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This is the final cover for Redemption.  I wasn't totally happy with the first black and white cover.  The tone of the series begins to change with this book, so I decided to go with some color.  Hope you like it, my peeps!

 
 
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Okay, so the Rangers didn't do it this year.  Let's hope they can pick themselves up, dust off and get back to it in the spring.

Now, let's get to the good stuff!   As you may have read, we have a new character emerging in the series in this book.  For you fans of Michael, don't worry!  That's all I will say about that.  


Some of you know that I'm a huge fan of the CW show, The Vampire Diaries.  It was a huge inspiration for me when I first started writing this series.   Since then, the whole thing has gone in a much different direction than what I expected.  My ultimate dream would be to see this series become a movie.  I realize that is probably a pipe dream, but if it did happen...


I would love to see Taylor Kinney play Michael.  What do you think, kiddos?  Would he be perfect or what?


Here's your teaser excerpt!


Time stopped.  I couldn’t hear the ticking of my father’s old clock.  Maybe it was just the voice of Etta James singing “Sunday Kind of Love”.  That song had never failed to move me into an emotional frame of mind.  Maybe it was just the stress of everything that had happened over the past weeks.  Maybe it was his confusion about his circumstances combined with finding out about vampires for the first time.

Whatever the reason, when we both looked at each other in that single moment, everything changed.    


Copyright © 2011 by Stephanie J. Wright

 
 
Oh, come on.  You know you don't have anything special planned for that day.  What day?

Christmas Day!  That's right, my peeps.  The Vampire's Redemption will be released on 12-25-2011.  The story is moving along well, I've been recovering from surgery, and I think I can get this done in the next two months.  I am considering redesigning the cover though.  If you guys like it as it is, let me know.  I'd like to include a few more characters on the cover.  

P.S. GO RANGERS!!!
 
 
When I got into my room and had the door shut, I leaned against it and clenched my jaw in frustration.  He had to have known that I wasn’t about to just let him leave.  He had proved in the past that he would come back.  It wasn’t about whether or not he would run off permanently.  It was the thought of something happening to him while he was away.  I couldn’t let him put himself in jeopardy for me anymore.  He had done too much already.

Without turning on the light on my nightstand, I slipped in between the sheets on my bed and struggled to clear my head.  It took me another three hours to fall asleep.  The last thought before I finally drifted off into dreamland was that Michael might find a way to get out without my consent.  Maybe my opinion didn’t matter much in the way of things. 

I knew enough about him to realize that when he was determined, he would find a way.  It didn’t really matter who was trying to convince him not to make a move he might regret.  He was a vampire who was hundreds of years old.  He thought he knew what he was doing.

He was wrong.


Copyright © 2011 by Stephanie J. Wright

 
 
There in the study, he did lean down to press his smooth lips against my forehead and fold me into his strong arms for a moment or two.  It was reassuring to have that powerful body against me and more than just a little arousing.  When his hands slid down to my hips and his fingers tightened slightly against the fabric of my pajama pants, I felt his mood begin to change.

We both leaned back an inch or two and our eyes met.

“I should go.”

“Probably.”  I replied.

I couldn’t seem to stop staring at him.  He had this certain way of making me feel like a little kid at one moment and then like a passionate woman the next.  It was disturbing for me to feel so off balance.  It wasn’t like I was a teenager or a virgin.  It wasn’t as if I’d never been in love.  But that’s exactly how it felt sometimes when he was around.  Almost as if everything were happening to me for the very first time.


Copyright © 2011 by Stephanie J. Wright


 
 
It was all tied together.  She loved the land and the house, and since she was a tiny girl, she knew that the business and the house were one in the same.  In order to be a part of the everyday workings of the house and enjoy the land it was on, she had to assume the role of hostess.  I often sensed it was an inner conflict that might someday become bigger than she ever could have foreseen.  But before that problem arose, she lost her father to cancer and discovered the truth about her mother and the vampires living on her land.

Sorry, guys.  Just a little teaser today.  But more is coming!  I've made some good progress lately and will be sharing more excerpts over the coming days!