By Blood Sworn
Janice Jones
(The Dagger Chronicles #2)
Published by: Amberjack Publishing
Publication date: August 22nd 2017
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Supernatural
Janice Jones
(The Dagger Chronicles #2)
Published by: Amberjack Publishing
Publication date: August 22nd 2017
Genres: New Adult, Romance, Supernatural
As the Dagger, Alex Stone hunted down supernatural threats on covert ops team, Night Command. After the capture of a particularly bad-ass vampire, Tristan Ambrose, Alex gets out of the game. In the years following her departure, Alex started a hot new clothing line and moved on with her life. She was happy pretending the supernatural didn’t exist, but, with Tristan’s escape, she’s pulled back into the game.
Alex is hired to continue guarding the very tempting body of Jason Stavros–up-and-coming vampire politico–alongside her new team, The Trackers. Stavros is scheduled to head to an international conference of the supernatural community in Bucharest, and Alex and her new team must keep him safe while investigating new threats, and ghosts from the past.
When the conference is interrupted by betrayal and sabotage, Alex must pull her weakened team together to bring the saboteurs to justice–and get some well-deserved revenge.
Suddenly, she’s not just back in the game, she’s all in.
By Blood Sworn is the thrilling, psychological, and sexy sequel to In Her Blood , the first book in The Dagger Chronicles series by Janice Jones.
Excerpt
From his
position behind the glass, he waited. What else could he do? In this century,
he was at a disadvantage. Witchcraft continued to elude him, as it always had.
And Brice Campbell couldn’t tell a spell from a fast food menu, so Tristan was
forced to watch and wait.
Giselle
worked day and night—page by page. The “clean room” was off limits to Tristan.
Something about how the magicks she used to transfer his consciousness could be
interrupted if he stood in that room for even a few minutes. He felt like he
was back to his old self, but she insisted he wasn’t.
“You need
more time for the blood to take hold permanently,” she warned him over
breakfast.
Tristan
sighed. More time. He was tired of that phrase, quite honestly. Over the
centuries, waiting was something he had come to know intimately. But if he had
to wait any longer, he’d surely go mad. He reached up to press the little white
button that operated the two-way speakers.
“How much
longer?”
Giselle
peered over the top of her glasses at him, her gloved hands poised over the
delicate pages of the book of dark magic she’d been painstakingly scanning for
the last three hours. With her hair pinned up in a bun and covered in a
matching bonnet, she looked like a surgeon.
“This may
take a while.” The mask over her mouth moved as she spoke. “You should go on
with your day, Tristan. You’ll just be bored watching me.”
Tristan
pressed his right palm to the glass and tapped it
lightly with the ring around his finger as he held
the button down. Giselle continued to pass the slim lighted wand over the page.
He watched the tedious process in painful boredom. “Sorry, I’m just anxious.”
“So am I,
but scanning two thousand pages will take time, Tristan. My program will
decipher the text but not instantly. Most likely this language is dead, so we
may have to wait even longer for the translation.”
Tristan
stepped closer to the glass. “Don’t you have a spell that can turn that into
something we can read?”
Giselle
shook her head, and he could tell she had a smile on her face. “My magic isn’t
strong enough for this. But I do recognize some of the words here.” She leaned
closer to the book, and Tristan saw her eyes narrow as the mask over her mouth
moved. “It says something about a dzhadazhiya—that’s Bulgarian.”
“For what?”
She looked
up at him with something akin to fear and disbelief. As she scrambled over to
the messy desk in the corner, Tristan sighed.
He released
the button while he waited. All this babble about dead languages and ancient
glyphs had given him a massive headache. “Giselle,” he growled under his
breath, then pressed the button again. “What does it mean?”
A
leather-bound journal lay open on the desk. She flipped the stiff pages
quickly, stopped, appeared to read the words scribbled on them, then looked up
at him.
“Dhampir,”
she announced with a grin in her eyes. “That’s what my people called them,
anyway.”
Tristan
suddenly felt lightheaded. He let his weight fall against the glass as he
smiled at her. “Are you sure? Please tell me you’re sure.”
“The doctor
made references to a hybrid program, but there were problems,” she said, almost
under her breath as she shut the journal. “I have to go over this, without
interruption,” she said then hurried back to the workstation. “I’ll let you
know when I’m done.”
Author Bio:
Graduating with a Masters in Creative Writing from Southern New Hampshire University, Janice's first novel, In Her Blood, is the first book in her vampire adventure series The Dagger Chronicles. This series introduces you to the world of Alexa "Alex" Stone, ex-vampire hunter and assassin turned fashion mogul. Hiding in plain sight, Alex must return to the world of the supernatural in order protect a handsome vampire and her own secrets. Look for Book Two, By Blood Sworn to hit online outlets soon. Janice is looking forward to readers of New Adult Fiction and Vampire lore to embrace a new kind of action adventure hero, a woman with many secrets and many stories to tell.
(Author photo courtesy of Omar Ramos Photography www.omarramosphotography.com/Makeup by LaChandra Middlebrooks)
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