Up close, Lucas’s scent hit him differently. His smell had cloyed and taunted, lingering in rooms where Lucas had been. But now it was the real, male smell of skin and soap, sweat and breath....

First of all, I’ll tell you who I’m not. I’m not your enemy, so you can put the sharp pointy objects away,’ he responded in a light conversational tone, obviously not deterred by my abrasiveness,...

You Can Not Run From Destiny

We want you to tell us about vampires.”Simon grinned. “What do you want to know? Scariest is Eli in Let the Right One In, cheesiest is late-era Lestat, most underrated is David Bowie in The...

Finally, both of them fell asleep together with their limbs entwined in the eternal position of a lover’s embrace.

Nothing says delicious like a short Chinese man in a darkened alley to whet my appetite.

You of all people know how hard it is to trust. Especially when the world we live in is not the one humans are aware of. Trust must be earned, and the way to earn...

With bells on babe” Dean purred sexily and hung up.

Do it for the kids! The ones who look up to you — especially when they are pleading for their lives.” — Bats 2015

V settled back against the pillows and measured the hard line of her chin.”Take off your coat.””Excuse me?””Take it off.””No.””I want it off.””Then I suggest you hold your breath. Won’t affect me in the slightest,...

Behind Tana there was the sounds of splintering wood, as though something very large had hot the door. “No,” she said softly, “Oh no. No.” “Leave me,” said Gavriel. …..”Shut up or I might,” she...

Not all fairytales have happy endings, my dear…Not all witches burn in ovens, not every princess wakes up, and sometimes the trail of breadcrumbs doesn’t lead to a safe place…I should know.”- Extract from The...

That’s how you know you’re doing the right thing – it’s so hard you want to give up.

Only that? I will see her bathed in blood before me.

Charles, mate, you fret too much. I’m a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle.””Handle your blood?” Bones offered dryly.Ian grinned. “Exactly.

She is so tiresome. ‘Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I’ll be both!

What the hell happened? I keep replaying everything and returning to the point where you held a dead man’s head in your hand and a sharp bloody knife in the other. That wasn’t the Katie...

If I was smart now, I would simply walk back the way I had come instead of proceeding forward into the face of danger. Obviously there was a part of me that had considered facing...

Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I’ve been thinking of little else.

Freedom was a foot away when they turned back to me. The one who kept speaking, a tall vamp with a handsome curly-haired glamour, shook his head. “Sorry.” He bared his fangs in an apologetic...

… The freshly devoured peppermint she loved lofted from her breath and up to his nose with her loud bellow of Father in his ear, and Caxton was sure that he could smell that scent...

Every girl dreams of waking up one day, a princess. Until that day kicks you in the face, wearing steel toed boots.

Wait, Richard Cheney, as in Dick Cheney? You’re a vampire named Dick Cheney? Somehow, that makes you seem more evil.

Good evening, you poor little Orphans of a Loveless God. Good evening to you blood sucking fools.

The best method for getting away with something outrageous is to do it right in front of people, and then tell them they’re not seeing what they think they’re seeing.

Yes,” he barely whispered, the word hardly escaping his throat. The hunger was all he could feel, her blood all he could smell, the pulse of lust just there beneath her skin, calling him, drawing...

I looked around the room, at everyone who inhabited the space, person and monster, slave and master, aware we were in the madness together, swirling around in the same mess, all out to get something,...

I never meant it,” he was saying. “Never meant it to happen. Can’t stand it,seeing her suffer. Must do something, do something… What do I do? What can I do…?

What was life has crumbled. What was form, now falls away. Mortal chains unbind and the soul s free. May you find your way to the ancestors. May you find your path to the gods....

So this was different. I was amazing now – to them and to myself. It was like I had been born to be a vampire. The idea made me want to laugh, but it also...

Being the evil undead wasn’t fun anymore. For one thing, it was increasingly hard to get a library card.

One day you might just find something worth living an eternity for

My problem wasn’t that he was a vamp, or that he was gay. I didn’t like him because he was a politician.

I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people’s psyches.

In his refusal to believe in anything supernatural or inherently evil, he was as unrealistic as an old voodoo queen who sees spirits everywhere.

Oh, so there were angels and demons, but no vampires? No mysterious, super-hot bloodsuckers who would love you forever? Now that was totally unfair.

He turned then and those blue eyes met hers from across the sea of people. Her stomach bottomed out. Damn it. She couldn’t be attracted to the arrogant ass.Somehow repeating herself wasn’t helping.

Vlad’s heart sank into his stomach, then squeezed its way down his leg and popped out of the hole in his shoe, where it struck the floor and broke.

I will carry you kicking and screaming like a child then spank you. We can do this my way or yours.

Inviting a goblin to cross your threshold was a recipe for disaster, and certainly worse than doing the same with a vampire. With the latter all you got was a nasty bite, but the company,...

I think I might have to place you under arrest for trespassing. But I always go easy on pretty girls who confess.

Valkyrie made a face. “Bloody vampires.”Ryan sat forward. “That was a vampire? That guy who looked like an accountant?””We don’t talk about vampires,” Skulduggery warned.”But it was daytime. How could he have been out during...

When I first heard Twilight was a book about vampires that sparkled in the light and shape shifters/wolves eager to assist the vampires, I thought, Finally, a metaphorical book dealing with politicians and lobbyists.

He wondered if perhaps, subconsciously, he was trying to sabotage her efforts by setting the bar too high, trying to keep her with him longer; but surely his subconscious wasn’t that stupid?

Painfully, the tips of his fingers grazed over her neck, torturing her soul. She didn’t move as his hand stroked the length of her nape, feeling the slight warmth of her aura make him lightly...

Vanity, thy name is vampire.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we’ve been formally introduced.

He lifted her and entered her body in one swift, gliding movement that shattered the remnants of her resistance. ‘Blood and sex and Elizabeth,’ he said inside her head. ‘Bastard, can’t you even say hello?’...

The Catholic Church sees voluntary vampirism as a kind of suicide. I tend to agree. Though the Pope also excommunicated all animators, unless we ceased raising the dead. Fine; I became Episcopalian.

There are vampires. They are real, they are of our time, and they are here, close by, stalking us as we sleep…