Prima
The Vanguards Book 6
The Vanguards Book 6
Annie Nicholas
Genre: Paranormal
Romance
Number of pages:
150
Word Count: 44, 000
Cover Artist:
Hailey Edwards
Book
Description:
One year ago, Sugar
survived a wolf shifter attack but it had left her broken. Paralyzed on the left side, she fights for
independence in her day-to-day life. Her worst injuries are the scars on her
soul. She can’t bear who she has become and it drives her to push her vampire
lover, Daedalus, away. How could he still love her when she is just a shadow of
herself? But a new threat on Daedalus’s life yanks away her veil of self-pity
and she resolves to help him.
The vampire council
sends an emissary to Daedalus. His clan brother, another Nosferatu, hands him
an ultimatum. Return to his post as Prime in Pal Robi or he’ll kill Sugar and
her shifter friends. Daedalus has brought enough trouble into Sugar’s life. He
won’t be responsible for more, so he agrees to leave Chicago.
To both warriors
surprise, Sugar’s not willing to remain behind, and with her own shifter guards
she’s ready to assist Daedalus regain control of Pal Robi.
giveaway is one ecopy of Prima at each host site.
As soon as he closed the sliding glass door shut, Daedalus
would bet his bank account that his conversation with Pallas would only have a
pretense of privacy. Shifter hearing could be miraculous, especially when
pressed to cracked-open windows. The distant sound of a chair clattering to the
floor in the dining room reached his own sensitive hearing. He could picture
his housemates scrambling to find the best places to eavesdrop.
Pallas strode to the center of the moonlit garden. “So the
rumors are true. You’ve lost your mind.”
Daedalus chuckled. The other Nosferatu hadn’t changed.
They’d been close once. “Maybe. I wish the one about you was true.”
Pallas spun around. “Which one?”
“You being dead.”
“That would be too convenient.” A familiar crooked smile
bloomed on his ugly face.
Daedalus laughed louder and shook Pallas’s hand, squeezing
his fingers together as hard as he could. “You’re such an ass.” Bearer of bad
news or not, he was still a brother, a tie to his past, and a comrade at arms.
Pallas returned his strong grip. “I learned from the best.”
His clan brother, and he used that term loosely since they weren’t born from
the same parents, bore the trademark appearance of their people—bald, pale, and
deadly. “You’re creating quite a stir in the council, enough for them to coerce
me to wake and seek you out.”
They released the painful handshake, and Daedalus shook his
numb fingers, grinning as Pallas did the same. “You can tell them, for once,
I’m happy.”
He snorted. “Like they care. I can’t believe you’re living
with shifters again.” He made a distasteful noise. “Nasty habit. They said you left your post.”
“I did, and I left it in good hands.” Then the fools were
killed and the traitors who took over tried to have him assassinated, but
Pallas didn’t need to know that.
“Your company is in chaos. I went there before arriving
here.”
“No.” Pal Robi Inc. was his private security company, hence
it being named after him. What better than hiring an almost indestructible
vampire as a guard? The company also served as a front for the vampire
political structure in his area. Vampires had revealed themselves, with the
other supernatural creatures, to humans fifteen years ago. Vampires were
expected to follow human laws and their government, but vampire society had had
these things in place long before humans had figured out how to organize
themselves. The Vampire Council didn’t expect their people to follow human
laws, but Pal Robi Inc. was developed to give his people legal jobs and to
police their hunting. In other words, if a vampire couldn’t feed without
killing, it was his responsibility to stop that person before humans were aware
of it. “I didn’t assign those who presently think they are running my
company.”
Pallas sighed. “Are they under your command?” He gave
Daedalus a pointed stare. “Currently.”
“No.” Daedalus shrugged. “How much damage can they do? The
last thing they want is to draw the Council’s attention. I haven’t truly lost
control.”
“Your estate is abandoned.”
“It’s not abandoned. I dispersed my staff to other tasks,
and there’s a shifter house sitter. You probably scared the shit out of him.”
He’d have to call Stephen and check on him. The young shifter didn't like
company, let alone drop-ins from hell.
“A little scare never killed anyone. The council wants you
to straighten things out at Pal Robi Inc. and return to your post as Prime.
Things are falling apart in the area.”
An alien sourness curdled his stomach. He examined the odd
sensation and decided he didn’t like the source. “Or what?” This visit was
expected. Not Pallas himself but someone the council would send. The Prime kept
the peace among vampirekind in his area. Sort of like a sheriff. If those
traitors hadn’t been so greedy and tried to kill him, things would still be
fine.
“They’ll make me kill everyone at Pal Robi Inc…” Pallas’s
gaze wandered to the house, “…and here.”
“Do you think you can defeat me?” It had been ages since
he’d fought one of his own kind. Living among the Vasi pack had softened him.
A hard shield fell over Pallas’s eyes. “Yes.”
About the Author:
Annie Nicholas
hibernates in the rural, green mountains of Vermont where she dreams of
different worlds, heroes, and heroines. When spring arrives the stories pour
from her, in hopes to share them with the masses one day. Mother, daughter,
wife are some of the hats she happily wears while trudging after her cubs
through the hills and dales. The four seasons an inspiration and muse.
Website: www.annienicholas.com
@annienicholas
Comments
viajeradelmar@aol.com