Lee, Jade - Seduced by Crimson

Title: Seduced by Crimson
Author: Jade Lee
Series: Crimson City
Pub: Love Spell
Pub Date: March, 2006
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Genre: Alternate Reality/Futuristic
Time Period: near future
Setting: Los Angeles, California
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Seduced by Crimson (uncorrected proof)
Chapter 1

A man can get tunnel vision during battle. He fixates on the sight of blood spurting from a white throat or the smell of charred flesh. If he’s trained, he can still fight the demons-yes, the black hearted Bak-Faru he’d only seen in a book-but a large part of his mind fixates on one hideous thing.

For Patrick Lewis, his mind locked upon the taste of blood and bile in the air. Metallic and bitter, it made his throat close and his chest heave. But he had enough training to still fight even if he was coming late to the battle.

The screams reached him first. They were in the San Bernadino Botanical Garden, so the sound could travel far, especially at night. He was running full tilt for the grove when the smell hit him-charred flesh-and that taste in the air.

He didn’t even stumble-that’s how well he’d trained-but his mind was so caught up in not retching that he almost missed the sight of his first live Bak-Faru. The thing was human-like: large, dark haired, with eyes that glowed bright lavender beacons in the night. His mother had told him the demon gate was open-and indeed he had felt the disruption. Still, he hadn’t actually believed the disaster was possible until he saw one-no, two- make that four of the beasts walking away. Two sported wounds-jagged flesh that bled dark on their naked torsos. But it wasn’t slowing them down.

Patrick didn’t think. He had seven ceremonial knives with him and he began throwing. Score. The closest demon clutched his neck and stumbled but didn’t go down.

The demon’s companions barely even glanced Patrick’s way even after another knife lodged beneath a second one’s shoulder blade. The demons were leaving with amazing speed, and nothing-not even a neck wound-slowed any of them.

Patrick took a step to pursue. A single step until reason penetrated his focus. He had to get to the grove. The sacred place where his mother had stopped screaming. Much though it burned in his gut, Patrick shifted his movement from attack to stealth. It wouldn’t help his parents any if he stumbled blindly into more of those creatures.

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Crimson City series:

Book 1: Crimson City - Liz Maverick
Book 2: A Taste of Crimson - Marjorie M. Liu
Book 3: Through a Crimson Veil - Patti O'Shea
Book 4: A Darker Crimson - Carolyn Jewel
Book 5: Seduced by Crimson - Jade Lee
Book 6: Crimson Rogue - Liz Maverick