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FAQ About The Gifted and The Damned and The Vampire Wars Series

4/10/2015

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It's been an amazing release week! I'm sort of blown away by the response and the amount of email I've been getting about this series. I thought I'd take a moment and answer the most frequently asked questions...

Q: Is The Gifted and The Damned only available in e-book format?
A: No. The novel is also available in paperback. You can order it from Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/The-Gifted-Damned-Vampire-Wars 

Q: How many novels will be in the series?
A: My plan is to have three full length novels and three novellas. 

Q: Will the other books continue Ruby and Poe's story?
A: No. The upcoming books will feature other characters that were also involved in the war between the vampires and the gifted.

Q: Will any of the new novels feature characters that actually fight in the war?
A: Yes. The next novel will feature main characters that fight on the gifted side of the war.

Q: Will there ever be a book told from the side of the vampires?
A: Yes. I plan for the third novel to be told from the vampire side and will feature the vampire leader prominently.

Q: How long will The Gifted and The Damned be on sale?
A: The novel will be on sale for 0.99 for the first month after it's release. After May 7th it will go up to its regular price.

Q: How long will The Innocent and The Damned be free?
A: The Innocent and The Damned will only be available for download until May 7th. After that it will be unavailable until I release a box set/collection of the entire series.

Q:Will all the novellas be prequel?
A: As it stands right now, yes, but that could change during the course of the series.

Q: How can I stay updated as books in this series become available?
A: You can sign up for my mailing list, follow me on Twitter, or like me on Facebook to stay updated.

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Updates on The Gifted and The Damned Blog Tour and Giveaway

4/6/2015

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The Gifted and The Damned
(The Vampire Wars Series, Book #1)
by Dana Michelle Burnett

Blurb:


Seduction was her gift...He was her weakness...In the small town of Corydon Indiana, witches, seers, and shape shifters live hidden from the everyday world in plain sight. They live under the constant memory of the trials of Salem and live by a code of secrecy. 

Ruby Malone, the only siren ever born to her family of witches, held the hearts of many men in the palm of her hand, making her the talk of the supernatural community, but there was only one man that she wanted. Making seer Archer Wallace hers was the only thing Ruby cared about until a war between the gifted and the vampires turned her world upside down.

Suddenly, the world that Ruby knows is gone. Archer is off fighting in the war and Poe Corvus, a rebellious shape shifter with a past, tempts her to be the siren she was born to be.







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Excerpt

Ruby looked up at me, her green eyes glittering in the near darkness. My gaze fell on her red trembling lips.

Before I could stop myself, I was kissing her, forcing my tongue between her teeth. At first, she fought me, but then I felt her mold herself to me and press herself against my groin.

There was no waiting. I pulled at her clothes, almost tearing them off her. Her creamy flesh beckoned me, smelling of earth and sin. I tore away my own clothes so that I could hold her warm body against my naked skin.

She reached up and took my face in her hands, “Look at me.”

I looked down into her green eyes, feeling my very soul pull towards her. “What?”

Ruby brushed her hand over my cheek, “I do love you. I love you so much that it scares me sometimes.”

I was kissing her then, trailing my lips along her jawline and down to her neck. I could hear her unsteady and ragged breaths as I licked at her collarbone, but my own breath was coming just as fast.

I eased her down onto the floor and stretched out beside her. My lips found her breast, she cried out as they closed around her nipple. I brought my hand up to knead the other breast, pinching that nipple between my first finger and thumb. Ruby arched her back and twisted her fingers in my hair as my tongue circled her nipple before taking it between my teeth in a gentle nibble.

I pulled her closer, sliding my hand under her so that I could clutch her buttock. I ran one finger along her cleft, teasing her nether opening.

She drew in a sharp breath and bucked her hips upwards as if trying to get closer to me. I ached with my need to impale her, to fill her completely.

I groaned, low and animalistic. I shifted so that I could move further down, leaning over her and brushing her hair off her neck and shoulders.

“Can I really trust you?” I asked as I teased her skin with a feather touch.

“Yes,” she gasped. “Yes.”

I brought my lips back down to her lips and then trailed along her throat, between her breasts, and stopped just below her stomach. I positioned myself between her legs, eased her thighs apart, and then lowered my mouth to her wet slit.

Ruby gasped as I buried myself there, lapping at her inner folds. She bucked and cried out as I held her down and worked her over. She was still twitching when I moved back up her body, kissing her hot flesh, as I took her.

She clutched at my shoulders, pulling me closer. I felt her come apart again and again until I could not hold back anymore. I swore as a shudder overtook me.
We remained on the floor, Ruby’s head against my chest. My fingers tracing the ridges of her spine as I listened to our hearts beat in time.


About The Author

Dana Michelle Burnett spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and friends. Over the years, her work was published in numerous commercial and literary magazines including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate Oak, and many more. Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was include in The Best of Foliate Oak 2006.  

Dana Michelle's Spiritus Series introduced the idea of a ghostly romance and became a Kindle bestselling series. Her Gypsy Fairy Tale Series combined the magic of the Tuatha De Danann and the Irish Travellers and the first book in the series, Once, was included in the Faery Realms Multi-Author Box Set. With this new series, Dana Michelle dives into the trials and tribulations surrounded the paranormal gifted during a war with vampires.

