title: Night Fires: A Novel (Vampire)
author:  Karen Harbaugh 
description: Simone de la Fer paid a high price for youthful indiscretion. Forced into a vampire's world of darkness, she uses the powers of her curse to help victims of the French Revolution. British spy Michael Corday lives a dark life of his own, though one forged from childhood scars. The two join forces to complete their respective missions, never dreaming each would be the other's salvation. This story would be noteworthy enough for its female vampire, a rarity in the romance world, but Harbaugh paints a poignant portrait of all forms of faith lost and reclaimed, and of redemption, against a richly detailed canvas of the chaos of turn-of-the-nineteenth-century France. The only disappointment is that there is no evidence that Harbaugh plans to further elaborate on the concept and culture of vampirism set forth in this book in the near future, although one can always hope. <i>Nina Davis</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  **The Mask of Romek**  
  
  
  By  
  
  
  T.C McQueen  
  
  
    
  
  
  Smashwords Edition
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2011 TC McQueen  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  Prologue:
  
  
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  In the beginning there was Dark. A lot of
  
  
  Dark. Then as you no doubt will remember from school, there was
  
  
  Light. Bright searing burning Light. Well the Dark didn't like that
  
  
  too much. In fact the Dark was really quite put out by all that
  
  
  Light. Ever since then the Dark wanted things back the way they
  
  
  were before. My job, probably even my destiny if there is such a
  
  
  thing, is to make sure that doesn't happen.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I grew up in a small Texas town called Fort
  
  
  Riley. Had a pretty normal life, served my country in the Great
  
  
  War, came home, became a deputy, got a wife. Then one day in the
  
  
  winter of 1922, a clan of vampires decided Fort Riley was their
  
  
  next meal break. I came back from a prisoner run to the courthouse
  
  
  two towns over to find everyone I had ever known dead, dying or
  
  
  undead.
  
  
  Tha