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INFORMATION
TITLE – The Hunger
SERIES – The Companion Series
AUTHOR – Susan Squires
GENRE – Regency Paranormal Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – June 23, 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 101,000
PUBLISHER – Independent
COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole, Dreams2Media
BOOK
SYNOPSIS
Discover a realm where anything is possible. Where
peril and passion collide. Where a woman is tempted by a man she wants by can
never have; a man she could destroy with just one kiss…
AN UNDENIABLE DESIRE
The year is 1811, and the vampire Beatrix Lisse has spent
six hundred years trying to atone for the sins she committed with her adopted
sister and rival, Asharti. She’s grown weary of life, until she meet John
Staunton, the Earl of Langley. John is London’s most notorious rogue, but he sees
an innocence in Beatrix that she no longer believes exists. But Beatrix can’t
bring herself to reveal her true nature to John, even after they surrender to
their fierce passion. It’s only after John abandons her that Beatrix learns
that he has a secret of his own…
LEADS TO LOVE THAT BURNS
ETERNAL
An undercover spy for England, John’s mission is to find out
who is directing Napoleon’s network of spies. If he allows himself to get too
close to Beatrix, John knows he’ll put her life in danger. But as John gets
closer to completing his mission, he realizes the person he seeks is none other
than Beatrix’s centuries-old rival, Asharti. With the world unraveling around
them, John and Beatrix unite to fight a nemesis whose fury has no limit—even as
their unquenchable passion grows more dangerous by the day…
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Beatrix motioned Langley to a chair. He looked mulish for a
moment. Then practicality intervened and he sat stiffly. As he moved, she saw a
slight bulge at his shoulder. Ahhh. The bleeding wound she sensed was in his
shoulder and it was bandaged. Not a new wound, then. He definitely looked pale
now.
“Symington, a glass of brandy for Lord Langley?” But her
ever-discerning majordomo already hovered with a salver laid with
brandy.
Southey, the pedestrian poet laureate, pushed to the front
of the crowd. “I can hardly credit footpads in Hay Hill Street.” Castlereagh
and Chumley hung over Langley as well. Beatrix had lost the attention of the
room.
She took the opportunity to observe Langley. He gulped the
brandy and the color came back into his face. He was deft with their questions,
answering but not answering. It was if he wanted them to doubt his story of
being set upon by footpads. Once she saw the twinge of pain as he eased his
shoulder. He had been set upon in Hay Hill, but his assailants hadn’t made the
wound in his shoulder, only opened it, she guessed. Ah, perhaps he wanted his
listeners to make up other stories more in keeping with his reputation as the
most debauched man in London. What a devious way of achieving it! If he wanted
to shock them, why didn’t he tell them about the wound bleeding even now in his
shoulder and what adventure had occasioned it? Beatrix’s senses were heightened
by the scent of blood. Lord, she would need to feed again tonight at this
rate!
She got to her feet almost without realizing, and took the
brandy decanter from Symington. The young men parted for her, unconsciously, as
people always did. She stood over Langley. He looked up at her. The green eyes
were jaded. They had seen much for one of his tender age and were disgusted by
it. How old was he? Not yet forty, she wagered. She gestured with the decanter
and he held up his glass. She poured, but her gaze kept returning to his face.
He had determination. He thought he was implacable. Silly man! Implacable was
the onward march of time, the loneliness, the endless repetition of small
failures and large ones in people, in the world, in herself. John Staunton,
Earl of Langley, was not implacable.
He was ... What was he? All she knew was that Langley was
not what he seemed. Intriguing.
AUTHOR
BIO
Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known
for breaking the rules of romance writing. Whatever her time period, or
subject, some element of the paranormal always creeps in. Susan’s work has won
multiple contests including the Holt Medallion, the Golden Heart and the Book
Buyer’s Best Award and reviewer's choice awards from RT BookReviews.
Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the most influential mass market
books of 2003 and One with the Shadows, the fifth in her vampire Companion
Series, a Best book of 2007. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time
travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.
Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once
toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in
Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural
thrillers, and three very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write
by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.
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