title: A Taste of Midnight: Sensual Vampire Stories
author:  Cecilia Tan 
description: <DIV>Cecilia Tan is one of the most prolific and bestselling erotica writers and is also an editor and sexuality activist. She is the author of Black Feathers, The Velderet, and Telepaths Don't Need Safewords. She has the distinction of being the only writer to have erotic fiction published in both Penthouse and Ms. magazines, as well as in scores of other magazines and anthologies. She is the founder and editor of Circlet Press, publishers of erotic science fiction and fantasy. She is also the Media Relations Director for the New England Leather Alliance. She lives in Cambridge, MA.</div>
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  The Angler series: Book Three
  
  
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  Annie Nicholas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  #  Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  Sweat trickled along the crease of my spine as I stood behind Tane’s chair.
  Like music playing in the background, nobody in the meeting paid any real
  attention to me. I was just a human caught in vampire society. Being a blood
  slave to the vampire king was a two-edged sword. My bond to Tane would last
  until death-do-us-part. His death, not mine. I would never age or get sick but
  I was still mortal.
  
  
  Tane sat at the head of the conference table. Broad shoulders relaxed as his
  back molded into his chair much like a tiger watching his prey. The artificial
  light gleamed off the surface of his smooth bald head and the tips of his
  pointed ears. He faced some of the most powerful vampires in the world across
  the dark wooden table. Their bald-headed and pointed-ear appearance made them
  seem more like Tane’s brothers than just clan