Lane DeMarco is a broken vampire plagued by a horrific past that makes intimacy and trust impossible. His passion for playing music is the only thing satisfying enough to curb his insanity…until Vanessa shakes his life up harder than the San Francisco earthquake. She’s smart, sexy, headstrong, and his desire for her could spiral out of control…except she is a witch. The same witch who once cast a nasty spell on him.
Vanessa Creamer inherited a powerful birthright, but traumatic events in her life have shattered her confidence. Though she hides it well, she struggles daily with self-doubt and denies her deepest longings for the one man she truly wants. Her attraction to Lane, with his sultry voice and bedroom eyes, proves irresistible. All her attempts to connect with him have failed and she fears his hatred of her is as powerful and intense as her desire for him. Passion ignites between them as they struggle with deep-seated secrets that haunt them. Can the witch he distrusts tame the destructive demons that torment him? Or will their fervid desires send him deeper into the hell he’s been living in?
a 5-star Amazon Review
This is so good, that I didn’t want it to ever end. The chemistry, whether good or bad, between Lane and Vanessa, is magnetic and explosive. Very well written paranormal, the author blends the seemingly un-mixable. Plot is intense, immersing and swift-paced with never a dull moment. They engage feeling of happiness and anxiety, I love that with time, they are steadfast and willing to communicate, trust, release all their pent-up emotions and open their hearts to love. Absolutely love this!!!! I received an audio copy at no cost and without obligation from the author. The male narrator has a very sexy voice, lol…the female narrator is good too, both do very good job with emphasis and intensity when/where needed.
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Courage of the Heart by Chelle Cordero is now available as an AUDIOBOOK on Audible, iTunes, and on Amazon! Also in All Ebook Formats and Print Editions.
Courage of the Heart shows us that sometimes love is the only cure for the very deepest of emotional wounds. Adam Sherman has remained quiet about his scandalous past and is comfortable with his reputation as a womanizing and dedicated bachelor. Davie Prescott is twenty years old and a college student working part-time at the same Internet Provider where Adam is employed.
Adam is attracted to Davie, but he shies away from her innocence because he feels his shameful past is too harsh for her existence. Adam finally shares his darkest secret with Davie and is amazed to find that she doesn’t turn away from him.
But when Adam’s past catches up to him, he soon learns that there’s a lot more at stake than just his nightmares. Adam is prepared to give Davie up if need be in order to protect her until he learns that she´s got a secret of her own. With Davie´s help, Adam learns a courage that is born of love, courage of the heart. The story of the two lovers takes a series of unexpected and fast paced turns where lives, sanity and love are put in jeopardy.
Review
Courage of the Heart by Chelle Cordero begins as an office romance that quickly turns into an unlikely love affair. In one fell swoop, life changes when the past confronts the present with mystery, intrigue and life threatening situations. More than once I found my heart racing as I turned the page. Kudos to Ms. Cordero for penning an entertaining read.
kgcummings… Kathy
author of The Wind Whispers War and it’s sequels
Courage of the Heart is narrated and produced by Raquel Gliss, professional voice-over artist and narrator in her early 40’s specializing in the narration of romance and erotic novels.
For her employees’ sake, Victoria James quits her job to save theirs. That decision loses her the man she thought she loved, and sends her back to Memphis, TN with everything she owns to face a neglected and forgotten relationship with her grandfather.
Everything she has is stolen. Chad Kirkpatrick, her childhood love, the first man to break her heart, now a police officer, comes to her aid.
Can she move forward, and put her past behind her? Will Chad forgive her?
In the autumn of 1955, at the height of America’s concern over the murder of a black teenager by white racists in Mississippi and in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation, Rachel Feigen’s Baltimore editor sends her South to report on a missing person case. Guy Saillot’s last contact with his family was a postcard from the Tennessee Bend Motel, a seedy establishment situated on scenic Cherokee Lake. She gets a tip that George, the deaf-mute motel caretaker, may know something about the missing man. George’s consuming interest is the Tennessee Bend’s arresting rose garden—its only truly positive quality—and she gains his favor by admiring his beautiful roses.
Feigen soon finds herself caught up in the bigotry she expected to observe as an outsider when three local extremists decide to teach a lesson to this “uppity jewgirl” from the North who’s asking too many questions. They kidnap two black men and lock them and Feigen in Room 10 of the Tennessee Bend, complete with its two-way mirror voyeur’s window, confident the men’s “jungle instincts” will take over and she’ll get her comeuppance. But the two men taken at gunpoint, an Army sergeant just back from Korea and an Urban League attorney from Philadelphia, don’t play the game the way their captors expect. Appalling as it is, her own maltreatment is a mere sidebar to Feigen’s mission: finding Guy Saillot. George’s rose garden holds the key that unlocks the shocking secret and reveals the malevolent extremes to which unfettered intolerance can lead.
In his fourth and finest novel, Robert Hays writes with the journalist’s careful attention to detail and an exquisite authenticity drawn from his own half-century love affair with the American South. Blood on the Roses is a frank and honest story that does justice to its splendid east Tennessee setting, stunning from beginning to end in its juxtaposition of raw ugliness and beauty and its historical veracity that captures both the engaging qualities of the Southern people and the terrible wrongs of discrimination and outrageous acts of pure racism carried out by a few.
Blood on the Roses Review
“Blood on the Roses” is a frank and honest story that does justice to its splendid east Tennessee setting. The ugliness of so many people in the novel is in sharp contrast to the region’s scenic beauty, but Rachel encounters many people who are good at heart; they’re overwhelmed by decades of institutionalized racism and turn away in denial from the acts of violent racism carried out by a few. As I’ve found from living in two states with strong Southern influences –West Virginia and now Texas — Southerners are a complicated people.
Charlie Monroe, the venerable FBI man from Knoxville whose Southern roots run deep, provides probably the best summation of the pervading evil of this time and place: “It’s easy to condemn. But prejudice is an unpastured dragon . . . Let it loose, nurture it with a little ignorance and fear, and pretty soon it’s in all the dark places and if we’re not careful we’ll all be devoured in its ugly flame.” Monroe provides the novel with a great deal of humor with his rhyming stories…Look for them!
– David Kinchen
Blood on the Roses audiobook is narrated by Gary Gerard, a professional narrator and voiceover artist, currently working on Robert Hays’ novel, The Baby River Angel, among his many other projects.
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