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As I finished the epilogue for Being Sapphire (available on Sylvia Ryan’s website) – tears literally streaming down my face – all I could think was “Wow. Just, wow.” What a great story, in what is shaping up to be a truly epic series. Considering this is only book #2 of what is likely to be a trilogy – and being such a big fan of scifi and fantasy, where a story arcing over a mere three books long is barely considered a series – I don’t use the word “epic” lightly. If you haven’t read Being Amber, the first book in this [...]

A pandemic has killed thousands of humans worldwide, followed by a vaccine that changes the makeup of human blood, rendering vaccinated humans lethal to vampires. Aidan Murphy, a master vampire, respects and cares for his human donors as well as the donors for his scathe (vampire family). Wanting to protect them, Aidan buys up a small town in Penton, Alabama. Krys, an unvaccinated doctor, is looking to relocate to a rural area and is interviewing for the job in Penton. After the death of the town doctor and an attack on his close friend, Aidan decides to keep Krys against her will in hopes that she’ll want to stay. With their intense attraction and the continued attacks on the [...]

Global pandemic is raging. Olivya Wright-Ono's once loving home has been converted to a hospice for the dying. Her ability to see auras forces her to witness, with agonizing detail, the vibrant colors of life consumed by malignancy. The beautiful and troubled, Mikah, is an elite Empath in the ancient Kindred clan, led by the brooding, ever-morphing, monster named Prime. Mikah has learned a terrible truth . . . the plague is linked to Kindred origins. When Olivya sees evidence of disease creeping into her mother's aura, she has no one to turn to but Mikah. Can he unearth the Kindred secrets and find a cure? Can she trust this boy whose power allows him to manipulate her very [...]