Blood on Silk

Zusatztext "Sensual and thrilling! a wonderful combination of vampire myths old and new. You cannot miss this novel!" -Michele Bardsley! national bestselling author of the Broken Heart series Klappentext The debut of a seductive new contemporary series of vampires! lust! and revenge. While in Romania researching historical superstitions! Scottish academic Elizabeth Silk comes upon the folk tale of Saloman! a seductive prince staked centuries ago! legend's most powerful vampire. Now! in the ruins of a castle crypt! Elizabeth discovers supernatural legends that have come alive. Her blood has awakened him. Her innocence has aroused him. But Elizabeth unleashes more than Saloman's hunger! and it's going to unite them in ways neither could have imagined. Chapter One Saloman. Again. “I’m beginning to hate that guy,” Elizabeth muttered. “If he ever existed.” She spoke in English, so her informant, Maria, an almost entirely toothless old lady in black, merely grinned without a clue as to what she’d said. “Thank you,” Elizabeth said in Romanian, switching off the tape recorder on the table between them. “You’ve been very helpful.” As she rose to her feet, Maria grinned again, adding to Elizabeth’s suspicion that she’d just been fed a farrago of nonsense. It was as much for the locals’ amusement as for her own—one of the challenges of her research was to pick out the “genuine” myths from the made-up ones, and it wasn’t always easy. The villagers who’d gathered curiously in the garden during the interview now fell back as Elizabeth stashed the recorder in her bag and turned to go. “Thank you for the coffee,” she added to the younger woman who’d brought it, and this time Maria’s smile was genuine. Elizabeth slung her bag over her shoulder and made her way along the shaded path toward the rickety garden gate. She’d get no further useful material here. The villagers would just vie with one another now to impress her—or fool her. It wasn’t always clear which. But although some of them stayed to chat with the old lady and her daughter, others walked toward the gate with her, as if eager to impart more nonsense. Elizabeth avoided eye contact, knowing she could be here for hours if she didn’t. And she was tired. It had been a long day, and despite the weeks she’d spent here in the summer heat, she still found it grueling. She’d never imagined she’d miss the cold and rain of a Scottish summer. She liked this charming garden, though, full of fruit trees and vegetables as well as large, brightly colored roses, and most of all, the maze of paths lined with vines that had been trained to form an almost-impenetrable roof. The shadowed tangled-lattice effect in the sunlight was pretty and, more importantly, cool. “Miss Silk? What makes you think the vampire Saloman didn’t exist?” Damn . She’d met the speaker’s gaze before she realized it, drawn by sheer surprise because he spoke in excellent English. The other locals, as though accepting his victory, fell back and dispersed by other routes. Elizabeth said, “Besides the word ‘vampire,’ you mean?” The man smiled. She’d noticed him before, while she talked to old Maria, watching her a little too closely for comfort. Although she didn’t doubt her ability to get rid of him—eventually—her internal alarm bell gave a warning tinkle. Perhaps around forty years old, he wore the traditional garb of most of the older villagers—long white shirt, belted in the middle, and dark trousers—and his dark, steady eyes were of the same nut-brown color as his sun-drenched skin. Only the mass of deeply etched lines around his eyes spoke of greater age, but then the sun did that to people. “You want to hear about vampires, the villagers will tell you,” he explained. “They always do.” She allowed herself a rueful smile. “I’m not the first to ask these questions around here...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Marie Treanor
• Verlag: Penguin Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 07.09.2010, verspätet
• EAN: 9780451231567
• ISBN: 978-0-451-23156-7
• Seiten: 336
• Serien: Awakened By Blood; Awakened by Blood
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur