BOOK
INFORMATION
TITLE – The Burning
SERIES – The Companion Series
AUTHOR – Susan Squires
GENRE – Regency Paranormal Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – July 21, 2015
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 122,752 words
PUBLISHER – Independent
COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole, Dreams2Media
BOOK
SYNOPSIS
Award-winning, bestselling author Susan Squires
brings you into a world of erotic temptation that comes alive at night and
thrives on our darkest secrets and longings. Take the journey to an
unforgettable place in the heart of darkness and desire…
A FORBIDDEN
TEMPTATION…
It is 1821 and all who know the beautiful, mysterious Ann
Van Helsing believe she is insane. Yet Ann’s curse is the deep psychic ability
that shows her everything about another human being—their history, thoughts and
desires—simply by touching them. Overwhelmed by a power she can barely control,
Ann roams the quiet woods and caves near her estate, searching for an elusive
peace. Here she encounters the man who will change everything…
LEAVES HER
YEARNING…
To atone for an unforgivable transgression against his own
kind, vampire Stephan Sincai has become a vigilante who must hunt and kill
those whom other vampires have made. When Ann discovers Stephen bleeding in her
cave, she reaches tries to help him. The moment she touches him she knows every
fiber of Stephens being—and the knowledge is at once frightening and
irresistible…
FOR ETERNAL
FULFILLMENT…
Ann and Stephen are drawn together by a powerful force. As
they fight against the evil surrounding them, an enemy bent on destroying them
will make them choose between what they love and what they fear the
most….
GRIPPING AND UNFORGETTABLE...
Romantic Times (4 ½ star review) on The Companion
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EXCERPT
TRANSYLVANIA, PROVINCE OF THE
HAPSBURG EMPIRE, SEPTEMBER 1820
They ran their hands over his body. There were three of
them. Their palms rubbed his chest, his hips and thighs, and the bulge of his
biceps where his wrists were bound above his head. The nails scraped lightly,
threatening. He knew what was to come. The stone bench on which he lay was hard
against the bare flesh of his buttocks and shoulders, but the room was warm.
They loved heat. It was a true luxury in the winter of the Carpathian
Mountains. The only illumination came from the fire licking at the logs in the
great stone arches. Above him, their faces hung, unreal in the flickering
light. Their eyes glowed red. Now they would compel him. Their low moans filled
the little room cut into the rocky heart of the monastery. He knew every
crevice in its stone by now. This room held his torment and possibly his
salvation.
“Test him well, tonight, sisters,” one of them whispered.
Her breasts brushed his belly.
“Is he worthy of our father’s trust?" another breathed
into his ear.
He felt his loins throb, tight with a need he dared not
indulge. He had no idea whether they compelled that need, or whether it
belonged to him. A tongue found his nipple. He could not help but arch up into
it. The chains clanked. A hand cupped his balls. He felt the scrape of canines
at his throat. They wanted blood tonight. He waited for the pain. How would he
bear their ministrations in the long hours ahead?
You deserve this, he told himself. A thousand years of
torment would not atone for your crimes. You have one chance at redemption and
they will help you to it.
He breathed as they had taught him. He focused inward,
searching for an island of control. His shoulders relaxed. All emotion drained
slowly away. The piercing of his carotid was a fact of pain, no more. One of
them sucked at his throat while the others kept him
roused.
But now he was ready for whatever they might do to him. He
would become what was required. No matter the cost, he would atone.
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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