{"id":672,"date":"2013-12-21T01:48:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T01:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=672"},"modified":"2013-12-21T01:48:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T01:48:17","slug":"a-vampire-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/a-vampire-at-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"A Vampire at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Christmas Trees. Holiday Music. Sugar Cookies. Glitter and <\/span>Bows. And Best Of All… the Mistletoe. <\/span>Romance books enhance our holiday traditions. Who doesn’t love to cuddle under a warm blanket near a fire place on a cold day and read?<\/i> Hop around with us to celebrate the best romance books of the season.<\/p>\n

Read excerpts from some good books. Enter each of the author contests. Tell us what you like to read during the holidays. Find some new-to-you authors to ring in the New Year with.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Vampire_200\"My Book: A Vampire’s Christmas Carol<\/strong><\/p>\n

Blurb: Can Christmas Eve get any more fun? On her way to her family’s home, Carol Prescott\u2019s car slides into a ditch in a deserted area with no cell phone signal. The only available shelter is already occupied\u2026by a vampire. To Michael Carpenter, Carol is the bait of a trap.<\/p>\n

In an effort to hold onto his soul, Michael has resisted the urge to drink human blood for almost a century. Now he hovers between human and vampire. If he doesn\u2019t drink from a human before the night ends, he\u2019ll die. He\u2019s desperately thirsty, but Michael has seen the soulless monsters vampires are and he prefers death. Carol is pure temptation to him, the Christmas present from hell\u2026or is it from heaven?<\/p>\n

Amazon Kindle<\/a>
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\nSmashwords<\/a><\/p>\n

You can read an excerpt here<\/a>, but you might find this fun too. It’s a little effort I did a couple of years ago.\u00a0 Each year I bring it out and try to refine it, add to it, improve it:<\/p>\n

A Visit with the Vampire on Christmas Eve<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through hall
\nThe vampire prepared for his last night of all.
\nA hundred years gone and the urge to drink blood
\nHe\u2019d struggled against and so far withstood.
\nWith dawn’s early light, his cursed life would end
\nHis soul, however, he’d maintain and defend.
\nWhen out on the porch there arose such a clatter
\nHe trudged to the door to see what was the matter
\nWhen what to his wondering eyes should appear
\nBut a young woman shivering with cold and fear.
\nHer face it was pretty, her blood warm and sweet
\nTo him, she was temptation, from her head to her feet.
\nForced off the highway and lost on a back road,
\nWith her car in a ditch, she’s alone\u00a0alone in the cold
\nIgnoring his warning that his presence meant danger
\nCarol\u00a0opted for shelter and passed time with the stranger.
\nMemories of Christmases long gone they traded
\nGifts and feasts and treasures long faded,
\nAnd of the terrible night, a century ago,
\nWhen a vampire stole his life and his hope.
\nAs he suffered the death throes of blood-hunger pollution,
\nShe struggled to help him and find a solution.
\nWhen an enemy\u00a0dastard showed up to gloat
\nHe tries to make Carol a sacrificial goat.
\nShe\u2019s no willing victim and fights for her life
\nAnd to help Michael get through a long night of strife.<\/p>\n

Okay, it’s not done, but I continue to work on it.\u00a0 And I don’t want to give away the ending, but I want to suggest there might be a solution to their problem, though it’s rather ridiculously hard and dangerous.<\/p>\n

So… contest!<\/strong><\/p>\n

One lucky commenter will win two ebooks of your choice from all of my books that are available as in ebook format.<\/p>\n

And… BONUS!<\/strong>\u00a0 Anyone can suggest a couple more lines that are in the right scan and rhyming pattern that I decide to use in the poem will\u00a0win an extra prize!<\/p>\n

Below is a list of other participants in the hop, with more chances to win prizes!<\/p>\n

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