Spooktacular: EXCLUSIVE Excerpt of The Beast Within by Lisa Renee Jones

The wonderful Lisa Renee Jones shares an EXCLUSIVE (and unedited) excerpt with TGTBTU's readers. Her new Silhouette Nocturne novel, The Beast Within, releases tomorrow, 1 Nov 07.

Here's a link to some recommended pre-reading. It will help you understand what is going on in this excerpt.

The Beast Within

End of Chapter Seven and all of Chapter Eight...

Karen paced the bedroom floor, her stomach fluttering with a combination of worry and just plain sickness. She hadn't slept. Hadn't eaten. Hadn't stopped worrying since she'd gotten that telegram from Eva saying Mike was dead.

A rush of nausea came over her and Karen paused, pressing her palm to her forehead. God. She didn't have time to feel sick but her body wasn't cooperating. It wanted rest. If only she'd slept on the plane instead of worrying and working on her article.

Why wouldn't they let her see Eva?

She shouldn't have come here. She didn't even know if this healer treating Eva was a real doctor. She had to get her sister to another hospital. Besides, something wasn't right here. What exactly had she walked into? How could the man from the airport be here?

They were acting like they couldn't trust her and her sister. She'd seen all those big, burly men. It seemed like she should be the scared one, not them. So what was going on? Why treat them like this? Clearly, her sister was injured. It wasn't like she was lying.

And what harm could two women, without weapons - which they had searched her for when they locked her in the room - do to a bunch of macho men like these guys?

Her mind went back to the leader. To the man from the airport. Karen couldn't quite get her mind around his presence. Of course, her body had grasped the concept quite easily. Even tired, he'd drawn a sizzling reaction. A reaction she felt guilty as heck for. The man had her locked in a room, captive for all practical purposes, forbidding her from seeing her sister, and Karen had managed to get all lusty over him. How sick was that?
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Spooktacular: The Beast Within by Lisa Renee Jones **NEW Release**

The Beast Within is Lisa Renee Jones introduction into her new Silhouette Nocturne series, The Knights of White . It will be followed in March 2008 with Beast of Desire and Beast of Darkness in July 08.

Known only as 'Jag', he leads the Knights of White against the soulless Darkland Beasts who took his wife and his life.  Jag is immortal, destined to live with the vengeance he feels in his heart. And the dreams that haunt his soul. Sensual dreams of a woman. Dreams that threaten to unleash the beast within...

Karen Gibson is an innocent mortal, unwittingly thrown into this millenia-old battle, and, unwillingly, under Jag's protection. She and Jag are about to discover that they have met before - in the dreams they share.

Neither trusts the other. Neither can survive alone. The secret of those erotic dreams may be all that saves them - if Jag can only accept it.  At risk is Karen's life.  And Jag's immortal soul...

Knights of White: These demon hunters fight for all that is good...

Lisa Renee was telling me Nocture is going to get somewhat hotter. At least with some of their authors, they have signed on a few old EC authors. You can read a bit of it on her site. And then stick around... will have have an exclusive taste for your later today.