#WriteWed Inspiration for #Vampire Reborn

My contribution to the Seductive Supernaturals #Boxset is VAMPIRE REBORN, from The Calling is Reborn vampire novel series.

What inspired me to write this particular story in the series? I think from the very first book, DARKNESS CALLS, I knew that I wanted to have characters that didn’t necessarily have a happily-ever-after right away. I mean, vampire and human.

There was the easy way to have it happen – turn Diana in the first book. My editors wanted me to do that at first, but I really resisted. I knew that it would be much more special if Diana and Ryder could find happy at that moment in time, but that their love had to grow stronger over the many books in the series.

Even after their big moments in BORN TO LOVE and DIE FOR LOVE, I knew that their love and their lives had to change.

Think about your own life. If you’re married, did the happy end right there? Was it always happy?

Probably not and that’s what I wanted to explore with VAMPIRE REBORN – the life after the big moments and how people grow together and drift apart (yes look for that in FIGHT FOR LOVE) and then come back together again.

I hope you’ll enjoy exploring all that as well in VAMPIRE REBORN. I also hope you’ll enjoy reading all the other books in this boxed set from my wonderful writing buddies.

VRMeme1

#TeaserTuesday VAMPIRE REBORN Excerpt & #Giveaway Winner

SEDUCTIVE SUPERNATURALS Paranormal Romance Box SetI’m having a lot of fun participating in the box sets with my author friends. It really gives us a chance to hang out together and to bring you all lots of stories to read at a really special price.

Our gift to you guys for being so awesome! Speaking of awesome, THANK YOU 🙂 for participating in yesterday’s contest. It seems like Mick was the winner, so Ryder is going to have to go home and work out some more for you!

The winner of the giveaway is Colleen!!! Yeah, Colleen! E-mail me and let me know what format you need for the e-book.

Now back to the box sets! SINS OF THE FLESH is in the Tall, Dark and Paranormal box set.

VAMPIRE REBORN, from The Calling is Reborn vampire novel series, is my contribution to the Seductive Supernaturals Box Set.

Some of you may know that The Calling is Reborn is a series of my heart and that Diana and Ryder are some of my all time favorite characters. I have so loved exploring how their relationship has developed since the first book was released and I look forward to many many more books with them and with the other characters from the series!

Click here if you can’t see the VAMPIRE REBORN excerpt below!

Vampire Reborn Novella Excerpt by Caridad Pineiro

#ManCandyMonday Mick v. Ryder Hero War #Giveaway

We’re going to do something different today! We’re going to have a Hero War on the blog and for a chance to win an e-copy of JUST ONE NIGHT, leave a comment with who you think is the sexiest hero.

On the left we have Mick Carrera, ex-Army Ranger from SINS OF THE FLESH (available as part of the Tall, Dark and Paranormal Box Set). Mick is a mercenary, but beneath that hard exterior is a caring and honorable man.

On the right we have Ryder Latimer, sexy Southern Vampire from The Calling is Reborn Vampire Novel series and VAMPIRE REBORN (available as part of the Seductive Supernaturals Box Set). Ryder was a loner until kick-ass heroine Diana Reyes showed up on his door step. Beneath the distant vampire is a man who yearns to love.
ManCandyManWars

#WriteWed Inspiration for Tommy in ONE SPECIAL NIGHT

It’s been a while since I wrote DANGER CALLS in The Calling Vampire Novel series. The hero in that story, Sebastian Reyes, is a computer specialist and definitely not the kind of big, bad ass alpha hero that you see in a lot of paranormal romances.

That was a tough call for me, but I knew that Sebastian was the perfect man to deal with the heroine in that book, Dr. Melissa Danvers. She needed a sensitive man who could understand her and be supportive. A man who wouldn’t mind being younger and dealing with a woman whose profession required a lot of time away from home.

Not to mention a lot of time being the keeper to vampire Ryder Latimer.

Sebastian was very much a beta hero when I wrote him, but morphed into a slightly more alpha hero during revisions on the book.

Jasmine “Doc” Reyes is very similar to Melissa Danvers in some respects. Driven, compassionate and not above risking her life for others. Serious, maybe too serious, at times.

I knew she needed a man who would make her smile and could help her heal. She needed someone strong and protective, but not in that big macho alpha kind of way.

Enter Tommy de Salvo with his big smile and even bigger sense of humor. Tommy is the kind of man who can take away the shadows in Jasmine’s eyes and help her feel whole again.

Tommy is the kind of hero that I wanted Sebastian to be, but just couldn’t get away with in a dark paranormal story.

