Claimed by a Demon King, the second book in Felicity Heaton’s hot new paranormal romance series, Eternal Mates, is now available in ebook and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at her website.
Find out how to enter the Claimed by a Demon King international
giveaway (ends March 2nd) and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25
gift certificate at her website, where you can also download a 6 chapter sample
of the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/cbadk
Claimed by a
Demon King and the Eternal Mates series is set in the same world as the Vampire
Erotic Theatre series, so if you’re a fan of that series, you will love Eternal
Mates. Throughout this series, you’ll have a chance to catch up with the cast
of the Vampire Erotic Theatre series and learn more about their world. In
Claimed by a Demon King, you’ll get to visit the theatre, and some of the
favourite characters in the Vampire Erotic Theatre series.
Here’s more
about Claimed by a Demon King, including an excerpt from this paranormal
romance novel.
Claimed by a Demon King (Eternal Mates #2)
by Felicity E. Heaton (Goodreads Author)The moment the demon King Thorne of the Third Realm set eyes on the mortal huntress Sable, he knew she was his fated one. The fiery, dangerous female awakened hungers he had never experienced before, a dark craving and passion that has consumed him in their time apart. As the lunar cycle wanes, she enters his world again and nothing will stand in the way of him claiming his forever with her—not the relentless assault from the Fifth Realm or the dark elf male determined to seduce her out of his grasp.
Intent on achieving the coveted position of commander at Archangel, Sable leads her small team into the dark underworld and the Third Realm, to a war where her allies are the very creatures she normally hunts—vampires, werewolves, and demons. Her eagerness to lead the deadly mission has everything to do with winning her promotion, and nothing to do with the kingdom’s brash, lethally seductive demon king—a king who stirred fierce desire and wildfire heat in her with just a look and an innocent touch when they first met, and has been in her wicked dreams ever since.
As the gathering storm between rivals unleashes irresistible passion that flares white-hot and the heat of the battle brings life-shattering realisations, can Sable place her duty before her heart? Or will she surrender to her deepest desires and be claimed by a demon king?
Claimed by a
Demon King is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook,
Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the
links to your preferred retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/cbadk
Claimed by a Demon King – Excerpt
Sable’s world disappeared in a swirl of cold
black shadows. She closed her eyes against it. The heat of the sun on her skin
gave way to the icy chill and then became a blast of moist warm air. The
shrouding silence of the portal shattered under the explosion of grunts and
roars and the metallic clang of weapons clashing.
The scent of morning became the odour of
blood.
Sable snapped her eyes open and her heart
leaped and pounded, quickening her blood and preparing her body.
The first thing she saw was Thorne
shirtless and swinging his enormous broadsword at an equally massive bare-chested
warrior. His opponent blocked with his own blade and growled, flashing huge
fangs as he swung a meaty fist. The blow connected with Thorne’s right cheek
and he stumbled, grunting as he struggled to regain his footing and ready his
blade to defend himself.
Sable’s hand instantly went to the folded
crossbow at her side and she flicked it open, pushing away from Bleu at the
same time. Another immense demon attacked Thorne before he managed to right
himself and the dagger sliced across the Third King’s thickly muscled right
shoulder.
Thorne roared and finally launched himself
at the males, taking them both on at once. They weren’t alone. The wide oval
courtyard of the dark stone fortress was in pandemonium. Sable counted at least
two dozen demons, all focused on him with their weapons drawn and at the ready.
No other fought on his side.
The sight of him standing alone against so
many adversaries, bleeding from multiple wounds on his torso and arms, brought
a red haze down over her vision.
Sable launched herself into the fray just
as one of the males attacked. Her heart raced, pumping adrenaline that made her
feel high as she reached beneath her left arm, slipped her fingers into the
rings on two of her throwing knives, and hurled them with deadly accuracy at
the warrior. They nailed him in the left of his broad chest and his shoulder,
and she didn’t give him a chance to recover his focus. She loosed a barbed dart
from her crossbow at him, reloaded in the space of a heartbeat, and shot the
other male now attacking Thorne.
The barbed dart embedded into the demon’s
left thigh and he grunted, his eyes glowing crimson as he turned his attention
on her. Good. She had to give Thorne a moment to recover his wits and get back
in the fight.
The warrior stomped towards her, blood
pulsing down his leg with each step, turning his black leathers slick and
shiny. He growled, his top lip peeling back off his fangs, and shook his head.
His dusky horns curled further, forming a loop and flaring forwards into twin
dangerous points near his cheekbones.
Sable made a mental note to avoid them and
drew the short blade strapped to her other thigh, ready to fight him. He swung
the moment he was within reach and she ducked beneath the long silver blade,
rolled forwards and came to her feet behind him. She slashed up his back, her
knife splitting tanned flesh and scraping over bone, and grinned as he arched
forwards and roared.
The thrill chasing through her blood
increased, consuming her, driving her to keep going and embrace wildness it
unleashed within her. She had been born to fight monsters and she felt it now
more than ever as she faced off against the enormous demon males, swiftly
calculating their every move before they could make it, ready for anything.
Sable grabbed a bolt with a thick cylinder
on the end from her quiver pouch. Explosive dart. God she loved these things.
She loaded it onto the small crossbow and swung to her left, aiming at the
group of males storming towards her.
She grinned and pulled the trigger.
A large bloodstained hand clamped down on
the weapon, grasping it and holding the bolt in place.
