New Release
KISS ME, KILL ME (Blood Kissed, Book 2)
by Sayara St. Clair
Oh, Universe…how
bad dost thou suck? Let me count the ways.
Near demise by
molesting dudes in an alleyway.
Near demise by marsupial-induced
car crash.
Near demise by
colleague/psycho stalker.
Near demise by
rogue vamps in that other alley.
Really, I should
have taken my boyfriend up on his offer to turn me. But choosing to endure a
liquid diet for all eternity is a weighty proposition. I mean, life hasn’t been
all blood and crumpets for Greg since becoming a creature of the night. Then
there’s the case of the only other vampire I know, who didn’t exactly take her
turning like a champ.
Door Number One:
retain my humanity.
Door Number Two:
embrace vampirehood.
Being a scientist, I analyse things. Down to the bone. The sample size
of two vampires, combined with the lack of available literature on humanity
versus vampirehood, makes it impossible to accumulate any meaningful data upon
which to base my decision.
While I’m busy
weighing the pros and cons, the universe serves up one more heaping helping of
suck—in the form of a formidable opponent determined to freeze me out
(literally) and snatch away my man.
This is SO gonna hurt.
I should have opted for Door Number Two sooner…
(Kiss Me, Kill Me may be read as a standalone novel.)
Excerpt:
‘Die, you
bloodsucking mofo!’ I screeched.
I slapped said
mofo so hard against the wall, I jarred my wrist.
My boyfriend came
racing out of the study. Skidding to a halt next to me, he frantically scanned
the room. ‘What are you screaming about? Bloodsuckers?’
I carefully peeled
my hand off the wall to see the obliterated creature and a smear of blood (my
blood) on both the plaster and my palm. ‘I’ve been trying to concentrate on
writing my paper, and this son-of-a-bitch mosquito has been buzzing about,
biting me relentlessly for the past fifteen minutes.’
Greg narrowed his
eyes at the blood-smeared wall while I projected nah-man-don’t-do-it thoughts
at him. There was an uncomfortable silence, then, ‘Lucky bastard,’ Greg
muttered under his breath before turning on his heel and leaving the room.
I should mention,
at this point, that my boyfriend is a vampire. A real-live, honest-to-God
vampire.
No one was more
surprised than me when, after a long disappearance on Greg’s part and a messy
emotional breakdown on mine, Greg reappeared with extra-pointy canines, a
raging haemoglobin fetish and a permanent case of immortality.
The fact that my
blood is exceptionally delicious to him, combined with my reluctance to let him
bite me, is apparently making the man testy. And jealous of mosquitoes.
He’s only fairly
new at being a vampire, and I’m not fully convinced he’s in total control of
his urges. The ones that, once he gets a taste of me, make him want to keep
sucking away until he drains me dry.
Then we have
testiness-inducing issue number two: Greg wanting to turn me. He brings it up
occasionally, and as time passes, with increasing regularity. Since he’s
viewing the world through immortal goggles, he’s convinced I’m terribly fragile
and in danger of expiring any minute now. Because I’m not sure I actually want
to be a vampire, I haven’t given him
a definite answer yet.
‘Hello, my name is
Kayana Castello Branco. I’m a blood bank scientist (which I must say, has
turned out to be quite fortuitous, my boyf being so into the red stuff), and
I’m rather good at ignoring all the difficult things.’
I wiped up my
blood with a tissue. Yes, I had entertained the notion that Greg might lick it
off the wall—my bad! I was washing my hands in the kitchen when a knock
on the front door interrupted my washing…and ignoring. Thank goodness. Ignoring
is more taxing than one would expect.
‘Mellie!’ I yelled
at my best friend, who was standing at the threshold when I swung the door
open.
‘Ana!’ she yelled
back.
Why the yelling?
Melanie and I are simply so happy to see each other every time we meet, we
always do it.
Melanie came in
for a hug. She’s five feet neat, but strong for such a short-ass. Grabbing my
five-eight frame around the middle, she squeezed.
I returned her
hug, then stepped back and inspected her.
