Night Quest

Night Quest
Susan Krinard

Blood enemies, bound loversHe’d loved a vampire once, only to have her murdered by her own kind. Now, to save his son, Garret Fox must look to another vampire for help. Garret knows empathic Artemis can’t deny him once she drinks his human blood. But despite the attraction between them, Garret can never forget what Artemis truly is…Sharing Garret’s thoughts and feelings has wreaked havoc on Artemis’s emotions. But when she discovers a malevolent force bent on destroying them, she finds herself drawn even closer to the human. Dare she hope to find a home with a man who hates her kind?

“Are you certain?” she asked softly.

“Look at me, Artemis.”

Whatever she saw in Garret’s eyes apparently frightened her, and she almost bolted. But he grabbed her hand, and she settled down again, panting and trembling. Her teeth penetrated his flesh. She moaned as his blood began to flow, and he felt desire take hold exactly as he had prayed it wouldn’t. He reached out to clasp his hands around her waist. He found the hem of her tunic and slipped his fingers beneath, sliding his palms over the skin below her ribs.

Then he paused, because she hadn’t asked for his touch, because he knew that she was not Roxana. But Artemis gripped his wrist and held his hand where it was.

She was too far gone to stop. And so was he.

SUSAN KRINARD has been writing paranormal romance for nearly twenty years. With Daysider, she began a series of vampire paranormal romances, the Nightsiders series, for Mills & Boon Nocturne. Sue lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband, Serge, her dogs, Freya, Nahla and Cagney, and her cats, Agatha and Rocky. She loves her garden, nature, painting and chocolate … not necessarily in that order.

Night Quest

Susan Krinard

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

With special thanks to my editor, Leslie Wainger, for her patience and editorial expertise; and to Serge, who will never give up on me.

Contents

Cover (#u4eb24d1b-6cfa-56fb-a67c-08d16ec72ca5)

Introduction (#u9ea3277c-4783-5aea-b961-817865950820)

About the Author (#u7102a2a9-25e6-5dd4-aa40-72b52b92e531)

Title Page (#uaece315a-3373-5795-bd70-b307dc8bb68c)

Dedication (#u16e32330-d58c-50f8-9f8e-16d516f5c766)

Prologue (#ulink_1a667443-a72e-54aa-b462-9df240daf8f4)

Chapter 1 (#ulink_62b1fbd0-0c60-589d-af5c-d9c0ea8f7547)

Chapter 2 (#ulink_0ab6f064-e60c-5675-94d4-0d5e7ff6cbec)

Chapter 3 (#ulink_211df39b-2fed-545a-90f2-3a56b7c3e677)

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Chapter 6 (#ulink_cf488448-5373-5910-90bd-344253157dbb)

Chapter 7 (#ulink_0ed6bbd6-49bc-5f15-a14f-e9621a753193)

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Chapter 17 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 18 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Chapter 21 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Prologue (#ulink_11481c89-8699-50e2-9f0f-8c59e1030b32)

Some thirty years after the signing of the Treaty between human and Nightsider, or Opiri, forces, human Enclaves and Nightsider Citadels maintained a sometimes uneasy peace. Territories were well established, and the neutral Zones between were regularly patrolled by Citadel and Enclave agents.

The agents were of two specific genetic types. The half-breed Daysiders, or Darketans, day-walking Opiri, were born of human fathers and Nightsider mothers. Previously considered mutants, they had human coloring and extra-human speed and strength, but possessed the standard need for blood.