Blood Feud (short story)
Demon Kissed
Shadow's Caress
Enemy Embrace
Phoenix Burning
Games of Desire
You can see the full series with purchase links on my website. Here's the Blood Feud Series page.
My agent had tried to encourage me to write vampire romance before everyone and their uncle was writing it, but I wanted to write demon romance instead. :-) Then I was approached by an editor at Mammoth Books and asked to contribute to The Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance 2, which is a collection of short stories from lots of authors. Luckily, Isobel and Seere showed up.
Isobel was a vampire enforcer--the vampire's version of the police--and Seere was a demon prince. They have a past, which was a necessity with as few words as I was allowed, but the romance was cut short because there's a cold war between demons and vampires. There used to be a real war, but that ended centuries earlier. Now they simply avoid each other. But someone is killing vampires and it looks as if it's a demon. They're assigned to work together to find the murderer. If they don't, there will be real war between the societies again.
All the other titles in the series are novellas and this gave me more space to explore the world. You see, although I'd never planned on writing vampires, once I did write one, I became fascinated.
Vampires are "born" into clans depending on who brings them across and everyone ties back to a clan lord. There originally were seven, but one died in during the Demon Wars and his "children" are now untethered. Some have gone rogue.
The Demons have a feudal system with kings/princes/earls/etc and there are different types of demons with varying strengths and weaknesses. Demons can fall in love with anyone, but they can only mate with someone who is at least half demon. Mating is until death do us part.
Demon Kissed explores the demons, introduces the demon executioners, and we learn there's a human contingent. The demon slayers.
Shadow's Caress has a vampire hero and a human heroine who used to be a vampire hunter, another human group that knows the truth about the paranormal creatures out and about.
Enemy Embrace has a heroine who's a vampire hunter and she's hunting a rogue vampire. The hero is a demon executioner who is assigned to kill the same vampire by his king. This is as a favor to one of the clan lords. Now another group is mentioned, one that comes into play in another novella. The wizards.
Phoenix Burning brings in another group of vampires. They feed off of sexual energy once they come of age and Phoenix has reached her time. Her hero is a regular vampire. This story is where we get to meet the vampire clan lord who is headquartered in Los Angeles. He's worried about the rogue vampires.
The last story that's been released is Games of Desire. A wizard heroine and a demon hero. The wizards have a few factions of their own and all isn't hunky dory in their world either and they for damn sure don't trust vampires or demons.
I actually have three more stories set to go in this world that goes deeper into two of the factions of wizards, the rogue vampires and connected vampires, and the third story involves a demon princess. I just don't know when I'll get around to writing these stories. I'd like to, though. This world is full of magical and paranormal beings and the richness of possibilities intrigues me.
