Margie Church - Guest Post & Contest

Many thanks to author Margie Church who has dropped by to discuss the vampires of her Love Bites series. She is also offering an ebook copy of book 1 of Love Bites. See contest details at the end of the post.

It's all yours, Margie!

Patricia, thank you for inviting me to your cool blog. I appreciate the chance to talk about my Love Bites series with your friends.

In these books, vampires live peacefully among humans as ordinary people. They don't make a practice of turning humans into vampires. Falling in love with a human is forbidden and likely to end in extermination of the vampire.

These characters play pivotal roles in Love Bites and Love Bites II: Dangerous Love.

Jui Fabrice: An independent, confident business woman. She fell for Wade the moment she laid eyes on him and has no idea Wade is a vampire. She can't shake him from her memories or life. The fact he's telepathic and teleports himself around the world to get to her could be a reason she's having these troubles. Ya think? The more he pushes her away, the more she digs into his life, and tries to understand why he won't return her love the way she wants him to. The consequences for her love are unfathomable. Once she learns what Wade really is, the decision to love or leave him isn't as easy as you might think.

Wade Kairos: Has only been a vampire for 70 years and was turned by his friend and mentor, Christophe, after a car wreck. Friend and mentor sounds crazy, but Christophe cared enough about Wade to make his transition to vampirism as easy as possible. Having said that, understand that vampires don't forget what it was like to be human. Wade was in love and engaged to be married when he was turned. He was tormented by those emotions until his fiancée died years later. Wade meets Jui Fabrice and battles mightily to ignore the resurgence of his human emotions. Her allure is too much and once his heart is snared, he faces the wrath of Ladislav Husek.

Ladislav Husek: The Ancient One and leader of the vampire nation. The poster boy for vampire sociopaths. At first, Ladislav appears to have a benign job of keeping track of the vampires lives and deaths and help ensure their secret society stays that way. We learn he has an uncontrollable hatred for vampires who fall in love, and viscously exterminates any he sees headed that way. Wade is a blinking beacon on Ladislav's radar. He also has an all-consuming jealousy for Victoria, a human he loved. Her virgin blood was too compelling, and he lost his self-control, and turned her. Hundreds of years later, he still thinks she might get over his bad. Ladislav's "business partner" is Dirk.

Dirk: The Master Prophet and a shape shifter. Dirk leads a society of afterworld creatures created when vampire feedings go wrong and the human accidentally dies. They have no status in the afterworld and therefore exist in a social limbo. The Prophets are the equivalent to the mafia. They enjoy creating mayhem and pain for humans and rogue vampires. Dirk has a business and personal alliance with Ladislav. He's also a Dom and the only one who understands Ladislav's real needs.

Victoria: Turned by Ladislav, she keeps continents between them to control her rage. Her hatred for him is palpable and she's deeply vindictive. She befriended Wade after he was turned, and they spent years together in their hedonistic, vampire lifestyle. Tori hates the idea that Jui has stolen her playmate and that Wade has something she never has – love. She does her level best to manipulate Jui and punish Wade.

This cast of characters helps to create rich subplots that will entertain and intrigue you. Expect dark twists and many surprises about who people really are and what lengths they'll go to get what they want.

About the books:

Love Bites Blurb

An accidental encounter turns into high stakes love when Jui Fabrice meets Wade Kairos in Germany. She has no idea he’s a vampire and Wade has every intention of keeping his secret.

A vineyard cottage is the perfect place for Jui and Wade to make love until he discovers her unique link to his living years. He vows to stay away from her forever, but he can’t let her go completely. Wade’s repressed human feelings continue rising. He invades Jui’s dreams and communicates telepathically with her at will. Evil jealousy consumes him when Jui becomes involved with Rob Hawthorne and she rebukes Wade for his controlling behaviors. Then Wade’s lifelong companion dies in a vamp war and his desolation is too much to handle alone. He turns to the only person who cares about him—Jui— and during one hot night, he becomes the man she wants.

The Ancient One, Ladislav Husek, learns of Wade’s risky human behavior and gives Wade a taste of how viciously he’ll die if he doesn’t bury his tracks with Jui. Husek promises to turn Jui into his personal playmate and Wade has to choose. Can love prevail over evil in a relationship that never was supposed to happen?

Love Bites II: Dangerous Love

Wade Kairos faces deadly consequences for defying the leader of the vampire nation. Ladislav Husek partners with Master Prophet Dirk, to prove Wade can run but he can't hide. And neither can Jui Fabrice, the woman Wade loves. Every bit of his ingenuity is needed to protect her from being turned into a vampire or a prophet.

If that's not enough trouble for him, another vampire from Wade's past comes forward and makes it abundantly clear that what used to be hers is still up for grabs.

Someone will pay with their life in Dangerous Love.

I invite you to start with Love Bites and then read Dangerous Love. The third book, Redemptive Love, is planned for later this year.

About Margie Church

I write contemporary erotic romance, suspense, paranormal, and m/m genres. By day, I write advertising literature, communications plans, and direct social media. I also write children's books under my pen name, Margaret Rose. I'm a Facebook addict and I don't want treatment! What else? Married almost three decades to the only man on earth who could put up with me that long and still love me.  We met in high school biology, love at first sight, and married after I graduated from college.  We have two teen sons who delight and annoy me at the most surprising moments. Yeah, I know you're doing the math on those kids…we practiced a long time and we got it right. Trust me.

I recently finished a m/m romance. My works in progress (WIP) are a ghost story and an erotic romance. After that comes a Young Adult (YA) piece.

You can reach me at margie_church@yahoo.com

My website and blog: Romance with SASS www.RomanceWithSass.com

Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MargaretRChurch

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LinkedIn: http://www.linkedIn.com/MargieChurch

Noble Romance Buy Link: https://www.nobleromance.com/BrowseListing.aspx?author=102

CONTEST

To lure you into this fantastic series, I'm giving away a copy of Love Bites plus autographed cover flats of both books .

Describe what type of vampire novels you enjoy most.

*Be sure to include contact information with your comment

*Must be 18 to ender the contest.

*Contest is international

*Contest ends March 26, 2011