Sunday 1 June 2014
PUBLISHER:
7th
House
(Imprint of Andromeda LLC)
27th
May 2014
Solomon’s Sieve, Book
7 (Knights of Black
Swan)
Named Best Paranormal Romance Series of
2013 by REVIEWERS’ CHOICE AWARDS (Paranormal Romance
Guild).
Nominated for Best Paranormal Romance
Series of 2014 IRC READERS CHOICE AWARDS – Voting in September. Victoria Danann
is also up for Author of the Year.
When Sovereign Solomon Nemamiah lay dying on a beach under
an overturned vehicle with his fiancé helplessly sobbing next to him, he made a
vow to himself that he would refuse to stay in some arbitrary afterlife. He
silently promised to return and finish what he started with The Order of the
Black Swan and the love of his life. When the new Sovereign of Jefferson
Unit begins saying and doing things that remind people of Sol, it raises
suspicion in the minds of people who were closest to him.
The mutated and more aggressive strain of vampire virus
surges back to the forefront of The Order’s priorities forcing retirees to be
recalled and trainees to be inducted earlier than ever before.
Meanwhile, The Order sends Z
Team with its newest member, Glendennon Catch, to escort new recruit, Dr.
Mercedes Renaux, to Bulgaria. Her mission is to shut down and investigate an
archeological site that may contain irrefutable evidence that vampire exist.
Their mission is to protect her.
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EXCERPT
“Well, I’m scheduled to patrol with B Team tonight. I was
hoping you could get a babysitter and…”
“Yes. We’ll do it.”
Ram looked at her like he didn’t know her. “Do you no’
think we should talk it over just the two of us?”
“Normally yes, but I’ve given this a lot of thought. I
was going to bring it up after my patrol tonight when you’d had a chance to
find out how hard it is to sit home and not know what’s going on. This
latest crisis has jus moved my schedule ahead by a day.”
“Your schedule,” Ram repeated drily. “I was actually
goin’ to have a talk with you today and let you know that I’m goin’ out
tonight instead of you. I am no’ likin’ the idea of my child’s mother in the
field. Particularly no’ in light of the way these new biters are behavin’.”
Elora gaped at him and Ram knew the flush in her cheeks
was never a sign that an argument was going his way. “You mean you were
planning to make me fight my way onto B Team a second time?” She
outraged-whispered so as not to wake Helm. “As for ‘badly
behaving biters’, that’s exactly the point I was going to make and my
practical demonstration couldn’t be more apropos to your phrasing.”
“What demonstration?”
“You know how Helm is going through a biting phase?”
Elora turned to Rev to catch him up with a summary. “When the baby doesn’t get
what he wants when he wants it, sometimes he turns red in the face, screams,
and bites like a little pit bull. Three days ago he bit Ram on the shoulder.”
She turned to Ram, who was wearing a gray metal band tee. “Come on. Show our
guest how it looks after three days.”
Ram hesitated for a couple of seconds, eyeing her in
challenge, but finally acquiesced and pulled the short sleeve up above his
shoulder to reveal the bite mark . It was ugly. Helm had made a mold of his
teeth out of his Daddy’s flesh. It was bruised all around and had the red
telltale signs of beginning infection.
“Your baby did that?” Rev asked incredulously.
Ram nodded.
“It looks worse, Ram. When we’re done here, you’re going
to go down to clinic and get a shot of antibiotic.” Elora continued. “But back
to my demonstration. Tonight, right here in this very high chair,” she pointed
to the chair for dramatic effect, “the child threw a similar tantrum
- which had Hawking stamped all over it, by the way - and he bit the
bejuices out my forearm.”
She then pulled up her sleeve and turned her arm over so
they could see that, from any and every angle, there was no sign she’d been
touched.
Ram grabbed her arm and gave it a close inspection and then
insisted on doing the same with the other arm. When he was satisfied with the
inspection, he shrugged. “So you’re a fast healer.”
“No. The point goes much deeper than that. It’s not that
Helm bit me and I recovered quickly. It’s that he didn’t do any damage to begin
with. Unless you count the fact that I think less of him and question his
love.”
Ignoring that last part, Ram said, “So you’re tryin’ to
say you can no’ be hurt?” He made a rude noise. “Talkin’ to the wrong
person, dearie. You’re forgettin’ that I happened to be there when we almost
lost you to vampire bites. Made a righteous mess of that beautiful body if
I’m recallin’ correctly.”
