Author:
Margo Bond Collins
Release
date: May 2tth, 2014
Genre:
Paranormal
Book
Description:
A reluctant vampire hunter, stalking New York City as only a
scorned bride can.
Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer.
Elle Dupree has her life all figured out: first a wedding, then her Ph.D., then swank faculty parties where she’ll serve wine and cheese and introduce people to her husband the lawyer.
But those plans disintegrate when
she walks in on a vampire sucking the blood from her fiancé, Greg. Horrified,
she screams and runs—not away from the vampire, but toward it, brandishing a
wooden letter opener.
As she slams the improvised stake
into the vampire’s heart, a team of black-clad men bursts into the apartment.
Turning to face them, Elle realizes Greg’s body is gone—and her perfect life
falls apart
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18366353-legally-undead?ac=1
Book Excerpt
The
worst thing about vampires is that they're dead. That whole wanting to suck
your blood business runs a close second, but for sheer creepiness, it's the
dead bit that gets me every time. They're up and walking around and talking and
sucking blood, but they're dead. And then there's the whole terminology
problem--how can you kill something that's already dead? It's just wrong.
I
was twenty-four the first time I . . . destroyed? dispatched? . . . a vampire.
That's when I found out that all the books and movies are wrong. When you stick
a wooden stake into their hearts, vampires don't disintegrate into dust. They
don't explode. They don't spew blood everywhere. They just look surprised, groan,
and collapse into a pile of corpse. But at least they lie still then, like
corpses are supposed to.
Since
that first kill (I might as well use the word--there really isn’t a better
one), I've discovered that only if you're lucky do vampires look surprised
before they groan and fall down. If you're unlucky and miss the heart, they
look angry. And then they fight.
There
are the other usual ways to kill vampires, of course, but these other ways can
get a bit complicated. Vampires are notoriously difficult to trick into
sunlight. They have an uncanny ability to sense when there's any sunlight
within miles of them, and they're awfully good at hiding from it. Holy water
doesn't kill them; it just distracts them for a while, and then they get that
angry look again. And it takes a pretty big blade to cut off someone's
head--even an already dead someone--and carrying a great big knife around New
York City, even the Bronx, is a sure way to get arrested. Nope, pointy sticks
are the best way to go, all the way around.
My
own pointy stick is actually more of a little knife with wood inlay on the
blade--the metal makes it slide in easier. I had the knife specially made by an
old Italian guy in just about the only ratty part of Westchester, north of the
city. I tried to order one off the internet, but it turns out that while it’s
easy to find wood-inlay handles, the blades themselves tend to be metal. Fat
lot those people know.
But
I wasn’t thinking any of this when I pulled the knife out of the body on the
ground. I was thinking something more along the lines of “Oh, bloody hell. Not
again.”
About
the Author:
Margo Bond Collins is the author of Legally
Undead, first in an urban fantasy series coming in 2014 from World Weaver Press
(http://worldweaverpress.com/), Waking Up Dead, first in a
paranormal mystery series from Solstice Publishing (http://www.solsticepublishing.com/), and Fairy,
Texas, a YA paranormal romance series (also from Solstice). She lives in Texas
with her husband, their daughter, several spoiled cats, and a ridiculous
turtle. She teaches college English online. She loves paranormal fiction of any
genre and spends most of her free time daydreaming about vampires, ghosts,
zombies, werewolves, and other monsters.
Official Website:
www.MargoBondCollins.com
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/MargoBondCollins
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