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  THE WITCH HUNTER SAGA

  BOOK ONE

  I was born into the world covered in blood, and that's exactly the way I left it.

  Ever since, I have been damned to walk the boundary between life and death alone. Unwillingly turned and left to my nightmare, I have seen men commit countless horrors and committed many of my own.

  My origins shall remain unknown, my true self hidden. I have been called by many names, but in this life I am known as the Witch Hunter. I have been asleep these past 150 years, until I was awoken by a haunting call.

  Zachary Degaud was twenty three when he died. The problem was, he didn't stay that way.

  Present day, he's just another vampire with another unremarkable story. That is, until he manages to provoke a two thousand year old witch named Katrin, who wants to make him pay in the most horrible way imagined.

  Along with his brother Sam, newly made vampire Liz and their only witch ally, Gabby, his only chance for survival is to summon the ancient and unpredictable vampire known as the Witch Hunter.

  Zac is just looking for a way out of his psychopathic witch problems, but instead will find himself falling head first into a blood feud that has stretched thousands of years.

  Aya has been asleep for the past 150 years, until she was awoken by a haunting call. The witch she has been hunting for thousands of years, Katrin, has resurfaced and marked a young, annoyingly arrogant vampire by the name of Zachary Degaud. Unless she does something, he will die a slow and painful death. He has given her an opportunity to end the witch, but does she want to help him or leave him to his fate?

  Zac will get under her skin like no one else has and she just might find herself making the ultimate sacrifice before he is gone forever.

  They will both have to choose sides and look deep within themselves before the end. But, what Zac learns about himself, will surprise him most of all.

  THE WITCH HUNTER SAGA

  BOOK TWO

  I've wandered my afterlife believing that I was the monster my maker told me I was. It was the only thing I knew. Not even my brother, Sam, could convince me otherwise.

  Not until her. Not until Aya. She walked into my life like a hurricane of destruction and nothing would ever be the same again. None of us could have known what would happen next. What fate had in store...

  I finally grew a heart, only to have it ripped out.

  Now, I will stop at nothing for revenge.

  Zac's afterlife is just going from bad to worse. He grew a heart only to have it torn out by the founding vampire, Arturius.

  Nobody is sure what he wants, but Zac doesn't want to know. He's more interested in finding a way to end him for good. But, it might just be that he's after Gabby, who's harboring a secret of her own, one that Arturius would do anything for.

  Aya's past will come back to haunt Zac in ways he never thought possible and what he finds out will alter everything he ever knew about her. He will uncover a deadly secret that should have remained buried. A secret Aya has fought to keep for thousands of years. One she has killed for.

  In the end, who's secrets will betray them to the one man who wants them all dead? Aya's or Zac's?

  They'll need to figure it out sooner rather than later, because death is not an option.

  THE WITCH HUNTER SAGA

  BOOK THREE

  I am the oldest vampire alive and I am the most feared. Wherever I walk, death follows.

  The downtrodden have the fiercest fire inside of them. Those are the vampires I want by my side. The pain they have been through only fuels their thirst for blood. Those I would ask to kill for me, simply because they bask in the glow of their true nature. The nature I created in my own image.

  We are each our own devil and this world is our hell.

  I was the first of six and now I am the last. My revenge has only just begun.

  You better start praying, because I'm coming for you first.

  When a mysterious stranger from Aya's past shows up in Ashburton it's not all good news. Tristan, a man she saved almost a thousand years ago, brings a warning that will affect not just her, but her new family.

  Regulus is coming.

  To protect Zac, Aya has to destroy the best thing that has ever happened to her. She has to pretend that their love has been a lie. But, is it really the right thing to do?

  Aya travels to the other side of the world with Tristan to learn the secret behind Zac's blood and to hunt down Regulus before he can find them first. Tristan is her way into the Roman's circle, but she might just find that both her quests are more linked than she ever thought possible.

  Heartbroken again, Zac must surrender to the darkest places inside himself if he ever hopes of coming back. Even if that means aligning himself with his greatest enemy. Even if that means turning his back on everything he's worked for and walking away from his brother, Sam.

  Lovers are torn apart, friends are pitted against each other and families are splintered. But, what they find buried under the streets of London will change everything they've ever known about their world. Something that should have been left alone.

  But, what Regulus does is the most unexpected of all.

  I have seen empires crumble and kings and queens fall.

  I have seen mountains of fire and the bowels of the earth as it was ripped asunder. I have seen plagues of death claim good along with evil. I have seen war and strife take men, women and children. I have seen the earth decimated by nature and by man. I have seen the blood of your ancestors run through my fingers.

  I have died a thousand deaths and lived a thousand lives. I have been called countless names, but only one has followed me from my tormented birth.

  I am the devourer of worlds.

  Take a deep breath, my friend, because it will be your last.

  Are you afraid?

  You will be.

  the AWAKENING

  Book 4 in the Witch Hunter Saga

  Coming 2014…

  WHAT REMAINS

  Coming late 2013

  I'd never known true darkness until the lights went out.

  I had never known what it was to be hungry.

  Everyone I ever knew was dead. If they weren't, then they wished they were.

  I know I did.

  Prue Ashford has been surviving alone in the Australian bush for the last three years. After an unknown virus wiped out most of the human population, she escaped the chaos and hid. Every town and city was locked down into quarantine, but that only led to the inevitable. Death.

  Living off the land, avoiding other survivors turned bad, she's led a lonely life, surviving on the edge of a very narrow cliff. The moment she begins to lose hope is when she meets the handsome and enigmatic, Shaw.

  He's the first human being that she's seen in three years that hasn't tried to kill her and she doesn't dare to hope. She'd given up finding anyone alive that still had goodness inside of them.

  Her only option if she wants to live is to trust Shaw and he takes her to the isolated community he calls home. Being among people again is it's own challenge and Prue finds herself tested on every front. Making friends was never easy for her and making them after an apocalypse is even harder.

  Hannah, the town's apprentice doctor, becomes the closest thing Prue has to a best friend and Nan fast becomes her surrogate mother. Shaw brings feelings to the surface that she would rather forget and Eva, the mayor's daughter, seems hell bent on making her life a living hell.

  In the end, Prue must make a decision. Stay in the town at the end of the world and learn how to love again, or go back into the wasteland of human civilization and go it alone.

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  What Remains is a gritty story of human survival. When society crumbles and chaos reigns, people become desperate. They turn to violence and resort to extreme measures to go on living. Parts of this story may be confronting for some people. It contains violent situations staged by desperate people, the extremes that people go to to show their love and a dose
of bad language. It's recommended for readers 18 and up.