“I’m not forgetting that. But you’re forgetting
that, number one, I wasn’t out with a team. I was alone. And number two, I
wasn’t taken down by vampire. It was a fellow knight, which is why I
didn’t see it coming.” Ram responded by slumping down in his chair and starting
to thump a nervous rhythm on the table with his hand. “Don’t you see, Ram,
if I’m on patrol, I can protect you and Kay and Storm. That’s why I wanted to
be a knight to begin with.”
Ram sighed deeply. He was going to give in for all the
same reasons he had given in the first time. “That’s why you wanted to be a
knight?”
“Rammel, if something happened to you, I would never
forgive you because I would always know that I might have prevented it if I’d
been there. I owe that to you, to me, to Helm, and to B Team.”
“Are you plannin’ to play every card in your deck?”
Elora raised her chin and smiled. “I’m not playing, Ram.
I’m standing by my man.”
“You know there’s a reason why Great Paddy never
married.”
Elora cocked her head and looked at Ram thoughtfully.
“You do know there’s no Great Paddy, don’t you, Ram?”
“What do you mean?”
Rev interjected. “If this is settled, I need to go throw
a couple of things in a bag.”
About the Author
My early work (eight-years-old) would
be called fan fiction today. I began by writing my version of Bobbsey Twins
novels on legal pads that my dad brought home from the office. As an only child
– in the days before children became little electronic receivers – there was
often not much to do other than seek amusement in my own head.
Childhood fantasies involved being
the only girl (for some odd reason) at a ranch for wayward boys. Yes. I do
realize this sounds vaguely familiar. Those fantasies were supported by real
life events because the boys included me in the afternoon neighborhood games
whether it was cowboy/Indians or G.I. Joe.
When I left the Bobbsey Twins behind
I didn’t write again until I was married with children and in my mid-twenties. I
completed a paranormal romance and gave it to my spouse to read. After hearing
his criticisms I didn’t write again for decades. At the time I didn’t understand
that he’s the absolute farthest thing from my audience.
It turned out to be a blessing
because during that time that I didn’t write, I lived an extremely full life. I
traveled a lot, raised a family, got an education (I have an M.A. in Psychology)
and explored my compulsion to be a spiritual seeker. The fantasies were a
constant companion throughout. The faces and names of the characters changed as
I matured, but they remained a source of comfort. They helped me through
hell-raising teenagers and three near-death scares.
By the time I
started writing again, I had something to say.
I write cross-genre with uniquely
fresh perspectives on paranormal creatures, characters, and themes. Add a dash
of sci-fi and a flourish of fantasy to enough humor to make you laugh out loud
and enough steam to make you squirm in your chair. My heroines are independent
femmes with flaws and minds of their own whether they are aliens, witches,
demonologists, psychics, or past life therapists. My heroes are hot and hunky,
but they also have brains, character, and good manners – usually – whether they
be elves, demons, berserkers, werewolves, or vampires.
Author Links
BLOG:
http://VictoriaDanann.me
FACEBOOK FAN PAGE:
www.facebook.com/vdanann
FACEBOOK AUTHOR PAGE:
www.facebook.com/victoria.danann.9
GOODREADS FAN GROUP:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/108735-victoria-danann-order-of-the-black-swan
TWITTER:
@vdanann
AWARDS
2012 My first
book, My Familiar Stranger, was nominated for Best Paranormal Romance of
2012 by both Reviewers’ Choice and Readers’ Choice Awards.
2013 Knights of
Black Swan named Best Paranormal Romance Series of 2013 by REVIEWERS’ CHOICE
AWARDS (Paranormal Romance Guild).
2013 A
Summoner’s Tale, Book 3 won Best Paranormal Romance Novel of the
year
2013
Moonlight, Book 4 won Best Vampire~Shifter Novel of the
year
2014 IRC
READERS CHOICE AWARDS – Voting in September.
Nominated for Best Paranormal Romance Series
Victoria Danann nominated for Author of the
Year.
Moonlight (Book 4) nominated for Best Paranormal Romance
Gathering Storm (Book 5) for Best Fantasy Romance AND Best Scifi
Futuristic Novel
All of my books have opened on the Amazon Best
Sellers list and earned Night Owl Reviews TOP PICK awards.
Goodreads
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