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Marcus's Vampire
Be careful of what you wish for …
Lilly Marchantel and her vampire cat, Baron escape the Katrina-ruined New Orleans, in search of her maker, Marcus Lancaster in Houston. For 100 years she fantasized and conversed with her imagined ‘Marcus’, in the form of a skull that she had discovered in her crypt. She eagerly anticipates the reunion. Would the real Marcus Lancaster prove to be as kind, loving, and attentive as the skull surrogate?
Former Enforcer Angel-turned Vampire Sullivan Kilcoan is half a world away going through retraining and rehabilitation. He misses Lilly desperately but is resigned to the fact that he might never see her again.
There is a foreshadowing disturbance in the paranatural world. Archangel Mikhail sees the signs and senses that it is only the beginning of trouble. The Vampire Council has called Marcus an emergency meeting in Switzerland, while another hurricane churning is in the Gulf of Mexico, stronger than the devastating Katrina. Rita, a category 5, is bearing down on Houston.
While everything swirls around her, Lilly wonders if she has made a bad mistake by moving out of her cozy crypt back in New Orleans.
Lilly Marchantel and her vampire cat, Baron escape the Katrina-ruined New Orleans, in search of her maker, Marcus Lancaster in Houston. For 100 years she fantasized and conversed with her imagined ‘Marcus’, in the form of a skull that she had discovered in her crypt. She eagerly anticipates the reunion. Would the real Marcus Lancaster prove to be as kind, loving, and attentive as the skull surrogate?
Former Enforcer Angel-turned Vampire Sullivan Kilcoan is half a world away going through retraining and rehabilitation. He misses Lilly desperately but is resigned to the fact that he might never see her again.
There is a foreshadowing disturbance in the paranatural world. Archangel Mikhail sees the signs and senses that it is only the beginning of trouble. The Vampire Council has called Marcus an emergency meeting in Switzerland, while another hurricane churning is in the Gulf of Mexico, stronger than the devastating Katrina. Rita, a category 5, is bearing down on Houston.
While everything swirls around her, Lilly wonders if she has made a bad mistake by moving out of her cozy crypt back in New Orleans.
262 pages, ebook
First published August 10, 2014
4 people want to read
About the author
Charlayne Elizabeth Denney
7 books26 followersCharlayne Elizabeth Denney is a native Texan and proud of it. Now a resident of Houston, she has been a waitress, a DJ, a sports writer, a technical writer, sold knives, swords, and replica weapons, was part-owner of a comic shop, and a perennial student. She has 4 kids, 9 grandkids, 2 Shelties, and a cat who is the inspiration for Baron in “Fangs & Halos.” She married her 3rd and final husband, Bruce, in 1993 after a whirlwind six-month romance, having met him at a Science Fiction convention and her sister telling her to “go out with him” (and him overhearing her). She has written many non-fiction articles, has been published in several magazines, and written technical training manuals for Compaq. She reviews for Paranormal Romance Guild and loves vampire novels the most.
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October 17, 2015
We pick up where book one ended, Lilly has left her crypt and Sullivan, the Enforcer Angels are ready to bring Sullivan to Hell only they are stopped and Marcus finally found out that Lilly is alive and in New Orleans.
With the help of Arianne, Lilly heads to Houston where she is told he is and at the same time Marcus is on his way to New Orleans. Lilly finds herself in the Astrodome inquiring about Marcus when she is met by a woman who happens to be his assistant. After one hundred years Marcus and Lilly are finally reunited only things are not they way she thought they would be. Marcus, the man she fantasized over for a hundred years is not the man she thought, he is definitely not a knight in shining armor.
Marcus runs Lancaster Industries and lives with his assistant and lover Jesse who is a ghoul. While on her way to Houston Lilly was visited by the Enforcer Angels who were about to mark her for turning not just an angel but a cat. Having lived by herself with only her cat Baron and the skull she referred to as Marcus she had no way of knowing what the rules where governing vampires. A vampire could only turn one person every hundred years and only with their permission, she had turned two without their knowledge. There is also the belief that it was Lilly who stole Sullivan's ring and took his wings, which of course, is the farthest thing from the truth.
