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Novels by Margaret L. Carter

TALL, DARK, AND DEADLY



When horror actor Claude Darvell agrees to produce and star in novelist Eloise Kern's vampire movie script, they feel a powerful attraction upon their first meeting. Eloise doesn't suspect that Claude is a real vampire, using his film roles as "hide in plain sight" camouflage...until the ecstatic "dreams" she enjoys under his roof become too vivid to ignore.

This story was previously released as part of the Things That Go Bump In the Night II anthology.

Read an excerpt from Tall, Dark and Deadly here.

PRINCE OF THE HOLLOW HILLS

When her sister mysteriously dies, Fern takes over the care of her baby nephew. She has no idea that his missing father wasn't human or that baby Baird is heir to the throne of Elfland.

A pair of rival elvish princes invade Fern's life—one threatening, the other ravishing. One wants to kill the child, the other to protect him. But both intend to take him away from her.

Read an excerpt from Prince of the Hollow Hills here.

BESIEGED ADEPT

Sequel to the critically acclaimed WILD SORCERESS

Adept Aetria, while learning to control her wild sorcery, has defeated a pair of traitors trying to kill her, found a long-lost twin, and uncovered secrets of the source and nature of magic. Now she continues her research while battling the remnants of the neo-Aggressor rebellion and integrating raw, untrained talent into the Sorcerer Corps. Meanwhile, she discovers deeper secrets of her own family background, along with a surprising new foe and a destiny she never dreamed of. Furthermore, she learns that her "imaginary" dragon friend Rajii actually exists. But so do less friendly dragons. What does their agenda mean for the future of humanity and magic in Aetria's world?

Read an excerpt from Besieged Adept here.

MAIDEN FLIGHTS

Two magical erotic romances in one volume:

"Dragon's Tribute": When Rowena is chosen to be her village's sacrifice to the local dragon, she discovers to her amazement that this dragon seeks a mate, not a meal. But as she struggles with adjusting to her new life and missing her human family, the adventure and danger are just beginning. "Virgin Blood": Why was Rapunzel locked in that tower, and what was her prince really like? A fairy tale of blood, magic, and forbidden love.


EMBRACING DARKNESS

(Silhouette Intimate Moments 1355)

Linnet can't convince the police that her sister and her sister's lover were murdered by the strange woman whose blood cult the two young people belonged to. So she decides to investigate on her own. She becomes entangled with Max, the murdered boy's brother. Little does she suspect that the woman they're pursuing is a real vampire, and so is Max. Can Linnet and Max find love across the barrier between their two species?

Read an excerpt from Embracing Darkness here.

Shadow of the Beast

It begins with a hellish night of bloodshed and horror. A nightmare legacy arises from Jenny Cameron's past - destroying her family, threatening everyone she loves - and now it's come to claim her in an orgy of violence and death. A beast roams the dark streets of Annapolis, Maryland, a terrifying creature more animal than man. And the only way Jenny can combat the evil from her past is to surrender to the dark and violent power lurking within herself. Her humanity is at stake, and much more than death may await her under the shadow of the beast.

Read an excerpt from Shadow of the Beast here.


Child of Twilight

Gillian, a vampire-human hybrid in the throes of adolescence, panics at the unfamiliar urges and powers surging through her. Overwhelmed, she runs to the half-human father she has never known.

Psychiatrist Roger Darvell has come to terms with his vampire half and built a good life, with a satisfying career and his human partner, Dr. Britt Loren, who is also his lover. Gillian's sudden appearance out of a December night throws him into turmoil. Can he teach her how to live as an ethical vampire without violating either side of her nature?

Before they have much time to learn to trust each other, a specialist in folklore kidnaps Gillian to study her. She is soon rescued, not by Roger, but by Camille, a vampire woman determined to avenge her brother, whom Roger killed in self-defense thirteen years earlier. Camille's wild, fierce lifestyle proves seductive to Gillian. Can she resist Camille's attempt to make her a "real" vampire, one who treats ordinary mortals as mere prey? Can Roger save Gillian before her human side becomes completely submerged in lust for the kill?

Read an excerpt from Child of Twilight here.


Dark Changeling

A successful, middle-aged psychiatrist tormented by an unquenchable lust for blood...A vampire serial killer on the rampage...At the age of forty, Dr. Roger Darvell discovers that he is no ordinary man. He also discovers that vampires exist, and that a few of them kill as wantonly and cruelly as any monster in a horror film. When a renegade vampire follows Roger from Boston to his new home in Maryland and attacks one of his patients, Roger must come to terms with the newly discovered truth about his heritage. And he must find a way to destroy the killer before his newfound lover becomes the renegade's next victim.

Read an excerpt from Dark Changeling here.