Sable growled in frustration and released
her crossbow, leaving it in the demon’s hand. She thrust hard with her blade,
blindly stabbing at her new enemy.
The huge male grabbed her wrist before she
could drive the cold steel into his flesh. The tip pressed into his muscular
chest and she froze when she realised it was Thorne frowning down at her, his
rough masculine features crinkled in confusion.
“You seek to harm me, Little Female? I
thought we had discussed this before?”
His deep gravelly voice washed over her and
his thumb caressed the inside of her wrist. Sable trembled. The hot shivery
ache rolling through her increased in intensity as he tugged on her wrist,
gently drawing her closer to him, his red gaze holding hers, commanding and
powerful. She couldn’t break its hold on her. She tilted her head right back,
lost in his eyes as he towered over her, making her feel small and weak,
vulnerable to him.
Sable dropped her blade, the clang of it
hitting the stone slabs beneath her feet jarring in the thick silence. She
breathed hard, firmly under his spell and unable to form a response.
She had forgotten just how gorgeous he was
and how his presence lit her up inside like fireworks on November fifth.
“Well?” Thorne cocked his head to one side
and a hank of wild red-brown hair fell down onto his bloodstained brow.
Sable slowly shook her head and forced
words up her dry throat and past her lips. “I was trying to help.”
A smile worked its way onto his firm lips
and he flashed short fangs. “That is very kind of you… but I do not require
your assistance to spar with my men.”
Spar?
Sable inched her gaze towards the demon
males to her left. They had all stopped and were staring at her. She looked to
her other side, at her team and the elves, and cringed. None of them had moved.
She alone had leapt into the fray.
A blush burned up her cheeks before she
could stop it. Thorne canted his head again, raised his free hand and lightly
brushed the backs of his short claws across her left cheek. She shuddered under
the gentle caress, her pulse quickening for a different reason as the heat
burning inside her exploded into wildfire. She had to get a grip. This was a
mission.
“Did you believe me to be under attack?” he
husked in a low, quiet voice that sent a fierce shiver through her, cranking up
her temperature another thousand degrees.
She couldn’t bring herself to look at him.
She nodded, and admitting it left her feeling like a fool.
“And you came to my aid?” Had he moved
closer to her? His breath washed over her cheek, moist and hot, smelling
faintly of something sweet and the coppery tang of blood.
Sable nodded again.
“You are but a little mortal female… yet
you desired to fight all these demon males in order to protect me?”
When he put it like that, she couldn’t stop
herself from blushing harder. She had reacted on instinct but the tone of his
voice and the way he drew her closer still, until she could feel his heat
rolling off him and over her, told her that he thought she did it because she
felt something for him.
Desired him.
She cleared her throat, finally locked down
her emotions and found her voice again, and even the courage to lift her gaze
to his. “Not out of favouritism or anything. I’m here on a mission and that
mission entails protecting you and your kingdom from demons. I saw you battling
a score of demons and I did my duty.”
She twisted her hand free of his grip and
hated the sharp disappointed edge his eyes gained. It made her feel like a
bitch. She grabbed her blade from the dark stone pavement and jammed it into
its sheath, and then snatched up her crossbow and checked it over, taking her
time about it, stewing under the intense heat of his gaze.
Sable kept her head bent and holstered her
crossbow and the unused explosive dart. Thorne continued to stare at her. So
did everyone else. She was not going to blush. She racked her brain, trying to
think of something to say to make everything go back to normal, and diligently
kept her gaze away from Thorne.
She had also forgotten how impossibly tight
his dark mahogany leather trousers were. They clung to his muscular thighs,
stretched over them like a second skin, held closed by criss-crossed lacing
over his crotch.
Not staring. Not staring.
Her eyes betrayed her, leaping to the
impressive bulge in his trousers, and she forced it upwards before anyone
noticed. Thorne’s gaze locked with hers again, holding her immobile.
“I’ll need my blades and bolts back now,”
she muttered, not quite with the world or aware of what she was saying.
Thorne nodded. “Of course.”
He signalled his men and Sable realised
just what she had asked, and felt dismal as the men immediately tore the barbed
darts and throwing knives from their flesh without giving a single grunt or
revealing a flicker of the pain they must have experienced.
They came forwards and placed the weapons
into Thorne’s outstretched hand. He wiped the blood off them on his leather
trousers and then held them out to her.
Sable swallowed her guilt and took them
from him. She slipped the blades away beneath her arms and put the darts back
in her quiver. The silence in the courtyard thickened again. She wasn’t sure
what to do. She had made one hell of a first impression—on her team, on the
elves, on the demons.
On Thorne.
She wanted to groan and bury her head in
her heads.
She needed a do-over on everything after
she had appeared in the Third Realm. It really hadn’t gone as planned.
Claimed by a
Demon King is available from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook,
Apple iBooks stores and other retailers. Also available in paperback.
Find all the
links, a fantastic 6 chapter downloadable sample of the book, and also how to
enter the giveaway and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift
certificate at her website: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/cbadk
Books in the Eternal
Mates romance series:
About Felicity
Heaton:
Felicity Heaton
is a USA Today and international
best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books. 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, the best-selling Her Angel series is for you.
If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm
series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance books. If you’re looking for
vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try the
best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you prefer huge detailed
worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every species, from elves to demons
to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a look at the new Eternal Mates
series.
If you want to know more about Felicity,
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1 comments:
OMG, how embarrassed must Sable have been to realise that Thorne wasn't actually in Battle just sparring!!
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