Stone 02 Kato
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When she’d told her grandfather of her discovery, he’d only smiled. But it had been a smile that said so much. Pride, affection, satisfaction. As if he knew something she didn’t. Which he did. So very many things. Far more than he’d ever managed to stuff into her poor brain, despite his years of trying.
And now time had run out.
Grief, suffocating and deep, drove her to the ground, her face buried in her hands, her tears falling on Gabriel’s feet.
“I don’t know what to do,” she whispered.
“Go to Gabriel, to safety.” Her grandfather’s words echoed in her head. Carefully chosen words, because that was one of the first lessons he’d ever taught her, that words had power.
She sat up, and blinked away the tears. She could hear his voice, chiding her.
“A foolish waste of water and time, Hana-chan.”
Wrapping her hand around one of Gabriel’s powerful calves, she leaned back to stare up at his powerful visage. Did he stare back at her? She’d always thought so.
“Safety,” she said out loud, and then stood to face him proudly. “It’s time, Urban Gabriel Halldor. Come back to the world, come to me. Please, Gabriel,” she added in a desperate whisper. “I don’t know what to do. You’re the only safety I know.”
Silence. Utter and complete.
And then a lightning crack of sound split the night.
To be continued . . .
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Acknowledgements
My thanks first to my editor, Brenda Chin, who never fails to make my stories better. Thanks also to Debra Dixon for Kato’s beautiful cover and to everyone at BelleBooks for all their help and hard work. I want to thank Angela Addams for her friendship and unwavering support over the last few months, and Michelle Muto and Steve McHugh who have been friends and fellow writers from the very beginning. Special thanks to Karen Roma for her talent and encouragement at all hours of the night, and to Annette Stone whose invaluable assistance lets me concentrate on writing books.
A special thank you goes to Karen Simer. If not for her friendship and compassionate care, I don’t think I’d have made it through.
And finally, to my family, without whose unconditional love and support I wouldn’t have survived this most heartbreaking time of my life.
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About the Author
D. B. Reynolds arrived in sunny Southern California at an early age, having made the trek across the country from the Midwest in a station wagon with her parents, her many siblings, and the family dog. And while she has many (okay, some) fond memories of Midwestern farm life, she quickly discovered that L.A. was her kind of town and grew up happily sunning on the beaches of the South Bay.
D. B. holds graduate degrees in international relations and history from UCLA (go Bruins!) and was headed for a career in academia, but in a moment of clarity, she left behind the politics of the hallowed halls for the better-paying politics of Hollywood, where she worked as a sound editor for several years, receiving two Emmy nominations, an MPSE Golden Reel, and multiple MPSE nominations for her work in television sound.
Book One of her Vampires in America series, RAPHAEL, launched her career as a writer in 2009, while JABRIL, Vampires in America Book Two, was awarded the RT Reviewers Choice Award for Best Paranormal Romance (Small Press) in 2010. ADEN, Vampires in America Book Seven, was her first release under the new ImaJinn imprint at BelleBooks, Inc., and won EPIC’s 2015 e-book award for Paranormal Romance.
D. B. currently lives in a flammable canyon near the Malibu coast, and when she’s not writing her own books, she can usually be found reading someone else’s. You can visit D. B. at her website for information on her latest books, contests and giveaways.
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Kato
Copyright
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Stone Warriors
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Epilogue
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