The Darkest Colors Series

Having survived the blood events following her Change, Raina was struggling to adapt to this newfound life of power, privilege, and danger as a hybrid-race Fallamhain vampire. Completely inexperienced and far younger than her peers, she had not yet been fully accepted by the members of the International Vampiric Council. There were few people in the world that she could consider allies and even fewer still that she could trust. And there were far, far too many people that were eager to kill her. With her personal life beginning to unravel as she narrowly escaped assassination attempts, Raina desperately needed to forge new alliances ... and keep her sword close at hand. Ten years in the making, “The Darkest Colors: Exsanguinations” is the second part in the original trilogy of the Raina series.

There was no denying that Raina Delgado's life was filled with vampires. She didn't hate them. In fact, her best friend happened to be one. But she had plenty of reasons to be wary of them. So when an internationally-known vampire of royal blood came to her one night, she probably should have avoided him at all costs. Instead, she found herself being sucked into a whirlwind of blood, sex, fame, and violent politics. Thrust into the middle of an old, bloody feud, her only hope to survive was to embrace this horrifying yet fascinating subculture ... and its inhabitants. Ten years in the making, "The Darkest Colors" is the first part of the original trilogy in the Raina series.

Keith Meyer’s job was simply to track down rogue vampires and bring them in ... or kill them. Simple, of course, until his boss committed the team to the most lucrative and dangerous job of all: to take down an entire bloodline of royal vampires. It was a very tall order, not only because of the risks involved but also because these were not actually rogue vampires. Monitoring their targets in advance, he was beginning to realize that this job was far more than he could reasonably handle, both logistically and morally. As a soldier, he’d always known where the line was drawn, but tracking and killing vampires as a civilian was a messy, chaotic business. Where would he draw the line now, and just how far was he willing to push things to find out? "The Darkest Colors: Children of Asmodeus" is the third part in the original trilogy in the Raina series.

Taking a job as a day courier for a vampire was perhaps one of the most ill-advised career moves that Ray had ever made. Nevertheless, it was a steady job, the pay was decent, and ... well, his employer was easy on the eyes. There were plenty of obvious risks involved in accepting such a job. After all, the very nature of the relationship was risky, in and of itself. Vampires were predatory creatures by nature and humans, of course, were their prey. But there were some other less apparent hazards involved in this specific job that Ray had neither considered nor foreseen. Was he prepared to deal with the threat of religious extremists that sought to destroy all vampires and their associates? Should a human truly be willing to put their own life on the line for the sake of a Commoner vampire? And how was he supposed to deal with a vampire that saw him as being more than food and more than just an employee? Just how far was he willing to let things go before his professional relationship with this vampire became far too personal? "Kat & Katarina" is the first book in the second trilogy of the Raina series.

To say that Ray’s first forty-eight hours as a vampire had been eventful was a gross understatement. Now, still healing a gunshot wound from what was being called the “San Tan Shootout,” Ray was quickly finding that homicidal religious extremists were possibly the least of his worries. Working for and then dating a vampire already had been a complicated and hazardous situation. Learning all of the rules involved in being someone’s bloodspawn, all of the ins and outs of the Code, adapting to his own new and strange physiology, and avoiding the pitfalls of dealing with other vampires was a whole other ballgame. And as if being a “new blood” wasn’t confusing and dangerous enough, it seemed that the more that he learned about his Maker and her past, the less he truly knew her, and the more dangerous she seemed. Was it possible, or even wise, to love someone that was just as comfortable with cuddling as she was with killing? And would things ever slow down, or was he gaining speed as he raced downhill in a violent ride toward death? "Grace of Smoke" is the second book in the second trilogy of the Raina series.

To many people, the sight of a cross was supposed to remind them of salvation and hope. To Ray, it meant that someone would die soon, and he had awoken to find no less than four crosses planted in his yard this time. He and Kat had made some very powerful friends in high places, their relationship with those people cemented after the bloody and tragic events at “Naughty by Night” a month beforehand. However, the Christian Resistance of Sanguine Sin (the CROSS) was a nationwide network of religious extremists with possibly thousands of card-carrying members, and they were making it clear that they had focused their hatred squarely upon the House of Peterson. Only by presenting a united front could they even hope to stand up to these homicidal zealots ... and Kat hadn't even spoken to him in a week or so. With threats of death on the right and confusing temptations of body and blood on the left, Ray needed to find a way to pull everyone together before they all found themselves with stakes in their hearts and their heads no longer attached. "Beautiful Reaper" is the third book in the second trilogy of the Raina series.

"So, my sweet, what happens next?" Raina Fallamhain has yet again found herself being thrown into the violent world of vampire politics, granted a title of royalty that she neither wants nor can she escape. Having lost so much already, Raina is on a path toward vampiric self-destruction while simultaneously trying to save everyone else around her from following her into oblivion. It is only when she has finally hit rock-bottom, just when she has caught her first glimmer of hope for recovery, that she is literally dragged away from her current life. Trapped by an enemy she never expected to meet, but one she has somehow always known, Raina suddenly finds herself in a position where her own future, as well as that of someone else, is dependent not only upon the skills of her loved ones but also her own will to survive. "Mortal Consumption" is the second in the final trilogy of the Raina series.

"Nothing good lasts forever" had been Raina's personal motto for longer than she could recall, particularly since she became a Fallamhain vampire. She was no longer royalty. She had found a new sense of contentedness and balance. For the most part, she had finally learned how to make things in her new life work. Things had settled down. Life was good. But the peace, stability, and domestic bliss that she had found in the time since the abdication of her title already have been steadily crumbling away around the edges. Now, as a series of half-truths, outright lies, and a refusal to accept certain realities have finally caught up with her, all at once. Worse still, new and terrible threats have suddenly emerged. Raina's entire world is about to be turned upside-down yet again. And this time, hers is not the only life that is being yanked from normalcy and thrown into a chaotic maelstrom of vampire politics and violence. "For the Wicked" is the first in the final trilogy in the Raina series.

"We're all going to the same place." Raina Fallamhain has already been through so much since her Change, only a few years since she became a vampire. And yet she must still endure so many more challenges, face so many new threats, and struggle with so much more loss. Living upon a razor's edge between surviving and succumbing to the strain of it all has been her norm for too long, and at last it may prove to be more than she can bear, both psychologically and physically. While still dealing with the aftermath of an unforeseen tragedy, the focus of an old grudge has boldly stepped to the forefront to threaten her and all she holds dear with pain, enslavement, and death. Sensing that things are reaching an apocalyptic zenith, Raina is desperate to set her life in order as best she can, atoning for past sins while doing her best to protect her vampiric family, before the time comes that she must face her final foe and perhaps draw her final breath. "Immortal Debts" is the exciting final chapter in the Raina series.