Entranced: Electric Desert Nights, #1

By Jewel Quinlan

When vampire, Wade, is told by a psychic that he’s going to meet his soulmate at Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, he thinks it’s a load of crap. It’s where paranormal beings go every year to feed on human partygoers. But Wade’s curiosity won’t stop plaguing him while he’s there with his friends. When a near fatal accident thrusts him together with beautiful Yesenia, a human, both their eyes are opened to the mystical connection between them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jewel Quinlan
• Release date: Oct 24, 2016
• ISBN: 9781536576160

Jewel Quinlan

Restless by nature, Jewel Quinlan is an avid traveler and has visited 16 countries so far. Lover of ice cream, beer and red wine she tries to stay fit when she’s not typing madly on her computer concocting another tale. In her spare time she likes to do yoga, hike, learn German and play with her spoiled Chihuahua; Penny. It is Penny’s mission in life to keep Jewel from the keyboard. But, with the help of dog-chew-making-companies, Jewel has been able to distract her canine companion and continues to get thousands of words on the page for your enjoyment.

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Entranced, Electric Desert Nights

Copyright © 2016 by Jewel Quinlan

Edited by Eva Hartmann

Cover art by Dar Albert, Wicked Smart Designs

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Rock Star Ex – October 10, 2013

Stealing Cupid’s Bow – February 12, 2014

Surrender Sweet Succubus – April 11, 2014

Extreme Heat – April 3, 2014

Man Candy, The Cougar Journals Book 1 – January 9, 2015

Boy Toy, The Cougar Journals Book 2 – May 20, 2015

Eternal Oath – September 29, 2015

She’s Got It All – October 24, 2015

What I Would Give to See You Again – March 28, 2016

DEDICATION

In gratitude and memory of those super fun times in my past and present,

and in celebration of more to come.

Entranced

Electric Desert Nights

By

Jewel Quinlan

Chapter One

Shit! Now what are we supposed to do? Yesenia scowled at the shredded remains of the jumbo foil balloon on the ground. It had snagged and popped on the framework of the security checkpoint, and now its silvery shreds lay there like Christmas trash.

Tyler poked at it with the toe of his sneaker. Do we want to keep any of it? Some of the blinking lights it had been coated with still flickered faintly.

Mya raised a slim blond eyebrow. Whose idea was it to use a balloon as our totem anyway?

Mine, said Yesenia. But you both agreed it was a good idea. No one wanted to get stuck lugging a stupid pole around all night. As they stood there, considering the loss of the totem, a horde of people streamed past them into the Las Vegas Speedway where the biggest music event of the summer was being held—Electric Daisy Carnival, or EDC, as they called it. People brought totems with them to EDC to make it easy for their group to stay together, or to find each other if they got separated. The organizers of the carnival allowed and even encouraged them because they added to the atmosphere of the event. They were usually made of poles long enough to stick up over the crowd and topped with flags, signs, lights, or whatever else the partygoers could think of. The goal was to make something unique that was visible from a distance.

Yesenia tugged at the bottom edge of the cropped top she wore. It was already itching in places. She’d bought artificial neon pink flowers from a craft shop, cut off the stems, and sewn the heads onto an old workout bra. The plastic nubs of the flower heads were sharp though and dug in to her