Shades of Vengeance
Jude Magdalyn
Series
Book Five
L.M. Pruitt
Genre: PNR
Publisher: SP Press
Date of Publication:
04/30/15
ASIN: B00U1I18CA
Number of pages: 61
Word Count: approx.
20K
Cover Artist: Kendra
Egert
Book Description:
In moments of pain,
we seek revenge.--Ami Ayalon
My home is
compromised.
My children are
gone.
My husband is dead
Every inch of my
life is in ruins.
The only thing I
have left is vengeance.
And no matter what
it takes--no matter what tool must be used--no matter the cost--I
will have it.
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Excerpt
Shades of
Vengeance:
“This
life isn’t salvation, Jude.” St. Germaine leaned closer, lowering
his voice. “Look at Williams. He is gnawing on your wrist like some
sort of savage animal, doing his very best to drain you dry.” He
glanced over my shoulder, his features hardening. “He is going to
kill you if something isn’t done very soon.”
“And
Theo is going to die if you keep standing there, trying to talk me
out of this decision.” I finally took that deep breath the Comte
had recommended and pulled out the big guns. “You promised Madame
Henries. You promised me. Please, please, please do this.”
The
Comte stared at me for so long I began to wonder if he’d turned to
stone. Finally, he sighed, stepping back and raking a hand through
his hair, disheveling the carefully coifed locks. “Fine. Fine.
Danie, go to my wine cellar, it’s directly off the kitchen. Bring
back two—no, three bottles.”
“Do
you really think you should be drinking right before you do something
this major?” Lies didn’t sound confrontational or condemning. If
anything, she sounded curious. “I’m assuming this is going to be
more than a little taxing, otherwise everybody would do it, so
wouldn’t you want to have a clear head?”
“My
head is quite clear, child.” St. Germaine snorted, somehow managing
to make the rude nose sound ridiculously elegant. “Because the
process is, as you said, taxing, I’m going to need more than a
little bit of sustenance to get through this evening. The wine is
fortified with blood.” He shot me a disgruntled look. “Is nobody
teaching the children their history these days?”
“I’ll
make sure to integrate you into my daughters’ education.” I
shifted my gaze to Williams, watching him suckle on my wrist like a
baby at a breast—one more thing Hart and Elizabeth had taken away
from me. I’d be damned if I let them take away the person I’d
spent my entire life waiting for. “Williams, can you hear me?”
He
didn’t answer.
I
took a deep breath and dug my nails in to his cheek.
He
hissed and jerked away.
I
bit back a scream as I felt my wrist rip open, blood spurting high in
the air. “Oh, f*** Someone go get Bridget, now. Hurry, hurry,
hurry.”
“I’m
sorry.” Williams’ voice sounded rusty from disuse but I was still
able to detect a note of repentance. “I’m sorry, the hunger was
just too much. I tried, truly, but--.”
“You
can apologize for your lapse in mental judgment later.” St.
Germaine once again sounded bored and urbane and I turned just in
time to watch him perch on the edge of the bed. He glanced over at
me, his face shifting in to concerned lines. “I must ask again. Are
you certain--?”
“Do
it.” I flinched when someone pressed a bandage to my gushing wrist
but didn’t break eye contact with the Comte. I slipped my hand in
to Theo’s, squeezing it tight. “Save him, please.”
St.
Germaine sighed. Bent over Theo. And sank his fangs into Theo’s
neck.
Shades
of Loss
Jude Magdalyn
Series
Book Four
L.M. Pruitt
Genre: PNR
Publisher: SP Press
Release Date:
February 17, 2014
Print Length: 116
pages
ASIN: B00IICVD44
Book Description:
We have to
distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.
Tennessee Williams
Fact--Hart is back
from the not-quite-dead.
Fact--His ultimate
goal is my death.
Fact--He'll use
anything--and anyone--to help him reach that goal.
The only way to save
myself--my family--the entire Covenant--is to find the answer to one
simple question.
Who is the traitor?
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Shades
of Blood
Jude Magdalyn
Series
Book Three
L.M. Pruitt
Genre: PNR
Publisher: SP Press
Book Description:
If it's not one
thing, it's another.
Felipe, one of New
Orleans's most infamous--and crazy--vampires is back in town. And to
say he's unhappy is an understatement.
Duprees and Williams
have to track down Felipe, fast, before he claims any more victims.
If that means making a deal with the Devil--otherwise known as St.
Germaine--and using an untrained dhampir, so be it.
If that wasn't
enough, I've also got rebellious teenagers, feuding couples, and a
suddenly full social calendar.
The more things
change....
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Excerpt Shades of
Blood
“I’m going to
kill her.” I didn’t throw the phone across the room like I wanted
to, but instead, set it down gently on the coffee table. I took a
deep breath and held it for a long moment before releasing it. “I’ll
just have to owe Williams another favor.”
“That would put
you at owing him three times, which is three times too many.” Theo
slid the phone out of my reach. I’d already thrown two phones this
month, so I didn’t begrudge him the action. “What exactly did
Danie do this time?”
It’d been almost a
month since Williams had shown up in the foyer and left his
niece—Hart’s daughter—in my care. Not that I really wanted her
here or that she wanted to be here. Things were just getting back to
normal after the terror of Halloween, after darting around the city
trying to find Hart’s other psychopathic
brother. Having
Hart’s daughter under my roof made me more than a little uneasy,
even though he was still at the bottom of the Mississippi.