Marcus has seen to it that Lilly has everything she could ever want, clothes, jewels and a beautiful place to live, but none of that is what Lilly wants. She does not want to feel like a kept woman and she wants to work and make her own money, something Marcus is unwilling to let her do. Of course, the fact that Lilly lived in a crypt and is totally unaware of what is happening in the twenty-first century is not helping her any. She is amazed that woman wear clothing she considers should be worn by prostitutes and when she is taken to a mall she is in shock at the size of the place and even more shocked by the fact that there is a store with women's undergarments hanging out for all to see.
Sullivan in the meantime is at a monastery to get redemption but he can't get Lilly out of his mind. His guilt over raping her and beating her is tormenting him, especially the fact that she refused to forgive him. He loves Lilly and he has lost everything. When his best friend, Enforcer Essex comes to visit him he finds out that Essex is going to work for Marcus and is doing something very secret for Mikhail the head Archangel. Sullivan worries that his friend might be going into danger but Essex has no choice.
I don't want to go into to much detail because this is a series that should be read. Although it ends in a cliffhanger something I personally HATE, with this series it doesn't matter because as much as I HATE cliffhangers that is how much I LOVE this series. The characters are amazing, Lilly who prays on her rosaries daily, goes to church, has a heart of gold is someone you can't help but love. Baron the cat who is able to speak to Lilly telepathically is absolutely a gem and he brings humor when it is needed. Sullivan in spite of what he has done in the past is still a man with feeling and Marcus is everything you would hate in a man or vampire.
The only problem I have is that I have no idea when the next book is coming out, soon I hope.
Reviewed by: Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Review Team
With the help of Arianne, Lilly heads to Houston where she is told he is and at the same time Marcus is on his way to New Orleans. Lilly finds herself in the Astrodome inquiring about Marcus when she is met by a woman who happens to be his assistant. After one hundred years Marcus and Lilly are finally reunited only things are not they way she thought they would be. Marcus, the man she fantasized over for a hundred years is not the man she thought, he is definitely not a knight in shining armor.
Marcus runs Lancaster Industries and lives with his assistant and lover Jesse who is a ghoul. While on her way to Houston Lilly was visited by the Enforcer Angels who were about to mark her for turning not just an angel but a cat. Having lived by herself with only her cat Baron and the skull she referred to as Marcus she had no way of knowing what the rules where governing vampires. A vampire could only turn one person every hundred years and only with their permission, she had turned two without their knowledge. There is also the belief that it was Lilly who stole Sullivan's ring and took his wings, which of course, is the farthest thing from the truth.
Marcus has seen to it that Lilly has everything she could ever want, clothes, jewels and a beautiful place to live, but none of that is what Lilly wants. She does not want to feel like a kept woman and she wants to work and make her own money, something Marcus is unwilling to let her do. Of course, the fact that Lilly lived in a crypt and is totally unaware of what is happening in the twenty-first century is not helping her any. She is amazed that woman wear clothing she considers should be worn by prostitutes and when she is taken to a mall she is in shock at the size of the place and even more shocked by the fact that there is a store with women's undergarments hanging out for all to see.
Sullivan in the meantime is at a monastery to get redemption but he can't get Lilly out of his mind. His guilt over raping her and beating her is tormenting him, especially the fact that she refused to forgive him. He loves Lilly and he has lost everything. When his best friend, Enforcer Essex comes to visit him he finds out that Essex is going to work for Marcus and is doing something very secret for Mikhail the head Archangel. Sullivan worries that his friend might be going into danger but Essex has no choice.
I don't want to go into to much detail because this is a series that should be read. Although it ends in a cliffhanger something I personally HATE, with this series it doesn't matter because as much as I HATE cliffhangers that is how much I LOVE this series. The characters are amazing, Lilly who prays on her rosaries daily, goes to church, has a heart of gold is someone you can't help but love. Baron the cat who is able to speak to Lilly telepathically is absolutely a gem and he brings humor when it is needed. Sullivan in spite of what he has done in the past is still a man with feeling and Marcus is everything you would hate in a man or vampire.
The only problem I have is that I have no idea when the next book is coming out, soon I hope.
