Omega
Penton Vampire Legacy, Book 3
Susannah Sandlin
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Date of Publication: February 5, 2013
ISBN: 978-1612183596
ASIN: B0073XV3L2
Number of pages: 328
Word Count: approx. 88,000
Book Description:
The
bloody war between the Vampire Tribunal and the defiant scathe of Penton,
Alabama, rages on, forcing its residents and their bonded humans to retreat
into the underground fortress of last resort: Omega. There, Will Ludlam is
charged with the care of Penton's humans, though he longs to fight alongside
his vampire brethren. He knows the risks: as the renegade son of the Tribunal's
vicious leader, Will's capture could doom the resistance.
Yet he
is determined to prove his worth to his adopted scathe, to his vengeful father
and to former US Army officer Randa Thomas, his beautiful, reluctant partner.
Randa has little faith that a former member of the vampire elite has what it
takes to fight a war. But as their enemies descend upon Omega, Will's polished
charm and Randa's guarded heart finally give way to the warrior within.
Fans of Susannah Sandlin's
Penton Legacy are sure to devour this long-awaited third installment of the
steamy paranormal series
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Excerpt: OMEGA (Penton
Legacy, Book 3) by Susannah Sandlin
Will stopped and
scented the air again. There were two vampires nearby; one belonged to the
Penton scathe, and one didn’t.
He ignored both vampires and skirted to the back of the
street where the burned shell of his house still smelled of smoke and ash after
three days. Aligning his position with the oak tree twenty feet behind what was
left of his chimney, he paced forty steps into the woods.
A thorny bramble that had been draped over a small,
scrubby bush pricked his fingers when he pulled it back. Grasping the trunk of
the bush, he eased it from its loose grasp in the soil, exposing the top of a
metal box.
The loud click of a cocked pistol preceded the cold press
of steel against the back of his head by less than a second.
He inhaled, annoyed. A rookie mistake. He’d gotten so
engrossed in his task he’d let someone slip up on him.
Vampire.
Penton scathe.
Female.
Freaking Randa.
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Randa grinned, enjoying
the disgusted look on Will’s face. “If I were your father, I’d already have the
silver spoon back in your mouth, Willy. He’d have you trussed up like a rodeo
calf by now, hauling you back to wherever it is he lives when he’s not
terrorizing innocent people.”
Will Ludlam was the kind of guy Randa Thomas had hated as
a human, and she didn’t like him a bit more as a vampire. Less, in fact. Not
only was he a spoiled rich boy, he was now a virtually immortal spoiled rich
boy. He had probably been a blue-chip jock in school with a 4.0 GPA and a
string of girls trailing his every step.
Plus, he annoyed the hell out of her. The consummate
smartass.
“No, if you were my father, you’d have slit my throat—not
enough to kill me, but enough to make sure I couldn’t fight back.” His voice
was soft, calm. “Then you’d hand me over to your sadistic, freakshow of a
second-in-command Shelton, who would play with me until I couldn’t take it
anymore. Only when I was good and broken would you return the silver spoon to
my mouth.”
Good God, would any
father really do that? Will didn’t sound as if he were joking. Randa
relaxed her stance for only a split second before the world tilted and she hit
the ground, landing on her back with Will stretched out on top of her in a full
body press. And he had her gun.
“Damn it.” She pushed against him but it was like
pressing on bedrock.
He propped on his elbows and grinned down at her. His hat
had fallen off in the scuffle and the moonlight glinted off his hair, making it
look silver instead of a naturally streaked blond. And he had dimples, as if
God hadn’t already rewarded him with enough in the looks department.
“And if I were my father, you would be dead. Or worse.
Believe me, with Matthias, there’s always much worse. Give up?”
She squirmed again, but froze when she realized he was
getting turned on by her movements. There was definitely more of him pressing
on her than there had been a few seconds earlier.
He laughed, a white glint of teeth in the moonlight. “Oh,
don’t stop moving, sweetheart. This is getting more and more interesting.”
Yeah, she could feel exactly how interested he was
getting. She felt a very un-vampirelike flush of heat as he wedged a knee
between her legs. Damn it. She clenched her teeth at her body’s betrayal—which
he’d be able to sense. She hated being a vampire; there was no sense of
privacy. “Get. Off. Me. Now.”
