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eBook Category: Romance/Dark Fantasy
eBook Description: Shelby Cort has had enough of working for a big-city police department. Ricard De Chaux, the notorious le docteur la mort and ex-Paramount for the Undead in France, has been escaping for years and now reluctantly works his way back into human society. They meet in the small town of Shadow Bay, Michigan--Shelby as Sheriff and Ric as the new county medical examiner. When dead bodies start to pop up in unlikely places and the killings go unsolved, Shelby comes under attack from town officials, the media, and her own co-workers. She finds an ally in the new ME, both grateful for his support and drawn by his exotic good looks. But what Shelby doesn't know is that the killer isn't human. What she also doesn't know is that the cool, collected Dr. De Chaux is by night Doctor Death, the new Overlord of the local Undead, whose top priority is to protect his new charges. Doctor Death hides one piece of evidence after another from the Sheriff, as all the while Ric fills Shelby's off-duty time with longing and passion. When the killer goes after Shelby and all Ric's secrets are on the line, where will his allegiance fall?

eBook Publisher: ImaJinn Books, Published: 2002
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2005

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.3 MB], eReader (PDB) [270 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [265 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [232 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [260 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [271 KB], hiebook (KML) [629 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [336 KB], iSilo (PDB) [218 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [270 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [334 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [340 KB]
Words: 82444
Reading time: 235-329 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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ISBN: 1-933417-22-6

"Move."

Lyle and Zada scattered like roaches. Ric laid her down on the sofa and leaned over her. He carefully peeled the tape from her mouth. "I'm sorry, Shelby. You shouldn't have gotten in the way."

"Don't do this, Ric. You don't have to do this," she whispered.

"Relax, my sweet, and enjoy. The pain will be over very quickly."

"No!" She sat up and struggled in his arms, pushing against his chest.

He grabbed her arms and held her still. "Don't fight it." He made it a compelling command. Almost instantly the tension drained from her arms. He dragged his mouth down her neck, reveling in skin that was warm and wet and tasted delicious. It was what he had wanted to do since the first night he had met her. He just never imagined he would be doing it under these circumstances. His lips found a spot where her blood pulsed just beneath the surface, and he sank his eyeteeth into her even as he moved his fingertips to rest against her temple. Her body tensed, then relaxed as he drew from her.

Slowly, slowly, he reminded himself, shuddering with his efforts, but she soon went completely limp in his embrace. He lowered her gently to the cushions and covered her body with the throw that draped over the sofa's back. But with the end of that moment so ended all gentleness. He was fully roused now, but far from satisfied. The fresh blood carried no fulfillment, but rage--rage that he had been forced to this--and a thirst that had nothing to do with blood but an unrelenting desire for answers and revenge. His body snapped from the sinuous repose of feeding to the head-up attentiveness of the hunt. Someone would pay for this, and pay dearly.