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Tuesday, October 18, 2005

Tuesday!

Hey all!
Well I am still waiting for news..for luck, I am posting a little of the series that is so special to me. I am excited about this series and so is my agent...the hero in book one reminds me of antonio during his Desperado days.....I also have an excerpt on the In the Works pages on my site!

Synopsis

The Series:
The Eternal Knights
By Lisa Renee Jones

Vampires exist.
Mexico's Barranca del Cobre —the Copper Canyon— is the place they call home. Nestled in the Sierra Madre Range, these mountains are actually several large canyons boasting grandeur four times larger than the Grand Canyon, although different in nature, narrower, deeper, and more verdant.
A perfect place to live unknown to humans.
Small units of Vampires have taken refuge in other countries spurring rumors of different origins. But here, in these hard to reach canyons, the original bloodlines and the rulers of all Vampires unite.
Unlike legends, Vampires are not “the Undead.” They are simply a race with different needs from those of humans. Their life span is long and their nutritional requirements huge. In the past, these needs spurred the demand for blood.
A mere four hundred years before, the Vampires had been given the ability to walk in the daylight.
An allegiance formed with Indians who wished to inhabit the Vampire’s land resulted in a miracle. In exchange for shared territory, a Shaman from the tribe joined efforts with a Mexican Vampire Shaman. Together they committed to finding a way to cure the Vampire’s liver deficiency—a problem that had created sun sensitivity and a need for large amounts of blood.
This discovery forever changed the Vampire world.
The Vampires gained the ability to walk in the sunlight, and no longer need to ingest blood. A decoction taken daily delivered the initial success. Later, as the Vampire world advanced and a medical team was formed, newer advances were utilized to aid the process. A monthly booster now allows the Vampires to fight their genetic defects. Children can be given a one-time booster at birth. Though some of their Vampire physical strength was sacrificed for these advancements, it was a small price to pay for such freedoms.
This process is undone if a Vampire feeds on blood, and a powerful hunger for more will then be bred and never sated. The Vampire will gain strength and a “high” after such feedings, but no longer be able to walk in the sunlight. Cast aside by the Vampire world, these criminals are called Night Walkers.
The Eternal Circle, a group of elders, rules the Vampires. They mandate and judge based on the Rules of Order. An elite group of Vampires, the Eternal Knights, direct descendants of the elder council, covertly protect the humans from the Night Walkers. They also enforce the Rules of Order. Within the human population the Eternal Guard, law enforcers ranking below the Knights, monitor Night Walker activity.
Of elder blood, these Eternal Knights are stronger and more powerful than other vampires. Each Knight has a Dragon, the sign of longevity and strength, etched on their right shoulder upon acceptance into the ranks of this special force.
The Knights stay close to Sun City, the Vampire community, and watch over the Elders. Each city around the world has “Guards” to protect humans from Vampires. These Guards are the future Knights.

The Rules of Order and their purpose within the Vampire World

• The existence of the Vampire race will be guarded at all cost. No human shall carry the memory or knowledge of the Vampire World.

• The Vampire race will remain pure with no other race, human or otherwise, blended within.

• Feeding on blood is strictly forbidden and punishable by death.

• No human shall be converted to Vampire.

• The Vampires shall act as guardians to the Humans. They will be protected from those within the Vampire race who continue to victimize their people.

Present day

The Eternal Circle has assigned a chosen group of the Knights their greatest challenge yet.

