Taken By the Night by Kathryn Smith
They may call me Saint, but there is nothing saintly about me… I enjoy carnal pleasures like any mortal man, but six hundred years of existence have taught me loss. Best to stay away from people and save myself the heartache. Then I arrive at the notorious London brothel Maison Rouge, and my life, such as it is, will never be the same again.Ivy Dearing, daughter of the infamous Madame, has requested my assistance. Two of her friends have been murdered, and she is determined to find their killer. I know better than to agree to help, yet Ivy is impossible to resist. No stranger to vampires, she has awakened desires within me that are as potent as my thirst for blood — desires that can only be satisfied by Ivy herself. But when there is another murder, it is all I can do to protect the woman I love from an evil more powerful than the undead…
This is the third book in The Brotherhood of Blood series. It starts out with Be Mine Tonight – summary and info can be found here.
And the second book, Night of the Huntress is out now. Summary, excerpt and info (like the cover model is NOT he who won’t go away WOoT!) can be found here.
Not only was Kate oh so kind to send over her brand, spanking new cover to share but we have excerpt! Now if I can just get some info out of her on her nightmare series my work here will be done. But if I can’t you can find her blogging (badly as the last update was in Feb 😉 ) and can join her mailing list for the 411.
UPDATED: It looks like Kathryn did so well with blogging she has added a livejournal and ::ick:: myspace page. As well as given her website an update. Tres nice kathryn but you are missing the nifty deleted scenes that were on the old site. Just saying ;).
The M&M have the start of the first chapter up at Romancenovel.tv. This happens to have one of my favorite first lines, don’t know why but it amuses me 🙂
It was the poorest excuse for a whore house that he’d ever laid eyes on.
Saint stood on the doorstep and stared up at the pretty red brick house in Chelsea. There was no cleverly worded sign on the door, no scarlet drapes in the windows, no heavily made up tart hawking her wares from an upstairs balcony. Rather there were little flowers planted on either side of the clean stone steps, protected from pedestrians by neat wrought iron fencing. The drapes in the windows were some sort of chintzy, poufy confection that only a woman with too much time and too much money in this decadent age would term fashionable.
In short, what should have been a screaming haven of debauchery looked instead, like any perfectly respectable upper middle class home. In a perfectly respectable — although now fashionable with artists and the like — neighborhood.
We have an excerpt here, which looks like it is the same as the one on her site. There will be a new excerpt up today and Mz Smith will be on blog to guest in November!
Great cover. I just read the other 2 books in this series and really enjoyed them. I am looking forward to reading this one. 🙂
Thanks, Crystal!
And Sybil, the Nightmare book is *just* going to my editor now. I tell you whatever you want to know about it once it’s been revised and given final acceptance. 🙂
I R Abused 🙁
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Great cover and it sounds so good!
Yummy yummy! Great cover, great series! Can’t wait for Saint!
And congrats to Kathryn on her next series 🙂
Love the cover and the new site, Kate!! Bring on Saint! 😉
Sybil, darling — there aren’t any deleted scenes. 🙂 And I know how you feel about myspace, but I’ve found some readers that don’t normally frequent the ‘usual’ romance sites. Fresh meat!
Kathryn
Well, no deleted scenes for any book except Be Mine Tonight — and I didn’t want to slog down the new site. Maybe in a later up date I’ll put it back up.
You doubted me? seriously… that is sooooo sad… you cut me to the quick
This series has all had great covers and this one is great! I didn’t know what you were talking about with the other series so I went to your site and more to be excited on in the upcoming series. I agree tho, you must be ditzy with all the different projects! The stories you write are so appreciated!
Thanks, Cathie! I am very excited about the new series. I’m working on revisions for the first book now, and while it’s hard ripping a book apart, I know it will be so much better once I’m done1
You would have known about it Cathie but SOMEONE forgot to send me info like she was suppose to.
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