Stakes & Stilettos - Michelle Rowen [120]
“What?”
He met my gaze and smiled. “That nightshirt definitely has to go.”
My heart swelled. I hugged him tightly against me and felt right then that everything was going to be okay as long as we were together.
And, quite honestly, my nightshirt was seriously ugly.
“I can definitely deal with that,” I said just before I kissed him again… and again.
About the Author
To me, writing is a way to get stories I want to read. I remember seeing a movie once whose ending, in a word, sucked. I left the theater thinking about how I would have done it differently and rewriting it in my head as I walked to my car. When I’m writing I can get whatever ending I want. It’s a power thing. I’m greedy that way. Don’t judge me.
Being a writer is a dream come true and, when I’m not wrestling with my stubborn characters (Sarah Dearly, I’m looking at you!), I’m having the time of my life immersed in my worlds of vampires, demons, and other strange, hilarious, and angsty creatures. I hope you enjoy coming along for the ride!
Please visit me at my Web site at www.michellerowen.com and feel free to send me an e-mail at michelle@ michellerowen.com. I love hearing from readers!
Dear Reader,
I hope you enjoyed Stakes & Stilettos! You might be wondering what’s up next for Sarah Dearly and her friends since this is obviously not the end of her story.
Tall, Dark & Fangsome (September 2009) is the fifth and final book in my Immortality Bites series. Sarah tries to keep her ongoing relationship with master vampire Thierry a secret while she does whatever she can to save herself and the people she loves from Gideon Chase, the leader of the vampire hunters, who plans to use her special blood to become a supervamp. And there’s still that nasty little nightwalker curse to complicate matters further for her. Things continue to be difficult for my little fledgling vampire and her search for her fanged happily ever after in this funny, exciting and, I hope, satisfying conclusion to her story.
Head on over to my Web site at www.michellerowen.com for a sneak peek at chapter 1!
Happy Reading!
THE DISH
Where authors give you the inside scoop!
From the desk of Michelle Rowen
Dear Reader,
When I began writing my Immortality Bites series, I thought it would be fun to play with vampire myths. As a long time fan of vampire fiction, I wanted to see vamps more as heroes than villains. To do that, I had to humanize them a lot. Gone went death-by-sunlight—my vamps can go out during the day. Gone went the compulsion to sink their fangs into any unsuspecting neck—my vamps get their blood from sterilized sources and well-paid donors. Gone went the idea that vamps are undead—my vamps breathe and have regular heartbeats. I kept a few things, though: immortality, extra strength, no reflection, and the fact that my vampires were pursued by hunters who really wanted to slay them.
Now with the fourth book in the series, STAKES & STILETTOS, I asked myself, at this point, what’s the absolute worst thing that could happen to my heroine, Sarah Dearly? And it was very simple, really. Now that she’s somewhat accustomed to being a regular, everyday vampire who doesn’t have to worry about any of those nastier vampire myths, I should give all of them to her in full force.
So I cursed her—or rather, she’s cursed by a vengeful ex-classmate who’s gotten into dark magic big-time since high school—to become a “nightwalker.” These are the nasty vamps who gave other vampires a bad reputation; the vamps who are the reason vampire hunters and their sharp wooden stakes exist.
Sarah now has a big problem. She can’t control her thirst for blood. She can’t go out during the day. She can’t enter a house without permission. Her heart has stopped beating and she’s officially room temperature. Her immortal life has gone from pretty good to absolutely