Guild Hunter 01 - Angels' Blood

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    Slave to Sensation
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Berkley Sensation Titles by Nalini Singh
     
    Guild Hunter Series
angels’ Blood
     
    Psy-Changeling Series
slave to sensation
VISIONS OF HEAT
caressed BY ice
mine to possess
hostage to pleasure
     
    Anthologies
an enchanted season
(with Maggie Shayne, Erin McCarthy, and Jean Johnson)
the magical christmas cat
(with Lora Leigh, Erin McCarthy, and Linda Winstead Jones)



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For the real Ashwini,
who is definitely not all kinds of crazy
(except when I drive her to it).
Best friends—and sisters—
don’t come any better than this.

1
     
    When Elena told people she was a vampire hunter, their first reaction was an inevitable gasp, followed by, “You go around sticking those sharp stakes in their evil putrid hearts?”
    Okay, maybe the actual words varied but the feel was the same. It made her want to track down and exterminate the idiot fifteenth-century storyteller who’d made up that tale in the first place. Of course, the vampires had probably already taken care of it—after the first few of them ended up in whatever passed for an emergency room back then.
    Elena didn’t stake vampires. She tracked them, bagged them,