Reviewed by: Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Review Team
October 17, 2014
I know this author personally as her oldest daughter and I are best friends and that is why I have the honor and privilege to call her mom. I loved this book just as much as I loved the first one. When I got my copy in the mail, the inscription read, "Hope this one gives you chills", and it definitely did that. Now allow me to elaborate on these points that did just that.
1)Lilly finally finds Marcus after over a century of being without him and she finds out that the way she had envisioned him was not how he really is. He's your typical rich asshole that has to have a tight reign on everything in his life. I had my moments of really hating his character because of how he treated Lilly. To him she was just another possession, "arm candy", another beautiful thing to add to his collection of beautiful things. Lilly runs from Sullivan because of what happened between them in New Orleans, then she has to endure the exact same thing only much worse from someone she thought she knew. I don't know how she is still sane after going through that twice in the span of a couple of weeks.
2)Everyone in the vampire community is curious about how Lilly managed to turn an angel into a vampire...even the Vampire Council. Who knows what that that cliff-hanger ending if going to lead to in the next book.
3) Gods, I just loved Baron even more in this book with his sarcasm and actually letting it be know to Lilly that he can actually talk. Baron's sarcasm was placed in just the right places to lift the heavy and serious mood of the book. Just the right amount of levity.
4)Jesse's jealousy got on my nerves. He is so insecure of his place with Marcus that he constantly baits Lilly just to try to get her to run. What almost got him his wish is when she walking in on him and Marcus banging and Marcus invites her to join them. Just because she was a pro in her former life, that doesn't mean that things like that were normal to her.
5)Lilly getting sick the way she did when it came to smells makes you wonder...can vampires get pregnant? Is Lilly already pregnant? If so wow, that was quick.
6)Looking at the world though Lilly's eyes is like looking at the world through the eyes of a child, with all the wonder and amazement that comes with it.
7)Lilly is determined to be her own woman. She wants to work and support herself and not be a kept woman. She doesn't want to be dependent on a man she can no longer trust because she has no way of knowing what he is going to do next or when he'll pull a Jekyll and Hyde on her again. But it looks like she'll have the opportunity to be able to do that.
Again, great work mom and I can't wait for book three.
1)Lilly finally finds Marcus after over a century of being without him and she finds out that the way she had envisioned him was not how he really is. He's your typical rich asshole that has to have a tight reign on everything in his life. I had my moments of really hating his character because of how he treated Lilly. To him she was just another possession, "arm candy", another beautiful thing to add to his collection of beautiful things. Lilly runs from Sullivan because of what happened between them in New Orleans, then she has to endure the exact same thing only much worse from someone she thought she knew. I don't know how she is still sane after going through that twice in the span of a couple of weeks.
2)Everyone in the vampire community is curious about how Lilly managed to turn an angel into a vampire...even the Vampire Council. Who knows what that that cliff-hanger ending if going to lead to in the next book.
3) Gods, I just loved Baron even more in this book with his sarcasm and actually letting it be know to Lilly that he can actually talk. Baron's sarcasm was placed in just the right places to lift the heavy and serious mood of the book. Just the right amount of levity.
4)Jesse's jealousy got on my nerves. He is so insecure of his place with Marcus that he constantly baits Lilly just to try to get her to run. What almost got him his wish is when she walking in on him and Marcus banging and Marcus invites her to join them. Just because she was a pro in her former life, that doesn't mean that things like that were normal to her.
5)Lilly getting sick the way she did when it came to smells makes you wonder...can vampires get pregnant? Is Lilly already pregnant? If so wow, that was quick.
6)Looking at the world though Lilly's eyes is like looking at the world through the eyes of a child, with all the wonder and amazement that comes with it.
7)Lilly is determined to be her own woman. She wants to work and support herself and not be a kept woman. She doesn't want to be dependent on a man she can no longer trust because she has no way of knowing what he is going to do next or when he'll pull a Jekyll and Hyde on her again. But it looks like she'll have the opportunity to be able to do that.
Again, great work mom and I can't wait for book three.
December 4, 2015
Loved this second book in the series and now I'm anxiously awaiting #3!
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