WeWriWa: Hello Darkness My Old Friend . . . MIDNIGHT KISS $0.99 S*A*L*E!

Books are like old friends. With just a few words, you fall right back in sync with them as if you’ve never been apart. MIDNIGHT KISS, the first book in my “Touched by Midnight” vampire romance series, is like that. Back in the early 1990s, we first introduced ourselves after a meeting with my editor at an RWA conference in New York after his question, “Have you ever thought about writing a vampire romance?” I had! And I would – nine of them, to be exact, beginning with tragically romantic antihero, Louis Radman, who in his search to cure his century old “malady,” would take me on a delightfully dark journey that began with a dark kiss . . .

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Midnight Kiss (Touched by Midnight - Book 1)

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Published: July 12, 2015

Length: 262 Pages

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Hunt or be hunted . . . A centuries old obsession stalks a noble family fighting to hide their dark secret from an ever-changing world. Sink your teeth into Nancy Gideon's Touched by Midnight series.

A DARK CURSE

Miss Arabella Howland is content to forgo the London marriage mill to assist her father in his research, especially when it comes to his intriguing patient, Louis Radman. But it's not long before Bella's curiosity alerts her to the danger of her father's work . . . and to the fact that Louis is not who or what he seems.

A BRIGHT PROMISE

After centuries struggling with his vile existence, Louis Radman will soon be free of his affliction, thanks to his very capable physician. Unfortunately, his heart is less secure around the man's tempting daughter. His yearning to walk in the light once more is complicated by his desire for the delightful Bella, who is as intelligent as she is fearless. But if history has taught him anything, it's not to tempt fate.

AN UNFORGIVING PAST

Still, happiness has a price and Louis is soon reminded that mortality comes with unfortunate limitations. To protect his new bride, he must face the demons from his past who wish to pull him back into their vampiric fold.

Yet, if he's forced to return to his midnight world, will he lose his beloved Bella forever?

"Dark and compelling, Gideon's novel will appeal to those who enjoy the vampire novels of Anne Rice." --Library Journal

"A colorful and hauntingly beautiful tale of otherworldly love . . . destined to become a classic!"--Affaire de Coeur

"Incredible, spellbinding reading!" --Rendezvous

 The Excerpt 

“Bella, I’m not talking fault, I’m talking fact. What he is is a vampire. And what he does is kill. Relentlessly, week after week, year after year, decade after decade. He is not a man. He has no soul or conscience.”

“Yes, he does!”

“Bella, he drinks the blood of his victims, and you are going to live with him, knowing that, letting him come home to you after he’s been out on the street, hunting and killing his prey? You’re going to accept that he’s coming to you with another’s blood on his hands and in his veins?”

Her jaw firmed and her eyes narrowed. “I don’t care.”

( . . . and a taste more . . .)

Her father took a step back, aghast. “How hard he’s made you already. Or is that Radman talking through you? I don’t like to believe my daughter could throw off her concern for human life.”

Arabella had to turn away as her eyes welled up with anguished tears. Because she did care. She could try to pretend she didn’t, but it was a lie. She could accept what Louis was, but she didn’t know deep down if she could handle what it was he did. She didn’t know if she could let him come into her arms warmed by the stolen life of another, without thinking of whom he’d taken into his fatal embrace: A young man with his future before him, a woman with children at home, a father providing for his family? And she knew right then she could never join Louis in his nocturnal existence. She could never develop the indifference or the desperation to do what must be done for her to survive.

She looked back at her father, her stricken expression saying it all. Wordlessly, he hugged her up to him and let her sob against his shoulder. 

“I love him, Father. I love him so. Please help him. Please find some way to cure him!”

What a journey I’ve had with this series spanning 9 books, eight years, three publishers, and three generations of a preternatural family who embraced . . . centuries. Rereading them has stirred a long suppressed desire to . . . write more of them. Perhaps via a different family existing along the same line. Or some sort of wrinkle in time. What do you think? Hungry for more?

If you haven’t had a taste of “Midnight,” now’s your chance with the first book of the series now on SALE! For only $0.99! The eight more still available!

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