Of Love and Shadows (Daemons of San DeLain Book 3) is live!

Buy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0BY7KGXFZ

Blurb: 

Kage: I may be powerful. I may be the darkness. But it turns out I’m not the only monster who lurks in the shadows. The silence has been broken, and a secret from long ago has been unearthed with devastating consequences. The past has come back to haunt me, and everything I thought I knew has been turned on its head.

Danger strikes at everything I hold dear, and death stalks my mate and me.

Austin: Not all monsters have wings, horns, and a tail. And sometimes monsters really are monsters. I know exactly how far someone will go to hide toxic secrets, but even I am shocked by the latest revelations. Pandora’s box has been opened, and now we’re dealing with the aftermath. My monster grieves, and I ache for him.

But blood isn’t thicker than water, and found family is everything.

Chaos reigns as the attacks from the mimic escalate, and the daemon clan of San DeLain goes on high alert. But violence is never far away, and when the past doesn’t stay buried, the answers will lead to even more questions.

Death is coming, and the end is near. But for whom?

This is book 3 in the Daemons of San DeLain series which should be read in order.

Tuesday Teaser (refresher for Of Love and Shadows)

         

 

Name: Austin Dean Hathaway Berkshire (human) – Hathaway is mom’s maiden name and Berkshire is dad’s last name. The Hathaway Berkshire family owns Wayshire Real Estate Group. They buy and flip high dollar houses; own rent houses, apartment complexes, retail shops and so on. They def have $$$.

Age: 25

Height/Weight: 6

Body type: toned

Scent: fresh and crisp, with a citrusy undertone (apples)

Eye color: blue

Hair color and style: blonde, short and styled

Other distinguishing physical traits: none

Clothing style/frequently worn clothes: causal

Physical imperfections: none

Race: white

Occupation: writer> one of his series is called Rebel Wolf series. With big publisher. Has agent: Lanny

Dad’s name: Richard

Mom’s name: Karen

Gemstone pendant- Black Obsidian arrowhead on leather necklace; given to him by his monster

Info

~Rich parents, lives in the fancy house in NYC. Around age 8, Mom crashes her car, DUI, and is killed. Dad starts getting abusive. This is when the daemon under the bed shows up to saves the boy. Scares daddy into leaving the boy alone. Daddy thinks he hallucinated the monster because he was drunk. Dad goes off the deep end and declared incompetent by g’parents. They raise Austin.

~Goes to college; then comes into his inheritance by the age of 25 and moved to Cali

Tuesday Teaser - kinda lol

Since Of Love and Shadows, book #3 in the Daemons of San DeLain, is coming soon, let's have a refresher course!!

Name: Kage Dargan

Kage means: the one who is filled with shades and shadows.

Dargan is a name with shadowy connotations that would make for a great choice if you are expecting a dark-haired or raven-haired baby boy. This Irish moniker carries with it the meaning of “dark-haired.”

Born: Greece

City: present day Chania-is a city on the northwest coast of the Greek island of Crete. It’s known for its 14th-century Venetian harbor, narrow streets and waterfront restaurants.

Base in the US now:

Where: USA- San DeLain, California (made up but loosely modeled after LA)

Kage owns/lives in a highrise in downtown San DeLain. Called Grand at the Dominion (locals call it the Dominion): The 32-story contains residences which are mostly rented to paranormals. Unit sizes begin around 600 square feet and span up to 1,800 square feet.

Features include:

elevators, a doorman and/or security guard, concierge (Mr. Newson-night shift and Mrs. Covington-day shift) a lobby, fitness center, business center, meeting rooms, game room, and even guest suites. There is an on-site restaurant, retail shops for tenets, and a grocery store.

Since its downtown, there are plenty of restaurants, clubs, theaters, and so on within walking distance. The apartment on the higher floors have gorgeous, scenic views, larger outdoor space, and less street noise.

Top floor is the only penthouse (belongs to Kage and is actually two stories); has its own private pool.

What:

Species: Daemon (pronounced day-mon)-paranormal

Nickname: shadow demon – only 100 worldwide

Daemon are supernatural beings who can shift into a humanoid form—meaning they are biped.

Skin color: gray, to dark gray, to black. Some have wings. Others don’t. Some have tails. Others don’t. Some have fangs. Others don’t. They are NOT demons.

~Indefinitely long lifespan but can be killed

~They don’t get sick; can’t get or give anything

~They are always beautiful (power depends on age)

His group of daemons are called a clan. Kage’s title is Elder. Second in command are called lieutenants. His clan has 10 daemons and other prn-there are 50 members in all and they all live there in the building.

