Exile
in Darkness
by
Annalisa Carr
Genre:
Paranormal Romance, Urban Fantasy
Heritage
and magic matter to the London covens.
Aristocratic
witch, Isabella Pethany, has heritage but not magic.
Underworld
powerbroker, amnesiac vampire Maldit, has magic but no
heritage.
Lukas
Sindis, coven sorcerer and famous psychopath, has both.
Isabella
knows her null magic status makes her an embarrassment to her family,
but since Natalie, her sister, was murdered, she is all they have
left. Guilt makes her willing to do almost anything to compensate for
her lack of value, but her grandmother’s proposal to match her with
Lukas, in an attempt to bring strong magic back to their bloodline,
is a step too far.
When
Maldit rescues a strange witch from hunting vampires, his main
concern is to limit trouble in his territory. Everyone knows witches
are troublesome, and this one is no exception. Her proximity slashes
through his damaged memory, allowing him to catch glimpses of his
forgotten past.
Drugs
have suppressed Lukas’s magic for almost twenty years, filling him
with a reservoir of trapped power. When he escapes, his magic flies
free, washing over Maldit and Isabella, and clearing away the spells
paralysing both of them.
The
dark secrets of the London coven are about to explode into the light
of day.
Maldit woke from his day sleep with a feeling of displacement. He sat on the edge of his luxurious hand-carved bed and contemplated his bare feet.
I dreamed.
He remembered snatches from his dreams, something that had never happened to him before. Vampires didn’t dream.
He wasn’t a typical vampire; he’d known since shortly after his birth, when he heard the sound of his own heartbeat, that he was different. Vampires had no heartbeat.
My heart beats. I have a heart.
He rested one protective hand on his chest.
He couldn’t remember his making. Vampires lived with their makers, in the original nest, until they were ready to move on and create their own territory. His memory stretched back only so far. After that, the past was a high impenetrable wall.
I have no maker.
He lived alone, except for Sandro, and vampires were social animals. If he was a normal vampire he would have his own nest by now.
I have no nest.
Loneliness bothered him for a single beat of his aberrant heart.
He was nearly three hundred years old (as far as he knew), and powerful enough to maintain a number of blood slaves, fledglings and young vampires. He had been born with power. If he was a typical vampire there would be a blood slave waiting in his bed when he woke; he would be able to feed without having to leave his home. But he wasn’t a typical vampire, he had never had a fledgling, he wasn’t a Maker, he couldn’t create new vampires. His blood was warm and now he had dreamed, and there were no blood slaves in his home.
Who am I?
He wanted to scream the words through his city and wake the entire population.
Annalisa
Carr lives in the English Lake District, where she shares a view of
the fells with three cats. She spent the early part of her life
working as a protein crystallographer, a job she found fascinating.
She now spends her time writing, in a variety of genres. Science
Fiction, fantasy and fantasy romance are her favourites.
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