There have been cases of Vampires seeking relations with humans but only once by an elder. Years before, one elder broke the rules of order and chose a human mate. Though he never fully converted this woman, she gave him three daughters of different ages, all with his elder blood running within their veins. Upon discovery of his secret, the council had no option but to take action. The offsprings had to be separated. They could not allow all of them to be discovered together. These women could represent the start of a revolution. Within in the Vampire world, they would be temptation that fed the thirst. And to allow the Vampire world to see an elder had broken a “rule of order” could spawn others to condone such activities. To interact with the humans could lead to the temptation to drink.
And to the destruction of all the Vampire world had worked to achieve.
Their elder blood could turn the tide of power by its simply implications of leadership for their mates. But there was more than this simple symbolic meaning at risk. There were too many possibilities, too many variables that could not be risk. What power would their blood offer the Night Walkers? There was no way to know since this mixing of elder and human had never been known to them. That the mate of one of these women would possess more strength and power, however, was certain.
There were concerns that the girl’s blood might be used for testing. The Night Walkers were desperate to walk in the daylight again. The vaccine, having been abused and overused by their people, not longer worked for them.
The memories these women carried were erased and they were separated, placed in lives where they knew nothing of each other or the past.
A secret list of these offspring has been stolen from a hidden vault. Under no circumstances can the Night Walkers be allowed to mate with these women. Though there is no threat of reproduction, the Vampire bound to any of these women would possess greater strength and inherit the genetic skill of this elder. It would allow the Night Walkers to fight the Knights with far more success.
Now, three of these elite Eternal Knights, the future leaders of their race, are about to face a battle well beyond their greatest expectations. For these women, born of elder blood, will call to them like none other, yet, they are not pure blood and thus forbidden blood.

Book one
Eternal Passion
Destiny calls when a Vampire is forbidden from touching a human, but a psychic woman steals his heart. A shared enemy will bring them together, united in a passion like none either has ever known. But, in the end, life and death are closely linked. To save one, the other must break a code of honor. And the penalty might just be death.

The Summary

Three women are dead in New York, all with bite marks on their necks. The police have no clues and the city is in a panic. FBI agent Alexis Harrison is called in to help. Alexis is a physic who sees visions that are often vivid and sometimes brutally clear. Visions that offer clues to crimes. Over the years, she has taken comfort in knowing she is helping others. But this new case is frighteningly familiar. For years, Alexis has dreamt of these women, seeing flashes of each crime scene, followed by the images of a dark-haired man. She’d considered these nightmares a warning, but she doesn’t understand the threat they represent.
Then Alexis comes face to face with this man from her visions. She is both shocked and frightened. When he claims he’s going to protect her from an evil group of bloodsucking Vampires, she thinks he must be crazy. Yet, the murders she investigates might just hold the evidence he is telling the truth. Still, how can she trust a man she barely knows?
Lorenzo Ortega is a Vampire and a descendant of the elder council. As a part of the elite group, the Eternal Knights, he has been assigned to protect Alexis from those who plan to claim her and use her blood to acquire higher powers.
Together Alexis and Lorenzo ignite in a flame of passion that defies reason. For Lorenzo, a future leader of his people, humans are forbidden as mates. If and when he chooses a partner, she must be of pure blood. The longer Lorenzo is with Alexis the more he must battle the forbidden temptation she represents. Soon, Lorenzo can’t turn away from the yearning need that only Alexis can sate. Desire rages even as danger attacks from all directions.
When Alexis is bitten by a Night Walker, he must choose between killing her or saving her life by claiming her as his woman.

Book Two
Eternal Heat
Summary Synopsis

Kelly Nash is an archeologist just as her adopted father and mother had been. Her parents were killed on a dig site by a wild animal. By the very creature her father had spent his entire life trying to prove existed . . . a werewolf. Now, years later, Kelly does more than search for proof of this creature’s existence. She becomes a werewolf hunter. With her unique skills—exceptional strength and power—she fights to win. Kelly has assembled a small group of hunters who have become her close friends.

But unexpectedly, Kelly has become the hunted. The werewolves want her dead and a group of bloodthirsty Vampires seem to have targeted her hunters. Two of her people have died and she is desperate to protect the rest of her team. Suddenly, a dark stranger appears. A man who claims to offer her and her people safety and salvation. Only this man is no man. He, too, is a Vampire. One who awakens a passion she has never known and who demands her trust.

When this stranger, Chetan Rodriquez, a Vampire elder, begins to divulge the deep, dark secrets of her unknown past, she doesn't know if he is a messenger from heaven . . . or a messenger from hell. Soon, there is no black and white. Vampires and Werewolves are like humans, divided between good and evil.

Kelly finds her survival, and that of her hunters, dependant on her trust in Chetan . . . the very man who stole her past. But before she can come to trust him, she must overcome her own demons to learn that life without love, is a life unfulfilled.

Posted by Lisa Renee Jones :: 3:47 PM :: 3 comments