Rowan (The Hampshire Vampires, #3)
Description
Thérèse. An ancient lustful evil made flesh in the shape of a flame-haired seductress. A vampire who feeds on men and their desires. She's taken the mortality of many a victim, but only once has she unknowingly taken a heart as well. Rowan Selkirk lost his to this beautiful creature along with his soul-he loves her in spite of what she is.
Wandering in his eternal darkness, Rowan meets Marcus Camberley across the green baize of a London gaming table and finds himself attracted to the secrets he sees in the other man's eyes. A friendship is born from nights of passion and together they find their way south, where others of Rowan's kind await his coming, others determined to destroy the evil that is Thérèse.
Their plan will extract a high price however-from Rowan most of all. He must find the strength to put aside his love and his friendship if he is to save them. The darkness around them deepens as they learn some shocking truths-truths that illuminate the real and terrible shadows of Thérèse...
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British born and bred, Sahara Kelly has enjoyed writing and reading Regency romances for many decades, beginning in her childhood with books by Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer and Barbara Cartland.
Arriving in America with her almost-complete collection of Leslie Charteris' Saint novels, all the original James Bonds, and a passion for Monty Python, Sahara's new life eventually expanded to include a husband, offspring, citizenship, and a certain amount of acclimation to her new surroundings.
She never quite managed to attain a level of comfort with the American way of spelling, however, and creating a Regency novel offers challenges in that regard. So you'll see words that British readers will recognize, but American readers might perhaps find unusual. It's a choice... should one write an English romance using English spelling? Sahara has come around to that belief. She can now enjoy the extra "u" which has always seemed so colourful...
After more than three decades of writing, Sahara is now enjoying the greater freedom offered to authors by the rapidly expanding self-publishing scene and looking forward to many more such experiences.
Being freed of external controlling restraints has opened doors?for Sahara and many other writers. There are now no impediments; no obstructions barring the path from writer to reader. Which is, in many ways, exactly as originally intended when that first storyteller sat on a rock outside her cave, tugged her bearskin around her shoulders and smiled at her kids across the open fire with the words "Once upon a time..." (or however it sounded several million years ago.)
To find out more about Sahara Kelly and her writing, please drop by her website!
This is where Sahara shares none of the intimate details of her life, but will present you with a list of books she'd like you to buy so that she can go do research on a beach in Aruba and be pampered with massages accompanied by drinks with umbrellas in them. She'll send you a postcard. Thank you.
When not dreaming of lazing on tropical beaches, Sahara has a modestly active social presence on the Internet. Take a look:
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