Chasing Daybreak by Ranae Glass Book Blitz
Title:
Chasing
Daybreak
Series:
Dark of Night, Book 1
Author:
Ranae Glass
Published:
March 24th, 2015
Publisher:
Crimson Tree Publishing
Genre:
NA Paranormal Romance
Content
Warning: Violence and adult
language
Recommended
Age: 18+
Synopsis:
Isabel Stone wanted a normal life. But when the unexpected death of her father
leaves her at the helm of the family business, things quickly go from weird to
worse. Vampires are on the loose and out of the coffin, and only Isabel can
walk the fine line between the world of the living and the world of the
undead.
Torn between
letting go of her past and embracing her future, Isabel will have to decide who
she can trust, and be willing to use all the weapons at her disposal, to get to
the bottom of a terrifying string of deaths that lead right to her
doorstep—before she becomes the next victim. In a city where nothing is what it
seems, ending up the target of a deranged killer might actually be the high
point of her week. Because in this town, the things that go bump in the night…
just might kill you.
Excerpt
from Chasing Daybreak by Ranae Glass:
“You were arrested for what?” I asked
again in disbelief.
Shane sighed on the other end of the
line. “Loitering. Are you gonna come get me or
not?”
Part of me wanted to ask why he didn’t
just call his rich vamp girlfriend or soon to be boss-man to bail him out, but
I held back. Truth was, in some sick, co-dependent, Dr. Phil kind of way, I was
glad he’d called me.
“Keep your panties on, I’m on my way.
Just relax and try not to eat anybody,” I
quipped.
In the background I could hear a male
voice tell Shane his time was up.
“Isabel, just hurry, okay?” Nervous
tension was thick in his voice.
I quickly put in a call to Craig Gentry,
a bail bondsman who’d done some work for my dad in the past, and made a beeline
for the precinct.
Shane was sitting on a wooden bench just
outside the magistrate’s office, a young, nervous-looking officer standing
behind him with a massive shotgun probably loaded with wooden pellets. Not
fatal to vamps unless it took out the heart, but certainly enough to do some
serious damage.
The kid couldn’t have been more than twenty-one,
and judging by his general pallor and sweaty forehead, Shane was probably the
first vamp he’d ever seen, much less been tasked to guard. Seeing me walk in,
Shane slumped just a fraction, visibly relaxing. It was a very human gesture.
One of the many things I’d miss about him when he grew into his new life.
I nodded, warning him with my eyes not to
make any sudden movements that might spook the newbie.
Reggie was waiting for me at the desk,
chatting with Matilda, the night desk officer. He’d obviously been called in
from home. Still wearing his Superman pajama pants and gray sweatshirt, he
cradled a cup of coffee with one hand and smoothed down his unruly bed head
with the other.
“Reggie,” I called, turning his attention
to me.
“Ah, Isabel. Good to see you.”
“Same here.” I thumbed behind me. “Mind
sending Skippy over there to get some coffee or something before he
accidentally shoots my partner?”
Reggie laughed, leaned forward and called
over. “Hey Weston, I got it from here.”
The kid looked like he might argue, then
thought better of it and closed his mouth, walking away backwards, watching the
back of Shane’s head the whole way.
“Thanks. So what happened?”
“Looks like Shane was over at the Quick
Mart down the road from your place about midnight. Clerk thought he was acting
‘suspicious,’ so he called in the black and whites. Shane gave them some lip
and they moved to detain him when he flashed fang.”
“Did he put up any resistance?” I asked,
knowing as soon as the words were out of my mouth that it was a stupid
question. If he’d resisted either he, or more likely they, would be in body
bags.
Reggie chuckled. “Nah. But he gave Weston
a good scare.”
“The store owner pressing charges?”
“I doubt it. He was pretty pissed to get called in the middle of
the night and dragged down here. He and Detective Richards are looking over the
security footage right now. If the clerk jumped the gun, then most likely
Shane’ll be free to go.”
I turned and looked over my shoulder at
Shane who sat there wearing his best innocent face, then turned back to the
desk.
“Hey, Reggie, has anyone taken mug shots
yet?”
“No. If he’s cut loose there’ll be no
need to book him.” His eyebrow shot up as he noticed the wide up-to-no-good
grin spreading across my face.
“Cause the thing is, I could really use
some photos for the Christmas cards.” I smiled.
Finally catching on, he erupted with
laughter.
“Why not? You go break the bad news to
Shane. I’ll meet you in the back.” He pointed over his shoulder to the double
doors and the magistrate’s office beyond.
I walked over to the bench where Shane
sat. “Bad news, the owner might be pressing charges. Reggie said you have to go
get your mug shot and fingerprints taken. But he said I could go with you at
least.”
Shane stared at me, his mask of innocence
morphing into sheer panic, then fading to mild boredom and resignation.
“Fine,” he huffed.
The clink of snapping metal echoed in the
nearly empty hallway as he got to his feet before remembering he was handcuffed
to the bench. He held up his hands. The links between the cuffs were broken in
half. Shane shrugged and I beckoned for him to follow me down the hall.
By the time Joyce, the lady in charge of
taking mug shots, was finished Shane knew he’d been set up. Reggie and I were
rolling with laughter. At first Shane was confused, but then he looked at the
nameplate Reggie had made for him and saw that it read, ‘Merry Christmas from
Stone Private Investigations.’
About the
Author:
Ranae Glass
writes New Adult Paranormal Romance. A Southern girl at heart, Ranae loves
feeding people, gardening, and sweet tea. She hails from Oklahoma and lives
with her family out West where she spins tales of vampires, werewolves, and
other things that go bump in the night. You won’t find any ‘vegetarian’
monsters here, her books are best served bloody and are not for the faint of
heart. Ranae is the author of the Dark of Night novels from Crimson
Tree Publishing.
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