Proud to Be a Vampire Volume Two — Multiple Authors

Promise of Forever | May Ridge Eduard is living a boring, routine life and sees no way out of it. Everything changes the night he finds Theo, a newly turned vampire who has no clue what being a vampire entails. Eduard takes Theo in and helps track down his missing boyfriend-only to be confronted with a past he would have preferred stay buried. Marked | Kayla Bain-Vrba Jake is a vampire and a drug dealer. To humans, he sells crystalized vamp blood; to vamps, he sells the blood of humans hopped up on the finest drugs. In the midst of a deal gone wrong, he runs into Benji, a human desperate to escape the city. Though they're natural enemies-hunter and prey-their paths keep crossing, and they quickly find themselves in a mess from which there is no escape. Death and the Lady | Ashelia McGregor Reay owns the Butcher Shop, a popular vampire club that hosts auctions of humans with rare blood types. When Tandra, an AB negative, does not meet reserve price, Reay decides to keep her as a companion and teaches her all about vampire society. Then Reay is dragged back into the seedy affairs of the infamous Hell Fire Club, and it's her new companion who suffers for it. The Taste of Her | Jay Robin World War II is over and Iris Cole is betrothed to a handsome Captain-but the future is hard to enjoy when she still secretly mourns her lost lover, Lillian. At a military base in Germany she meets the mysterious Beth and becomes something other than human, swept up in Beth's grim cause, and determined to learn what Beth has to do with Lillian. Deadly is the Female | Laura Huntley Tenebrae lives for the hunt, but is often distracted by a pretty face, much to the chagrin of her friend Mortifera. To the outside world they are head of an elite boarding school for young women, but by night they are a family of vampires who stalk their prey with brutal glee. Reborn | J. Hepburn Sasha never learned the rules of being a vampire, and Ithel has always been unstable, but they are fiercely loyal to each other and manage to survive in a hostile world, carefully covering their tracks. Then they make a mistake they can't hide and Sasha learns there is much more to life as a vampire than he ever realized-if he is willing to risk everything. The High Lord | Leta Hutchins Someone is terrorizing the citizens of Nadipur, and when one of his own men falls victim, Rasya, High Lord of the city, begins to investigate the matter personally-and realizes that he is also a target. Trenchant and his adoptive father arrive in Nadipur determined to eradicate the evil creatures subjugating it, the very same type of creatures that slaughtered Trenchant's family and cursed Trenchant. When he encounters Rasya, however, the matter of hunter and hunted becomes vastly more complicated, and Trenchant can find no easy answer to all his new questions. For the Sake of the Kingdom | Julia Alaric Prince Erik's life is grand: his father has taken a new wife, a beautiful and sweet woman who charms all who meet her, the kingdom is prospering, and there is no shortage of men and women to keep his bed warm. If he wishes for the one person he cannot have, well, at least he's accepted it. But then everything begins to change, a shroud falling slowly over the kingdom, darkness creeping in and leeching his father's life away. Strangest of all, the kingdom's artists all begin to create works along the same strange and frightening theme ...