Coming Soon: EDEN'S HELL

Coming Soon to Purple Sword Publications

www.purplesword.com

Author: Dawné Dominique
Cover Artist: Dawné Dominique
Genre: Paranormal
Length: Novel
Heat Level: Romance Erotica
*contains some violence

Blurb:

In the beginning…

God created man and called him Adam, a fine specimen replicated in his own image. He then created woman to ease Adam’s loneliness and named her Lillith. Unfortunately, God realized his mistake too late in giving woman free will, for she would rule her domain – not man.

When Lillith left Adam, God created another for his first-born son, and gave her the name Eve and a kingdom called Eden, but by then it was too late, for he’d unleashed Hell into the world of man.

Excerpt:

Addison continued to growl like a dog, low and menacing. The demonic sound made Eva shiver. Realization at what just happened sunk in.

He remained quiet on the ride back to the beach house. She, too, had little to say, but her brain couldn’t stop. This is all because of me. Me! Addison will be punished for trying to save my life. She faltered. But I’ll be dead, too. Satrina wants me six feet under. Eva snuck a sideways glance at Addison.

He stared out his window, his face as expressionless as ever, but she noticed the tiny lines surrounding his eyes had deepened and his lips were thinner, paler.
“I’m sorry, Addison,” she murmured. Although it sounded lame, she’d never felt more contrite as she did now.

Roused from his thoughts, he looked at her, confused. “So, it’s your turn to begin apologizing?”

She stared down at her hands, praying she wouldn’t cry. “If you hadn’t found me on the beach – ”

“Then you’d be living in a cage until you submitted to her…or she killed you.”

He took her hands in his, forcing her to look at him. Reluctantly, she did, trying not to break down.

“I’ve lived a very long time, Eva,” he began, “but I’ve been dead to everything around me. I’ve existed for one thing, my thirst, content in my hell until now.”

She drew back, not understanding.

Addison’s shoulders rolled with an indifferent shrug. “If there is punishment, the Elders Creed will decide. As I explained, if, and I reiterate if Satrina wins, she will get to choose my punishment, but it will not be death.”

“Addison – ”

“Let me finish, Eva.” His eyes took on a stranger glow, an effulgence that made her chest tighten. “In this short time that I’ve known you, I’ve never felt more alive.”

She went to speak again, but his steely stare silenced her.

“I’m a creature of the night, a monster, and I promise you that you will not suffer the same fate.” He paused with a sad smile. “Eva, there is such goodness in you, it blinds me. Its power is absolute. This world needs you. I don’t fear death – only yours.”

Pain swathed deep lines of sorrow across his face. “It’s been so long since I’ve felt anything. My soul has been dead for an eternity. I’ve lived this long for entirely selfish reasons. A stronger man would have destroyed himself by now, but me, the succulent taste of blood and a beating heart not from fodder, but from my own heart, is what has kept me here. To feel alive, something humans take for granted.” Addison placed her hand against his chest, his pec hard and chiseled beneath his shirt. “This beats only after I’ve fed, and the ice of my skin warms just a little, but I’m alive, Eva, alive! My curse is an addiction. It’s what has kept me in this world. I crave life, to feel human, and only appeasing my thirst achieves it. Yet…”

He dropped her hand and leaned back into his seat. Stoic, he stared out the tinted window. “You give me the same joy without the necessity of digesting blood. The thirst is there, always, but its torment is more bearable because of you.”

The confession rendered her speechless. Eva felt like someone had dropped her down a dark hole, but she hadn’t fallen; she floated instead.

“Satrina wants you because she sees what you do to me. And she can’t, and won’t allow me such happiness,” he continued, his voice barely an audible whisper. His hand sought hers again, and he gave it a gentle squeeze. “You are a pawn in all this, Eva. And she does this for spite. She’s very good at that, let me assure you. She cares nothing about life except what she can take from it.” He sighed. “You have opened eyes that have been blinded for centuries.”

Flabbergasted she clung to his hand. Stifling silence filled the backseat. She swallowed past the lump in her throat and forced the words out. “She’s still in love with you, Addison.”

He humphed and gurgled a cruel chuckle. “Evil does not know how to love, Eva. It covets and then takes what it wants.”