Wild Sorceress

Co-authored with Leslie Roy Carter

Years ago, sorceress Aetria's untamed power caused a disaster on the battlefield. Temporarily banished for retraining, she has returned to the army to redeem herself as head of a company of novice mages. Under the command of her old nemesis, Adept Pleates, she struggles with her past disgrace and her still-uncertain control of her magical energy. When Pleates assigns her to escort the army's commanding general and his aide on a covert mission, Aetria sees a chance to prove her worth. To her surprise, she unearths a traitor's plot and previously unknown secrets of the source of magic. At the same time, she discovers long-lost kin and encounters an unsuspected ally in the depths of her own mind.

Marge Robbins reviewing for Sime~Gen calls WILD SORCERESS "A tale of magic, intrigue, and enough plot twists and turns to keep even the most jaded reader of this genre spellbound and unable to put the book down until the very end."

Read an excerpt from Wild Sorceress here.

Dragon's Tribute

When her village offers Rowena as a sacrifice to the dragon who terrorizes the countryside, she expects a quick death. Instead, the dragon claims her for his mate and her adventure begins.

But she disobeys him, yielding to her longing to see her family once more, and disaster strikes.

Rowena and her dragon must fight for their very lives.

Read an excerpt from Dragon's Tribute here.

Sealed in Blood

Science fiction conventions attract some strange people, but Sherri Hudson never expected to spend a con weekend helping a sexy man in a cape steal photos of a winged alien. When the photographer is murdered, and Nigel Jamison reveals to Sherri that the "alien" is actually his sister, the situation gets intriguingly complicated. Unwillingly swept up in Nigel's quest to rescue his sister, Sherri can't help being fascinated with him. By the time she finds out he's a vampire, the fascination has become mutual...

And too strong to resist.

Denise A. Agnew, Eppie Award-winning author of LOVE FROM THE ASHES, says: "SEALED IN BLOOD is for true vampire fans and romance fans alike. Unique and complex characterizations, action, and mystery will keep readers guessing and intrigued until the very end."

Linda Suzane, reviewing for Suite 101, says: "The snappy repartee between the hero and heroine is delightful....I thoroughly enjoyed SEALED IN BLOOD and highly recommend it."

Read an excerpt from Sealed in Blood here.

Crimson Dreams

The summer when Heather was eighteen, her dream beast's nightly visits warded off loneliness and swept her away in flights of ecstasy. Now, returning to the mountains to sell her dead parents' vacation cabin, she finds her "beast" again. But he turns out to be more than a dream, and she is not the only woman who craves his kiss.

Devin's first love, centuries in the past, died horribly because of her devotion to him. Does he dare to expose another mortal woman to that risk?

Terrie Figueroa of Romance Reviews Today says: "CRIMSON DREAMS is a unique and intriguing tale. Detailed characterization and vivid narrative move the story forward and keep the reader interested from beginning to end."

Read an excerpt from Crimson Dreams here.

From the Dark Places

When a hit-and-run driver almost kills young widow Kate Jacobs, she dismisses as deranged fanatics the two men who warn her that dark forces are trying to destroy her. The eerie disappearance of her four-year-old daughter Sara changes her mind. New friends Father Michael Emeric and Dr. Ray Benson rescue Kate's child, but the fight has only begun. Dark powers from beyond our world want to destroy Kate and her daughter and prevent the birth of a future child foretold to have extraordinary psychic powers and a destiny as a great warrior against evil. Kate must develop her latent wild talents and allow Sara to do the same, facing the fact that the universe is weirder-and more dangerous-than she has ever imagined.

Read an excerpt from From the Dark Places here.

Heart's Desires and Dark Embraces

From the pen of Margaret L. Carter: "When I first read Dracula at the age of twelve, my spontaneous reaction was to wonder how the vampire saw the events in which he was portrayed as the villain.

"The tales in this collection span the past ten years of my writing career. Most can be described as romances, and all involve love and passion in some form. Here you will encounter vampires, elves, ghosts, and at least one human-monster hybrid.

"In the words of Count Dracula, 'Welcome... Enter freely and of your own will!'"



Short Stories by Margaret L. Carter

Virgin Blood

Locked in the witch's tower from childhood, Rapunzel has never touched a man until the enigmatic, ravishing Alaric materializes out of the night. He takes her lifeblood-but gives her heartrending ecstasy in return. Now they must defy the odds and escape Rapunzel's tower...together.

New Flame

When Judy inherits an antique lamp from an eccentric aunt, she sees it only as a possible source of money to prop up her floundering bookstore.

But when she lights the magical lamp a magnificent creature appears.Rising before her in a column of flame-created of earth and fire to feed on a woman's desire-he will turn her world upside down.

This creature…borne by fire.