Daemon Abilities:

AGE AFFECTS ABILITY

*ODLER THE DAEMON, THE STRONGER THEIR ABILITY*

*Get 2nd pair of horns when they hit their prime, which around 500 yrs old

Main ability: Where the nickname comes from-humans and other paranormals are terrified of daemon because they can manipulate any shadow around them. Doesn’t matter if it’s a bright sunny day or the dead of night—if there is a shadow nearby, they can step into it and disappear.

They transported via shadows. Can reappear next door, or the next town, or on the other side of the world depending on age… as long as there is a shadow, that’s all they needed.

If that wasn’t frightening enough, they can manipulate any kind of shadow to do their bidding. The shadow of a tree can grab someone and disappear with them. Or it can be the shadow of a rock. Or a building. Or a flower. Even another person’s shadow could be manipulated.

Enhanced Healing: heal really quick, but can still be killed (beheading, stabbed in heart, set on fire, bullet to brain) The older they are, the quicker they heal

Enhanced Strength: Daemon have super-human strength that allows them to lift or throw things far beyond human ability. They can send people flying across a room with a single punch. This super-human strength is an advantage over a human in a fight, and is part of what makes them such formidable foes.

Enhanced night vision: see very well at night. Age does not affect this.

Of Love and Shadows (Daemons of San DeLain Book 3) preorder April 13th

 

Preorder link: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Shadows-Daemons-DeLain-Book-ebook/dp/B0BY7KGXFZ?ref

Blurb: 

Kage: I may be powerful. I may be the darkness. But it turns out I’m not the only monster who lurks in the shadows. The silence has been broken, and a secret from long ago has been unearthed with devastating consequences. The past has come back to haunt me, and everything I thought I knew has been turned on its head.

Danger strikes at everything I hold dear, and death stalks my mate and me.

Austin: Not all monsters have wings, horns, and a tail. And sometimes monsters really are monsters. I know exactly how far someone will go to hide toxic secrets, but even I am shocked by the latest revelations. Pandora’s box has been opened, and now we’re dealing with the aftermath. My monster grieves, and I ache for him.

But blood isn’t thicker than water, and found family is everything.

Chaos reigns as the attacks from the mimic escalate, and the daemon clan of San DeLain goes on high alert. But violence is never far away, and when the past doesn’t stay buried, the answers will lead to even more questions.

Death is coming, and the end is near. But for whom?

This is book 3 in the Daemons of San DeLain series which should be read in order.

Tuesday Teaser

 

“Heart sounds good, your reactions seem fine, but you’ve definitely lost some muscle mass, which isn’t surprising all things considered,” Terry said as he straightened. 

The wolf woofed softly again.

Terry walked to the door and opened it. “I don’t have any patients on the floor outside of you, so if you want to walk up and down the hall for a little bit and get some exercise, that’s fine.”

Terri and Kage followed Axel who padded outside to the hallway. The huge wolf stretched then started trotting down the hall.

“Everything really is okay?” Kage asked Terry quietly.

“As far as I can tell,” Terry said. “As I said, he’s lost muscle mass, and his wolf is much weaker than it should be. But plenty of food, exercise, and lack of stress, along with time, will help him more than anything.”

Axel’s wolf was sniffing every corner he could find. Once or twice he got into a cobweb and sneezed.

“Austin and I are going to move Axel into the Dominion. That way I can provide most of what you mentioned,” Kage said, then frowned. “Not sure I can guarantee the lack of stress, though.”

He and Austin had had extensive conversations about this. Austin had backed Kage fully on the idea. There was no way he would undertake such a thing if Austin hadn’t been completely on board. 

No way was he going to jeopardize his relationship with his mate—they had both agreed on that. If Axel tried to cause trouble between him and Austin, Kage would kick Axel out onto the street. 

If he lived, fine. If he didn’t, that was okay with Kage too. Nothing mattered more to Kage than Austin.

“Wolves are all about the drama,” Terry agreed. 

“The Crimson Fangs pack thought Alex was their alpha. It was actually Nox masquerading as Axel, so now they have no leader. I’m sure they’ll find a way to blame Axel for that. We haven’t heard the last from them,” Kage said.

“Werewolf politics.” Terry shuddered. “Thank the gods we daemons don’t have that kind of crap.”

Alex’s wolf plopped down on the floor, dropped down, then rolled from side to side, his hind legs kicking in the air. Terry snickered at Axel’s antics.

“Well, our clan doesn’t,” Kage said, laughing too. “Can’t speak for other clans.” 

The wolf sat up, yawned, then ambled back toward them. He bumped his massive head against Terry’s leg. Laughing, Terry scratched between Alex’s ears.

Kage raised an eyebrow but didn’t say anything.

Tuesday Teaser - Of Love and Shadows (NSFW)

 

“Was still a risk.” As punishment, Austin nipped Kage’s ear.

