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    Moonlight Becomes You
    Moonlight Becomes You
    Moonlight Becomes You
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    Moonlight Becomes You

    By Linda Winstead Winstead Jones

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    Claire Murphy suspects her sexy new neighbor of being a vampire, but if she doesn't find proof no one will believe her. Is Simon Darrow undead, or is he simply the man Claire has been looking for?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSorin Rising
    Release dateOct 30, 2015
    ISBN9781467536059
    Moonlight Becomes You
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    Linda Winstead Winstead Jones

    The first clue Linda had that she might like to write for a living came when she took a community education class in creative writing at the local high school. Taking classes was her hobby at the time, and creative writing came between yoga and French, or maybe between cake decorating and Chinese cooking. It was her first experience of meeting and working with other writers. She had always loved to read, and soon found that she loved writing. For years writing was just a hobby, one she sometimes attacked with a vengeance and then set aside for months at a time. When the time came to give completing a book a serious try, she was ready. Guardian Angel, a Western historical romance, was written at her kitchen table. Not long after she mailed it to a publisher, she discovered the local RWA chapter, Heart of Dixie, and joined. She knew right away that these were her people, and she hasn't wandered far since. Apparently unable to say no, she has served as conference chairman, president, luncheon chairman, and vice president. Easily bored, she soon deviated from historical romance into time travel, fairy-tale romance, and romantic suspense. When she's not writing, Linda can be found at hockey games (where she's a season ticket holder for the local team), a meeting of writers (a necessity and a joy that she will never give up), or doing the family thing with an ever-growing and wonderful family.

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      Moonlight Becomes You - Linda Winstead Winstead Jones

      Moonlight Becomes You

      MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU

      A NOVELETTE

      LINDA WINSTEAD JONES

      Copyright © 2008 by Linda Winstead Jones

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      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      CONTENTS

      Moonlight Becomes You

      Bigfoot and the Librarian

      About Linda

      Also by Linda Winstead Jones

      MOONLIGHT BECOMES YOU

      Claire pressed her back to the wall and listened to the footsteps. When she was certain her prey was moving away from her, not toward her, she leaned forward to peek around the corner and watch him walk down the dimly lit hallway. Watching her neighbor walk away was not exactly a chore. Not in those jeans.

      Too bad he was a vampire.

      When he turned the corner and was out of sight, she stepped into the hallway proper and silently followed in his footsteps. It sounded crazy, she knew that, but there were too many coincidences to ignore. He never went out in the daytime. He was much too pale, as if he had never seen the sun. He always wore black. Even those jeans he seemed to favor were a faded shade of black. She never saw him bring home groceries of any kind. Yes, he was lean, but the man had to eat something. He was definitely mysterious, and the one time he’d caught her eye she’d been sure he was hypnotizing her, even though the glance had lasted only a few seconds. Or maybe one full second.

      Just last week she’d found an inexplicable dusting of dirt in the hallway outside his door. Dirt! This apartment building was surrounded on all sides by concrete, and the amount of dirt she’d seen had been small but more than what would’ve been brought in on someone’s shoe, anyway. Maybe it was some of the dirt that lined his coffin, or, gross, the remains of a dusted enemy vamp. When she’d gone back to check the dirt more closely to see if it looked more like potting soil or bone dust, it had been gone. Someone had disposed of the evidence. Not that vacuuming was a crime, but still...

      One night not so long ago she’d been awakened by an absolutely unearthly howl that had sent chills down her spine. She wasn’t sure if it had been a victim’s plea or a monster’s cry of victory, but the sound had been memorable and unnatural.

      There was yet another telling clue that all was not as it should be. Marlie James from the second floor had a new cat. The feline Houdini was tough to contain and very often ended up wandering throughout the building. As adventurous as he was, Fluffy wouldn’t come to the third floor. Marlie had walked up once with the cat in her arms, but before she’d reached her destination Fluffy had screeched and escaped her owner’s hold and run down the stairs. Animals knew. Animals sensed danger when humans did not, and Fluffy obviously sensed danger on the third floor.

      Claire’s apartment shared a common wall with the newest resident of the complex, here on the third floor of this less-than-magnificent but relatively trendy apartment building in downtown Atlanta. He played music often. Apparently he didn’t care for popular tunes, but was stuck in the forties. Claire recognized some of the songs he played as those her grandparents had favored. Obviously her neighbor had been turned into a vampire in the forties, and he was still drawn to the music of the era in which he’d been human. What other explanation made sense?

      Claire didn’t jump to conclusions without checking as many facts as possible. She’d done an extensive search on the Internet and found almost nothing about her neighbor. Simon Darrow, that was his name, had lived in four places in the past three years. Before that, nothing – that she could find, at least. That in itself was odd. The man hadn’t popped out of thin air! True, she wasn’t a detective and she didn’t have access to every useful Internet site, but still, she should’ve been able to find more.

      He wasn’t even on Facebook! Who wasn’t on Facebook?

      It didn’t help Darrow’s case that he’d moved into the building right before people from the neighborhood had started to disappear. Charlie on the first floor, who everyone knew hit his wife when he drank too much. The often-obscene panhandler who’d been a regular on the southeast corner for as long as Claire could remember. That punk who’d robbed old Mrs. Bernard and gotten off with a slap on the wrist. All of them gone in a mere six weeks. Just gone. The people who’d disappeared would not exactly be missed, but she couldn’t allow that detail to cloud her judgment.

      Add the insignificant detail that Claire had been reading quite a few vampire novels, and it all made perfect sense.

      The common belief was that vampires didn’t really exist, but Claire knew to the pit of her soul that there was more to the world than most people realized. Granny Eileen – her father’s eccentric mother – had

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