Taken by Midnight - A Midnight Breed Novel: Book 8

Zusatztext   “Evocative! enticing! erotic.” —J. R. Ward! bestselling author of Lover Avenged Informationen zum Autor Lara Adrian  is the  New York Times  bestselling author of the Midnight Breed series, including the novels  Kiss of Midnight, Kiss of Crimson, Midnight Awakening, Midnight Rising, Veil of Midnight, Ashes of Midnight, Shades of Midnight, Taken by Midnight, Deeper than Midnight,   Darker After Midnight, Edge of Dawn ,  Crave the Night,  and the eBook novella  A Taste of Midnight . Klappentext The eighth novel in Adrian's Midnight Breed series. In the frozen Alaskan wilderness! former state trooper Jenna Darrow survives an unspeakable breach of body and soul. But with her narrow escape comes an even greater challenge. For strange changes are taking place within her! as she struggles to understand--and control--a new hunger. Original. Chapter One Life . . . or death? The words drifted at her through the darkness. Detached syllables. The rough scrape of a flat, airless voice that reached into the heavy drowse of her mind and forced her to come awake, to listen. To make a choice. Life? Or death? She groaned against the cold plank floor beneath her cheek, trying to bar the voice—and the relentless decision it demanded—from her mind. This wasn’t the first time she’d heard these words, this question. Not the first time in the space of some endless hours that she’d peeled one heavy eyelid open in the frigid stillness of her cabin home and found herself looking into the terrible face of a monster. Vampire. “Choose,” the creature whispered thinly, the word drawn out in a slow hiss. He crouched over her where she lay, curled and shivering on the floor near the cold fireplace. His fangs glistened in the moonlight, razor sharp, lethal. The tips of them were still stained with fresh blood—her blood, drawn from the bite he’d made in her throat only moments before. She tried to get up, but couldn’t rouse her weakened muscles to so much as flex in response. She tried to speak, managed only a rasping moan. Her throat felt as dry as ash, her tongue thick and listless in her mouth. Outside, the Alaskan winter roared, bitter and unforgiving, filling her ears. No one to hear her screams, even if she’d tried. This creature could kill her in an instant. She didn’t know why he hadn’t. She didn’t know why he kept pressing her for the answer to a question she had been asking herself nearly every day of her life for the past four years. Ever since the accident that had taken her husband and little girl. How often had she wished she’d been killed along with them on that icy stretch of highway? Everything would have been so much easier, less painful, if she had. She could feel a silent judgment in the unblinking, inhuman eyes that fixed on her in the dark now, searingly bright, pupils as thin as a cat’s. Intricate skin markings tracked all over the creature’s hairless head and immense body. The webbed pattern seemed to pulse with vio- lent color as he watched her. Silence lengthened while he patiently examined her as he might an insect trapped inside a glass jar. When he spoke again, this time his lips did not move. The words penetrated her skull like smoke and sank deeply into her mind. The decision is yours, human. Tell me what it will be: life, or death? She turned her head away and closed her eyes, refusing to look at the creature. Refusing to be part of the private, unspoken game he seemed to be playing with her. A predator toying with his prey, watching it squirm while he decided whether to spare it or not. How it shall end depends on you. You will decide. “Go to hell,” she slurred, her voice thick and rusty. Iron-strong fingers clamped onto her chin and wrenched her around to face him once more. The creatu...

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Evocative, enticing, erotic.
J. R. Ward, bestselling author of Lover Avenged

Product details

• Authors: Lara Adrian
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.09.2010
• EAN: 9780440245278
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24527-8
• No. of pages: 386
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 175 mm x 26 mm
• Series: Dell; Midnight Breed Series; Midnight Breed; Midnight Breed
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy