Felicity Heaton is offering fantastic savings on one
of her vampire romance novels, Love Immortal. Between August 10th
and August 23rd, this long paranormal romance is available for the
bargain price of only $0.99 / £0.99 at Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books and Apple
iBooks/iTunes stores. That’s a $3 saving on the normal cover price, so grab
this perfect vacation book while you can and let it whisk you away to London,
Paris and Greece!
Here’s more about Love Immortal, including a peek at
the book:
Love Immortal
Felicity Heaton
Rescued from werewolves by the most breathtaking man she's ever seen, Lauren is
dragged into the fight of her life and a dark world she never knew existed.
There, she discovers that she's the latest reincarnation of a goddess and must
drink the blood of her immortal protector, Julian, in order to reawaken and
continue her three thousand year old mission to defeat Lycaon, the original
werewolf.
With the help of Julian and an organisation of people with supernatural
abilities, Lauren fights for her life, their future and the fate of mankind
against Lycaon and his deadly army, but can she succeed when Lycaon has killed
all of her predecessors?
Can she crack the armour around Julian's heart and seize her happily forever
after with him? And can Julian bring himself to trust Lauren with the fragments
of his heart after everything he's been through?
Grab the offer at these ebook stores:
Love Immortal –
Excerpt
Julian leaned forwards, his elbows coming to rest on
his knees. She could see down his collar. The light was dull but she could see
enough to tell that he was good looking. Her gaze darted to the lamp beside her
bed. If she could just turn that on, she would see him properly at last. She
would see that her instinct about him had been right.
He was more handsome than anyone she’d ever met.
Her heart skipped.
A soft look entered his eyes, his expression earnest and open.
“I am your guardian, Lauren,” Julian said in such a calm and gentle tone that
the tight feeling inside her began to melt away. She liked how he said her
name, pronouncing it slowly and carefully as though he was savouring it. “I
would bleed myself dry if you willed it. I am yours to command. It is not a
matter of strength, but if you believe it is, then use mine until you find your
own.”
Her heart thudded now, hard and heavy against her ribs. God, could this man be
any more wonderful? All of her tension melted and her bones began to follow it.
Warmth glowed inside her, happiness that this man believed in her even though
he barely knew her. He believed that she was strong and she could feel the
truth in his words. He would do everything he said. He would lend her his
strength, and he would bleed himself dry for her.
“Would you really do that? Bleed yourself dry?” she said, captivated by the
romantic notion of him doing anything for her, even risking his life. She
wanted to hear him say it again.
His pale eyes narrowed slightly and she couldn’t take hers away from them.
There was something about his eyes. She could look into them for forever. The
world could end and she wouldn’t care if he were looking at her as he was now.
“If you desired it,” Julian husked. Tingles chased down her back, spreading
through her. “My blood is yours. If you needed it all, you would have it.”
Even when he talked about blood, she felt intensely drawn to him, willing to do
whatever he asked if he could promise her eternity with him. It was crazy.
Insane. She didn’t know enough about him to be dreaming that kind of future.
Perhaps she’d been alone too long. But then, a man had never looked at her the
way that Julian did.
With love.
With intense passion.
With need that said he might die without her.
If he kept looking at her like that, she would go through with the awakening
just so he would continue.
“How much blood do I normally need… to awaken?”
“Enough that I am too weak to protect you. Should Lycaon attack, we will be
vulnerable.”
Those words sent an unpleasant shiver through her and made her realise that she
didn’t like the idea of Julian bleeding himself dry for her after all. She
didn’t want him to die. She wanted him to live. Even the thought of her
awakening weakening him left her cold. Had he learned from experience that they
were vulnerable during her awakening?
“Is that why we’re here?” Lauren leaned forwards a little, her eyes still
locked on his, searching them for answers.
He nodded. “It is. The Ghosts will protect us. They do not fully understand the
situation, but they will not fail us should there be an attack.”
“Would you fight?” That question made her stomach turn.
He nodded again, solemn and slow.
“Why?” She sat back in the armchair, horrified by the thought that he would
risk his life for her by fighting when he was weak.
“Because my duty is to protect you.”
Lauren didn’t have a response to that. He really did believe in his duty, and
he’d carried it out for millennia. He knew his purpose in life and he was
sticking to it. She knew hers and couldn’t decide whether to embrace it or bury
her head in the sand.
It wouldn’t get her anywhere if she did that though. Burying your head in the
sand didn’t stop death.
Julian was still looking at her with a soft tenderness in his eyes. How far
would he go for his duty? She tried to think of a way to test him, to plumb the
depths of his dedication to her.
“Would you do anything I asked?” Lauren said cautiously, looking deep into his
eyes to check if he was telling the truth when he answered.
