Juniper's Curse — Elle J. Rossi

Magic is life. Blood is power. With Nashville's protector/huntress out of town, the witches fall prey to a mysterious malevolence siphoning the city's magic. The witch… When a past never forgotten wreaks havoc on the present, Cassy must find a way to fight back to protect the witches and the city she's grown to love before the entire coven, her family, decide to leave and put the constant troubles of Nashville behind them. But with her magic on the fritz, she'll have to resort to performing blood magic—magic that has dark shadows threatening to consume her very soul. Leaving would be the easy thing to do. Staying and accepting what her vampire lover is offering could be the hardest decision of her life. The vampire… Alex has been verbally sparring with Cassy for months, but in bed they get along just fine. Now he wants more, and damn if the witch isn't fighting him tooth and red-tipped nails. With each passing night, it's more than Cassy's blood he craves. Alex wants her heart, and he refuses to give her up without a fight. Even if it means going to battle with her past and a coven of witches who want to pack up and leave Nashville in the proverbial dust. Is she worth it? Hell yeah, she is. Together, they could be more… As Cassy and Alex fight the malevolence siphoning Nashville's magic, they discover that together they could be an unstoppable combination, if they could both agree to give love a chance. Could trusting one another with something as fragile as the heart prove to be too big an obstacle to overcome?