The Sleepless City (series written with Anne Barwell) book #2
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- Shades of Sepia
- Electric Candle
- Family and Reflection
- Shifting Chaos
When a vampire finds his soulmate, the bond is forever. It’s love at first sight.
Or is it?
Homicide Detective Jonas Forge has been a vampire for centuries. He’s fought wars, seen life go from the simple colonial days to the modern high-tech world. He’s evolved with the times, adapted to each new era, blended into each new life. The one constant is his best friend, mentor, and lover, Declan. Even though not fated to bond as soulmates, Forge and Declan are happy and settled in their life together.
Until Forge’s real soulmate falls, literally, into his life.
Forge isn’t thrilled with the guy, despite the pheromones attracting them to each other, and the feeling seems mutual. While trying to adjust to his clumsy soulmate and equally awkward feelings, Forge is also on the hunt for a serial-killer witnesses can’t identify who’s leaving a trail of bodies in its wake.
Will the bond Forge is finally forming with his soulmate be destroyed when the hunter becomes the victim?
If you like fated mates who aren’t perfect for each other, a paranormal killer who might not be caught and found families then you’ll love Elizabeth Noble’s Electric Candle.
- 4 To Be Read lists
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Publisher: Elizabeth Noble
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Genres:
Pairings: M-M
Heat Level: 3
Romantic Content: 4
Ending: Click here to reveal
Character Identities: Gay
Tropes: Alpha Character, Badass Hero, Fated Mates / Soul Mates, Hurt / Comfort, In Uniform
Word Count: 68000
Setting: Ohio, United States
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
No one was there, yet Forge couldn’t shake the feeling he wasn’t alone. He wandered down the beach a few yards. Water splashing against the shore and spraying made him go closer for a better look. The lake’s edge here wasn’t gently sloping sand but a sharp lip of concrete. Hunkering on the ledge, Forge leaned over for a look.
The wall ran a good half mile in either direction. He could see large spots that were darker than the surrounding area. Forge had read about the secret rooms constructed all along Lake Erie during Prohibition. Illegal booze and guns were stashed in them. One could only access the rooms by going under water. At high tide, many of the outer parts of the rooms were completely submerged. He’d never been in one.
More than likely he’d have to get wet to justify the expense of divers. Forge was still contemplated getting a dive team in when he heard shouting.
“Stop. Wait!”
READ MOREThe voice sounded familiar, but Forge couldn’t place it. That always made him nuts. Turning, he looked up at the top of the stairs. Then he squinted and shook his head. Who belonged to the voice made him stare in a type of horrified wonder, like one looked at a train wreck.
The fact his cock picked then to persistently remind him of its presence and give a few twitches and throbs didn’t help.
It was a man, though the horror Forge was feeling might have been less if it’d been a woman. He wore what appeared to be homemade steampunk goggles with dark lenses, a long sleeved black shirt, and black jeans.
“Sweet mother of God, is that a cape?” Forge muttered and took a few steps forward. “No, stop, don’t—”
It was too late. The oddly dressed man began to run down the steps—the slippery, wet steps, waving his arms. He’d gone about three steps when his feet slid out from under him and his rear hit the stone stairs. The man yelped, and Forge’s cock gave another twitch. He had the fleeting thought of how disturbing on several levels that was.
“What the hell?” Forge ran to the bottom of the stairs.
Bouncing head over heels down the steps, the guy finally flopped to one side and rolled the remainder of the way down, finishing his descent with a hearty splash in the chilly lake water.
Floundering and shouting, the man slapped the lake’s surface, went under, bobbed up, and spit water out of his mouth, and garbled, “Can’t… swim.”
Throwing his arms wide, Forge grumbled, “It’s not as if vampires drown.”
The guy went under, the water churned, but he didn’t come to the surface. Jerking his jacket off and dropping it to the ground, Forge made sure his phone was with the garment.
“This has got to be a joke. A really bad joke.” Forge ran to the edge and dove in. The only thing that prevented him from ejaculating the second his fingers touched the man was the cold water. He shuddered when he pulled the guy against his chest and wrapped one arm around him, using the other to help propel them to the surface.
When he got to the concrete edge, he hefted the guy over and onto the ground. Forge hoisted himself out of the water and hit the guy, who looked to be in his twenties, between the shoulder blades to expel lake water.
A shiver and spark of electricity ran from Forge’s palm and coursed down his spine to settle in his groin.
This couldn’t be his soul mate. Yet even as he finished that thought, he knew, and there was no denying what his body was telling him. The fool dressed as some superhero wannabe in a really bad outfit was Jonas Forge’s mate for eternity.
Forge wondered if other vampires would penalize him for killing his soul mate.
COLLAPSEJackie on The Novel Approach wrote:Here is a bit of what Nikyta said. The full review can be found on their website.
OMG, I loved these guys. I will freely admit that I was a little nervous when I decided to read this book because love triangles aren’t my favorite thing to read. I was afraid that Declan would be more in the picture and completely screw up any possibility of Forge and Blair getting together or that there would be a lot of resentment and jealousy from Declan. THANKFULLY, that was not the case. I actually really loved how this book played out. Forge is charming and funny at times but he’s also confused and struggling with his feelings. Blair is just ADORABLE. He’s awkward and kinda lives in his own cartoon graphic novel, so a lot of his… err, questions and comments had a superhero reference or underlying meaning to them. But he’s just so sweet and I loved that he was kinda geeky. Forge and Blair are opposites but they complete each other and where one lacks something , the other makes up for that. I JUST LOVED IT!
on http://www.elizabeth-noble.com/electric-candle-book-2.html:Here's some of Jackie's comments. The full review can be read on the website.
I appreciated the fact that the author made these two work so hard for their HEA. Forge has to come to terms with the fact that gaining a mate wouldn’t cost him a century long friendship, he just wouldn’t have the friends with benefits arrangement any longer. His mate had to find a way to come to terms with not only his own betrayal-ridden past, but accept that Forge will not be able to leave Declan behind as a friend.
I believe Elizabeth Noble has done a wonderful job of whetting our appetite for the next book and gave us just enough information about the crimes being committed to keep our interest piqued. I am ready for book three, and I know that I won’t be disappointed.
Highly recommend this book and the series.
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