He nodded again. The look in his eyes hardened for a moment and a shadow of
pain crossed them. Lauren leaned forwards again. What had he been thinking? She
hated seeing hurt in his eyes. When he’d left her room this morning looking so
sad, it had torn her apart inside with worry. Something terrible had happened
to him in his past. It had to have to make him look at her as though he was
dying inside.
“Even kill Lycaon?” she said.
“If I could.” His voice was low and as cautious as hers had been.
“If?”
He took a deep breath and sighed. “It is forbidden. The death of Lycaon is your
duty and yours alone to carry out. I cannot interfere in that battle, just as
Lycaon cannot interfere with my existence. When Illia died, Zeus realised his
mistake. Zeus did what he could to help you. He made me immortal as you wished,
and he made me invulnerable to the threat of Lycaon, but he could not change
your curse to make you invulnerable to Lycaon’s blade. He could only ensure
that you would be reborn and that I would be there to awaken you.” Julian
leaned closer, his eyes on hers, and then cast them downwards at the floor. “If
I could spare you from the horrors of battle, I would.”
There was an edge to his voice. Lauren could read between the lines. He wanted
to protect her and it seemed duty didn’t have anything to do with it.
Lauren stared out at the night through the crack in the curtains of the middle
window. The sky was growing light in the distance above the building opposite.
The air in the room was heavy, hard to breathe, thick like tar in her lungs.
She didn’t know what to say. Did Julian want to protect her for another reason?
Was that reason anything to do with the way he looked at her sometimes?
Did it have anything to do with her, or was there more to her reincarnation
than she knew?
“Am I always the same when you meet me?” she said slowly, unsure of whether she
wanted to know the answer to that question.
“Your instincts sometimes carry on,” he said in a distant tone. She continued
to stare out of the window. “There is a reason you are drawn to swords and
combat.”
“A shinai is very different to a real sword… but when I’m facing my opponent in
kendo, when I’m fighting, I feel a strange kind of peace, as though everything
is right in the world. Is that my instincts too?” She glanced at his katana
where it rested on the bed beside him. She’d never held one before. How was she
supposed to fight with a sword when she was used to nothing more than a
glorified bamboo stick?
“Perhaps. The principle of combat is the same in real life as it is in kendo,
and I will train you.”
Her gaze darted to him long enough to see he was looking at the sword now, and then
went back to the window and the beginning of dawn.
“I will see to it that you can fight, Lauren. Do not fear.”
The niggling feeling of doubt and fear in her stomach disappeared. She was sure
that he would keep his word and teach her how to fight. She just wasn’t sure
how good she would be at it. She was only at second grade level in kendo.
She pushed away her worries and watched the sky. The dawn was fast becoming
beautiful, as peaceful as she felt inside. Pink traced the sky. Gold lined the
scattered clouds.
“Do I always look the same?” It was the question she’d originally wanted to ask
and the one that she feared the most.
“Yes.” His eyes were on her now. She could feel them. A blush touched her
cheeks and she was glad that the low light would hide it from him.
“Sound the same?”
“Yes, but the language is often different.”
Lauren looked at him, her heart on the verge of falling into her stomach. It
had risen so high, so far into her throat that the drop was dizzying, like
plummeting down a rollercoaster.
Julian had mentioned that Illia had changed him. She had desired him to live.
In her heart, Lauren knew what that meant. Illia had loved Julian.
Had Julian loved Illia?
Lauren was just a carbon copy, a replication of the original that he’d loved.
Her heart hit her feet. She frowned at the sky, trying to pretend that she
found it interesting even though it had lost all its colour and warmth the
moment she’d realised that all the looks Julian had given her were really about
Illia.
She tried to say something but the words stuck in her throat. She coughed to
clear it and then breathed deep in an attempt to steady herself so he wouldn’t
hear the hurt in her voice when she spoke.
“Will I remember my past lives when I awaken?” Her voice was still tight. She
feared that he would notice her change in feeling—her hurt. If he did, he
didn’t mention it.
“I do not know.” His gaze was still on her. She could feel it and she wished
she couldn’t. She wanted to make him leave. She ached for her old life—for the
time when she’d been normal, not some reincarnated demi-goddess. “Sometimes you
remember little things.”
Lauren stared into the distance, hoping that she remembered nothing this time.
The thought that she was continually reincarnated had begun to feel comforting
but now it choked her. It made her feel small and insignificant. To Julian, she
was just another Illia. It was probably instinct making her fall for him, not
her real feelings.
She was such a fool.
She’d been an idiot to think that someone like Julian would really look at her
that way. When he looked at her, he was looking at Illia. Well, whatever he
believed, she wasn’t Illia. She didn’t know who that woman was, but she was
sure that Illia had been strong and brave and everything that Lauren wasn’t.
Lauren wanted to laugh at herself but her gut twisted when she thought about
Illia. She pressed her hand to it, surprised by the violent feeling. Jealousy
had never hurt like this before.
