Darlings of Paranormal Romance (Anthology) (168 page)

The Hope Saga is coming out
this June!

The Hope
Saga BOOK TRAILER:
http://youtu.be/CF9UkY0qiSo

Zombie Series

If you like vampires, you might like
zombies. If you do, I have a zombie series out in e-book,
paperback, and audio.It’s called, THE ZOMBIE CHRONICLES.

*This is a young adult book series.
Each chronicle will feature Dean's struggles as he tries to survive
in this new world. And thus the name, The Zombie Chronicles. I hope
you enjoy this series, and thank you for giving book one a
chance.*

Warning: Mild violence. For mature
teens or older.

BOOK
TRAILER
:
http://youtu.be/ociUHiL1g70

Val was bitten by a zombie and now
she’s scheduled for lethal injection. Breaking all the rules,
eighteen year old, Dean Walters snags an experimental serum. But it
can’t be tested until Val turns into a zombie: something
authorities won’t allow. Her execution is scheduled to happen
before transformation is complete, giving Dean only hours to break
her out.

When their helicopter crashes straight
into the heart of Zombie Land, his rescue mission becomes a fight
for survival…and giving up on Val is NOT an option.

Book
Trailer for Val:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mp43Ml4hvE

Book
10
– Dale Mayer

VAMPIRE IN DENIAL

Book #1
of Family Blood

Blood doesn't just make her
who she is...it also makes her what she is.

Like being a sixteen-year-old vampire
isn't hard enough, Tessa's throwback human genes make her an
outcast among her relatives. But try as she might, she can't get a
handle on the vampire lifestyle and all the...blood.

Turning her back on the vamp world,
she embraces the human teenage lifestyle--high school, peer
pressure and finding a boyfriend. Jared manages to stir something
in her blood. He's smart and fun and oh, so cute. But Tessa's dream
of a having the perfect boyfriend turns into a nightmare when
vampires attack the movie theatre and kidnap her date.

Once again, Tessa finds herself torn
between the human world and the vampire one.

Will blood own out? Can she
make peace with who she is as well as what?

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This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you
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an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book
and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only,
then please return it and purchase your own copy. Thank you for
respecting the hard work of this author.

This is a work of fiction. Names,
characters, places and incidences either are the product of the
author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance
to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events
or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2011 Dale Mayer

All rights reserved.

ISBN:
9780987741134

Being part vampire played havoc on
her love life.

Tessa didn't need her
dates for their blood. In fact, she had this thing against young
male blood. Horrible tasting stuff.

Not that she'd tell them that. At
least not on first meet.

And she
rarely got a second. Maybe it was a lack of self-confidence like
her girlfriends said. Or maybe she was too shy. It didn't really
matter. Her life sucked. She winced. Or maybe
she
did.

Tessa checked out her
black-tipped nails. Maybe she should change the color. Black did go
with everything, just not necessarily with the new look she was
trying out. The one that might make Jared notice her. She shrugged.
Her venture into red nail polish hadn't worked out so well, either.
People had actually cringed when they saw her hands, even with her
extendable nails retracted.

She studied the long, sharp points.
So maybe the red had made them look a little like blood dripped
from them.

She sighed and slouched lower on her
bed, plumping the pillows under her head. She adored red. And
black. But those were vampire colors. And she wasn't doing those
anymore.

Her world didn't exactly overflow
with potential dates. Not with her family hovering protectively
behind her. Even worse, her two older brothers insisted on
escorting her to various school parties and events. Shudder. Like
how humiliating was that? Snide comments whispered at the last
party still whirled through her head.

'What's wrong with her?'

'There has to be some loser out there
who'd bring her. God, how pathetic.'

'Her brothers? Again?'

The mad titter of gossiping females
always followed. Worse were the worried glances and whispered
comments from her well-meaning family, particularly her mother, who
trotted out one question almost daily.

'Why can't you be happy with who you
are?'

It was
hard to be happy when you were a genetic oddity. A primitive. A
throwback. A weirdo – not fully one of
them.

Why was
she part-vampire in a family of vampires? The
odd
one in her ancient lineage, an
anomaly in the genes that showed up every few generations. Yay for
her.

"Tessa? Come down here, please," her
mother called.

Now
what? Her mom never called her down to offer a
mother-daughter
day out or to give Tessa
money for clothes. It was more likely that her mom needed a hand,
or wanted Tessa to do chores. What was with her parents,
anyway?

"Tessa?"

"I'm here," she called as she walked
out of her bedroom. Entering the kitchen, her father, two brothers
and Cody slouched at the table, sucking back blood smoothies and
coffee. She groaned at the collection of strong dominant males that
stared at her.

So what else was new?

Tessa cringed. She didn't have the
same thirst for blood as the rest of her family. Different from
them, and feeling like she didn't belong, Tess now took every
chance she could to be different.

Dead silence greeted her
arrival.

"Tessa, what have you done to your
hair?" The words exploded from her mother and were echoed by the
shocked looks from the rest of her family.

"Oh." Instinctively Tessa touched the
top of her head. "I wanted a change."

"A change? That's not a change,
that's…that's…" Her mother couldn't find the right word.

"Bizarre?" Seth suggested.

"Cool."

She smiled at David, the youngest of
her two brothers. At eighteen he was only a year and a half older
than her. They were close. He understood what she was going
through, having struggled with his own issues a few years ago. If
anyone could relate to her need to be different from her family, he
did.