The Wind And The Darkness,New

Product Description A dreaded assassin The young woman he saved The empire that wants them dead The Dark Empire, the largest and most powerful vampire society in the world, despises rogue vampiresthose whove transformed themselves through magical rituals rather than submitting to the rule of Daranda, the vampire empress. All rogues must die. Kayla Chandlerformerly Britney Peach, a victim of unspeakable child abusehas carved a new life for herself, a life that threatens to fall apart when she buys a strange, handlettered book called The Words Of The Vampire. The book seems to have a life, and a mind, of its own and under its influence Kayla performs the rituals that will transform her into a vampire. When Daranda orders her favorite assassin, Obsidian, to murder Kayla Chandler, hes reluctant to kill a woman. But when he discovers Kayla is Britney, the same young girl he rescued from being beaten to death ten years earlier, he realizes he must do more than refuse to kill herhe must escape with her, making both of them a target for assassination. Their only hope is to find two legendary vampires who live in defiance of the Dark EmpireNiko and Laila, said to be thousands of years old and the only vampires Daranda cant touch. The problem is they might be more legend than reality. About the Author Tori Minard wrote her first story in pencil, sans paragraph breaks and quotation marks, for a thirdgrade class assignment. It was the dark and moving tale of a Halloween pumpkin. Unfortunately, the details of this gem have been lost to time. Her next story featured a large black dog who was really a demon in disguise. Apparently, Tori was born in paranormal mode. Three years later, it dawned on her that she didn't have to wait for the teacher's permission to write fiction. She spent the entirety of her peculiar adolescence writing weird and romantic stories which embarrassed her parents and got her in trouble at school. Unfortunately for her ego, the teachers merely thought she was writing letters to friends. Letters to friends! C'mon, this is dark, creative protoGoth girl. Why would she write letters to friends when she could bring forth postapocalyptic romances instead? After a long detour for such grownup pursuits as working boring fulltime jobs (State of Alaska, U.S. Postal Service), getting married and having a child, she returned to her first lovestorytelling. She was born and raised in Alaska, and now lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband, son, and microdog. Her novels include The Amaki series, about sexy fae, and a vampire series that includes both pre and postapocalyptic romance.