Morning Loverlies,

Yes, it's that time again! Snippet Saturday! Which is hosted by the absolutely and totally kick ass Lauren Dane. Today's theme is the "Worldbuiding!" Today's entry is from my first paranormal series with Ellora's Cave, Seducing St. Nic. I am not only an author of paranormal romance but I am also a great lover and huge fan. It is one of my very favorite sub-genres. So when I first wrote Seducing St. Nic getting the opportunity to create my own world was one of the best things I got to do.

Seducing St. Nic can be found at Elloracave.com and Amazon. Also, if you're interested in reading some more excerpts you can find them .

Barbara Jean Ruiz's life has never been what anyone would call glamorous. She lives in an okay apartment, in an okay neighborhood and has an okay job with less than okay wages. Her life is…okay.

Then her luck starts to change. She wins a gorgeous fur coat. She gets promoted and her new boss is none other than the super-sexy St. Nic. Cypriano San Nicolo is everything a woman could want. He's tall, dark, handsome, rich, successful and, oh yeah, the evil undead.

After nearly a century of self-imposed sleep, St. Nic has only two uses for humans—blood and sex. Until he meets Barbara Jean, his irreverent, wisecracking assistant. If he shows up at her apartment just before dawn, she'll have to take him in, right? Into her bed, if everything goes as planned.

"Where to, lady?"

"The San Nicolo building on Regents Street, please."

The cab jerked into the street and sped toward the end of the block.

Sitting back, I burrowed deeper into the soft fur of my coat. It was the most luxurious thing I've ever owned and I forgave Mr. San Nicolo just a tad because his ordering me to work on my day off gave me a reason to wear it.

Sighing, I thought of the enigmatic Cypriano San Nicolo. There wasn't much I knew about him, other than he was rich, gorgeous and a vampire. And, from what I'd heard, a rather old one.

I had been working for San Nicolo International for two years when my previous boss retired. Well, actually, he'd met the business end of a stake. Thankfully, instead of letting me go as I had expected, Nonhuman Resources called me a couple days later and offered me a promotion as the new executive assistant to Mr. San Nicolo. At first the news excited me because it meant a pay increase and I wouldn't have to look for a new position.

But then I found out I'd be working for the Mr. San Nicolo. The same man who had founded the company in 1807. It wasn't his age or the fact that he was the evil undead that bothered me. Hell, more than half of the company was the evil undead. San Nicolo International prided itself on being an equal-opportunity employer and having more Vampire American employees than any other company since vamps had come out of the coffin nearly three decades ago.

No, the fact that Mr. San Nicolo, or St. Nic as I secretly called him, was a blood-sucking fiend didn't really bother me. What had bothered me was that he hadn't sucked in a while. He had gone to ground about a hundred years ago, which in itself wasn't unusual for older vamps. And who could blame them? Hell, even I got bored eating pizza once a week, so the thought of living century after century with only one meal on the menu was beyond my comprehension.

You know what they say—a hungry vampire is a dangerous vampire. I'd seen news footage of what happened to vamps when they came out of long periods of sleep. Even the old ones like St. Nic had only two things on their minds—feeding and fucking. And from what I'd heard, they weren't particular about which need they satisfied first.

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