“Fuck!” Kage took a deep breath. “Even if someone did see us, they’d likely think we had used the stair access to the rooftop pool. Humans have this wonderful ability—the ability to talk themselves out of believing what they saw.”

“Still, better to be safe than sorry. We’ll actually take the stair access this time.”

“Of course, mate.” Kage led Austin slide down his body.

Once Austin was standing, he grabbed Kage’s hand and started pulling him toward the pool steps. Once they were out of the water, Austin made a beeline toward the access door, dripping every step of the way while dragging Kage along with him.

“What about your night pants?”

“Leave them. They aren’t going anywhere.” Austin was a man on a mission and didn’t have time to waste.

He typed in the code, the door unlocked, and yanked Kage in after him. The stairwell had two exits: the master bedroom and the kitchen. Austin used the code to open the door to their bedroom and practically jerked Kage inside.

There were times when he wanted to make sweet love with Kage. Then there were times he wanted a good, hard fucking. This time was falling into the latter category.

Stopping in the middle the room, he released Kage’s hand then started peeling Kage out of those wet night pants. The material clung to Kage. Honestly? He didn’t blame it. Kage had a banging body.

Still, they had to go. He finally managed to wrestle them off and strode into the bathroom with them like the conquering hero he was.

Dropping the soggy mass in the bathtub, he grabbed the lube and returned to the bedroom to see Kage sprawled out on the bed stroking his cock. What an image his mate presented, but it wasn’t quite right. Not yet.

“Change,” Austin demanded.

He treasured Kage’s human facade as much as his daemon form, and he made love to both equally, but right now he wanted Kage as he truly was.

The black veins raced across Kage’s skin, bringing his natural color to the forefront. His was black—all daemons were either shades of gray or black. It helped them blend into the shadows. 

Some of his kind had wings, like Kage did. Others didn’t. His resembled those of a bat and were large. Some had tails, but Kage didn’t. But they all had one thing in common though—command of the shadows.

Kage grinned, showing off his fangs. Horns grew from his forehead, and his claws sprouted from his fingertips. Sitting forward, his huge wings unfolded, and his body grew. If Kage stood, he’d dwarf Austin now.

Austin swallowed. The creature in his bed was the sexiest thing he’d ever seen. “You take my breath away. Every damn time.”

“Oddly enough, I could say the same about you.” In a move that was too graceful to put into words, Kage went from reclining like an ancient god to prowling across the bed toward Austin like some sort of apex predator.

Those horns. The wings. And fangs. Had he mentioned the fangs? Austin shivered. Oh yeah, fangs, baby.

Apparently sexy and intimidating are my triggers.

Good to know, babe.

Kage slid to his feet and stalked forward. Austin backed up, his heart racing. Yup, sexy and intimidating were definitely his triggers.

Austin’s back hit the wall, and Kage spun him around. His hands flew up, hitting the wall, and he dropped the lube. It made a muffled sound as it fell to the floor.

One of Kage’s hand landed on the back of Austin’s head, pushing it down. Fuck, that was hot, making him hang his head down between his shoulders.

He had the perfect view of his hard cock sticking out from his body. Kage then kicked Austin’s feet farther apart. He could just image how he looked, braced against the wall and spread out.

“You dropped the lube,” Kage muttered, pressing against Austin’s body. “Shame on you.”

“What are you going to do about it?” Austin taunted.

“Daring me, are you? Really, you should know me better by now,” Kage said, throwing Austin’s words back at him.

Tuesday Teaser - Of Love and Shadows, #3 in the Daemons of San DeLain (NSFW)

 

NSFW~~NSFW~~NSFW

Chapter One – Austin

One week after the Bitterroot Mountain rescue mission

 

AUSTIN STOOD at the kitchen sink, rinsing dishes then loading them into the dishwasher. They’d just finished breakfast and was having a lazy morning. Both of them were still in their night pants.

“So, I was thinking—”

Kage set his coffee mug down. “Oh dear.”

Without breaking stride, Austin grabbed the sprayer thingy that was part of the kitchen faucet, turned, and aimed it at Kage. “Want to say that again?”

“You wouldn’t—”

“Dare? Really, you should know me better by now.” Grinning, Austin depressed the lever and shot water at Kage, who was sitting at the island.

Yelping, Kage nearly fell off the barstool as he tried to avoid the stream of water. “Hey, now! Babe! Stop!”

Calmly Austin continued to pelt Kage with the sprayer. “You mispronounced ‘I’m sorry’.”

“Austin!” Kage bellowed. He managed to get his feet under him then took off toward Austin.

Austin squirted Kage one last time, then abandoned the sprayer and stated running. Laughing hysterically, he darted around the other end of the island, Kage hot on his heels.