Gentle fingertips against her jaw made her start. Heat danced around the spots
they touched. Julian slowly brought her head around so she was facing him. Her
gaze dropped to her bare feet. She couldn’t look at him now. If he saw her
feelings, she didn’t know what she would do. Right now, she felt vulnerable and
weaker than ever, and one wrong look from him could break her.
His fingers brushed through the strands of her wet hair, his caress tender and
soft, very careful.
“You seem so different this time,” he whispered and her heart started at a
pace, lodging itself in her throat and trembling. “Your hair…”
“It’s dyed,” she said, eyes shooting to his.
“I know.” There was a faint hint of a smile in his shadowed face. Her insides
flipped. What he said next made them jig and her head spin. “It suits you. It
brings out warmth in you that I have never seen before.”
Her eyes widened. Warmth that he’d never seen before? Were all her predecessors
cold? Even Illia?
“I understand that this is difficult for you, Lauren. Each time you are so
different, you react so differently, but it is always hard for you to come to
terms with what is happening.” His fingers paused in her hair, resting gently
against her scalp. His palm brushed her cheek and she was tempted to lean into
it. “I should have reached you sooner. I am sorry that I took so long… and that
because of me you have less time to make your decision.”
There was such an earnest look in the depths of his pale blue eyes, tinted with
regret, that Lauren found herself reaching up and covering his hand with hers,
wanting to comfort him. Her fingers closed over his, pressing into his palm.
His hand was so warm.
“How did you find me?”
“I told you. I can sense things. That sense is strongest when it comes to you.
It guides me to you.” He paused and drew a deep breath. This time, he didn’t
sigh. The hurt was back in his eyes. “I normally find you faster, but I was…
delayed.”
Lauren knew better than to probe into that answer. Whatever the delay had been,
it had pained him. As much as she wanted to know, she couldn’t ask. After the
way he’d looked at her this evening, she never wanted to hurt him.
Because he already held a world of pain in his eyes.
His hand left hers and she sat back, again becoming aware that she was only
wearing a towel, only now she didn’t care.
Lauren stared deep into Julian’s eyes, mesmerised by every dark fleck against
palest blue. A sense of calm filled her, as though she’d found a haven in a
storm and knew that she was safe at last. The things he’d told her lost their
frightening edge. Everything seemed strangely normal.
Everything felt fine again.
Julian was immortal—a vampire of sorts. She’d lived thirty lifetimes and was on
a mission to stop the king of werewolves before he managed to get revenge on
the ancient Greek gods. Soon her latent abilities would awaken and she would
become immortal again. Perfectly normal. Completely insane.
When she looked into Julian’s eyes, the world was right again. When she looked
into his eyes, strength surged through her and she was ready to take on Lycaon
and defeat him at last.
It felt so warm and quiet here with him, drifting through her life one breath
at a time, one heartbeat after another.
Lauren frowned.
“Is the hypnotism thing a power of yours too?” It had to be a power. He hadn’t
told her all of his abilities yet and she was sure that this was one of them.
“Hypnotism?” His left eyebrow rose and then they both knitted into a frown.
“Yeah. You did it the night we met and you’re doing it now. When I look into
your eyes—” She cut herself off when it struck her that he wasn’t hypnotising
her. There was another possibility. She really did like him. First, the instant
attraction, then the jealousy and now she turned into a daydreaming little girl
whenever he looked into her eyes. She might as well just melt into a puddle
around him. It was fortunate that she could speak or look at him at all without
falling apart. Lauren chided herself. She was stronger than this. No man was
about to reduce her to a quivering wreck. “Forget I said anything.”
The ardent way he looked at her sent a blush blazing across her cheeks.
Standing, she turned away and walked into the bathroom, taking her clothes with
her.
She stopped in front of the mirror and looked in the reflection at Julian. Her
stomach flipped. He was watching her, his gaze drifting down her back towards
her legs.
Was she really different to Illia? Warmer? If anyone would know, it would be
Julian.
When Julian looked at her, did he see her or did he see Illia?
She hoped that he saw her.
Because when she looked at Julian, she saw a man who was stealing her heart
piece by piece.
Grab the offer at these ebook stores:
About Felicity Heaton:
Felicity Heaton writes passionate paranormal romance
books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton. In her books she creates detailed
worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping
romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy
shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!
If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara
Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then
you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked,
Felicity Heaton’s best selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong,
powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series she writes as F
E Heaton or any of her stand alone vampire romance books she writes as Felicity
Heaton. Or if you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate
and erotic then try Felicity Heaton’s new Vampire Erotic Theatre series.
In 2011, five of her six paranormal romance books
received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated
as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of her
releases received five star reviews from numerous websites.
If you want to
know more about Felicity, or want to get in touch, you can find her at the
following places:
Happy Reading!
~!~ Amanda ~!~
