 VAMPIRE
SAGA
Shannon Drake
New York Times bestselling author Shannon Drake's haunting
vampire saga takes readers into a realm where dreams turn into nightmares.
. .and pleasure beckons from beyond.
DEAD
BY DUSK #6
Zebra
Books - January 2005
ISBN 0-8217-7545-6
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The rustic
oceanfront village of Bella Vista seems like something from an Italian
postcard—until young women start disappearing,
only to be found horribly mutilated. The police fear a sexual series
killer is at work—something to be hushed up to keep the tourists
calm. But the fear in the eyes of the locals says it all: the murders
are starting again...
 For
American Stephanie Cahill, Bella Vista is a new beginning—a
chance to put her painful past behind her. Yet, from the moment the
first body discovered at the site of an archeological dig, Stephanie
feels as if she's being watched, followed, studied...hunted.
Archeologist Grant Petersen senses something odd about this dig, something
that has him locking his door at night. And now, the echoes of a burial
site's ancient legend can be found in the chilling signature of a
killer on the loose.
The powerful attraction between Stephanie and Grant is a complication
neither can afford as they are pulled into a desperate race against
time to keep Stephanie from joining the ranks of the missing. For
nothing in Bella Vista is what it seems. No one can be trusted. And
those closest to Stephanie may prove the most dangerous of all...
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The
AWAKENING #5
Zebra
Books - October 2003
ISBN 0-8217-7228-7
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 The
tree-lined streets and mystical shops of Salem, Massachusetts resonate
with a seductive and brutal history. New Orleans musician Megan O’Casey
has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform , with her husband
Finn, in a weeklong series of concerts, culminating on All Hallow’s
Eve…and to renew her connection with the past.
But from the moment they arrive in Salem, Finn seems different—sensual
beyond belief one moment; cold and ruthless the next. The locals—even
Megan’s relatives—regard him strangely, with a distrust
bordering on hatred. Megan must soon face the fact that something
powerful is rising, a malevolence that may have already claimed Finn
for its own…
As the full moon approaches, Megan senses that she, too, is in great
danger. Sinister forces seem to be bringing her closer to darkness
in a centuries–old ritual that music cannot tame…and time
cannot conquer…
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BENEATH
A BLOOD RED MOON #1
Zebra Books, October 1999
ISBN 0-8217-6298-2
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Maggie
Montgomery, the owner of Magdalena's, an elegant New Orleans
boutique, was shocked to learn about the mysterious beheading of a
local street person, and the trail of blood that led from the corpse
to her building. Her shock turned to turmoil when she met Sean Canady,
the police officer who arrived to question her...and inspired a dangerous
desire.
Something
powerful--and beyond reason--had brought Maggie and Sean together.
Something that spoke of an interwoven past, and a passionate torment
that began generations before under a blood red moon. For on that
night, over a hundred years ago, disturbing events occurred within
the Montgomery family, and now Maggie must begin a quest to find the
one man whose love was pure enough to save her from the darkness within...
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WHEN DARKNESS FALLS #2
Zebra Books, October 2000
ISBN 0-8217-6692-9
 In
a windswept Scottish cemetery, Jade MacGregor's carefree vacation abroad
is marred by a seemingly random tragedy. A year later, back home on
a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses an oddly familiar face.
Coincidence--or something more disturbing?
AND TERROR TAKES HOLD . ..
Surrounded by her friends, and engrossed in her work,
Jade should feel secure. But somebody is dogging her every move. Somebody
who knows what she saw on that long ago afternoon. Somebody who will
try to rescue her from the evil that is waiting to destroy her.
INNOCENCE
DIES...
DEEP MIDNIGHT #3
Zebra Books, September 2001
ISBN 0-821-76837-9
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An opulent Carnivale ball in Venice takes a terrifying turn for book
critic Jordan Riley. As festivity turns into frenzy, she is rescued
by a powerful man disguised as a wolf. But was what she witnessed really
just the evening's entertainment-or something far more sinister? From a deconsecrated church in Venice to a secret society in New Orleans,
Jordan is led on a journey to the razor's edge of reality. Her mysterious
savior is always a shadow behind her. A man whose closeness will both
torment and tantalize her as darkness falls-and an eternal hunger threatens
to consume her.
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"Drake's descriptions of Venice are lush,
and her colorful cast of characters will engage."
--Publishers Weekly on Deep Midnight
 REALM
OF SHADOWS #4
Zebra Books, October 2002
ISBN 0-8217-7227-9
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Every Nightmare Has Its Beginning
In an ancient churchyard just outside Paris. archeologists
uncover an ancient tomb certain they have stumbled onto the find of
the century. But something goes very wrong as the tomb is opened. Something
too frightening to imagine...and too terrible to utter.
For American visitor Tara Mason, the romantic city of her dreams has
suddenly turned sinister. For she has
heard the blood-curdling screams in the churchyard and knows that she
must run away--from the powerful stranger chasing after her...and from
a nightmare she can't be sure is real or imagined.
At the country estate where she has sought refuge, the shadowy man reappears.
He calls himself a guardian, sworn to protect the innocent from an evil
most never see. And Tara will have to trust him, because that evil has
seen her...and won't stop until it claims her. body and soul.
"Heartily entertaining...sensational
finish."
--Publishers Weekly on Realm of Shadows
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