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Arcaneology #1
Dark Studies
Professional victim. Escaped slave. Grad student. Angie Clark is all three.
Angie Clark began life as Sarah Miller, an innocent girl deceived and enslaved by vampires. Her escape from torture and captivity set off a political firestorm among the vampires of North America, and in order to survive she took on a new identity. Now Angie leads a double life. By day she is a grad student obsessed with arcaneology—the study of supernatural species. At night, she is Angeline Devereaux, a woman who specializes in fulfilling vampires’ fantasies. She has everything under control until Steffen Scott, Lord of the Puget Sound vampire Province, makes an unusual he wants to fall in love.
It’s the ultimate challenge, and Angie can’t resist. But Steffen turns out to be the least of her worries when Angie puts her life on the line to prevent a war between humans and vampires. Fantasy and reality become blurred when she turns to Steffen for comfort and discovers that while he was falling in love with her, she was developing feelings of her own. Now she must decide how to deal with emotions she fears even more than death.
Angie Clark began life as Sarah Miller, an innocent girl deceived and enslaved by vampires. Her escape from torture and captivity set off a political firestorm among the vampires of North America, and in order to survive she took on a new identity. Now Angie leads a double life. By day she is a grad student obsessed with arcaneology—the study of supernatural species. At night, she is Angeline Devereaux, a woman who specializes in fulfilling vampires’ fantasies. She has everything under control until Steffen Scott, Lord of the Puget Sound vampire Province, makes an unusual he wants to fall in love.
It’s the ultimate challenge, and Angie can’t resist. But Steffen turns out to be the least of her worries when Angie puts her life on the line to prevent a war between humans and vampires. Fantasy and reality become blurred when she turns to Steffen for comfort and discovers that while he was falling in love with her, she was developing feelings of her own. Now she must decide how to deal with emotions she fears even more than death.
- GenresVampiresUrban Fantasy
366 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 5, 2013
2 people are currently reading
35 people want to read
About the author
C.P. Foster
10 books4 followersHello, and welcome! I’m C. P. Foster, and I write urban fantasy, erotica and romance.
I live in a suburb of the Emerald City, a.k.a. Seattle with my husband and our cat(s). The number of cats varies, but there’s always at least one. I’ve been a pagan for over 25 years, and somewhere along the way Aphrodite claimed me. Or maybe I was hers all along, and just didn’t realize it. I’m also into BDSM, and very proud to be a member of the Center for Sex Positive Culture, an organization that promotes the understanding and acceptance of human sexuality in its many, many forms.
To quote Lucille Ball, “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than the things I didn’t do.” It’s made my life a long, strange trip packed full of experiences, both good and bad. I hope that as I get older I’ll be brave enough to keep living by that philosophy.
I’ve been writing pretty much ever since I learned my alphabet, but up until now I’ve mostly done it for my own enjoyment. Sharing it with the world is scary, wonderful, validating, intimidating, and I’ll put away my thesaurus now, because you get the idea. At any rate, I’m hooked.
I live in a suburb of the Emerald City, a.k.a. Seattle with my husband and our cat(s). The number of cats varies, but there’s always at least one. I’ve been a pagan for over 25 years, and somewhere along the way Aphrodite claimed me. Or maybe I was hers all along, and just didn’t realize it. I’m also into BDSM, and very proud to be a member of the Center for Sex Positive Culture, an organization that promotes the understanding and acceptance of human sexuality in its many, many forms.
To quote Lucille Ball, “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than the things I didn’t do.” It’s made my life a long, strange trip packed full of experiences, both good and bad. I hope that as I get older I’ll be brave enough to keep living by that philosophy.
I’ve been writing pretty much ever since I learned my alphabet, but up until now I’ve mostly done it for my own enjoyment. Sharing it with the world is scary, wonderful, validating, intimidating, and I’ll put away my thesaurus now, because you get the idea. At any rate, I’m hooked.
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September 16, 2020
I'm not into vampires etc, but it was the kind of light read that I will find the rest of the books in the series
June 12, 2013
I almost gave this book a four, but decided to stick with three. There are a couple of obvious things that always annoy me in books. Do authors ever consider when something is done in the public eye that there is CCTV just about everywhere outside of nightclubs and in commercial areas. What about Google maps - can always look at the satellite version. What about spyware? Mmmm?
These really obvious oversights really get on my nerves, and I find that a lot of authors lose a fair bit of credibility and respect from these things. How can a contemporary novel be set in a time of no technology but would appear to be from last century? These things really get up my nose.
These really obvious oversights really get on my nerves, and I find that a lot of authors lose a fair bit of credibility and respect from these things. How can a contemporary novel be set in a time of no technology but would appear to be from last century? These things really get up my nose.
July 14, 2013
This was a book I couldn't put down. A supernatural romance, full of plot twists, C.F. Foster is an author I will read more of. I am really looking forward to the second book in this series. If you like vampires, a plucky heroine and a book that is a little more explicit than some, this book is for you. I highly recommend you read it. I know I will read it again!
June 18, 2013
Very different, don't know what to entirely think of it. But I really enjoyed it. I love strong female characters. The idea that one can break your body but not your mind really speaks to me. There is nothing I hate the most when somebody tells me what to do.
July 7, 2013
The first couple of times she slips back in history threw me, but toward the end, it was a great way to tie everything up together. Finished in a day, and can't wait to see what happens with theses characters in the next book.
July 14, 2013
I enjoyed this book. There is alot going on so u really have to pay attention. I will say it takes some concentration because it flips back and forth from present to past. I really like James. I know he not the main hero here but hoped to read alot more of him
June 23, 2014
I loved this book. I really wanted everything to turn out well for Angie, she'd been through so much already - and I liked her. The many sex scenes were hot, hot, hot. I especially liked Aaron! I can't wait to read the sequel.
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