Guest Author Marie Treanor (With Giveaway) Back to Blog
Update…The winner for this giveaway is…Kerry! Congrats, Kerry! I believe that the lovely Marie has already emailed you. 😉
Hi, everyone! I hope that you are having a wonderful week! Today it is my pleasure to have busy author Marie Treanor visiting my blog. Marie is sharing info about her new release (ready for a steamy excerpt?) and offering one commenter a $10 Amazon.com gift card. Marie, thanks so much for coming over!
On Serafina and the Silent Vampire by Marie Treanor
Cynthia, thank you for having me on your blog today! Waving to Cynthia’s readers!
When it comes to blogging, I tend to write about whatever’s in my mind at the time – which isn’t always the best idea! However, gamely sticking with this tradition, I realize there isn’t actually much in there right now that isn’t associated with my new release, SERAFINA AND THE SILENT VAMPIRE. So, I thought I’d tell you how the story came to me in the first place. Maybe I should start with the blurb:
SERAFINA AND THE SILENT VAMPIRE (Serafina’s, 1)
By MARIE TREANOR
Silence has never been so sinful…
Welcome to Edinburgh’s unique psychic investigation agency, Serafina’s.
Serafina MacBride is psychic – but not strictly honest. While staging a hilarious vampire attack at a client’s party, Sera is stunned to encounter a real vampire – annoying, gorgeous and inaudible to everyone but her. When her client’s son is found dead with puncture wounds in his neck, she tracks the silent vampire to his lair.
But the amoral and seductive Blair is also on a mission – to find and kill a nest of young vampires who’ve invaded his territory. Soon Sera is drawn into the bizarre world of the undead, where danger lurks in the shadows along with forbidden sensual delights – and a murderous conspiracy to flood the world with financially astute vampires who talk.
Supported and hindered by Blair’s eccentric, undead friends, and by her own motley crew from Serafina’s, Sera and Blair uncover surprising truths about each other and about the mysterious Founder from whom all vampires are descended.
In the end, Sera draws on powers she never knew she had in a frantic fight to defeat the forces of evil and preserve the strange, complicated being she’s trying so hard not to love.
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For me, this idea was unusual, because for once, my vampire wasn’t the catalyst for the story. Sera was. I’d been reading about the tricks of fake psychics and mediums and the damage they can cause, and I found myself wondering, “What if one of those scammers really was psychic, but just made a bit of money on the side ripping off the sensation-seekers?” And Sera began to grow in my head – tough, looking out for the fast buck, somewhat isolated and lonely because of her gifts, but basically compassionate and unswervingly loyal to her few friends. In her own way she is honest, true at least to her own code of honour.
And from her complicated character, grew Blair, the silent vampire, because Sera needed to encounter a different kind of dead from the spirits who were part of her normal, everyday life. Realizing she doesn’t know everything about the supernatural world is a wake-up call for Sera. Vampires are almost like solid ghosts: drifting through the human world they feed off, largely un-noticed and unheard. They’re few and far between, solitary beings. But because she can speak to the dead, Sera hears Blair telepathically, and realizes, eventually, there really are more things in heaven and earth that she’d ever imagined!
So, this is the sometimes comic and sometimes steamy set-up for Sera to meet her match. Here’s an excerpt showing her dangerous attraction to Blair sizzling up to the surface…
Excerpt from SERAFINA AND THE SILENT VAMPIRE:
Although the scary glow didn’t vanish from his eyes, they seemed to soften. His body didn’t. It still pinned her helplessly to the wall. He lifted his hand and touched her cheek, trailing his fingertips down her jaw to her throat. She gasped.
“Serafina,” he murmured in her head. “Some things are just stronger than you. They don’t necessarily hurt you, and they won’t necessarily defeat you.”
Distracting her from his surprising words, the bulge in his jeans was hardening, both alarming and exciting her. After all, he had the kind of face and body to die for. Sera had no intention of dying.
“Okay, celebrate!” she spat. “You’re stronger than me.”
