The Firsts Series by C. L. Quinn
The Firsts #3
Longest Days
C. L. Quinn
Daniel had been a mercenary longer than his soul could take. On that final job, looking down at the face of an angel whose death he'd been responsible for, he knew he was done. And although he hadn't pulled the trigger on the bullets that took her life, he felt like he had. He'd buried her in a hidden grave in the Canadian woods so no one would desecrate her lovely body. From the mission site in Vancouver, he'd headed north to the most inhospitable place he could think of to try to find peace that he knew he didn't deserve. But after a year of dreams, her face was as vivid as it had been that day. There would be no peace for a guilty man. Eillia had been killed and buried. Buried by someone who did not know she was vampire...that bullets would not kill her forever. But beheading would. Which is how her centuries long love affair with Hamid ended in an attack a year ago. She didn't know how to pick up the pieces of her life without him. All she wanted was to crawl back in a hole like the one she'd crawled out of that day. And she had. Lost, in pain, she'd gone north and buried herself in the land of the midnight sun until darkness came and she thought that maybe she might be able to think about living her life again. All she had with her from her old life was a tattered flak jacket that someone had wrapped around her head when they buried her. It had smelled of earth and man and she thought that whoever had done it had cared about the body they laid to rest that night. But she had no idea who it was. Fate brought them together on that awful night. It brought them together a year later in a frozen land that was as stunning as it was brutal. Daniel spends most of his time working when the hard weather allows it, and drinking when it doesn't. Eillia has spent most of the sunlit summer in bed alone and lonely. Longest days...longer nights. Now, winter extremes bring them together. He won't believe it can be her...she's dead, he knows that. She won't know why he knows her. Or why his scent is so familiar. Is it possible to overcome such a tragic history? Find out how it plays out above the Arctic circle for a vampire and a human who should never have met at all. This is the third in the series "The Firsts." Daniel and Eillia's story begins at the end of Forbidden Days, if you'd like to see where they started.ReviewAll volumes of this series have been on Amazon.com's top 100 bestsellers list in Paranormal romance.
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The Firsts #4
Darkened Days
C. L. Quinn
Jacob had searched for her for two months. Taken by rogue vampires, Starla had disappeared without a trace. An innocent, sweet girl from a remote Alaskan town, the human friend of a powerful first blood vampire, she had no idea the vampire world existed. Now, a lead sends him to Paris, to a cadre of young vampires that run the city at night, breaking rules and risking the vampire community's sacred covenant for secrecy. When he finds her, she's been changed. She's vampire now. He barely recognizes the angry, oversexed girl as the one he'd met briefly and saved just months earlier. It doesn't help that she turns him on like none of the beautiful experienced vampires he's always preferred. Paris at night is gorgeous, the city of love, a place to make love and be made love to. But not for Jacob, who wants to save this lost girl, and ends up on the wrong side of justice. Jacob and Starla's story starts in southern France and ends in South Africa, as a young newly "made" vampire learns how to accept who and what she is now, to understand what may be the greatest gift of her life. To find out that love can come in the most unlikely ways while life happens regardless of choices made. That sometimes destiny really is written in the stars. This story is beautiful on its own, but continues the series of first blood vampires started in Forbidden Days, also available here on Amazon.com. If you enjoy Starla and Jacob's story, try the other three books in this series to see where it all began.ReviewAll volumes of this series hit Amazon.com's top 100 bestsellers list in Paranormal romance.
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The Firsts #5
Final Days
C. L. Quinn
Love at first sight doesn't exist...right? So how could Alisa explain the instant intense attraction to a man she collided with on a lovely night in Paris at a streetside cafe? She was dying, a diagnosis that left her with perhaps three years left in her life...maybe that was why. Whatever it was, she wanted him and there was no reason not to take this beautiful man and find pleasure she has never known. This journey she was on was a final trip to places she had always loved in this world. To experience life as much as possible while she still could. She's never done anything like this before, and it turns out to be the memory of a lifetime. The only sorrow she felt while leaving that next morning, was that she may have found love, too late. Koen's been alive for over a thousand years. This past year of his life has been wonderful. He couldn't imagine anything better. Until he has a chance collision on a trip to Paris with blue eyes that burned into his soul, and stayed there. After the most incredible night of his life, she disappeared. He didn't know she was dying. She didn't know he was vampire and could save her life. Would Koen find her...in time? This fifth in the series about First Blood vampires is wonderful on its own, but follows the fourth book in the series closely, so reading in sequence will bring greater connection with the story and characters.ReviewAll volumes of this series have been on Amazon.com's top 100 bestsellers list in Parnormal romance.
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