Requiem by Emily Shore
Series: Roseblood #3
Publication date: July 13th, 2020
Synopsis (according to Goodreads):
TWILIGHT meets GAME OF THRONES
There is no rest for Reina Caraway. After a new foe arrives in Le Couvente, he wipes the young Queen's memory and transports her to Germany where she lands right in the middle of an ages-old clan war.
Between advanced training of her creator abilities. Council meetings, typical territorial disputes, and wedding planning, Reina is looking forward to rest. Rest that won't come.
When a mysterious stranger arrives in Le Couvente and succeeds in erasing Reina's memory, he abducts her to Germany, landing her right in the middle of three powerful vampire clans. With flashbacks haunting her, Reina longs for something familiar even if it leads her to a dark, roguish vampire intent on seducing her.
Desperate to find his Queen and sister, Heath goes undercover as a spy for the conniving, Calabria, leader of the second most powerful clan with eyes on the highest clan throne. Meanwhile, Reina attracts the attention of the top clan leader, Marius, who is determined to claim her and her blood. But warring clans are the least of her concerns compared to a demonic vampire hellbent on devouring the creator Queen and her infinite powers.
Queen Reina's trials are a dark and deadly turn in Requiem, the third installment in the Roseblood Series. After her downfall, will she rise from the ashes?
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The vampires bound my hands behind my back. Colder than death, than war, than pain, colder than all the vampires I'd touched in my lifetime was the hand that came down on my shoulder, forcing me to my knees. His fingers swept my hair to the other side of my neck. A soothing breath on my neck.
You may lose your powers. You can never lose yourself. Reina Elizabeth Caraway.
I inhaled deep. I am the Queen of Le Couvente. I hung onto the knowledge. Let it rock me like an avalanche of truth. Daughter of vampires and werewolves. The child of prophecy. A human creator.
And the woman I will love to my dying breath. Raoul whispered his words like a dream.
Malcolm's hand encircled my neck to become a vice, anchoring me till I was motionless. Like a single drop of snow, Malcolm pressed his lips against my neck... and bit.
"Raoul!" I shrieked inside and out.
I bit down on my lip hard, drawing blood. The vampire stabbed his fangs hard into my neck, deep beneath the canvas of my skin. Injecting his power into my bloodstream. I felt a sudden jerking.
I gulped and cried out, "You cheap, soulless bastard!" I struggled against the ropes, squeezing back tears as I felt my powers leeched from me one by one. "You could have used venom!"
Malcolm broke from my skin and I felt my blood trickling down. His eyes landed on mine, swollen and red as two blisters, his lips parted, dripping from my blood. "Where's the fun in that?" He gripped my chin and I recoiled. "Come now, let's see how strong Le Couvente's prized Queen really is."
You may lose your powers. You can never lose yourself. Reina Elizabeth Caraway.
I inhaled deep. I am the Queen of Le Couvente. I hung onto the knowledge. Let it rock me like an avalanche of truth. Daughter of vampires and werewolves. The child of prophecy. A human creator.
And the woman I will love to my dying breath. Raoul whispered his words like a dream.
Malcolm's hand encircled my neck to become a vice, anchoring me till I was motionless. Like a single drop of snow, Malcolm pressed his lips against my neck... and bit.
"Raoul!" I shrieked inside and out.
I bit down on my lip hard, drawing blood. The vampire stabbed his fangs hard into my neck, deep beneath the canvas of my skin. Injecting his power into my bloodstream. I felt a sudden jerking.
I gulped and cried out, "You cheap, soulless bastard!" I struggled against the ropes, squeezing back tears as I felt my powers leeched from me one by one. "You could have used venom!"
Malcolm broke from my skin and I felt my blood trickling down. His eyes landed on mine, swollen and red as two blisters, his lips parted, dripping from my blood. "Where's the fun in that?" He gripped my chin and I recoiled. "Come now, let's see how strong Le Couvente's prized Queen really is."
About the Author:
Emily Shore is a MN author with a B.A. in Creative Writing from Metro State University and was a grand prize winner of #PitchtoPublication, which led her to working with professionals in the publishing industry. She is signed with Clean Teen Publishing for her anti-trafficking dystopian The Uncaged Series - #1: The Aviary. For every sale, proceeds return to trafficking rescue. She writes in multiple book genres and ultimately strives for strong, female characters.
Over the years, Emily has connected with rescue organizations and trafficking survivors and injects the truths she's learned into her books. She is a trained awareness speaker and loves speaking on sexual violence and always hopes for more speaking events in schools, churches, and libraries. Please contact her on her website if you are interested in hearing her speak and to sign up for her newsletter!
Emily lives in Saint Paul with her husband and two daughters. Emily is pursuing grad school for domestic abuse advocacy.
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