Lian/Roch (Bayou Heat) by Alexandra Ivy, Laura Wright Page A

snapped.
    The door was shoved open to reveal Raphael, who was dressed in jeans and a T-shirt despite the fact his wounds hadn’t fully healed.
    Lian tensed, a sudden anger racing through him as he caught sight of the male’s bleak expression.
    Dammit.
    They’d just survived yet another attempt by Shakpi to commit genocide.
    Hadn’t they earned a few centuries of peace and quiet?
    “I have news,” the leader of the Suits announced.
    “Do you want me to leave?” Sage asked, already moving off the bed.
    “No, you’re pack now.” Lian wrapped an arm around her shoulder and pulled her tight against his side. “Our business is your business.”
    She stiffened, as if waiting for Raphael to deny her right to be at Lian’s side.
    Of course he didn’t.
    Sage was pack.
    “He’s right,” Raphael said with a simple honesty. “You belong to us.”
    Feeling Sage relax against his side, Lian focused his attention on his friend.
    “What’s wrong?”
    “We had word from Mercier and Rosalie’s kidnappers.”
    A growl rumbled in Lian’s chest.
    So they had been taken by the enemy.
    “Bastards,” he ground out. “Did you inform them that their goddess has abandoned them?”
    “Yes.”
    Lian narrowed his eyes. “And?”
    A sudden heat filled the air as Raphael struggled to contain his fury.
    “And their demands have nothing to do with Shakpi.”
    “Then what the hell do they want?” Lian asked. Without their evil goddess to give them a purpose, he’d expected them to slink into the shadows. “Money?”
    “No.” Raphael’s expression was hard as stone. “An exchange for one of our prisoners.”
    An icy chill of premonition inched down Lian’s spine.
    “Who?”
    Raphael clenched his hands, the name coming out like a curse.
    “Hiss.”

 
    About the Author
     
    Alexandra Ivy is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Guardians of Eternity series, as well as the Sentinels and Bayou Heat that she writes with Laura Wright. After majoring in theatre she decided she prefers to bring her characters to life on paper rather than stage. She lives in Missouri with her family. Visit her website at alexandraivy.com .

 
    Other Books by Alexandra Ivy
     
    Guardians of Eternity
    Hunt the Darkness
    May 28, 2014
    ISBN 978-1420125153
     
    Darkness Avenged
    June 4, 2013, Zebra
    ISBN 978-1420111385
     
    Levet
    March 26, 2013
     
    Fear the Darkness
    September 1,2012, Zebra
    ISBN 978-1420111378
     
    Bound by Darkness
    December 6,2011, Zebra
    ISBN 978-1420111361
     
    The Real Werewives of Vampire County
    November 2011, Kensington
    ISBN 978-0758261588
     
    Supernatural
    September 2011, Kensington
    ISBN 978-1420109887
     
    Yours for Eternity
    September 2011, Kensington
    ISBN 978-1420112283
     
    Devoured by Darkness
    November 2010, Zebra Paranormal
    ISBN 978-1420111354
     
    Beyond the Darkness
    April 2010, Zebra Paranormal
    ISBN 978-1420102987
     
    Darkness Unleashed
    November 2009, Zebra Paranormal
    ISBN 978-1420102970
     
    Darkness Revealed
    March 2009, Zebra Paranormal
    ISBN 978-1-4201-0296-34
     
    Darkness Everlasting
    May 2008, Zebra Paranormal
    ISBN 978-0-8217-7939-2
     
    Embrace the Darkness
    November 2007, Zebra Paranormal
    ISBN-10 0821779370
    ISBN-13 978-0821779378
     
    When Darkness Comes
    January 2007, Zebra Paranormal
    ISBN 0-8217-7935-4
     
    Immortal Rogues Series
    * Please note this series is a reprint from the 2003 Historical Vampire Series written as Deborah Raleigh *
    My Lord Vampire
    #1 in the Immortal Rogues Series
    February 28, 2012, Zebra
    ISBN 978-1420122718
     
    My Lord Eternity
    #2 in the Immortal Rogues Series
    December 4, 2012, Zebra
    ISBN 978-1-4201-2861-1
     
    My Lord Immortality
    #3 in the Immortal Rogues Series
    December 31, 2012, Zebra
    ISBN 978-1-4201-2272-5
     
    Sentinel Series
    Predatory
    Sentinel Anthology
    May 7, 2013
    ISBN 978-1-4201-2512-2
     
    Born in Blood
    Book #1 Sentinel series
    December 31, 2013
    ISBN 978-1420125146
     
    Bayou Heat Series
    Bayou Heat Raphael & Parish
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