Stake Through the Heart Format: Paperback

Between dusk and dark lies another world. Haunted castles and lost ingenues, shadows hungry for life, immortal beings of power claiming their captive souls - everything is possible when the sun goes down."

She seemed so far away and yet she was right there. Her dark hair was ruffled and then I met her gaze.

The red light was coming from her eyes.

I tried to scream, but there was no sound in me. Her mouth opened over my spread legs and her white teeth seemed to drip red.

"First," she finally continued, "there's the devouring."

--Castle Wrath, Karin Kallmaker

The woman moaned. Nadia held her tight, kissing her deeply on the mouth, then letting her tongue glide down over her collarbone and down to the hot indentation between her breasts. If she had the time, she would make love to the woman first, but she was so hungry. It had been days since she'd feasted.

--Running with Stone Ponies, Barbara Johnson

She kissed me hard, biting down on my lower lip til she drew blood. She licked my lips and let out a low, rumbling sound like a purring cat. I was excited, but I was also scared. If it had been Driver's Ed instead of sex, she would have been shoving me out onto the interstate when I had only just learned how to circle an empty parking lot. "Sweet," she whispered," licking her own lips, then leaning down to kiss my neck.

--We Recruit, Julia Watts

She played her tongue lightly over my earlobe, down my neck, and then sucked at my neck. She ran her hands under my T-shirt, feeling my skin, making me squirm. "I wonder, sometimes, if she brings me here just so I might find you. God, Rebecca, I want you so badly--"

I pushed her back, sure of one thing as I seemed to straddle vast gulfs in time. "I'm Rhenné."

--Elsewhen, Therese Szymanski