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Book Synopsis:

In Blood Vine, bites are an inconvenient bliss, exiled vampires are wasting away, and the fate of their kind depends on the perfect PR campaign.

When public relations pro Zoey Porter arrives at an enchanting California winery, she discovers her sexy new client is the almost one-night stand she can’t forget. After her husband’s suicide, Zoey has vowed never to risk her heart again. But can she walk away from the intriguing winemaker a second time?

Driven from Croatia by his ancient foes, vampire Andre Maras has finally made a blood-like wine to cure his fellow refugees. Now he needs Zoey’s PR expertise to reach them. After his wife’s death, Andre has a vow of his own—never to risk another painful blood bond. And one taste of the tempting Zoey would bind him to her eternally.

His secrets stall her PR plans. Her jealousy is stoked by the blissed-out beauties leaving his bedroom. At every turn, he utterly fails to resist her. When she discovers he is a vampire, will she be lost to the golden-eyed Hunters, or lose herself to the emptiness in her heart, before she can help him save his kind?

Poker Excerpt:

Zoey settled on his lap as well as she could, given her feet didn’t touch the floor, and picked up her cards. Turning over her shoulder, she said, “You can see my hand.”

He compared her cards to his own. “Play mine.”  He passed them to her, and she had to flex her toes to keep steady.  He placed one of his hands on each of her hips. She wriggled a little to find her balance and felt him harden between her cheeks.

He wanted her to concentrate on playing cards with that magnificent thing underneath her?  Fine. She was up to the challenge.

His hand was only marginally better than hers; he had a pair of threes.  In the corner of her eye, Andre tilted his head toward his chips—an invitation to bet them freely.

“I’ll raise,” she said. “A green. What’s this worth, anyway?”

“That one is worth one hundred dollars,” Andre replied.

Zoey sputtered. “You guys don’t mess around.”  She tapped the table with the edge of the chip reluctantly, then pressed it down onto the table with her thumb, saying,  “One hundred of Andre’s money it is.”

Watching her with narrowed eyes, Kos said, “I fold.”  He swung his head to look at this brother with equal interest.

“I’ll raise you two more green ones,” Bel said, trilling the last words and  throwing in three of his own chips. Was he mocking her?

“Call,” Zoey said, quicker than she meant to. Bel’s head jerked up and his eyes also sharpened on her. Now she had his attention.  Tossing in the two chips she owed, she discarded three cards and he wordlessly dealt them both more. Nothing but a jack high to go with her threes.

A muscle pulsed in Bel’s jaw. He could have been Andre’s identical twin, but his torn black jeans and converse sneakers made him look younger. Still, a tell was a tell.

Holding up a chip and cocking her head, she asked, “I suppose this black one is worth five hundred?”

“It is,” he replied, crossing his arms. “And it hardly matters to you, since it’s Andre’s money.”

“Oh, it matters to me. I don’t like to lose.”  She threw two into the pile.

Andre’s breath tickled her ear when he whispered, “Are you a card shark?”

She shrugged and tried to keep a smile from her lips.

As Bel watched her, rubbing a thousand dollars worth of black chips together between his fingers, Andre wrapped his large hands around her hips. He worked his thumbs up under the bottom edge of her blouse and rubbed feather-light circles on her lower back. Damn. Her heart raced, and it wasn’t because of the bluff.”

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