His lips twitched. “I was thinking of Nicholas Smith. But now you mention it, yes, I am.” His fingers lingered over her vein, stroking. She shivered, trying not to feel the spurt of physical pleasure that was in danger of drowning out her alarm, especially when he swayed his hips in a slow, sensual caress. His erection rubbed against her tummy, and she had an insane urge to stand on tiptoe to feel it grind between her legs. “And, you know, I like that too.”
“Why?” she got out, reaching wildly for the smart comment that somehow eluded her.
His fingers slid upward to her face once more, and he traced the outline of her lips. “Because I can kiss you without you feeling the need to stop me.”
She narrowed her eyes threateningly, although her heart seemed to plunge right through her stomach to her womb. “It won’t be the need that’s lacking,” she managed.
“But you like the way I look,” he pointed out, pressing gently on her lower lip to part it from the upper. “I’ve read it in your mind.”
“Doesn’t mean I want you slobbering all over me!” Oh Jesus, what would it feel like?
“I won’t slobber,” he promised and bent his head.
She couldn’t have avoided it. She refused to dent her dignity further by trying. So she glared into his face, daring him, while her heart thundered in treacherous anticipation. His lips hovered over hers for an instant, just long enough for her to panic that perhaps he was changing his mind and wouldn’t do it, after all. She felt an urge to close the distance herself—only to break the tension, of course. And then he did it, sliding his fingers away from her lips to cup her face and sinking his mouth into hers with blatant, wonderful, terrifying sensuality.
There was none of the buildup she was used to, the gentle brushing of lips, the soft, quick kisses that grew deeper and longer. It was an outright assault on her senses, and it was devastating. His lips were cool and firm as they moved on hers, savoring, almost as if he were drinking from her. Oh shit, don’t think drinking here! He opened her mouth wider for his tongue, which swept around her teeth and curled around her own, drawing it into his mouth. She tried to speak, but the attempt got lost in the shock of his long, sharp teeth under her tongue. Blood drummed in her head, a tattoo of fear all mixed up with wonder and sheer, unadulterated lust.
A weird sound came from her mouth, and he deepened the kiss, almost grinding his mouth into hers, demanding the response she found it impossible not to give. There had never been a kiss like this one, fierce and overwhelmingly sexual, driving all thought from her head but the gratification of desire. She melted into it, opening wide for him, winding her tongue around his, sucking and biting his lips, drawing him deeper in.
At some point, he’d begun to grind his hips too, rubbing himself against her, and she found herself moving with him, standing on tiptoe and pressing back to try to assuage the aching need between her thighs.
When she almost ran out of breath, he broke the kiss and smiled. “Oh yes,” he whispered in her mind. “All night with you. All night and day, and all night again…” His words drove her to fever pitch, eliciting a helpless mewl of desire as she reached for his mouth once more.
He gave it with enthusiasm. His hands were on her hips, stroking down to her thighs and dragging upward inside her jacket and over the sides of her breasts. She moaned into his mouth, felt his thumbs caress her desperate nipples over and over. She wanted them on her naked breasts. She wanted no clothes at all between them. She wanted him buried deep inside her, pounding her to the greatest, sweetest orgasm of her life. More than that, she yearned to blast his control to hell, to make him lose himself in the pleasure she could give him. She was sure no one had ever wanted her this much before.
She squirmed against him, dragging her arms free at last to loop them around his neck and comb her fingers through his soft hair. His hands cupped both her breasts, making her gasp, and swept downward to the fastening of her jeans.
She tore her mouth free to gasp, half laughing, “Oh stop! We can’t! This is a respectable street! People are bound to pass.”
“I don’t care. I want you now. Just for starters. I want to make you scream as you come the first time, see your face in the open air as you fall apart around me. Oh yes.”
She caught his head as he plunged back for her mouth, his fingers determinedly unfastening the buttons of her jeans. “Blair, no!”
He paused and raised his head, his eyes black and clouded with lust. “Admit it. You want me to fuck you.”
