Today my guest is fellow author and friend, Honor James. She's talking about her latest book and sharing an excerpt and character interview with us. :)
Blurb:
Raven
Kato takes the assignments no one else will, the suicide missions, the ones
with a low probability of success. He doesn’t care about the risks or the
chances of survival. He’s all for going out in a blaze of glory. As long as it
helps his people and keeps the Vampire race at the top of the food chain, he’s
all for it.
Jamison
Montague is tired of being called upon to find people. Some folks just don’t
want to be found. Her newest assignment is a prime example of that.
Unfortunately she doesn’t have a lot of choice in the matter once she gets a
read on her target. But what she ends up being pulled into may very well end
not only her career, but her life.
Together
this unlikely pair will have to find a way to get along, for they will all too
soon have to depend on one another for everything. Not only their survival in a
deadly game to which they don’t know the rules, but for their very future and
happiness. As danger starts to close in, as their opponents are revealed, and
as their hearts become involved, they will have to make the hardest choice of
all. Fight for what they want, or give in and give up.
Author/Character Interview:
Honor: As I am promoting this book, Finding the Blood Assassin, I thought it
a good idea to meet and chat with the main characters of the book to let the
readers learn a little more about them.
Raven: *snorts* She says this as if we are not
real.
Jamison: Now, Raven, she didn’t mean it that way,
not at all I’m sure.
H: Uh, no, not in the least. I consider you
both to be quite real. So, first question is what is your favorite thing to do
while at home?
R: Easy, get my woman naked and ravish her.
(Jamison
smacks Raven)
J: You can’t say things like that, Ra.
R: I just did. Next question.
H: Right, okay, what is your favorite food?
R: Jamison a la mode. And a fine cut of
meat, but only if I can’t get her alone.
(Jamison
again smacks Raven, giggling this time)
J: I love pretty much any and all foods, but
I must admit to having a bit of a sweet tooth.
H: Do you two plan on having a family one
day, children to be specific?
R: The way my Jamison continually jumps me
and pulls me into closets, it could be sooner than later.
J: Are you complaining?
R: Never
(We
had to take a small break as they got a little bit distracted here…)
H: *fanning herself* Do you two have any
specific plans for the near future?
R: Well…
H: That don’t involve sex!
J: *snickers* Aw, poor, Ra, stuck for
something to say now, my Vampire lord?
R: Listen female…
J: Yes?
R: *growls* We are planning to relax for a
time. Enjoy our home in the countryside and just live our lives before we
decide anything further. Perhaps a vacation too.
J: Vacation? Where? When? Why?
R: Yes, you shall see, later and because I
love you, Jamison.
J: Isn’t he just the sweetest man alive?
H: Uh, yes, yes he is.
(The
interview was called due to the fact that clothing began to be pulled off and I
needed some serious air)
H: There you have it folks, a little more
insight into my apparently sex crazed Vampire lord and lady from Finding the Blood Assassin. Damn I need
a cold shower…
Excerpt:
“What do you want,
Raven?” she asked softly. “I’m through pushing, Raven, either you want me or
you don’t. Tell me, please? What do you want, what do you need?” She shouldn’t
have to push herself into his life, into his heart, but it seemed that was all
she had been doing since she met him. She had been pushing, shoving, and trying
to find a place for her inside of his heart, and frankly she was tired. She
didn’t know how much she had left in her to give.
Opening his eyes, he
stared at her and, with fear lighting them, he sucked in a deep breath. His
tongue slid over his lip as he fought some internal battle. Then he whispered
only one word. “You.”
Her tears slipped free
as she nodded. “And I need you, my lord. Please keep me? Love me?” Her hand
touched his cheek. “Become one with me?” she whispered. “Make me forget
everything that happened the last week? Help me just remember you, no one else
but you?”
He didn’t understand
what she wanted. He’d never had a female say things like this to him before.
Hell, he rarely let those he used speak. Shaking his head, he stared at her in
open confusion. “I don’t know what you want, Jamison,” he murmured, the
admission painful to a man that normally was on top of everything. “What do you
want?” he asked, a whisper of desperation in his voice.
