Title: Illuminated
Series: Vampire Tales 1
Author: Alexa Piper
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Release Date: February 10, 2023
Heat Level: 4 – Lots of Sex
Pairing: Male/Male
Length: 126 pages
Genre: Romance, Action Adventure, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Suspense, Bisexual, Multisexual & Pansexual, Gay, Magic, Sorcery, and Witchcraft, Murder Mystery, Vampires
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Synopsis
Ethan is a photographer who loves the interplay of light and shadow in his work and what it reveals. While working on his latest project, he finds himself at an abandoned church after nightfall. Lured by the prospect of capturing something unique with his camera, he ventures inside.
What Ethan discovers in that forgotten place is not what he expected. Instead of sights unseen for decades, Ethan finds a man — bleeding, hurt, and in need of help.
What Ethan doesn’t know is that he isn’t freeing an ordinary man, but an ancient vampire.
Through a haze of blood and violence, Ethan will have to come to terms with a situation nothing could have ever prepared him for. Auris drinks blood and deals death with ease, but Ethan soon discovers that the vampire is not just a monster. Auris is more, so much more. As if it were illuminated with a camera flash, Ethan can almost see himself and Auris have a shared future. Yet, those who tried destroying Auris once will stop at nothing to do so again.
Content Warnings: Illuminated (Vampire Tales 1) contains scenes of violence, murder, kidnapping, and torture that may be triggers for some readers.
Alexa Piper
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He hit the fob to lock the car, and in a fluid motion, he put his arm around me, his hand settling on my hip.
I stiffened, and he turned his head toward me. He was so close, and my spine tingled, though not with fear, not only with fear. I had another, mind-bogglingly strong déjà-vu.
“Do you mind it?” he asked, voice calm.
“What?”
“A man’s arm around you. Do you mind it?”
Of all the things to talk about, of all the things that had happened tonight, a vampire asking me how gay I was took the cake, and I started giggling.
“I don’t mind it, but just for your information, I’m bi. Not a phase on my way to realizing I was gay all along, just bi, okay?”
He cocked his head. “Okay.” He sounded amused, not like someone who’d just been bled in a church.
My giggles — nervous, desperate, a little out of it — ebbed before long, and Auris once more led me down the street, not a word spoken between us, his arm firm and steady around me. I noticed the sound my feet made on the cobblestones, but he made no sound at all.
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Alexa (she/her) has a lot of characters living in her head and wanting their stories told. Many of these people get snarky and won’t stop complaining if Alexa is too slow writing them, which means that for this author, sleep is a luxury. Consequently, Alexa is a coffee addict, but she is sure she has it under control (six cups of coffee are normal in a morning, right? Right!?)
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