by Dale Mayer
Waving an arm at Victor, she said, “Don’t worry about Hortran. You don’t carry his genetics. The Ghost DNA is lost to you.”
“No, that can’t be.”
“It is,” she said. “Ghosts were trained. Not born. You don’t have what it takes.”
Victor, anger flashing on his face, rushed across the short distance between them, but Tessa, in a move reminiscent of Hortran, waved her hand, bringing him to his knees. Beast lunged forward.
Eye level to the dog, Victor glared at the animal. “He needs killing.”
“Tessa?” Cody wasn’t sure what he was to do with this. “Does Beast get him?”
“No,” Victor cried, pulling out a UV light weapon from his pocket. “Do you really think I’d be here without protection of my own?” Holding it up for them to see, he turned it on.
Only it wouldn’t turn on.
Tessa laughed. “Did you really think I’d let you have a working model of one of those? I saw the battery on it a few minutes ago.”
She turned to Beast and said, “Are you sure you want him?” She shook her head. “He’s going to make you really sick. But not just yet.”
Beast, as if understanding, growled in eagerness.
She grinned at him, then turned to Cody and added. “I know how now.”
“How what?” he asked, struggling to keep up with the switches in the conversation. “What do you know how to do?”
Tessa gave Victor a fat smile. “You know, don’t you?”
Still on his knees, his legs too weak to help him get back up, he shook his head. “No, you can’t hurt him.”
“Hurt who?”
“My son. You can’t hurt him,” the cripple cried.
“This son of yours is the one running everything,” Tessa said. “And I will have to kill him. He’s someone we all know. Someone on the Council. Someone who helped us – is even now helping us to ‘win’ this war. All the while he’s laughing inside.”
Victor pulled out a different weapon, this one tipped in silver.
Beast lunged at the crippled vamp.
“No!” Victor, using the large silver knife, stabbed himself in the throat. And blew to ash in front of them.
Cody stared. “Damn it. We needed information from him.”
Beast whined and lay down beside the ash.
“No, we didn’t.” Tessa pulled out another granola bar and offered it to Beast with a big grin.
“But we don’t even know who the son is,” Cody cried. “We can’t kill him if we don’t know.”
“Except for one thing,” Tessa said, with a bright happy smile of the Tessa he’d fallen in love with, making his own heart smile. More than just smile… his heart recognized the color, the tone, the feel of her energy. It was his Tessa. He could recognize her for who she really was now.
Thank heavens.
She linked her arm with him, reaching up as if to kiss him. She whispered, “I do know who he is. And now…I know how to win this war.”
And sealed her promise with a kiss.
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Drawing is her world…but when her new pencil comes alive, it’s his world too.
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Todd is shocked at his sudden change in circumstances…and angry. He struggles with his new ghostly reality, realizing all he’s lost as he watches his brother build a relationship with Cassie as the two pair up to find out what really happened to him.
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About the Author
Dale Mayer is a USA Today bestselling author best known for her Psychic Visions and Family Blood Ties series. Her contemporary romances are raw and full of passion and emotion (Second Chances, SKIN), her thrillers will keep you guessing (By Death series), and her romantic comedies will keep you giggling (It’s a Dog’s Life and Charmin Marvin Romantic Comedy series).
She honors the stories that come to her – and some of them are crazy and break all the rules and cross multiple genres!
To go with her fiction, she also writes nonfiction in many different fi
elds with books available on resume writing, companion gardening and the US mortgage system. She has recently published her Career Essentials Series. All her books are available in print and ebook format.
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Skin
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Mason: SEALs of Honor, Book 1
Hawk: SEALs of Honor, Book 2
Dane: SEALs of Honor, Book 3
Swede: SEALs of Honor, Book 4
Shadow: SEALs of Honor, Book 5
Cooper: SEALs of Honor, Book 6
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Standalone Novellas
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Published Young Adult Books:
Family Blood Ties Series
Vampire in Denial – FREE
Vampire in Distress
Vampire in Design
Vampire in Deceit
Vampire in Defiance
Vampire in Conflict
Vampire in Chaos
Vampire in Crisis
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Design series
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VAMPIRE IN CONTROL
Dale Mayer
Valley Publishing
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