The Vampire Next Door: Book 4 in The Psychic Crystal Mystery series
By Marilyn Baron
Blurb:
Aurora Dawn Hale, the ravishing daughter and granddaughter of psychics, wants to take a bite out of the boy next door, reformed vampire Lancelot “Lance” Lakeland, who repents his past and desperately desires to be good.
Lance has given up immortality to be with the woman he craves. He must convince Aurora Dawn he is worthy of her trust. Will she love him for who he is and leave her fiancé at the altar? Or wake up from her spell in time to recognize the evil presence of the fiend who has terrorized her family for centuries?
Book 1, Sixth Sense
Book 2, Homecoming Homicides
Book 3, Killer Cruise
Excerpt:
Aurora Dawn threw open her bedroom window to welcome the sunlight and lowered her long blonde locks down the brick wall, Rapunzel-style, something she’d done every day since she was a teenager. What was she waiting for? Who was she waiting for? Yearning for? Prince Charming? Or just someone to rescue her from an arranged marriage that would ruin her life?
She listened for sounds emanating from the walled mansion next door. All she heard was the jarring sound of lawn machinery, buzzing through the thickets. There would be no last-minute reprieve.
For weeks, as the wedding got closer, Aurora Dawn’s nerves had become more frayed. She had been hesitant to face the truth. And the truth was she didn’t want to marry Bronx Bamberger. She was a coward. She couldn’t confront her fiancé, and she was afraid to tell her mother. Her mother had been working tirelessly for a year with Bronx’s mother, Betsey, to plan the perfect wedding. How could she disappoint her parents and bring all those expensive plans crashing down around her family? It would be a disgrace. It would be the topic for tabloids, and it wasn’t fair to her mother, who hated publicity. She had gone along because she did love Bronx in a way. They had been best friends for years. But it wasn’t the kind of love that stirred her heart, the passionate kind of love she read about in fairy tales, the kind of love she wrote about, that she knew was out there.
Then she saw a face staring out at her from the upstairs window across the yard. The new boy—no, a man really, judging from the sheer size of him. Her heart fluttered with a primal hunger. Her blood pulsed and her spirit soared. When he took aim at her with his smile, something unexpected slammed into her chest with the blunt force of a bullet, speeding her heart rate with the piercing accuracy of Cupid’s arrow. Now this…this was what she’d been waiting for. The boy waved, and she beamed back. He signaled he would meet her downstairs. They were of the same mind, then. She nodded eagerly. She’d been a good, obedient girl her whole life. And now she wanted to take a bite out of the boy next door.
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Author Bio:
Marilyn Baron writes in a variety of genres, from humorous coming-of-middle age women’s
fiction to historical romantic thrillers and romantic suspense to
paranormal/fantasy. THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR, Book Four in the Psychic Crystal
Mystery series, released June 9, 2017, is her 12th novel published with The
Wild Rose Press. She signed her 13th contract for a romantic suspense called,
The Alibi. She’s published five short stories with TWB Press and self-published
three books, including a musical about Alzheimer’s called Memory Lane.
AmazonEncore republished her book Sixth Sense on September 15, 2015. She’s
received writing awards in Romance, Single Title, Suspense Romance, Novel With
Strong Romantic Elements and Paranormal//Fantasy Romance. She’s a PRO member of
Romance Writers of America and Georgia Romance Writers and winner of the
Georgia Romance Writers 2009 Chapter Service Award. A public relations
consultant in Atlanta, she graduated with a BS in Journalism and a minor in
Creative Writing from the University of Florida. She worked in Public Relations
for AT&T in Atlanta for 13 years before starting her own PR firm. She
serves on the 2017-2018 Roswell Reads Steering Committee. She was selected as a
featured author in the 2016 Atlanta Author Series. And she’s the Finalist for
the 2017 Georgia Author of the Year Awards in the Romance category for her
book, Stumble Stones: A Novel. She loves to read and is a member of two book
clubs. She also loves to travel and sets many of her books in places she’s
visited or lived, including Florida, Bermuda, Italy, Germany, and Australia.
She is busy writing her next novel, The Siege, a contemporary/historical
romance about Crete during World War II. Read more about Marilyn’s books at
www.marilynbaron.com.
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Neat-looking cover! Best of luck with promotion and sales.
ReplyDeleteThank you Judy. I appreciate the comment.
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Marilyn, I'm so happy to have you on my blog. Best of luck with this new release!
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