Will lowered his head and, damn him, inhaled deeply, with
his face pressed against the side of her neck. Her carotid artery also thumped
in a very unvampire-like cadence. She waited for the smartass comments to
start.
Instead, he lifted his head and looked her in the eye.
She could swear his heartbeat sped up, although it was hard to tell over the
pounding of her own. Well, this was awkward.
He blinked and opened his mouth to speak, then closed it
again.
Well, that was one good thing. Will had been stricken
dumb, at least for a moment. It wouldn’t last.
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REDEMPTION
Book One Penton Legacy series
By Susannah Sandlin
Following a worldwide pandemic whose vaccine left human blood deadly to vampires, the vampire community is on the verge of starvation and panic. Some have fanned into rural areas, where the vaccine was less prevalent, and are taking unsuspecting humans as blood slaves. Others are simply starving, which for a vampire is worse than death—a raging hunger in a creature too weak to feed.
Immune to these struggles—at first—is Penton, a tiny community in rural Chambers County, Alabama, an abandoned cotton mill town that has been repopulated by charismatic vampire Aidan Murphy, his scathe of 50 vampires, and their willingly bonded humans. Aidan has recruited his people carefully, believing in a peaceful community where the humans are respected and the vampires retain a bit of their humanity.
But an unresolved family feud and the paranoia of the Vampire Tribunal descend on Penton in the form of Aidan’s brother, Owen Murphy. Owen has been issued a death warrant that can only be commuted if he destroys Penton—and Aidan, against whom he’s held a grudge since both were turned vampire in 17th-century Ireland. Owen begins a systematic attack on the town, first killing its doctor, then attacking one of Aidan’s own human familiars
To protect his people, Aidan is forced to go against his principles and kidnap an unvaccinated human doctor—and finds himself falling in love for the first time since the death of his wife in Ireland centuries ago.
Dr. Krystal Harris, forced into a world she never knew existed, must face up to her own abusive past to learn if the feelings she’s developing for her kidnapper are real—or just a warped, supernatural kind of Stockholm Syndrome in which she’s allowing herself to become a victim yet again.
Susannah Sandlin’s REDEMPTION is the first in the Penton Legacy series. Book two, ABSOLUTION, will be out September 18, and book three, OMEGA, on December 18.
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ABSOLUTION
The Penton Legacy, Book 2
By Susannah Sandlin
Release date: October 9, 2012
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Book Description:
With the vampire world on the brink of civil war over the scarcity of untainted human blood, battle lines are being drawn between the once peaceful vampire and human enclave of Penton, Alabama, and the powerful Vampire Tribunal.
A Scottish gallowglass warrior turned vampire in the early 17th century, Mirren Kincaid once served the Tribunal as its most creative and ruthless executioner—a time when he was known as the Slayer. But when assigned a killing he found questionable, Mirren abandoned the Tribunal’s political machinations and disappeared—only to resurface two centuries later as the protector and second-in-command of Penton. Now the Tribunal wants him back on their side—or dead.
To break their rogue agent, they capture Glory Cummings, the descendant of a shaman, and send her to restore Mirren’s bloodthirsty nature. But instead of a monster, Glory sees a man burdened by the weight of his past. Could her magic touch—meant by the tribunal to bring out a violent killer—actually help Mirren break his bonds and discover the love he doesn’t believe he deserves?
It’s a town under siege, a powerful warrior in a battle with his past, and one woman who can make the earth move—literally—as the Penton Legacy continues.
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About the Author:
Susannah
Sandlin is the author of paranormal romance set in the Deep South, where there
are always things that go bump in the night. A journalist by day, Susannah grew
up in Alabama reading the gothic novels of Susan Howatch and the horror fantasy
of Stephen King. (Um…it is fantasy, right?) The combination of Howatch and King
probably explains a lot. Currently a resident of Auburn, Alabama, Susannah has
also lived in Illinois, Texas, California, and Louisiana.
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She acted
like she didn’t even know he was there. He watched her full lips curve around
the spoon as she stared intently into the bowl. What would they feel like on
him? She was not paying one ounce of attention to him, so he let his eyes
linger on her toes. They were simply perfect toes, topped off with a splash of
bright feminine pink, and her feet looked porcelain smooth and inviting. But he
held back. Christ—what if a woman like this did respond to him and then it went
horribly bad, as most of his affairs had? They might be stuck together on some
godforsaken mountain in India or Italy and be miserable. 
