Lust After Dark Collection: 3-Book Bundle

By Melissa F. Hart

Book 1: Hunter’s Heart

In a world of vampire clans and expected alliances, Garrett is a loner. He hurts no one. He helps no one. But his very refusal to join a clan puts him in danger from the often vicious blood families. When a nearby clan sends a hunting party to convert or kill him, he encounters the deadly and beautiful Tahlia. The sparks immediately fly between the two vampires, leading to a final confrontation that could put them both at risk.

Book 2: Death and Desire

Rosalind lost her lover in the great clan wars over 300 years ago. Since then, she had been in mourning, existing only to take blood and to walk among her clan as little more than a shadow of what she was. One evening, she stumbles upon what she believes is a dying human man whose helplessness arouses both her curiosity and her hunger. In the heat of the moment, she is torn between feasting on his body and satisfying her sudden need to know what sort of creature he truly was. As she lunges in to take his life or to reveal his illusion, suddenly a third and most unexpected choice rises up in the darkness to catch her unawares: desire.

Book 3: Seduced

Isabel’s sister is being courted by the devil. Or so it appears to the headstrong lawyer who works among criminals everyday. This man, Micah, is too smooth, too practiced to be all he seems. Determined to prevent her sister from succumbing to the charms of a dangerous man, Isabel follows him and discovers his shocking secret: he’s a vampire. Now, knowing what she thinks is the worst about him, will Isabel be able to save her sister from Micah or will she too fall prey to the dangerous seducer?

• Language: English
• Publisher: MFH Ink Publishing
• Release date: Mar 9, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301676583

Melissa F. Hart

I started writing romance fiction since I was 16 years old. I'm now a published writer thanks to the wonderful world of ebooks.I live in Canada and I love the winter months. As you can see, I wrote several books related to the winter holidays.I'm not represented by an agent and I'm a proud indie. I have learned how to create websites and edit images, design book covers, etc. All my books and what you see on this website I have created myself.I'm currently a certified accountant but my dream is to be a full-time independent writer of hot erotic romance books.

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Lust After Dark Collection: 3-Book Bundle

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental

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Synopsis

Hunter’s Heart

In a world of vampire clans and expected alliances, Garrett is a loner. He hurts no one. He helps no one. But his very refusal to join a clan puts him in danger from the often vicious blood families. When a nearby clan sends a hunting party to convert or kill him, he encounters the deadly and beautiful Tahlia. The sparks immediately fly between the two vampires, leading to a final confrontation that could put them both at risk.

Death and Desire

Rosalind lost her lover in the great clan wars over 300 years ago. Since then, she had been in mourning, existing only to take blood and to walk among her clan as little more than a shadow of what she was. One evening, she stumbles upon what she believes is a dying human man whose helplessness arouses both her curiosity and her hunger. In the heat of the moment, she is torn between feasting on his body and satisfying her sudden need to know what sort of creature he truly was. As she lunges in to take his life or to reveal his illusion, suddenly a third and most unexpected choice rises up in the darkness to catch her unawares: desire.

Seduced

Isabel’s sister is being courted by the devil. Or so it appears to the headstrong lawyer who works among criminals everyday. This man, Micah, is too smooth, too practiced to be all he seems. Determined to prevent her sister from succumbing to the charms of a dangerous man, Isabel follows him and discovers his shocking secret: he’s a vampire. Now, knowing what she thinks is the worst about him, will Isabel be able to save her sister from Micah or will she too fall prey to the dangerous seducer?

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Table of Contents

Hunter’s Heart

1 - Chapter One

1 - Chapter Two

1 - Chapter Three

1 - Chapter Four

Death and Desire

2 - Chapter One

2 - Chapter Two

2 - Chapter Three

Seduced

3 - Chapter One

3 - Chapter Two

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Hunter’s Heart

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Chapter One

The waitress poured Garrett’s coffee, treating him to a long glimpse of her cleavage, the plump breasts propped up in a red lace bra in the V-neck of her tight t-shirt.

If you want anything else, she murmured in her cigarette-burned voice. Just ask. Or take.

The invitation was there in her eyes for Garrett to plainly see, but he merely nodded his thanks and slipped a ten dollar bill under the pepper shaker for the two dollar coffee. The waitress, who looked barely out of her teens, reluctantly turned away from him to tend to her other customers, twitching her hips provocatively with each step.

Garrett curled his hands around the steaming hot mug of black coffee, not at all tempted by the human female’s antics. He had been alone for a very long time. No friend. No family. And definitely no woman. Still, he was willing to go even longer without sex and companionship rather than wasting his time with a breakable human woman he couldn’t use his full strength on.

Through the window of the late-night Atlanta diner, a brilliant crescent moon burned through the trailing clouds. The night was dark and full, a beautiful cloak for the city wreathed in lights. Summer heat reached Garrett, even in the building with its firmly closed doors and cold air conditioning system. He sat at the back at the diner in the vinyl booth, warming his hands around his cup of coffee and pondering his solitary nature.

As a human, the aloneness was something he had chosen. He was a rarity among his people and had gotten used to walking the solitary path. But his isolation was something he thought would end when he found a woman he wanted to make his wife; then they would make beautiful children together. Create a beautiful life.

But then Grayson had come along, the vampire who made him, and Garrett was consigned to being alone forever. He brought the hot coffee to his lips, feigned taking a sip just for the simple and decadent sensation of warmth against his cold face.

Nearly midnight. More than half a dozen humans in the diner, drinking coffee, eating their meals, enjoying an evening indoors away from the muggy summer heat. In the corner of the diner, a TV played the latest hot reality show. Women making fools of themselves for a few moments in front of a camera.

The harsh cry of a woman jerked his head away from the TV screen.

Help! A howl of agony.

A human woman in need. She screamed again. The sound provoked the beast in him, the fear in the woman’s voice. But he had ignored that part of him for long enough that it took a mere thought to silence it.

Garrett looked around the diner, expecting one of the men in the large room, especially the burly one with the beard and thick bowl full of chili on the table in front of him, to jump up and run to the woman’s rescue. He seemed like the type to get off on saving women in need. Garrett linked his fingers around the coffee cup and inhaled again that warm heat, that scent he had loved as a human. His eyes closed briefly as the savored the scent.

When he opened his eyes again, the man was still there. Calmly eating his chili, while the other man across from him extensively detailed a monster truck rally he’d recently been to. Garrett felt himself stirring restlessly. Why didn’t these men do something to help the wailing woman? He wasn’t so far gone from his humanity that such screams did not move him.

Help me! the woman cried out, over and over again. Her voice rose, shrieking into the night like a siren.

It was a wonder these men, these human beings, could ignore such agonized cries without flinching. Human? Weren’t they supposed to be the ones rushing to the aid of the weak? Sheltering the sheep from ravening beasts? He looked around him as the woman’s voice grew even more desperate, then