Melanie is always
doing something different with her hair. Last time I’d beheld her—three days
prior—her waist-length curls had been dark red. Since then, she’d had her hair
trimmed to shoulder length, straightened, coloured dark blonde and highlighted
with ash blonde, platinum blonde, and a strange silvery grey. And hot damn, she
looked fabulous. She was rocking a goth vibe today: an almost-black plum velvet
sheath dress with a mandarin collar, deep-wine lipstick, a truckload of smudged
eyeliner and her black Doc Martens.
‘Man, you look stunning,’ I declared, my tone slightly
reverent.
‘I know, right?’
she said, flicking her hair like a shampoo-ad girl on crack. She twinkled at me
with her blue, blue eyes and then breezed into my apartment.
I chuckled as I
closed the door. Which I happen to do a lot when Melanie’s around. The
chuckling, I mean, not the door closing. And when I’m not doing that, I’m
generally busting a gut, laughing.
‘Because we were
so busy talkin’ about me,’ said Melanie as she flounced onto my sofa, ‘I didn’t
have a chance to say how bloody spectacular you’re lookin’. I love you in all
white. If I wore that, I’d look like someone killed me five days ago. But it
looks amazin’ against your skin with your dark hair and eyes.’
‘Why, thank you.’
I wore a tailored white, sleeveless dress with an above-the-knee hemline. There
was a silver chain belt slung low on my hips. When I walked, the extra length
of chain swung beside my thigh. Greg had liked the effect so much, he’d removed
the entire outfit, reattached the chain around my hips and done things that had
made it swing. Wildly.
I should also
point out that vampires have large libidos. Well, to be honest, I don’t know
about other vamps. But my vampire, Dr Greg Morgan? His libido is a
ravening beast these days. Actually, ravening beast doesn’t even cover it.
It is the T. rex of the world of lust. Eating up all the other puny
libidos and picking its teeth with their bones.
Not that I’m
complaining or anything.
Praise for the
series:
“I have a newfound love for vampires and cannot wait until Sayara
St. Clair brings out another book. Phenomenal tale. Highly recommended.” –Author Ellie Douglas
“If you like vampires, like your characters to be so real you
connect with them, and you want a book that is going to make you laugh one
minute and gasp the next, then this is the book for you! I loved it.
Brilliantly written!!” –Author
Kathleen Harryman
“St. Clair is obviously a skilled wordsmith who can take the
reader through laughter, fear and horror so that you don’t know what’s coming
next.” –Author Stephenson Holt
“The characters are lovely and very entertaining, written with a
wonderful sense of humor. I loved every minute of reading!!” –Amazon Review
About The Author
If someone told a young Sayara St. Clair
that one day she would be an erotic/paranormal-romance-writing Aussie expat
living in Thailand, she would have snort-laughed and yelled, “You. Be. Crazy!”
If someone told her the same thing now, she
would not yell, only nod solemnly. Because that actually happened.
Sayara has a science degree, with majors in
both microbiology and biochemistry. Working in the fields of serology and
tissue banking, she got to do lots of cool and sometimes slightly weird stuff.
She was employed as the manager/buyer for furniture retail stores, where she
had a chance to unleash her inner interior decorator. (Interior design is one
of her great passions.) And for a time, she taught English to students in Asia.
(Hanging about in a roomful of extremely loud, pint-sized humans is not one of her great passions.) She has
written ads for TV, print and radio; real estate brochures; website copy; and a
screenplay. Now she’s writing fiction and has discovered it’s her favorite
thing to do. She’s also learned that writing sultry romances is so much more
fun than writing dry old scientific journal articles. No one has sex in
scientific journal articles. Not the ones she wrote anyway.
When not writing, she may be most commonly
found in a horizontal position reading, in the kitchen baking, in the garden
planting, or somewhere else singing at the top of her lungs. She loves music
and is prone to spontaneous bouts of dancing.
With regards to vampires and chocolate: she
bites one on a daily basis and has had a lifelong obsession with the other. And
she’s not telling which one’s which.
Awards
* Silver Medal in Romance Sizzle—Readers’
Favorite International Book Awards, 2019.
* Honorable Mention in Romance
Sizzle—Readers’ Favorite International Book Awards, 2019.
* Solo Medalist in Literary Erotica—New
Apple Summer eBook Awards, 2019.
* Solo Medalist in Literary Erotica—The
Fifth Annual New Apple Book Awards.
* Official Selection in eBook
Romance/Literary Erotica—The Fifth Annual New Apple Book Awards.
