Title: A Shade of Vampire (A Shade of Vampire #1)
Author: Bella Forrest
Release Date: December 14th 2012
On the evening of Sofia Claremont's seventeenth birthday, she is sucked
into a nightmare from which she cannot wake.
A quiet evening walk along a beach brings her face to face with a
dangerous pale creature that craves much more than her blood.
She is kidnapped to an island where the sun is eternally forbidden to
shine.
An island uncharted by any map and ruled by the most powerful vampire
coven on the planet. She wakes here as a slave, a captive in chains.
Sofia's life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn when she is the one
selected out of hundreds of girls to join the harem of Derek Novak, the
dark royal Prince.
Despite his addiction to power and obsessive thirst for her blood,
Sofia soon realizes that the safest place on the island is within his
quarters, and she must do all within her power to win him over if she is to
survive even one more night.
Will she succeed? ...or is she destined to the same fate that all other
girls have met at the hands of the Novaks?
EXCERPT
I’d been meandering along the shore for about an
hour when I suddenly sensed that I wasn’t alone. Someone was approaching me
from behind. My heart leapt. I was so sure it was Ben, that when a stranger
showed up beside me, I couldn’t hide my disappointment.
He must have
noticed, because a smirk formed on his lips. “Were you expecting someone else,
love?”
I eyed him
suspiciously, remembering how many times my father had told me not to talk to
strangers. I looked him over, taking in his appearance. My eyes widened. I
couldn’t find words to describe how fine a man he was. He was almost beautiful.
The first thing I took notice of was how his blue eyes were about three shades
brighter than any I’d ever seen before. It was such a stark contrast to his pale
– almost white – skin and dark hair. Standing beside me, he was easily more
than half a foot taller. His height, broad shoulders and lean build reminded me
of Ben, but he had a presence that was far more imposing than my best friend’s.
My gaze settled
on his face.
I realized that
he was inspecting me just as closely as I was him. His eyes on me suddenly made
me feel uncomfortably vulnerable. I gave my father’s advice a second thought,
but quickly canceled out all notions of heeding to his counsel when I reminded
myself that he stopped caring a long time ago.
I straightened
to my full height and mustered all the courage I had to keep myself from
running away from this stranger.
Big mistake.
The confident
smirk didn’t leave his face for even a moment.
“Like what you
see?”
“A bit full of
yourself, aren’t you?” I scoffed, annoyed by his audacity.
He stepped
forward, closer to me, and leaned his head toward mine.
“Don’t I have
the right to be?”
He knew he
looked good and wasn’t about to act like he didn’t.
“Whatever,” was
my oh-so-brilliant comeback.
My shoulders
sagged with defeat as I took a step back, unsettled by how close he was now. I
rolled my eyes and did a one-eighty, not quite in the mood to play whatever
game this stranger was proposing.
I would soon
realize that I was about to play his game whether I liked it or not.
He grabbed my
arm and turned my body to face him. This motion alone made every single
internal alarm I had within me go off in a frenzy.
This man was
danger and I knew it. I tried to wriggle away from his touch, but I was no
match for his strength.
“Tell me your
name,” he commanded.
I was about to
refuse, but was horrified to find myself blurting out my name in response.
“Sofia
Claremont.”
As soon as I
revealed my name, his eyes lit up with a kind of sinister approval. Then he
reached for my face and traced his thumb over my jaw line.
“Hello, Sofia
Claremont. You’re one stupid girl for taking a walk alone at this time of
night. You never know what kind of evil a pretty little thing like you could
happen to come by.”
I found myself
wondering exactly what kind of evil he was. But I was suddenly overcome by the
sensations that were surrounding me. My senses took in everything at once. I
heard the waves, felt the sand, smelled the ocean salt, tasted the flavor of
cherry and saw the stranger’s manic appearance as he stuck a needle to my neck.
The effect was instant. I was barely able to gasp, much less scream. I went
from sensing everything to sensing absolutely nothing.
My last conscious thought was that I may
never see Ben again.
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