She's an avid reader of anything dark and romantic. Dana Michelle lives in Southern Indiana with her dancing diva daughter and an assortment of pets.
Dana Michelle loves connecting with her readers. 

You can find Dana at 

               


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Release Day for The Gifted and The Damned (The Vampire Wars Book One)

4/6/2015

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It's finally here! I can't believe that it's actually release day for The Gifted and The Damned (The Vampire Wars Book One)! To celebrate the release, the e-book will be on sale for just 0.99 for the first month and I will be offering a bonus novella for download for a limited time as well!

You can purchase The Gifted and The Damned (The Vampire Wars Book One) at:
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The Gifted and The Damned 
(The Vampire Wars Series, Book #1)
by Dana Michelle Burnett

Blurb:
Seduction was her gift...He was her weakness...
In the small town of Corydon Indiana, witches, seers, and shape shifters live hidden from the everyday world in plain sight. They live under the constant memory of the trials of Salem and live by a code of secrecy. 

Ruby Malone, the only siren ever born to her family of witches, held the hearts of many men in the palm of her hand, making her the talk of the supernatural community, but there was only one man that she wanted. Making seer Archer Wallace hers was the only thing Ruby cared about until a war between the gifted and the vampires turned her world upside down.

Suddenly, the world that Ruby knows is gone. Archer is off fighting in the war and Poe Corvus, a rebellious shape shifter with a past, tempts her to be the siren she was born to be.




Available for purchase at 




Excerpt

All throughout the morning, I did what I could for the wounded using all of our meager first aid supplies and then finally just tearing the bed sheets into long strips and using those for bandages. I asked every person that was cognitive enough for news.

“Where are the vampires? Are they going to take the city?”

Dim eyes looked up at me, “It’s not good. We're losing.”

“Losing?” I tried to let the implications of that word sink in. We were losing... The vampires were going to win...

I looked at all the wounded and dying, seeing what the vampires were capable of and felt sick. “What am I supposed to do?”

“What can any of us do? Just wait them out.”

Wait them out? We’re losing the war... And tonight the vampires will come and they will smell all of this blood...

I wiped the sweat from my brow and shook my head, “You all can’t stay here. It’s just... There’s so much blood...”

“I understand,” the leader said. “Let us rest for an hour or so, and those of us that can walk will start leaving.”

“And the rest?”

He looked around at the people sleeping or unable to sleep because they were writhing in agony, “I've put a call out. Cars will be coming shortly to get the ones that can’t leave on their own.”

The morning dragged on into the afternoon, the groans of the wounded and the whimpers of the dying created a constant hum that filled the air and pushed everything else out. I carried glasses of water back and forth, stepping over those lying in the floor as I moved from room to room.

I didn't even know were Melina was anymore and I didn't care. All I did was wrap clumsy bandages and dish out what food we had. The sun sank lower and lower as the number of people dwindled, but they move so slowly! I wished they would hurry so I could clean the blood soaked floor before sunset.

As I moved from the living room to the hall with another armful of blood soaked rags, one of the grimy creatures squirming on the floor reached out and grabbed at the hem of my jeans. I felt myself cringe, I wanted to pull away from his dirty hand, but when I looked down, I saw a familiar pair black eyes looking up at me.
Poe...

I dropped down beside him. His shoulder and neck were bleeding. “My God Poe, what happened?”

“I wasn't... I wasn't quick enough.” He mumbled feverishly, “I just wasn't...”

I brushed his hair out of his eyes, “What were you doing fighting anyway? I thought you were a scout.”

“Things changed.”

He fainted into a twitching sort of sleep. I got up, went into the kitchen for a pan of water, and clean towels. I returned and knelt down beside him, cleaning his wounds and applying pressure to stop the bleeding.

Slowly he opened his eyes and focused on my face as I hovered over him. He looked up at me with vacant eyes, “It’s bad, isn't it?”

“No,” I said with a shrug. “I've seen several worse off.”

“Liar,” he said with a weak smile. “You always were such a bad liar.”

I looked down at him and suddenly felt like crying. I looked away and added another towel to the soppy mess on his shoulder.

Poe lifted his uninjured arm so that his hand could brush my cheek.

“How can you still be so beautiful in the middle of all this mess?” Poe mumbled, “Archer Wallace is a fool...”

I looked around nervously, hoping wherever Melina was that she wasn't close enough to hear him.

“Don’t talk,” I whispered. “Please don’t talk.”

“I have to,” he said with a grimace. “There won’t be any second chances... I love you Ruby Malone... I don’t know why and I wish to hell I didn't...”

I couldn't speak. His hand gripped my hair and pulled me down to him. He strained to lift his head enough for our lips to meet.

It was a soft kiss, but suddenly I felt as though I was falling. My breath caught and my heart pounded in my chest as if trying to break free from my ribs.

I willed my body not to respond. This was Poe...And it was Archer that I loved...Archer...

