Well, here we are. Starting anew in my Darkness series. When Penetrating was finished, I felt like something was incomplete. I wasn’t ready to let the Darkness go just yet. That’s when the idea for Consuming came about. With the sun back, the town would need to be rebuilt. Enter detective Sierra Storm. She’s a no-nonsense woman. The job is her life. So when a serial killer shows up in the city, she’s tasked to take him in. I love writing about strong women. But I also love showing their vulnerable spot.
Want to know more. Here you
go.
Consuming the Darkness
Blurb:
In Jacob’s
Cove, where death is as common as apple pie, a serial murderer is a first.
Lieutenant Sienna Storm, the town’s newly minted homicide detective, is eager
to prove she’s up to the job of tracking down the demon who rips out his
victims’ still-beating hearts. Even if it means using her abilities.
Detective Nathan Powers lost his partner to the
aptly named Heartless Killer, and the trail of bodies leads him to Jacob’s
Cove, a strange world populated with bloodthirsty demons and run by a vampire.
Still, the leggy blonde, Sienna, is a pleasant distraction. Until he discovers
she’s after the same killer—and she’s not sharing.
On the hunt, the more they cross paths, the harder
it is to stay apart. Together they discover not only clues, but a searing
desire, one that may be their downfall when the killer targets Nathan, and
Sienna risks everything to get him back.
Excerpt:
Consuming the
Darkness Excerpt:
“Behind you! Get
down.”
The gun came up
in his hand, aimed at her head. She felt the presence of the vampire as he
jumped out from behind the dumpster. As she spun around to take him down, the
gun fired, hitting the vamp in the right shoulder. He jerked back, screeching
like a banshee.
“What the hell
are you doing?” she yelled at the man with the gun as she ran to the vamp.
“Daisy, stay!” Daisy sat as she’d been instructed while Sienna knelt down
beside the screaming vamp. She pressed her knee to the vamp’s bleeding shoulder
to ensure that he wouldn’t move. “You are under arrest for breaking the laws of
human and vampire and will be detained in the local jail while awaiting trial.”
“You’re a cop?”
the guy behind her responded.
“Yeah, I’m a cop. Oh, stop your screaming
already,” she yelled at the vamp, then flipped him onto his belly and pulled
his arms to his back, pinning them in one hand while she searched for her
handcuffs. “Damn it, why don’t I have my cuffs on me. Wanna tell me why you
were about to attack me?”
“I
wasn’t…honest…I was only…out for a walk. Yeah, I was walking. I’m going to sue
the cops for harassment. I was minding my own. Fuck, my shoulder is killing me.
Police brutality!”
“Shut the hell
up. No one gives a damn.”
“Here.”
Sienna glanced
up to see a set of shiny silver handcuffs dangling down before her. Glancing
up, she took a moment to survey the gentleman and noticed he wasn’t bad on the
eyes. His dark brown hair was messed up but somehow looked natural. And wow!
The guy had a hell of a body. Broad shoulders, wide chest, and narrow waist.
His face was pretty decent to look at, even with that thin line of hair over
his upper lip that ran down the sides of his mouth to cover his chin. He had
nice eyes, dark, round, with long lashes. “I’d prefer a regulation set rather
than your bondage toys.”
“These are
regulation. I’m a detective. Nathan Powers,” he introduced in a deep, throaty
voice that sounded as if he’d had one too many cigarettes.
The vamp
squirming beneath her, she took the cuffs. Before slapping them on the vamp’s
wrists she made sure they were regulation. Flipping him onto his back, Sienna
pinned him with her knee as she had before. “Don’t try anything stupid.”
“Bitch!” the
vamp spat.
“What the hell’s
with the yellow contacts and fake fangs?”
Sienna glanced
over her shoulder as she responded to the detective. “What? You’ve never seen a
vampire before?”
“A what?”
“A vampire.”
“I heard you. I
thought I’d seen it all, but I guess not. Now we’ve got junkies playing
vampire,” The detective chuckled with a shake of his head.
One look at the
guy told her he was serious. “Oh jeez, he’s a virgin.” She rolled her eyes. “I
told you to shut up.” She yanked the screaming vamp to his feet. “This is a
vampire, not a fake, the real deal and if you plan on being in Jacob’s Cove for
any amount of time you might want to be on the lookout for them. Some of them
refuse to abide by the new laws. Isn’t that right, screamer?”
“Seriously
though, he’s a vampire like the blood-sucking kind?”
“Don’t know any
other kind.”
“Shouldn’t you
like…you know, jam a wooden stake through his heart? I can’t believe I just
said that.” He laughed boldly.
Was he for real?
She didn’t care for the sarcasm in his voice.
“Neither can I. We prefer to rehabilitate them rather than turning them to
dust.” Holding the vamp in one hand, she pulled her cell phone out with the
other and dialed the station. “Lieutenant Storm here. I have a rogue vamp I
need brought in.”
“I wasn’t doing
anything, you stupid bitch.”
She clamped onto
the squirming vamp a little tighter as she gave her location. She slipped her
phone back into her shirt pocket when she was through and gave the vamp a hard
shove against the dumpster. “Right, you were only skulking in the dark because
you needed a smoke, right?”
“It’s a free
world last time I looked.”
“Sure, except
when you’re attempting to drink someone dry. Save it for the judge; I’m done
listening.”
“You can’t prove
anything. I’m innocent.”
“Do you know
what I am?” she asked as she leaned in real close. “I’m a Tejakkan which means
I have precog abilities. I saw you moments before you jumped out and I saw just
what you’d planned to do so save your ‘I’m innocent’ act for someone who gives
a damn.”
“Bitch!”
“That’s right
and remember it.”
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