“Crap, crap, crap!” He’d really soaked Kage, and oh dear God, the look on his face when Austin turned the water on him was priceless.

It probably didn’t help that Kage hadn’t been wearing a shirt, so all that cold water had nothing stopping it from hitting skin. Sexy skin he’d drenched with cold water.

“Imp!” Kage yelled.

Austin could practically feel Kage breathing down the back of his neck. An insane giggled escaped him as he hauled ass toward the living area. No way was he going to win this. Kage was too fast, but Austin would go down fighting… well, he’d go down laughing. He was a lover, not a fighter.

Maybe he could put the couch between him and Kage and—Austin shrieked as Kage suddenly stepped out of a shadow in front of him. He plowed into Kage, unable to stop.

Kage simply wrapped his arms around Austin and fell back into the shadows. The absolute absence of light in the portal always threw Austin at first. It was just so dark.

The nothingness swallowed up everything, and there was always a slight rushing sound as they traveled. He’d gotten used to how it felt being in a portal, but it always left him feeling… insignificant.

But he was safe in his mate’s arms, and the uncomfortable feeling was worth being able to travel in such a way.

He plastered himself against Kage’s naked and very wet chest. Even the upper portion of Kage’s night pants were soaked. Snickering, he rested his head against Kage’s cold shoulder. He’d really gotten Kage good.

Kage was so going to make him pay, and he couldn’t wait.

A few seconds later, they stepped out of the shadows. They were in a three-sided building which was actually the access to their rooftop pool. Fortunately for Kage, it was pretty dark in there.

Kage immediately swept up Austin into his arms and headed straight for the water.

“Oh my God, really? I squirted you so you’re going to dump me—” Austin hit the water and sank.

Holy crap, he did it. He really tossed Austin into the pool. Guess it was a good thing Austin didn’t have his phone in the pocket of his night pants.

He glanced up through the water. Kage stood by the edge of the pool, his hands on his hips, grinning down at him.

Jerk.

But by God, that was his jerk. Austin surfaced and shoved his wet hair out of his face.

“How’s the water?” Kage asked.

“Probably a lot less cold than what I sprayed you with,” Austin admitted as he swam over to where Kage stood.

Now, how to get his revenge for that little stunt?

“Help me out?” Austin asked sweetly as he held his hand up to Kage.

“You know, I was not born yesterday. I take your hand and you’re going to pull me into the pool.”

“I would never,” Austin gasped in the fakest voice he could manage. Okay, so yeah, that was totally his plan. Looked like it wasn’t going to work, though. One way or the other, Austin was going to get Kage in the pool.

Plan B it was.

Austin held onto the edge of the pool with one hand while he struggled to get his night pants off with the other. Looking up through his lashes, he tossed his drenched night pants out of the pool next to Kage’s feet.

Kage looked from the soaked material to Austin. He cleared his throat. “Ah….”

Austin pushed away from the edge so Kage had a perfect view of his completely naked body.

“You’re such an imp,” Kage complained before diving into the water, clothes and all.

Austin was still cheering when Kage surfaced. Giggling, Austin started swimming to the shallower area of the pool, Kage right behind him. He had barely touched the bottom with his toes when Kage decided to play octopus. He was still giggling when Kage’s lips landed on his.

Since he didn’t have to worry about them drowning now, Austin wrapped his legs around Kage’s waist, buried his hands in that thick black hair of Kage’s, and kissed his mate for all he was worth.

Kage’s tongue retreated and Austin’s followed, tangling together. Both of Kage’s hands squeezed Austin’s ass as they kissed. Austin finally had to come up for air, but he still wasn’t going to waste this opportunity.

He trailed little nibbling bites down Kage’s throat, tasting a combination of salty skin and chlorine. Tingles raced through his body as his cock started to harden.

He could feel Kage’s dick brushing against his ass. Good grief, had the head escaped Kage’s pants? If he could get Kage out of them, all his mated had to do was lower him down onto his dick. Well, there was a bit more involved than that. Like, for instance, lube.

And God, he wished they had some. This wasn’t a position they’d tried yet, and now that he was in it, he wanted to. He really, really wanted to.

Austin kissed his way back up Kage’s throat and blew softly in his ear. The slight prick of claws on his ass cheeks excited him. Goals. He had them.

“Bed,” Austin whispered into Kage’s ear.

Kage growled, his hands tightening on Austin’s ass. “I’ll just portal us—”

“Yeah, no. No portaling. I can’t believe you did that earlier.”

“The access is enclosed on three sides for that very reason. Plus, the buildings around us aren’t taller than this one. The likelihood of someone seeing us stepping from the shadows was next to none,” Kage said, his hands flexing on Austin’s ass cheeks.

“Was still a risk.” As punishment, Austin nipped Kage’s ear.