Vampires of the Black Oak
Marie-Claude Bourque
(Vampires of the Black Oak, #1-3)
Publication date: October 22nd 2024
Genres: Adult, Paranormal, Romance
Meet the vampires of the Black Oak: a powerful order of modern-day warrior fighting evil to protect the ones they love.
Three vampire romances now together in this third installment in the Order of the Black Oak – Collection“… a nanural master of the slow-burn…”
Book 1: A VAMPIRE’S SPELL: A Witch-Vampire Slow-Burn Paranormal Romance
A guilt-ridden legacy vampire teams with a powerful witch to protect their city from a crazed scientist seeking immortality.
Book 2: A VAMPIRE’S SIN: An Enemies to Lovers Slow-Burn Paranormal Romance
An immortal Montreal vampire teams with an ambitious real estate tycoon to rescue her kid sister from a child-trafficking ring run by a pack of daemons.
Book 3: A VAMPIRE’S SOUL: A Friends to Lovers Slow-Burn Paranormal Romance
When a female vampire teams up with a faithful immortal friend to escape a vicious hunter set to kill her, the centuries-old friendship turns into so much more than she’d anticipated.
★★★★★ Fantastic series of action, magic and awesome romance. You will fall in love with the characters and feel you are right with them.
“Marie-Claude has such a marvelous way of making the characters come to life and put the reader smack in the middle sharing it all. These books are binge worthy”. ~ Goodreads Reviewer
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EXCERPT:
INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE – Valerian St-Amand
“So Valerian, tell me more about this witch you met this summer.” I watch him one cold December afternoon, sitting in a booth at the back the Serpent Maudit, his brother’s nightclub in Old-Montreal.
The immortal invited me here for the interview, so I don’t see the cursed vampires he has hidden in the crypt of his sanctuary while they learn to contain their extreme blood hunger so that they can function in the human world without hurting anyone.
Val shoots me a dark look. I see deep emotions raging in his gaze, quickly repressed.
He still wears his heavy outdoor wool-coat, the dark curls of his hair brushing the fox fur collar. Every one of his movement is measured, from the way he levels his chin to look at me casually, to the calm touch that lay on his dog, a hefty chocolate Labrador sleeping with his head on his master’s lap, the animal’s body stretched on the leather bench next to Valerian.
“Maisie Thibodeau,” he finally says, his voice hoarse.
“She’s a real witch?” I ask.
“Of the Coven of the White Holly. In the small town of Berwick Falls in Maine.”
“Your brother Magnovald said you were taken by her,” I pointed. “The first time you saw her.”
Valerian nodded then shrugged. “Maybe. But what does it matter?”
“She’s coming here, to Montreal.”
“Yeah. I know.”
“So, what will you do about that?”
“About her?” He let out a slow breath, his full lips a thin line. “Nothing. She’ll be here for Emmeline.”
“You’re ex-girlfriend?”
“The thorn in my side,” he said, lazily leaning back in his leather bench.
“You don’t love Emmeline anymore.”
He shakes his head, mixed emotions warring on his forehead. “I did once, I think. Over three hundred years ago, now.”
“But you don’t anymore.”
“She lost her soul. My fault.”
“You wanted her to be immortal, like you.”
“Yep.” He stretches his arm wider, pinning me under a smoldering gaze.
His intensity hits me full force, but I persist. I want to know. “So you did love her.”
“Look, Madame l’Auteur,” he shoots at me, as he leaned forcefully forward into the table between us. “Yes, I loved Emme, or at least I thought I did. I was eighteen. I turned her. And then she turned thousands. Vampires. There’s no stopping them. One mistake. And I now have to fix it.”
“For eternity,” I say. “You’ve been atoning for that one mistake for centuries.”
“I have.” He huffs and pats his dog’s flank with a calm and steady hand. The strong fingers dig into the deep brown fur while his dog raises trusty chocolate eyes at him.
“And what about Maisie Thibodeau?”
“I don’t know.” His gaze turns troubled. “I saw her only that one time at the parley between the Warlocks of the Black Oak, the Elders of the White Holly and us, Mont-Royal Immortals. She was on the fringe of the forest’s clearing, with the other witches.”
“You didn’t talk to her?”
“No. Just saw her. Couldn’t take my eyes of her. It’s like there was this strange connection between us. Seigneur! That flimsy summer dress she wore didn’t help either.”
“And now she’s coming here?”
“Yes. Diesel Stanford of the Warlocks wants Maisie to watch over Emme. To make sure she won’t hurt anyone. I have no choice. I don’t want an all-out war between the warlocks, the witches and the vampires.”
“So where does that leave you with Maisie?”
“There is no ‘with her’ happening. I’m not having another relationship. Too risky. And, she’s mortal.”
“I see. So how will you cope with her living at the Sanctuaire? Both of you under the same roof?”
“No idea.” He sneers. “I guess we’ll find out.”
Author Bio:
Marie-Claude Bourque is a Montreal-born Seattle-based author of slow-burn paranormal romance and the winner of the American Title V award with her first novel ANCIENT WHISPERS.
Her writing features modern-day fantasy skillfully weaved into infinitely romantic supernatural stories between smart strong women and complex passionate heroes.
Happily Ever After always absolutely guaranteed!
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3 comments:
Happy release day Marie-Claude the series sounds really good.
The excerpt sounds really interesting.
Sounds like my kind of read!
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