Heart Eater (The Profane Series #2.5)

By Lia Cooper

Lachlan Graham is alive, but most days he wakes up wishing he wasn't...

Bed-ridden, permanently scarred, and chained to a ventilator, the werewolves who murdered his best friend might not have killed him, but they did a good enough job they might as well have. With his boyfriend out of town, Lachlan is left to his own devices in the long-term care ward of the hospital and he's not the only thing haunting this place.

Night time visitors, monsters haunting his dreams.

Why can't life just be quiet for once?

Set in the world of The Profane Series and The Blood & Bone Series, Heart Eater takes place after Vapor Trail and Remainders, and serves as a bridge to A Sanguine Solution and the Third and Final Profane Novel: Bad Blood.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lia Cooper
• Release date: Jan 8, 2024
• ISBN: 9798215190401

Lia Cooper

Lia Cooper is a twentysomething native of the Pacific Northwest, a voracious reader and an enthusiastic writer. She wrote her first short story when she was seven. THE DUALITY PARADIGM is her first published full length novel.She enjoys binge watching shows on Netflix, all-but-living in her local coffee shop, and drinking americanos. Lia cheers for the Chicago Blackhawks, rereads Pride & Prejudice every year, and is still bitterly disappointed over the cancellation of Stargate Atlantis (shhh).The complete BLOOD & BONE Trilogy now available!

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HEART EATER

The Profane Series

Book 2.5

a story

Lia Cooper

DISCLAIMER This work contains language and sexual content that may not be suitable for readers under 18. This work contains EXPLICIT SEXUAL MALE/MALE CONTENT. Not your cup of tea? Don’t read it. Otherwise, please enjoy.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

VAPOR TRAIL. Copyright © 2024 by K C Rumsey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission.

Cooper, Lia (2024-01-08). HEART EATER, THE PROFANE TRILOGY BOOK 2.5. The Spec Press. First Edition.

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To DT, who always believes in me, thick or thin.

The Profane Series takes place in the same fictional universe as The Blood & Bone Series and can be read as a sister series in either order. You may notice several characters from The Profane Series who were introduced in previous Blood & Bone novels and vice versa.

In an effort to clear up any confusion, I’ve included a timeline to illustrate the chronological order of the books from both series.

A very brief timeline of events…

2011 - August - Adam Sloan murdered (pre-series)

2012 - April - Patrick Clanahan meets Ethan Ellison in The Duality Paradigm

2012 - May through June - Events of The Convergence Theory & Medium Rare

2012 - August - Events of The Symbiotic Law

2012 - Fall - Events of Vapor Trail followed by Remainders and Heart Eater

2013 - January - Blood & Bone Book Four: A Sanguine Solution

2013 - February and beyond: The Profane Series Book 3 TBA

The Author’s Suggested Reading Order:

The Duality Paradigm (Blood & Bone #1)

The Convergence Theory (Blood & Bone #2)

Medium Rare (The Profane Series #1)

The Symbiotic Law (Blood & Bone #3)

Vapor Trail (The Profane Series #2)

Remainders (Blood & Bone #3.5)

Heart Eater (The Profane Series #2.5)

A Sanguine Solution (Blood & Bone #4)

Bad Blood *TBD (The Profane Series #3)

Heart Eater

Scene 1 The First Night

Early November 2012 - Lachlan

His life had become pain. It might have started with just his throat and lungs, but Lachlan had never truly appreciated before how large—just how much fucking room his lungs took up inside his body until they’d been burned to a svelte crisp. Until they’d turned into molten iron weights in his chest, dragging him down into a dark oblivion.

He was lucky to be alive. All of the doctors said so. All of the nurses reminded him. Even Vector had felt the need to whisper it tearfully into his hair while grasping at his hand hard enough to hurt too.

But he didn’t feel very lucky.

He felt like someone had tried to kill him, and it might have been less hassle if they’d succeeded.

Time passed while he was beached in this hospital bed. They said he was lucky for the room too, having a double all to himself, but he’d been alone so long he couldn’t be sure of the date anymore. They’d put him