Book
Four in the Immortalis Series
It’s a
desperate time for rookie vampire Alyssa, and her sanity is hanging by a slender
thread. Her clan is still reeling from the monumental battle with Aniketos; a
battle that claimed the body of Lysander, her sire and lover, and trapped his
spirit in a mysterious crystal. A Soulstone.
Unfortunately,
no amount of magic has been able to release Lysander’s spirit, and the stone is
starting to fade. Weeks of effort have proved futile. Her clan, the Peregrinus,
have all but given up hope. Only Alyssa still believes her lover can be
released. In despair, Alyssa begs the help of the local witch coven, and
unwittingly exposes the supernaturals of Boston to unwanted attention from the
Acta Sanctorum.
The
Saints converge on the city and begin their cleansing crusade to rid the world
of all things “Unnatural.” In the middle of an all-out war, but no closer to a
solution to the dying stone, Alyssa is left with an unenviable choice: save her
mate, or save her clan.
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Excerpt:
Down
the creaky steps I walked, alone, heading for the basement.
Visiting
Lysander had become my nightly ritual. I’d wake up in my bed, reach out to the
empty sheets, and feel nothing but crushing emptiness. It’s hard to believe
that the absence of someone can bear such a heavy weight on one’s soul, but it
does. That’s when realization would hit me, and I’d relive that terrible memory
of seeing Lysander, my love, my mate, dive into the flames. Only after coming
downstairs to the dark, dungeon-like basement, would I feel better.
I
took a deep breath and stepped down onto the cold concrete floor. To my already
tepid skin, the ground felt icy. Winter’s chill had frozen everything, and the
basement was no real shelter from the cold. I probably should have worn
something more than socks, but in my desperation to see him, I’d ignored basic
necessities. I shook off the chill working its way up my spine and continued
on.
“Good
evening sweetie.” I said it as if he could hear me.
His
spirit could, I guess, but Lysander had no voice with which to respond. Still,
it made me feel better to talk to him as if he were alive and in front of me.
“It’s
snowing outside. Boston is a winter wonderland. Zuri took us shopping for coats
and boots.” Lysander had lived the last fifty years in Las Vegas. I had grown
up there, before becoming a vampire. So for desert rats such as us, snow was as
infrequent as rain, which made them special. Now that we were on the east
coast, both were very common but neither had lost their beauty, at least to me
they hadn’t. “I wish you could see it, honey. It’s just gorgeous out there.
Everything’s covered in white.”
No
response, as always. Not that I had really expected one. Hoped for, yes. But,
at this rate, my hope was beginning to wear thin.
Too
much time had passed since he’d been trapped inside the crystal that now served
as his prison. The fragile hope I held of saving him was almost gone. I grew
restless for a resolution. His spirit felt weaker. The warmth of his presence was
almost … transparent.
Ariana,
our resident witch, had not yet come up with a solution. She’d managed an
impressive feat, trapping Aniketos back into the Pandora’s Box. But because she’d
used her own spells instead of the original ones from the old scrolls, Lysander
had been trapped too. His spirit now resided in a large blood-red crystal.
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