Poe released my hair as he fell back, slipping into unconsciousness. I looked in his handsome face, looking so much younger than his years, smeared with his own blood.

I’m sick of this war...

I sat with him for the next two hours, holding towels over his injuries until two men lifted him to take him to a waiting car.

I watched as his head fell back and flopped from side to side, as they moved him.
“Will he be okay?” I asked as I followed them to the door.

“Don’t know,” one of the men said. “Doesn't look good.”


I reached up and touched my lips as they took him out to the waiting car.


About The Author

Dana Michelle Burnett spent most of her life writing short stories and sharing them with family and friends. Over the years, her work was published in numerous commercial and literary magazines including Just Labs, Mindprints: A Literary Journal, Foliate Oak, and many more. Her short story John Lennon and the Chicken Holocaust was include in The Best of Foliate Oak 2006.  

Dana Michelle's Spiritus Series introduced the idea of a ghostly romance and became a Kindle bestselling series. Her Gypsy Fairy Tale Series combined the magic of the Tuatha De Danann and the Irish Travellers and the first book in the series,Once, was included in the Faery Realms Multi-Author Box Set. With this new series, Dana Michelle dives into the trials and tribulations surrounded the paranormal gifted during a war with vampires.

She's an avid reader of anything dark and romantic. Dana Michelle lives in Southern Indiana with her dancing diva daughter and an assortment of pets.
Dana Michelle loves connecting with her readers. 

You can find Dana at 

            






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The Gifted and The Damned Excerpt and News

4/2/2015

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Again, I want to start off by thanking everyone for their emails and comments here on the blog and Facebook. It's really exciting for me to see how excited you all are for this book!

One thing is clear in the emails I'm getting, you all want another excerpt! So before I get tied up with last minute release stuff, I wanted to share another one. Be sure to enter the giveaway and check out the exciting offer at the bottom of the page too!

The Gifted and The Damned Excerpt

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It was late morning as I walked down the steps of the Museum of Science and Industry toward Lake Michigan. I was anxious to feel the wind under me and there was only a precious hour before the museum opened.

I saw her sitting with her back against one of the columns, looking out over the lake with sad green eyes. The icy wind tore through her black hair and whipped it about her face.

Ruby...

She didn’t see me yet; I could just stand there and watch the way that her nose twitched as she sat there in deep thought and how her eyes caught the light off the water.

I swallowed over the tightening in my throat, “Ruby?”

She turned and looked up at me, a frown immediately distorting her features.

“Perfect,” she mumbled. “Just perfect.”

“Are you alright?” I asked.

“What do you want?” She snapped as she looked back over the lake.

Ouch...

I sat down next to her, careful to keep at least a few inches between us. Still, I was very aware of how close she actually was.

“So why do you look so miserable?” I asked.

Another breeze carried the scent of her perfume to my nose, making my toes curl in my shoes. It was a floral scent of some sort, but with a smoky undertone like the air right before a snowstorm.

“What are you doing here?” She asked.

I looked out over the water, trying to calm my pounding heart. “I like to fly over the lake in the mornings and then I thought I’d find a nymph wanting to have a good time.”

“A nymph?” Ruby asked with a disgusted smirk. “Is your ego needing a boost? You have to get a nymph to stroke your ego to feel manly?”

“It’s not my ego they stroke. Besides, don’t sirens and nymphs share similar gifts?”

She rolled her eyes, “Is that really what you are doing?”

“No,” I chuckled and rubbed my shoulder against hers playfully, “So seriously, why do you look so miserable?”

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”

“Try me.”

Ruby looked over the water and sighed, “Do you know anything about the story of Persephone?”

“Very little.”

“Well,” Ruby sighed. “Did you know there are sirens in that story?”

I shook my head, “I don’t remember that.”

“Most people don’t, but when Persephone was taken into the underworld, the sirens were given wings by Persephone’s mother, the goddess Demeter, so that they could go in search of her. Some believe that when the sirens failed, Demeter took away their wings and then cursed them for not protecting her daughter.”

I shrugged, “So what does that have to do with anything?”

“You’ll think it’s stupid,” she said with a shake of her head.

“Maybe not,” I shrugged again. “Try me.”

“Well,” Ruby said with a sigh. “Archer left this morning and he asked me to do something.”

A stab of jealousy went through me, but I cocked one eyebrow, “And you’re wrestling with your morals? I find that hard to believe.”

“It’s nothing like that,” Ruby said with a shake of her head. “He made me promise to look after Melina.”

“No he didn’t!”

“Yes,” she said, looking even more miserable than before. “And besides the obvious, what if I fail? What if I fail just like the other sirens did?”

“Seriously?” I asked and then burst out in bitter laughter.

Ruby slapped at my arm, “Don’t laugh! It isn’t funny.”

“No, it’s hilarious.” I said as I stood and brushed off my jeans. “If you do your job well, he’s indebted to you, but still married. If you fail and something happens to her, then he’s available for you to sink your claws into, but he’ll never forgive you.”

“Oh shut up Poe.”

“Yes,” I said as I walked away, laughing as I ground my teeth. “That is quite a dilemma you have there.”

 


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