She caught the golden flash in his dark eyes, glimpsed the pointed fangs between his parted lips, and swallowed hard. “Does it come with blood drinking?”
“Oh yes…”
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SERAFINA AND THE SILENT VAMPIRE by MARIE TREANOR is available now as an E-book, $2.99 from Amazon US: http://www.amazon.com/Serafina-Silent-Vampire-Serafinas-ebook/dp/B0092UD3GM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1346139424&sr=1-1&keywords=serafina+and+the+silent+vampire+marie+treanor
Marie Treanor lives in Scotland with her eccentric husband and three much-too-smart children. Having grown bored with city life, she resides these days in a picturesque village by the sea where she is lucky enough to enjoy herself avoiding housework and writing sensual stories of paranormal romance and fantasy.
Marie has published more than twenty ebooks with small presses, (Samhain Publishing, Ellora’s Cave, Changeling Press and The Wild Rose Press), including a former Kindle bestseller, Killing Joe. Blood on Silk: an Awakened by Blood novel, which won the 2011 Hollywood Halloween Book Festival prize for Fantasy, was her New York debut with NAL. Recently, she’s dipped her toe into self-publishing.
Website: www.MarieTreanor.com
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Blog: Marie Treanor’s Romantic Theme Party: http://romanticthemeparty.blogspot.com/
Contest: I’d like to give away a $10 Amazon gift card (more than enough to buy a copy of SERAFINA 😉 to one commenter who answers the question: What would you do in Sera’s position? Put Blair firmly back in his place, or grab a night with him, blood-drinking and all?
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Take the night with Blair – yay 🙂 LOL I am sooo putting this book in my TBR! Thanks for the giveaway!
kerryjcj@verizon.net
Great to hear, Kerry – thank you! And I see you like to live dangerously too :).
Marie
I’ve had the opportunity to read and review Serafina and the Silent Vampire and I LOVED IT!
Just stopped by to show support!
Saph
Aw thank you, Saph! I read your wonderful review, and am very grateful! Nice to see you here too :).
Marie
Grab the night with everything that comes with it!
Aha, another thrill seeker, Becky 🙂
Marie
You only live once so I would spend the night with him. lol. Sounds like a great book and the cover is HOT!
kaylyndavis1986@yahoo.com
I can see Blair has his fans here :). Glad you like the cover, Kaylin – me too! Kimberley Killion is responsible!
Marie
YOLO– spend the night with him!! lol.
–Taylor Z
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Another risk-taker, I see, Taylor! Good luck :).
Marie
I would take the night with Blair. 🙂
Good for you, Crystal :).
Marie
I would take the night. I love the cover
Seems to be a bit of competition for the night with Blair :). Thanks, Petula – glad you like the cover – it is gorgeous, isn’t it?
Marie
Spend the night of course! 🙂 Who wouldn’t. 🙂
No one, it seems, May :). Thanks for your answer!
Marie
I’d take the night with Blair.
Popular choice, Nareh 🙂
Marie
Hell, yeah I would grab a night with him!! I love this book and I can’t wait to read it. Thank you so much for the excerpt and for the awesome giveaway!!
You’re very welcome, Elizabeth! Thanks for your enthusiasm!
Marie
Grab a night with him. Excerpt was great!
Thanks, Amy! Glad you enjoyed it :).
Marie
Good grief! If it was really as hot as the excerpt I would have to throw caution to the wind. No doubt.
🙂 Good answer, Anne – thanks!
Marie
Wow, sounds like a hot excerpt. Thanks for sharing what sounds like a really interesting story
Oh yes and I’d take Blair
You’re welcome, Shannon! Glad you enjoyed the excerpt!
Marie
I would grab a night with him, blood-drinking and all 😉 lol, sounds like a great book I will add it to my TBR list, awesome giveaway too 🙂
Great :). Thank you, Jovhanna.
Marie
I really want to read this one–loved the excerpt! Thanks for coming over, Marie!
Thank you, Cynthia – thrilled to hear that :). My pleasure to be here – thanks for having me!
