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Ages
18+. Contains strong language, explicit sex and elements of horror. This book
is the final installment in the Immortal Touch trilogy.
*****
What
good is immortality when every moment is agony?
The
vampire Ash has returned from his watery grave, proving that death is merely a
minor inconvenience. Picking up where he left off? That might not be as easy.
Because someone else is vying for Sami's attention - the last person he ever
would have expected.
Fulfilling
her desire for immortality seems the surest route to winning her favor. But for
Sami, this gift will come at a terrible price. One simple lie of omission is
all it takes to send her spiraling into a terminal state of madness. And as the
last remnants of her sanity slip away, Ash can no longer deny that her maniacal
behavior is putting them all at risk. His perfect angel has become a perfect
liability.
“Trust me?” he whispered.
“I trust you.” Her eyes fluttered
shut as she waited for the sharp prick of the needle, the one that would send
her into her last slumber as a human.
Instead she felt herself being
lifted into the air, and even before the back of her head slammed against the
hard packed sand, even before the warm water of the tidepool surrounded her,
she knew she’d been deceived yet again.
Ash was straddling her body, both
hands wrapped around her neck in a grip of steel as he held her head just
beneath the water’s surface. The briny sting of saltwater in her nostrils sent
panic rushing through her, and she began to struggle like a wild animal,
kicking while beating at his arms and tearing at his flesh with her
fingernails. It did no good other than to exhaust all her strength. The hands
around her throat were immovable. He would not be budged.
A primitive scream escaped her in
a short trail of bubbles, accomplishing nothing at all but to deprive her of
what little breath she had left. The sapphire eyes that were coldly fixed on
her seemed to blur and waver as the rippling water obstructed her vision. She
felt dizzy. Her pulse banged out a violent tempo of terror.
Air! Oh God, I need air…I can’t
breathe…please, for God’s sake, let go…let go…
In a final desperate bid for
oxygen she inhaled reflexively, and her starving lungs ached and burned as they
sucked in the stagnant seawater that mercilessly suffocated her.
The frenzied thrashing grew
weaker. Her fingers slowly released their clench on his wrists as her body
became limp and still. The pale light from the full moon above her dimmed and
faded away, and a sleepy blanket of darkness began to cover her with its
peaceful comfort.
So this was what it was like to
die.
It wasn’t so bad, really.
Blinking once, she relaxed and
succumbed to the darkness.
The last sight her mortal eyes
took in before the twilight of death clouded them was his broad Cheshire grin, hovering
just above the water’s surface.
Allie
fell in love with books from the moment she was issued her very first Sally,
Dick and Jane reader. Born and raised in Alabama, she now resides in the sunny
panhandle of Florida with her own blue-eyed Prince Charming and two fat,
obnoxious cats. When she’s not busy obsessing over the lexicon of her latest
project, she can usually be found watching B-movie horror (the cheesier, the
better!), reading or playing online computer games while indulging her
unhealthy Pepsi addiction.
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