“I want you, Raven. I
want your love, I need your love.” Stepping in closer, she added, “I want you,
Raven. I’ve wanted you to come together with me since I met you.” She licked
her lips. “Remember what I said when I sent you away from me while on my ship?”
She slid her hand down his neck to his chest. “Love me, Raven.”
Closing his eyes, he
held her to him and nodded slowly before, in a quick move, he pulled the shirt
she was wearing off over her head. Pushing at the pants she wore, he lifted her
from them before he reached for his own shirt and tugged it off. He didn’t
immediately reach for his pants. He needed to touch all her skin and so he did,
sliding his hands over her, gently awed that she’d let him touch her, awed at
how soft her flesh was and how beautiful she was. Then his eyes dropped to her
breasts and he saw the wounds there, the bruises and the scarring, and he felt
anger light up his eyes.
She shook her head and
tears trembled on her lower lids. “Don’t think about them, please. This is for
us, Raven. I need this for us so that we can get past that pain?” She took his
hand in hers and placed it over one of the damaged breasts. “Show me a good
touch to replace the pain?”
Gently, he cupped her
wounded flesh and, lowering his head, he pressed a soft kiss to the wound on
one and then the other. Sliding his tongue lightly over the bruises, he moved
his arms to wrap around her. Lifting her, he carried her toward the long
backless sofa in his study and, laying her down, he removed his pants and
boots. Kneeling at her side, he stroked his hand down her body as he leaned in
to press a kiss to her lips, capturing her full lower one between his teeth in
a sharp but bloodless bite as his hand slid between her legs to gently stroke
her pussy.
Her legs spread for
him, a silent gift of permission for him to move his hands over her as he
wished. “Raven, that feels so very nice,” she moaned out. Her hips began to
move against his fingers even as his teeth moved over her cheeks, jaw, and then
neck. “I love you, Raven, so much I love you.”
Closing his eyes as
pain assailed him at her words, he wished, truly wished, that he could give
them in return, but he couldn’t. Nibbling over her skin he teased her, his
fingers delving deep into her pussy as he tasted every inch of her smooth
flesh. Gently and reverently, he took one of her nipples into his mouth, and
instead of suckling, he just soothed the wounds with his tongue, licking and
sliding his tongue over her flesh as gently as he could.
Her hands moved into
his hair as she held him to her, and after several minutes, she whimpered.
“More, Raven. I need more from you. Please, Ra, help me be ready for you.”
Pressing a second finger into her slick pussy, he stroked her, stretched her.
Looking up he saw her open her mouth, her lips moving even as no sound escaped.
Her head thrashed side to side as her hips lifted to meet each push of his
fingers into her tight body. In the next moment she shivered, her body moved up
and down on his fingers once, twice more. Then, before she could get out
whatever she was trying to say, her eyes went wide and she climaxed, her head
thrown back on a low, keening sound of pleasure.
Lifting his head
slightly, he watched her come for him. His fingers drenched in her juices, her
pussy clutching at the digits, and her face a show of pure ecstasy. Pushing a
third finger into her body, he continued to stroke her even as he moved down
her body, his mouth licking and nibbling at her tender flesh. When he reached
the end of the long couch, he pulled his fingers free and, in one move, pulled
her to him, draping her legs over his shoulders even as he buried his face in
her pussy and began to lick and suckle at her flesh.
Jami had never felt
anything as intense and pleasurable as what Raven was giving her. Hands moved
to his hair and held onto him while his lips and tongue ravaged her weeping
cunt. Her hips rotated, lifted. She tried to move with him and take everything
he offered her as he did so. “Raven, please.” She begged because she was just
so close.
He was drowning in her
scent, in her taste, in the feel of all her flesh surrounding him. Before he
could think on it, Raven gave into the beast a little and did something he
never had before. Lifting his head, he sank his teeth into her mound and drank
from her as he pushed three fingers deep into her body and coaxed her to
splinter for him.
