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    Lotus: Daughter of Darkness (Part I): Daughters of Darkness, #1
    Lotus: Daughter of Darkness (Part I): Daughters of Darkness, #1
    Lotus: Daughter of Darkness (Part I): Daughters of Darkness, #1
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    Lotus: Daughter of Darkness (Part I): Daughters of Darkness, #1

    By C.J. Pinard

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    4 authors will each take a different daughter born from the Prince of Darkness, Vlad Montour. (Also known as Vlad the Impaler, an evil villain from history).

    Blair – Chrissy Peebles
    Jezebel – Kristen Middleton
    Victoria – W.J. May
    Lotus – C.J. Pinard

    The Daughters of Darkness is a series of female heroines who may or may not know each other, but all have the same father, Vlad Montour.

    Lotus
    Don't let the pretty name fool you. This daughter is no delicate flower.

    Lotus grew up orphaned. Having no idea who her real parents were, she's been drifting around the U.S. for over 100 years moving every 15 years or so since she just doesn't seem to age. She'd figured out on her own that she had to be at least part vampire, as she needs to suck on a few blood bags a month to survive.

    Working as a detective with the Denver P.D., Lotus is searching desperately for a serial killer who is murdering the homeless of the city. Except these are not ritualistic or thrill killings. These victims have been drained of blood and Lotus knows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that they have been committed by a vampire.

    Her search will take her to Las Vegas, and that is where the true adventure will begin, when she finds out who has been searching for her.

    This is part I of Lotus's journey. Part II is Watcher, and is available for download now. Guardian is book 3.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPin House Press, LLC
    Release dateSep 6, 2015
    ISBN9781536555769
    Lotus: Daughter of Darkness (Part I): Daughters of Darkness, #1
    Author

    C.J. Pinard

    C.J. is a USA Today Bestselling author living in Colorado but wishes she was someplace warmer. She loves the SF 49ers and has a weakness for expensive shoes. She's the author of over 30 novels and short stories that contain both fantasy and paranormal romance with kickass heroines and strong alphas. When she's not writing, she can be found working at a very strange day job, which may or may not have some mild influences on her gripping stories--so strange, in fact, she may just write a book about it one day. She can be found on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and on her website, cjpinard.com

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      Book preview

      Lotus - C.J. Pinard

      Four authors will each take a different daughter born from the Prince of Darkness, Vlad Montour. (Also known as Vlad the Impaler, an evil villain from history.)

      Blair – Chrissy Peebles

      Jezebel – Kristen Middleton

      Victoria – W.J. May

      Lotus – C.J. Pinard

      Blair can be downloaded here!

      Victoria can be downloaded here!

      Jezebel can be downloaded here!

      Chapter 1

      The boarded-up warehouse smelled like shit. I wasn’t using that in a figurative sense, it literally smelled like shit. Like a group of squatters had hunkered down here and had taken up residence. Sucking another deep inhale of air through my mouth and not my nose and holding it before my partner figured out what I was doing, I stroked a finger under my nose and pretended to be rubbing some Vic’s VapoRub under there—a little trick my partner had suggested to me when dealing with the horrific smell of dead, decaying bodies.

      Of course I couldn’t tell him I was half vampire and that my sense of smell was stronger than most, and that ol’ Vic’s would probably do more harm than good on my sensitive nose. So, I just smiled in mock sheepishness and turned my head forward as I surveyed a body that had once been human but now resembled more of a zombie. Its mouth hung open like it was trying to catch flies, but the eyes were milky white and open. If I could have gagged, I would have.

      Which didn’t stop my human partner, Stephan Waters, from gagging himself. I bit back a laugh.

      Nasty, he murmured.

      You can say that again, I replied under my breath, moving toward the corpse.

      Its pallid, shriveled body sat propped in the corner of the warehouse, the filthy rags he’d once called clothes hanging on his emaciated frame like a hanger displayed in a macabre shop window.

      I approached the body with trepidation as I always did in these situations. Stephan beside me had no problem marching straight up to the corpse, but being as old as I was, I had learned the hard way that things weren’t always as they seemed—especially when it came to dead bodies.

      Why is he so thin...? Stephan asked.

      Duh, he’s homeless, I replied in annoyance, pointing at the rags he wore.

      The truth was, I could see the poor dead dude had been most likely drained of every pint of his blood and we had yet another serial killing on our hands. A serial killer with a lust for drinking blood who seemed to have no qualms about leaving dried-out bodies that were nearly husks in odd locations for me to find.

      I knew we had a vampire serial killer on our hands, just like in the 1800s when Jack the Ripper was on the loose in London and nobody could explain it, and we now had another. Could I tell Stephan or anyone else at the Denver PD Local 318 Precinct of my suspicion? Nah, I’d get fired from the job I loved so much and then committed.

      Nope, I’d solve these murders on my own, just like I always did. I knew they’d been committed by a vampire, one not too dissimilar to my biological father, and once I found the sadistic bastard, I’d kill him slowly.

      And I speak of both this undead serial killer and my biological father.

      After all, I was Lotus Arden Smith—fifty percent faery, fifty percent vampire, and one-hundred percent bad-ass.

      Crouching down near the body, I pulled a handkerchief from the pocket of my gray slacks and shoved it over my nose as I examined the body closely, all the while trying to remain businesslike, when really, all I wanted to do was dry-heave. Not that I’d ever dry-heaved. I’d just read about it in books and saw Stephan do it a couple times at the other crime scenes.

      The body was the same ol’ song and dance. A poor schmuck homeless guy who’d fallen victim to some vampire who was on the loose on the streets of Lo-Do—Lower Downtown Denver. And I was gonna catch him—oh yes him. The bastard always left the scent of his manly cologne behind. I could always smell it, even if nobody else could.

      The body was decaying, and therefore, beginning to wrinkle and prune, but that did not stop me from seeing the two faded puncture wounds in the victim’s neck. They’d never had the chance to heal since the dumbass vampire killed his victims immediately after feeding. If he was smart, he’d let them live for a few minutes, hypnotize them into forgetting about it, let their body heal, and then kill them. Then the puncture wounds would be gone. But no, this jackass was

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