I’d argued with
Williams. Danie had argued with Williams. Even Mickeal, Williams’s
second-in-command and currently stationed at the Crossroads, had
argued with Williams. He refused to budge. And my conscience wouldn’t
let me throw her out without a definite place to go.
So Danie stayed. And
did her best to make all our lives a living hell.
“Shoplifting.
Again.” I drummed my fingers over my stomach, then stopped when one
of the bumps kicked a little. Theo and I still called them the bumps,
even though it was starting to look like I’d swallowed a small
beach ball. At the rate I was going, I’d be as big as a cow by the
time I delivered in May. “Down at that tourist shop.”
“Which one?
There’s only half a million or so.” Theo made a little circle
motion with his finger and I gave him my back. I always seemed to
have a knot between my shoulder blades these days. Whether it was
from Danie or from the bumps, I couldn’t begin to guess.
“Voodoo Blues. The
owner recognized her, so instead of calling the police, he let her go
and called me. I’ll send Elizabeth down tomorrow to take care of
it.”
“Have you ever
thought about letting her get picked up by the police? Seeing if
having the law come down on her would actually make her see how
stupid she’s being?” Theo pressed a kiss against my bare
shoulder. I shrugged half-heartedly, tapping my fingers on my knee.
“Maybe it would
work. Or maybe she’d go nuts on them and then we’d have a serious
problem.” Restless now, I stood up to pace in front of the
fireplace. It was just now ten p.m. and most of the house had been up
long enough to start getting into trouble. Any minute now, someone
was going to knock on the parlor door and tell me they needed help
with something.
I wasn’t psychic.
It had happened often enough that it was a given.
Shades
of Desire
Jude
Magdalyn Series
Book
Two
L.M.
Pruitt
Genre:
PNR
Publisher:
SP Press
Book
Description:
All
I wanted was a little peace and quiet.
Instead,
I've got dead Covenant members and a steady stream of letters from
the new guy in town. His beverage of choice? A 2002 Merlot, with a
shot or two of powerful virgin blood.
On
top of that, I'm breaking in a new police liaison, failing at playing
matchmaker, and fighting nausea like it's a full time job.
Did
I forget to mention that I've also got enough girls living at the
Crossroads to start my own boarding school?
Peace
and quiet? Out the window.
--Jude
Magdalyn Henries
Excerpt
Shades of Desire
“If
someone doesn’t get me a lemon in the next five minutes, everyone
will suffer. A lot.”
“Jude,
I love you. Which is why I can say you’re being just a little
overdramatic.” One look at my face and Theo changed his tune. “But
then again, you could say pregnancy is dramatic and you’re just
getting into the groove.”
“Nice
save.” I tried to sit up again. Halfway through the upward movement
greasy waves of nausea rolled over me and I eased back down onto the
pillow. Strands of black hair clung to my sweaty face and I closed my
eyes, exhaling slowly. “Not as nice as that lemon would be right
now, but nice.”
“Elizabeth
will be here in a moment. No doubt she’ll have a lemon. And tea.
And toast.” Theo turned over to face me, laying one hand over my
still mostly flat stomach. If you looked close, you could see the
smallest of bumps.
I
know, because I checked. Every other day or so.
If
anybody told me three months ago, that the week before Halloween, I’d
be lying in bed with a man who absolutely adored me—even the crazy
parts—I’d have asked them what the hell they were smoking. If
they’d thrown in being pregnant, I would have punched them in their
jaw. Then gone to the store and bought a dozen pregnancy tests and
prayed for them all to be negative.
But
that was before the Covenant.
In
two weeks, I’d gone from being an orphan raised by nuns, to the
latest in a long line of only daughters. Women charged with the
protection and well-being of hundreds of people with unique powers.
Some made flame burn for hours, while others called the wind to knock
you flat on your ass. They were a group of people who came together
over two-hundred years ago, bound by a prophecy. One with no past,
lost in the present, will bring in the future, through gifts of both
this world and the next.
And
lucky me, I’d passed the job interview.
I’d
sent Hart to a muddy, watery grave-literally. Unless something went
crazy wrong, he’d stay under the Mississippi until the Final
Judgment. Williams ruled the vampires of the city now and kept his
distance as much as possible.
And
I, Jude Magdalyn Henries, led the Covenant. Maybe I wasn’t terrific
at it. But Gillian would be proud.
All
things considered, I think I came out with a pretty good deal.
Shades
of Gray
Jude
Magdalyn Series
Book
One
L.M.
Pruitt
Book
Description:
Jude
Magdalyn Henries lives what many would call an unconventional life.
Orphaned
at birth, raised by nuns, a teenage runaway living on the streets...
she now earns a living at odd jobs, including one as a fake tarot
card reader. Very little about Jude's life appears normal, by any
scale. When she accepts a gig to do a private reading,
unconventional
takes on an entirely new meaning. Life as she knows it ends when
she's thrust into a world she never knew existed-one filled with
magic, vampires, and her beloved New Orleans on the verge of an
underground war. To make matters worse, she's got two men in her life
vying for attention, Williams and Theo. Both call to a different part
of her, but one scares her just a little bit. Can she step up to the
challenges set before her and make the right choices for the
"greater" greater good"?
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About
the Author:
L.M.
Pruitt has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember.
A native of Florida with a love of New Orleans, she has the uncanny
ability to find humor in most things and would probably kill a
plastic plant. She knows this because she's killed bamboo. Twice.
She is the author of the Winged series, the Plaisir Coupable series,
Jude Magdalyn series, the Moon Rising series, and Taken: A Frankie
Post Novel.
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