a master vampire - comes with a death wish. Many have tried, but few have survived.
For Caitlin, tracking Kane is about more than just professional reputation. With her parents both mysteriously killed 7 years apart to the day, Caitlin knows that without Kane's help she is next.
She has four days to make a deal with the wicked, the irresistible, the treacherous Kane Malloy. The vampire who despises everything she stands for. Or die.
Available at the following places:
Amazon (kindle)
Amazon (paperback)
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Excerpt:
He
appeared from behind her.
His
movements were swift and accurate: snatching the gun from her hand,
in the same instant he forced her face-first up against the wall, her
earpiece hitting the ground.
She
caught her breath, pressed her palms and knee to the wall in
preparation to push back but his hard body was already against hers,
his power reminding her that the strength she had in spirit was
absolutely no match for the supposedly three hundred-year-old
six-foot vampire who had her pinned to the wall as easily as he would
a sheet of paper. And as she felt the tip of her own gun press below
her ribs, she knew all four shots of the potent sedative, too
powerful for the human body, would end it all for her.
Just
like that.
But
instead of firing, his soft lips brushed her ear, the arrogant upward
curl of those enticing bow lips as clear in her mind as if he were
facing her. He tutted playfully, his low rasp raking beneath her
skin. ‘A little girl doing a man’s job – bound to end in
tears.’
Caitlin
clenched her fists. Brovin and Morgan had to be less than a minute
away. She had to stall him. Her instinct was to try to reach back and
catch his wrist. All she needed was her fingers on his pulse point
and she’d finally know those dark recesses that no expert could
reach – information she so desperately needed. But she knew she
wouldn’t have enough time to wait for that painfully slow vampire
heartbeat, even if she was in a position to get to him. There was
only one way she was going to get the time with him that she wanted
and needed.
‘Kane
Malloy, I’m detaining you under section 3.4 of the Vampire
Disciplinary Clause…’
He
laughed, deep, guttural, terse. ‘You’re
detaining me?’
‘On
twenty-one alleged accounts of crimes against members of the third
species including your own, thirty-two against humans…’
‘Delusional as
well as reckless. Are you seriously the best they’ve got?’
‘It’s
over, Kane.’
‘You
breathe too fast to be convincing,’ he goaded.
‘You
don’t breathe enough to judge me.’
He
exhaled curtly. Panic jolted through her as he deftly unclasped the
belt threaded through her jeans. To her disgust, for the first time
on any tracking operation, she froze.
Kill
her? Yes, of course the thought had crossed her mind. No matter how
unbelievable or surreal it seemed, she had known it was a
possibility. But rape? With her colleagues closing in there was no
way even Kane would have the arrogance to attempt it in the minutes,
maybe even seconds he had left.
But
this was Kane. And if he wanted to leave a message for the VCU, a
dead and violated tracker would ring loud and clear.
The
fact she'd even got this close would be insult too much for his ego.
She
snapped back a breath as he yanked her belt through the loops. And as
his heel cracked the buckle, destroying the only way the VCU could
locate her, she knew it was about to get worse.
Her phone followed
next, removed from her back pocket by his stealthy fingers.
‘You’re lucky
you serve a purpose,’ he said, combing her hair back over her
shoulder.
Her heart pounded
painfully. ‘What’s that supposed to mean?’
‘You’re the one
who’s obsessed with me – what do you
think?’
As
he traced the back of his cool fingers tenderly down her exposed
neck, a caress more sensual than she would have thought possible for
someone with such renowned brutality, Caitlin held her breath. She
was stunned by her own involuntary arousal, suppressing it with every
iota of conviction she had.
‘I
think you’d better walk away,’ she said, battling to get her
focus back on the job. ‘Or give yourself up.’
‘Not going to
happen, Caitlin.’ Pressing the tranquiliser gun tighter into her
side, Kane made her wince, his reputation restored. ‘Question is,
are you going to walk out of here co-operatively or am I going to
have to carry you?’
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Lindsay Pryor and her publisher are asking readers for their input
into some of the creative pieces that they've put together for Blood
Shadows.
You can see some of them here already… http://pinterest.com/lindsayjpryor/blackthorn-bites/
The aim is to get a sense of what readers are liking
ahead of developing the creative for Blood Roses (out in April) - as
well as to get people talking about Blood Shadows.
The
contest will be running via one of Lindsay's Pinterest boards and
people can make comments about what they do / don't like and vote for
their favourites with re-pins / likes.
Boards are opening up for voting in the evening of tuesday Jan 22nd
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Lindsay
J. Pryor
is a British Paranormal Romance author who writes dark, intense
stories set in the dystopian world of Blackthorn.
Her
trademark powerful vampire heroes and utterly combustible sensual
romances have earned Lindsay comparisons with both J.R Ward and
Sherrilyn Kenyon.
A
finalist in Mills & Boon’s New Voices
competition in both 2010 and 2011, Lindsay has already proved a smash
hit with readers.
Comments
like “Utterly
captivating”, “Jaw-droppingly good”, “Awesome”, “I forgot
to blink”, “The sexual tension is off the charts”, “I nearly
fainted when he removed her belt”, “I
drooled on my keyboard”
and even “Tell Kane he can have my soul RIGHT NOW!”
convinced Lindsay she just might have what it took to become a
published author.
With
the launch of Blood
Shadows,
that dream is now a reality. Her journey to published author
though has been a long one.
Lindsay
has been creating stories since she was nine years old, when she
quickly decided that fantasy was more interesting than reality. She
thought she’d grow out of it but hasn’t yet.
Despite
years of bashing out stories on an old typewriter, it was the death
of her father in 2007 that finally convinced Lindsay to try and
become a published author.
“One
of the last things my dad said to me was to do what I wanted to do in
life. After he passed away, I pulled out all my scribbles from over
the years and got back to writing what I loved most – paranormal
romance.”
If
reviews are anything to go by, it was a journey well worth making.
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