BOOK
INFORMATION
TITLE – One With the Darkness
SERIES – The Companion Series
AUTHOR – Susan Squires
GENRE – Regency Paranormal Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – October 6, 2015
LENGTH – 341 pages
PUBLISHER – Independent
COVER ARTIST – Rebecca Poole,
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BOOK
SYNOPSIS
New York Times bestselling author Susan Squires
invites you into the world of two lovers who share a seductive past and a
dangerous desire…
DIVIDED BY CENTURIES
Contessa Donnatella di Poliziano has power, beauty, and—as a
vampire—eternal life. Her overwhelming regret is a mistake she made centuries
ago when she chose not to transform her one true love, Jergan, into a vampire
too. Donnatella’s choice has deprived her of the only true love she’s ever
known. But just as all seems lost, the discovery of a 300-year-old note leads
her to a gift left by her old friend, Leonardo da Vinci: a machine to take her
back in time to rewrite the history of her heart…
UNITED BY OTHERWORLDLY DESIRE
Once back in time, Donnatella’s memory of the intervening
years is lost. Yet when she sees the breathtaking barbarian slave, Jergan, from
afar, she feels like she has always known him. The instant attraction she feels
draws them together. For Donnatella, the romance is tantalizing, awakening a
passion that feels both old and new. But as the two fall in love again, a new danger
threatens to tear them apart. Now Jergan’s love for Donnatella will be tested
in a most perilous way—and if he fails, the two lovers will be separated
again…for eternity.
“Squires combines extreme sensuality with dangerous drama.”
—Romantic Times BOOKreviews
“ONE WITH THE DARKNESS is one of the finest, innovative
vampire novels I've read.”--Romance Junkies
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EXCERPT
“Let me get your property, my lady,” the trader said. They
turned to the back of the stall. Three men clustered round the straining
barbarian, laughing as he tried to twist away. Blood dripped from his wrists
where he had pulled against his shackles. He spat at them. It was his only
means of defiance.
Graccus wiped his face and laughed. “Oh, he’ll be a joy to
break.”
“I agree,” she said. The three yanked their gazes up, as did
the barbarian. He flushed in shame. “Now unhand my new slave, sirs, so I may
begin.”
“What? But I am buying him for my brothel!”
She waved the receipt scroll. “Too late.” Her She turned to
the trader. “For the price I just paid, you can throw in a pair of shackles.”
The trader nodded and clapped his hands. Slaves appeared with the required
bindings. They unlocked the barbarian’s wrists from the poles and chained them
behind his back before they released his feet. His ankles, too, were bloodied.
Those green eyes stared at her, burning with intensity, as though he was still
not sure what had just happened to him. Excitement churned inside her. This was
the start of something—she didn’t know quite what. “Come quietly, slave,” she
ordered, putting all the force of her personality behind her words, just shy of
raising her Companion for compulsion. “You two—see that he does.” Two of
Titus’s bodyguards nodded. Each took one of the slave’s arms and dragged him
forward.
“You knew I wanted him,” Graccus was saying. The trader only
shrugged. He couldn’t have gotten two thousand dinars for a slave bound for a brothel.
They pushed into the market throng. “There you are,” Titus
called, hurrying over. Livia saw him frown as he registered the barbarian.
“Livia Quintus, what is this? You’ve never purchased this
creature!”
“I have, Titus. He was a soldier, therefore skilled in
martial arts. He even speaks Latin. He’ll be a perfect bodyguard.”
“Livia, return him at once. This is no slave for a
woman.”
Livia turned to her new purchase, seeing him through Titus’s
eyes. Bloody and sweating, he looked fierce, with those intense green eyes and
all that hair. But he was the one she wanted. She knew that as certainly as she
knew her own name. “Once we clean him up you won’t recognize him.”
“He needs more than a bath to make him
suitable.”
“You were the one who suggested a bodyguard slave, and now
that I’ve meekly done as you ask, you rail at me.”
Titus rolled his eyes. “Meek? I would welcome meek.” Livia
gestured her entourage forward. Titus sighed and fell in step. “I just hope you
haven’t bitten off more than you can chew.”
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. She has won multiple
contests for published novels and reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly
named Body Electric one of the year’s most influential mass market books and
One with the Shadows a Best book of the Year. 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 two very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by
putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddddddddddd.
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