Blog with Bite Presents Vampire Week Part 1

"The strength of the vampire is that people will not believe in him." - Garrett Fort

The most famous of all the paranormal creatures, the vampire has haunted our nightmares since the dawn of written history. And now...the vampire has taken up residence in a new part of our existence, our fantasies. Blog with Bite is proud to launch it's biggest Feature Week ever. So, big that it will have to be split into two features. We begin Week 1 with three GREAT authors that we are thrilled to welcome to our humble blog. You will have a chance to win 3 Prizes this week. Stay posted!

First though, we want to know, what was the first book that you ever read/loved that had a vampire in it?

Featured Authors (Alphabetical)

J.K. Beck

J.K. Beck is the new pen name for bestselling author Julie Kenner. Her series is called THE SHADOW KEEPERS. 

BOOKS:
When Blood Calls
When Pleasure Rules
When Wicked Craves


Synopsis, When Blood Calls:

Sara Constantine is one of the country’s most tenacious prosecuting attorneys—and she’s just secured a well-earned promotion. At first she’s thrilled. Then she finds out her new job involves prosecuting vampires and werewolves. And nothing prepares Sara for the shock she receives when she meets the first defendant she’ll be trying to put away: Lucius Dragos, the sexy stranger with whom she recently shared an explosive night of ecstasy.

When Lucius Dragos kisses the beautiful woman sitting next to him at the bar, he’s only hoping to blend into the crowd and avoid the perceptive gaze of the man he’s following…and planning to kill. But what starts as a simple kiss to secure his cover ignites into a fierce hunger that leads to an all-consuming passion. Charged with murder, Luke knows Sara will do whatever it takes to see him locked away—unless he can convince her that he’s not the monster she thinks he is. And that might mean making the greatest sacrifice a vampire can make.


Prize up for grabs:

$15 Amazon.com Gift Card
Bound Galleys of When Pleasure Rules & When Wicked Craves
{This prize pack is open for international entries!}

Madelyn Ford

In 2006, a dear friend gave Madelyn a copy of Laurel Hamilton's Guilty Pleasures and she was stunned that books about vampires were actually being published. Where had she been all these years....? Lost somewhere in the land of the Little Mermaid, most likely. Suddenly insanity hit and she thought, "I can do this!"

 Synopsis, Faith Revisted

Once one of the most powerful of Angels, Bale, along with his fellow Grigori brethren, were punished due to Lucifer's trickery, and the only hope for redemption is to protect those Earthbound souls from the rising of Lucifer's Demon children. It is a duty they gladly accept. But when Bale finds himself fascinated with the vampire, Faith, he fights it. Not only does the longing for her go against a vow he'd made centuries before, he is pretty certain someone is targeting him and his brothers-one of their own-so to protect her, he tries to resist the pull.
For Faith Magee, meeting Bale was like stepping out of the pan and into the fire. An injury due to a Demon hunt sends her into Transfiguration, the process by which a child born of a Vampire father turns, one year early and instead of getting out from under her domineering father's thumb, finds that by taking Bale's blood, she is bonded to a male who doesn't seem to want her. And to make matters worse, blood from any other makes her violently ill. With her only options starving to death or giving into an alpha warrior, what's a vampire to do?

Prize up for grabs:

Digital download of FAITH REVISITED
{This prize pack is open for international entries!}

D. B. Reynolds

D.B. Reynolds is the author of the fabulous Vampires in America series, along with other books in the paranormal romance realm.



 Synopsis, Raphael

Malibu, California—home to rock-and-roll gods and movie stars, the beautiful, the rich . . . and vampires.

Powerful and charismatic, Raphael is a Vampire Lord, one of the few who hold the power of life and death over every vampire in existence. Thousands call him Master and have pledged absolute loyalty on their very lives. But when, in a brazen and deadly daylight attack, a gang of human killers kidnaps the one female vampire he’d give his life for, Raphael turns to a human investigator to find his enemies before it’s too late.

Cynthia Leighton is smart, tough and sexy, a private investigator and former cop who’s tired of spying on cheating spouses and digging out old bank accounts. When Raphael asks for her help in tracking down the kidnappers, Cyn’s happy to accept. But she soon realizes her greatest danger comes not from the humans, but from Raphael himself.

Battling Russian mobsters and treacherous vampires, and betrayed by those they trusted, Cyn and Raphael find themselves fighting for their lives while caught up in a passion of blood and violence that is destined to destroy them both.


Prize up for grabs:

Winners Choice! Raphael Jabril or Rajmund (books #1, 2 or 3 in the Vampires in America series)
{This prize pack is open for international entries!}

Contest Deets:

• There will be three winners, each will win an Author Prize pack, listed above.
• Contest ends Aug 31st 11:59 am CST
• You have to be a BWB Follower
• To enter comment on this post
• This contest is INTERNATIONAL
• Books are provided by the author and not Blog with Bite. 
• Winner will be chosen randomly with random.org based on those numbers in the comments section
• Winner will be notified by post
• If a winner does not respond with 48 hours another winner is chosen, if the 2nd winner does not respond, quickie twitter giveaways are fun

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