Wings in the Night

He is thousands of years old, and the story of his origins is carved in the clay tablets of Ancient Sumer, for he was first known as Gilgamesh, King of Uruk. In today's world, he is Damien the Eternal, master of illusion. The sexy, beguiling stage magician's persona is that of a vampire. He closes each show by pretending to bite the neck of a lovely audience volunteer. Sometimes he really does so, later, in mutually desired sexual encounters that sate his needs and feed his hunger. Afterward, though, his eager partners will remember only an erotic dream, and the marks he leaves on their necks vanish with the first touch of sunlight. But the last two audience volunteers' marks never went away, because they were dead long before the dawn-drained of their blood by a vampire. Has Damien become a harbinger of his lifelong enemy, Death? Or is someone messing with his mind? The illness that is slowly taking Shannon Mallory's life is progressing fast, but she is determined to live long enough bring her best friend's murderer to justice. Tawny was found dead of blood loss with two puncture wounds in her neck only hours after serving as an audience volunteer to magician, Damien the Eternal, who pretends to be a vampire onstage. Shannon doesn't think it's a coincidence. Shannon is fearless because she has nothing to lose. Even the most powerful vampire in existence is no match for her stubborn persistence. She breaches his security and his hard-won solitude. She gets into his house and under his skin. The desire that flares between them is as irresistible to her as it is risky. He might be a predator, after all. But an ancient evil has followed the once great king down through the ages, always anticipating the time when he could exact his sweet vengeance. And now that Gilgamesh has fallen in love, that time has come. BONUS! A never-before-published short story:Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis 3: The Wish-Granter.

Strong sexual content Jameson Bryant is a rare man. He's one of the Chosen, a mortal with the Belladonna antigen, the only kind who can become a vampire himself. But he's not ready to make that decision, despite that vampires helped raise him. The undead are some of his best friends. Now a man grown, Jameson knows more about vampires than most-so when he hears the cries of one who is alone and suffering, he's not afraid to go to her. He finds her alone, half-starved, and mad with hunger. But when he tries to help the beautiful, violet-eyed vampiress, she attacks. Angelica was a novitiate nun about to take her solemn vows when a creature of the night changed her against her will. On her own, unsure how she'll survive or whether she even wants to, she refuses to feed on the living and further damn her soul… until the hunger takes over. When a young man tries to help her, she loses control. Nine months later, the virgin nun is giving birth-in captivity. Jameson would have died that night if not for his vampiric family. The dark gift didn't preserve his life-it gave him a new one, along with the power to rescue his daughter. He'll save Amber Lily and her murderous mother from the vampire hunters who've been his lifelong enemies. And all the powers of heaven and earth won't stop him. BONUS! A never-before-published short story:Rhiannon in the Temple of Isis 5:The Reckoning

The beautiful screenwriter who lost it all finds the diaries of a long-dead madman in her tumbledown mansion's attic. The stories are too good to resist, and she turns them into screenplays that launch her to stardom. Dante, the subject of the film, is neither a madman nor long dead. He's undead. And the ingenue scribbler who's gained fame and fortune by exposing his secrets to the world must be found and stopped. Permanently. But Dante isn't the only one seeking Morgan. Vampire killer Frank Stiles is after her, too, in hopes he can find Dante through her. Her films aren't made up. They are taken straight from the files of the dark ops agency he used to work for-before the vampires destroyed it. When Dante and Morgan come together, the passion between them will not be denied, for it is born of a preternatural bond they can neither understand nor fight. They cannot bear to be apart - but being together might cost them both their lives. Maggie Shayne is a New York Times and USA Today Bestselling, RITA® Award-winning author.

Genre-defining vampire romance!They tell 20-year-old Charlie O'Malley that they have a cure for the condition that will eventually kill her–an untested, experimental cure. All they want in return is for her to join their elite team and train to kill the Undead. She takes the deal because it will make her stronger than ordinary humans, strong enough to kill the vampire who took her blood, used her body, and murdered her mother--the vampire who'd lied when he said he loved her. Killion is sure he's the last of his kind, destined to walk in endless solitude, endless night. Charlie is a spark of light in his eternal darkness. His desire for her is powerful and impossible to resist, and he'll destroy anything that stands between them. Even though it will probably get him killed. Ancient vampire elders Rhiannon and Roland come out of exile, risking their lives to help a furious, raging girl fulfill her destiny as a savior of their kind. But before the tale ends, their lives will be forever changed. Join Maggie Shayne in her most beloved series of all time: WINGS IN THE NIGHT

WINGS IN THE NIGHTThis is vampire romanceThe most powerful love in existence faces the most sinister threat imaginable.I am Rhiannon, and this is my story…Century upon century, the love between my Roland and I has deepened into something as rare and powerful as immortality itself.We are leaders among our kind. And recently, we've taken in three orphans, mutants known as the Offspring, created by DPI for one purpose; to hunt and kill vampires.I never thought I would have the chance to be a mother, and I adore the three seven-year-olds. But DPI is desperate to get them back. They captured Roland, nearly got us all, and naturally, I turned over heaven and earth to get him back. And did.But he's not the same. Something happened to him in DPI's evil hands, and now it feels as if the threat to the children is coming from within my own home.I might be forced to choose between the innocent children I adore and the man who is my very heart and soul.What is a Queen of Darkness to do?

I am Rhiannon.This is my origin story.My original name was Rhianikki, firstborn of Pharaoh. My bare feet sank into the sands of Egypt when the pyramids were new. My mother was a divine queen who died giving birth to me and they say the walls of the palace trembled when they took me, wailing, from her cold arms.I was special and not just by virtue of my inherent divinity.But rather than honor my gifts, my father feared them. And when I was five years old, he and his new queen sent me far away from their newborn twin sons, to live at the Temple of Isis, where I learned and grew and became the woman I still am, more than three thousand years later.That temple is where I was raised, by holy women who taught me the secrets of the gods and of the goddesses and all the ways of magic.There I met Luca, a father figure like my own had never been, who could only visit me by night and who said we were related in a way I would not understand until I was older.During those years, I rescued stolen children; I answered women's prayers; I helped artists find their calling; I caused a poor, small village to thrive, and I saw the face of my beloved in the glass-like crystal ball of a prophet.I communed with Isis nightly and became convinced she lived within me, that my soul was divine.That assumption has never left me.