The
Vampire’s Rival
Undead
in Brown County
Book
Six
S.J.
Wright
Genre:
Paranormal romance
Publisher:
Read and Wright Publishing LLC
ASIN:
B01E05LNK6
Number
of pages: 107
Word
Count: 32,000
Cover
Artist: S.J. Wright
Book
Description:
A
surprise visitor shows up at Sarah and Michael's lake house in
Indiana. His story is one that intrigues and frightens Sarah. What
frightens her more is the growing attraction she begins to feel for
this new vampire.
Can
she choose between Michael and a vampire she barely knows? Or will
that choice be taken from her?
Excerpt:
“He’s
been killing humans. Four since this late this morning, as far as we
can tell,” Kate told me. I could nearly detect a note of panic in
her voice, but I knew better than to address it.
“Does
anyone know where he is right now?”
“No.
One of the members of the Council was interviewed by Homeland
Security and positively identified Michael in a security video.”
“They
caught him on camera?”
“Yeah.
A convenience store in Chicago. He killed the cashier and one
bystander there, then an hour later got a taxi driver and his
passenger. It’s not like him to be so reckless, Alex. You know
that. Especially now that he’s king,” she said.
“What
is he trying to do?”
Kate
didn’t know either.
Telling
Sarah about that conversation wasn’t easy. It reopened her
emotional wounds. But I couldn’t see how hiding it from her would
help anyone. We climbed back into her truck. I drove this time.
She
was too quiet. I wasn’t sure if talking would help or not. Maybe
she needed to process everything that had happened on her own. I
didn’t really know what to say anyway. It was a nightmare for her
and I didn’t want to rehash everything and end up making it all
worse.
“Alex,
where should I go?” she asked. Her voice reminded me of a little
girl’s.
“I
don’t know. Is there anywhere you would be safe?”
We
both knew the answer. She would not be safe until Michael was locked
up again. And the only place that could happen would be…
“The
farm,” she said.
Getting
in touch with the lumber company wasn’t as difficult as we thought.
They had bought the property after the explosion and were ready to
have someone take it off their hands. The profit in the lumber wasn’t
as good as they imagined it would be.
So
Sarah wrote them a check from the joint account she’d opened with
Michael and signed the deed the next day. She had tears in her eyes
when they gave her the keys to the front gate. Whether they were
tears of sadness or nostalgia, I wasn’t sure. Maybe it was a
combination of the two.
The
problem was that Sarah had been turned outside of the farm property.
I had changed her into a vampire at the cabin. So she couldn’t go
onto the property herself until she was invited, just like other
vampires. It was different with me. I had been turned at the farm by
Michael and Victoria.
We
needed Kate.
So
Sarah called and requested that her sister come out there to let her
onto her own property. Sarah’s friend from school, Kara, let us
borrow her family’s large camping trailer and we towed it out the
farm entrance with Sarah’s truck.
It
didn’t take Kate very long at all to get back to Indiana.
She
pulled up in a fiery red Camaro convertible. She wasn’t alone. Her
mentor from the clinic in Brazil was in the passenger seat. Marco.
I’d met him once before and had been impressed with his knowledge.
Before
Kate even got out of the car, she was cussing. “I can’t believe I
have to fucking do this.”
“Don’t
even bother to say hi, Kate?” Sarah asked.
Kate
gave her a withering look and shook her head. “I’m sorry. Hi.
It’s been a long couple of months hunting that bastard Mahdi. I’ve
followed him through seven different states and two Caribbean
islands.”
“No
luck catching him, though?” I asked.
“Exactly,
Alex,” she retorted with spirit. “No luck on that score, Mr.
Obvious. Trust me. Once I get this guy, I will lose this attitude
I’ve got going on right now.”
Sarah
walked over to the gate and Kate followed. Kate put the key in the
lock and pulled the chain off the aluminum frame. She sighed deeply
and stood inside the property line.
“Sarah,
you are invited,” Kate said.
And
that was all we needed Kate for, but it didn’t take a genius to see
that her sister’s safety meant a great deal to her. “I think I’ll
stick around town for a while. Marco, you good with that?”
He
nodded and then punched up a few numbers on his cell phone. “I’ll
get a reservation somewhere.”
Sarah
began walking up the hill towards the spot where the house had stood
for so many decades. The house and barn had both been completely
demolished in the explosion, but a few things had remained.
“The
stones are still there,” Kate said as we followed Sarah up the
hill. “The cowshed is partially burnt, but still standing. Alex,
how can coming back here help m sister? This doesn’t make much
sense.”
I
glanced over at her. Her long dark curls were pulled up into a
ponytail and she was wearing a pair of tight jeans and a snug
sweater. I probably shouldn’t have looked at all.
“Kate,
if Michael has done what they are accusing him of, the Council will
catch him. And when they do, where do you think they will send him?”
She
laughed without a hint of humor, “Not Arizona, I hope. That place
is a wreck.”
“It
will be here. But he can’t get in without your invitation. We need
Michael to be put in here and then Sarah can leave and be safe. Do
you understand? Their relationship is over. She has to move on with
her life.”
“But
they don’t want Michael locked up.” She looked at me with those
dark eyes and I didn’t want to turn away.
“They
want him dead,” she finished quietly.
About
the Author:
S.J.
Wright first began writing stories when she was twelve years old. She
has been a cashier, a receptionist, a factory worker and has served a
multitude of other roles over the years. Her favorite role has been
that of a mother to her two sons.
The
Undead in Brown County series takes place in Brown County, Indiana.
She began writing the series in October of 2010. In February of 2011,
she published her first novel The Vampire's Warden as an ebook on
Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Since then, she has released five more
books in the series.
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