Marie
um Grab a night with Blair 🙂
Well, you have some competition here, but why not? :). Thanks for your answer!
Marie
I’d grab the night with Blair, after all I have 8 pints of blood, I can spare a sip or two for him 😀
Thanks for the giveaway and the excerpt Marie.
🙂 What a great way of looking at things, Ilona :). And you’re welcome!
Marie
;)ike the others… I would go with grabbing the night with Blair!
It’s going to be quite a party 🙂 Thanks for joining in, Colleen!
Marie
I would definitely spend the night with him,thanks for sharing the excerpt 🙂
You’re welcome, Regina – glad he appeals 🙂
Marie
I’d most likely take the night with him but I’d put him in his place as well :). Thank you for the great excerpt and the giveaway.
Good answer, Viki – have your cake and eat it :). You’re very welcome!
Marie
Life is short. I’d grab the night with Blair, he sounds HOOOOOOOTTTTT! Thanks for the great excerpt and contest.
Delighted you think so, Lori! Glad you enjoyed it!
Marie
After reading the hot excerpt wouldn’t any one of us take a night with Blair? Run with it?? Never think about it twice???
Very glad you feel that way, Diane :). What is it about dangerous men? :).
Marie
Great excerpt. I’d definitely grab a night with Blair, blood drinking and all. How could i not after that excerpt.
mythic021@gmail.com
Great to hear, Vanessa – thank you!
Marie
Oh, I’m sure I’d grab a night with him, blood-drinking and all. Who could resist? I’m really looking forward to reading Serafina and the Silent Vampire, especially after this excerpt. 😀
Thanks, Barbara – glad you enjoyed the excerpt!
Marie
I’d grab the night with him and live in the moment!
That does seem to be the popular choice, Jeanette – you guys know no fear :).
Marie
Well, I mean, come on… 😉
Another risk-taker, I’m guessing, Chelsea :). I hope Blair is flattered by all this!
Marie
I think I’d pass. I really don’t want anyone drinking my blood.
At last! Good for you, Jen! 🙂
Marie
Congrats on the release! I thought it was fantastic.
As to the question, I think what she did was perfect.
Aw, thank you, Donna! You’re very kind.
Marie
Congratulations on the new release, I have already put it on my to buy list!
I would definitely take the night and run with it!
thanks for the giveaway….
Thanks, Kimberley – glad to hear that!
Watch out for his teeth…
And you’re welcome 🙂
Marie
Congrats Marie!
I think I would definitely take the night with him, after all you only live once, right? LOL
Thank you!
Well, yes, you only live once, so maybe you need to be careful with dangerous creatures like vampires :). Glad you think Blair’s worth the risk!
Marie
Hmmm…probably take the night. 🙂 Looks like an awesome book that I need to check out!
Thanks, Amy – hope you do :).
Marie
No I run scared of big teeth, congrats on the book whoo
Very sensible, Kimh 🙂 Thank you!
Marie
I would spend the night I think, lol 🙂
Thanks for sharing the excerpt and congrats on the release!
Good for you, Winnie :). You’re welcome, and thank you!
Marie
I would spend the night too. Love the cover. Congrats on your book.
stevebrandes(at)gmail(dot)com
Thanks, Sue, I love the cover too!
Marie
Oh yes, I’d grab the night with him! Congrats on the new release, Marie.
Pam, you risk-taker you! Lovely to see you here! And thanks for the congrats :).
Marie
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I hope that I’m not too late on this one! Story sounds awesome! Count me in please. Congrats on the new release and thanks for the awesome giveaway!
Well, I’m late picking a winner, so no worries, Barb – glad you dropped by :). Thank you!
Marie
So, since my husband picked the number 1, my winner is the first commenter, KERRY!
Congratulations, Kerry! You’ve left your email address, so I can just send you the card, which I hope you enjoy spending :).
Thanks to everyone who stopped to chat – great talking to you all! And Cynthia, thanks again for having me – it’s been great!
All the best,
Marie