In ONE SPECIAL NIGHT, a sexy tale of two strangers coming together, it was totally possible to finally explore a very different kind of hero. I hope you’ll take a chance and check out this novella.

10562618_10204140927259986_4032284461992340665_o

#TeaserTuesday #Vampire Reborn Novella

I’ve got an excerpt for you today from Vampire Reborn, a novella in The Calling is Reborn Vampire Novel series. This is a series of my heart and I love the direction the stories are taking! Here’s a little blurb for Vampire Reborn:

A life alone . . .

For nearly two centuries, vampire Ryder Latimer had lived alone, uncomfortable in the vampire world and unloved in the human world. Ryder had never dared hope that he’d find love in his endless existence.

Brought together . . .

Fate brought FBI Agent Diana Reyes into Ryder’s world and in the five years since they met, they’ve battled long and hard for a life together. With Ryder’s love, Diana has climbed out of a dark abyss that had kept her prisoner for far too long.

A Vampire Reborn . . .

It’s been a month since Diana and Ryder became man and wife. A month since Ryder almost lost his life to protect his wife and their newborn child. But now something is happening in Ryder’s body that is making him more human at a time when he needs to be at full vampire strength to protect his loved ones.

Will fear and doubt drive Ryder to embrace his vampire self and be reborn at the cost of his new family? Or will Diana’s love battle back the darkness that threatens?

WARNING: This excerpt is for mature audiences only!

Please click here if you can’t see the Vampire Reborn excerpt below.

Vampire Reborn Novella Excerpt by Caridad Pineiro

Vampire RebornYou can purchase Vampire Reborn at the following locations:

Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Itunes

Kobo

#TeaserTuesday FIGHT FOR LOVE Coming This Summer

Vampire Reborn, a novella in The Calling is Reborn Vampire novel seriesThese are the last days of the special .99 pricing for VAMPIRE REBORN. Many thanks to My Book Addiction and More who gave it 5 Stars and said it was “Packed full of passion and romance.”

I want to also thank everyone who has left a review for the novella! It is truly appreciated as it really does help authors. If you’ve read the novella and haven’t had a chance to leave a review, please help me out by doing so.

You can buy VAMPIRE REBORN at these online e-tailers and in print at Amazon.

Amazon    Barnes & Noble    Itunes    Kobo

But now for something I’ve never ever done before: A teaser from the next book in the series – FIGHT FOR LOVE – which will be out this summer.

In FIGHT FOR LOVE you’ll see the continuation of Diana and Ryder’s relationship, a new love story with slayer-turned vampire Benjamin and a delicious suspense with a villain who both kills and steals energies from his victims! Look for FIGHT FOR LOVE in August.

Teaser

Chapter 1

The first kill had been a spur of the moment decision and had brought too much scrutiny.

A mistake that would not be repeated.

It had taken a month of careful scouting to get to this point. A month of identifying the individuals who possessed sacred life forces and learning their habits, including this little meeting at the local santero’s shop in Spanish Harlem. A real santero gifted with enormous powers unlike some of the fakes who dotted the landscape of the barrio.

But the santero wasn’t going to the be first one taken.

The weakest link was always the easiest and this time, the evidence of what had been done would not be as obvious as with the slain Slayer Council member.

She strolled out of the santero’s shop with the other gifted ones, smiling almost beatifically. She really was very beautiful, with flawless coffee-colored skin and a body meant for sin. But her beauty would not save her. If anything, it would increase the enjoyment of what was to follow and the pain she would suffer.

Following behind at a discreet distance, hunting her, stimulated the growing core of blackness inside.

The thrill of the chase brought intense excitement, especially as she waved her friends goodbye and moved off on her own.

She never bothered to look around, even in the neighborhood that was so-so at best.

Youth never understood their own mortality.

Another block and there was a little more distance from friends and the santero’s shop. They were also a little closer to the small storefront just off the FDR drive where everything was waiting for her arrival and in a way, her departure.

Speeding up, the distance between them shortened and as if finally sensing a presence, she nervously looked over her shoulder. She offered an uneasy smile for a brief moment and increased her pace, but it was too late.

With a surge of speed, she was imprisoned.

A sharp blast of power made her knees buckle and she fell to the ground.

Lifting her, she was slight and her weight seemed almost non-existent, but power radiated from every cell in her body.

Delicious.

After tonight, there would be no turning back. No escaping the path to soul-eating darkness. It would be worth it for the incredible mind-blowing power to be possessed.

It would be as it should have been all along.

Nothing could stop it now.