Night Flight

When the vampiress Gillian goes into heat for the first time, her mentor chooses a breeding mate for her that she finds repulsive. She flees into the night to Paul, a man who is both her friend and co-worker. But when the need to mate becomes painful, can Gillian be satisfied by the lust of a mere human?

Reviewer Linda Suzane says: "Margaret L. Carter writes about some of the most interesting vampires in the vampire universe. . . . NIGHT FLIGHT was an extremely satisfying story."

Read an excerpt from Night Flight here.



Literature featuring stories by Margaret L. Carter

Foxfire

An erotic romance of a lonely man and woman who find each other while struggling with their wild talents. Tabitha hides away in her mountain home to avoid the pain of sensing other people's emotions. Kenji, half-kitsune, isolates himself from the world because he fears his untamed shapeshifting power. With Tabitha's help, can he learn to control the fox within?

Demon's Fall featured in Ellora's Cavemen: Legendary Tails II

Caught between Heaven and Hell! When fallen angel Kammael takes human form under orders to seduce Erin Collier away from her destiny, he becomes strangely attracted to this mere mortal. He can't bear to see her harmed and when the Infernal Powers attack Erin, he may have to make the ultimate sacrifice for his newfound love.


Guardian Spirit featured in Unravelings

When a young girl invokes the power of a family heirloom, she never expects real magic. To her surprise, her rage awakens a force she can't control.

Residual Fumes featured in E-Macabre

Cleaning out her hospitalized sister's garage, where an abusive marriage led to an attempted murder-suicide, Marcie confronts two kinds of ghosts.



Non-fiction by Margaret L. Carter


Different Blood: The Vampire as Alien

Different blood flows in their veins-but our blood quenches their thirst.

From Bram Stoker´s 1897 creation of Count Dracula, portrayed as a foreign invader bent on the conquest of England, the literary vampire has symbolized the Other, whether his or her otherness arises from racial, ethnic, sexual, or species difference. Even before the bloodsucking Martians of H. G. Wells´ War of the Worlds, however, popular fiction contained a few vampires who were members of alien species rather than supernatural undead. Guy de Maupassant´s Horla is only one of the best-known.

An extensive bibliography guides the reader to numerous novels and short stories on the "vampire as alien" theme, many of them still in print.

S. T. Joshi says in WEIRD TALES: "Veteran novelist, critic, and anthologist Margaret L. Carter has issued an admirable critical study. . . a penetrating survey of vampire fiction from the late nineteenth century almost to the present day."

The Vampire in Literature: A Critical Bibliography (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No 21)

From Book News, Inc.: Comprehensive bibliography (1000+ items) is preceded by three critical essays, two by the editor and one by Devendra P. Varma, a scholar of Dracula and vampirism. A timely release considering the upsurge of interest in this field, and well done. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Note from the Publisher: This product is not a traditionally bound book. Many ProQuest UMI products are black-and-white reproductions of original publications produced through the Books On Demand ® program. Alternately, this product may be a photocopy of a dissertation or it may be a collection reproduced on microfiche or microfilm if it is intended for library purchase.

Shadow of a shade: A survey of vampirism in literature

A survey of the history of vampire fiction, from about 1800 to the 1970s. The essential elements of this out-of-print book were later incorporated into THE VAMPIRE IN LITERATURE: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY and DIFFERENT BLOOD: THE VAMPIRE AS ALIEN.

Specter or Delusion: The Supernatural in Gothic Fiction (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No 15)

Narrative structure of Gothic novels often affects whether or not the characters and the reader believe in the reality of the supernatural events in the story. Using Todorov's theory of "the fantastic" and focusing on possibly unreliable narrators, this book analyzes several Gothic novels from the late 18th and early 19th century as well as FRANKENSTEIN, Le Fanu's CARMILLA, Bulwer-Lytton's A STRANGE STORY, and DRACULA.

Note from the Publisher: This product is not a traditionally bound book. Many ProQuest UMI products are black-and-white reproductions of original publications produced through the Books On Demand ® program. Alternately, this product may be a photocopy of a dissertation or it may be a collection reproduced on microfiche or microfilm if it is intended for library purchase.

Dracula: The Vampire and the Critics (Studies in Speculative Fiction, No 19)

The first anthology of academic writings on Bram Stoker's DRACULA, this volume collects articles from the 1950s through the late 1980s, presented in chronological order. Features a Foreword by distinguished Gothic scholar William Veeder and an extensive bibliography.

Note from the Publisher: This product is not a traditionally bound book. Many ProQuest UMI products are black-and-white reproductions of original publications produced through the Books On Demand ® program. Alternately, this product may be a photocopy of a dissertation or it may be a collection reproduced on microfiche or microfilm if it is intended for library purchase.


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