What if you had an incurable disease? Maybe you too would think
that becoming a vampire might be your best bet. Winter Kennedy has moved to
Nome looking for vampires only to find Aiden Hightower. She doesn’t expect to fall
in love, but fall deeply and passionately in love she does.
This
unplanned action gets in the way of her desire to become a vampire and soon she
is confused as to what direction her life should take. Can she burden her new
found love with the knowledge that she will die within two years, barring a
miracle? Watching her dear mother die a horrible death only two years earlier
has left a permanent mark on Winter, and is what has driven her to make desperate
decisions regarding her own fate.
Adding to this confusion is Ellie Stone’s proposal (Aiden’s married
sister) to heal Winter of her fatal disease. Ellie is the real deal. She can
heal others at will. However, it leaves her drained and very weak for days
after. And her new pregnancy complicates the matter.
The arrival of the vampire
that Winter had purposely called up before falling in love, Christopher St John,
further complicates her life when he desires her as his new mate. The pressure
on Winter is enormous, but after much internal turmoil she chooses Aiden over
eternal life.
On the eve of Winter and
Aiden’s marriage, Christopher whisks her away to his lair atop a mountain in
Alaska where he changes her into a vampire after receiving a special sanction
to do so. Devastated by the turn of events and blaming herself for her actions,
Winter is lost until she finds solace in discovering cures for human diseases
in her new home.
Will Winter make her way back to her beloved Aiden? Read Forever Woman and find out!
Prologue
The murmur of voices
was silenced in an instant by the ancient magistrate’s unearthly cold stare as
he stood with full authority, blacked-hooded and paper-white, and read from the
book of punishments, his voice heralding the full power of the Condita, the
Vampire Establishment.
“It is our character
and our will that makes and mars our lives. Your defense that you were not
aware of the edict against Human feeding falters as it does not justify the
excessive crime of random acts of terror against humans. Modern Vampire lore is
clear on this point, as it is written.”
And with a short pause
for emphasis, continued his diatribe in the echoing tone of an inhuman mountain
of stone. The more astute members of his audience felt an infinitesimal flicker
of his savoring the silence before his final pronouncement began.
“Therefore, it is the
verdict of this court that the vampyre, Katrianna Ivanski, in absentia, for her
crimes against the Condita, be chained for no less than twenty four hours to
the punishment polus in the central courtyard of the templum. May the Confuto
have mercy on your undead soul.”
Fondest
Regards,
January
Bain
STORYTELLER
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Man
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Woman
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Clan
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