The Demon's Choice
(2022)(The seventh book in the Enchanted Rock Immortals series)
A Novella by Amanda Reid
Human paranormal Terri Porter did a monumentally stupid thing—she tried to free her brother from loan sharks by cheating other underworld families. Now she must stay alive long enough for redemption.
Beyond Terri’s razor-sharp sarcasm, she has zero helpful skills to protect herself until she can testify in an Enchanted Rock court against a mage and earn her freedom. Enter the infuriating, arrogant Berith, a demon and North American Council Security officer who not only possesses the skills she needs to keep her safe, but also makes her body sing with desire and yearn for a love she can never have.
How could he have pissed off the Fates this much? Berith Lequare considers rejecting the assignment to keep Terri alive—after all, she’d betrayed her oath and put a coworker’s life at risk. But if there’s one thing this demon will do, it’s his duty, even when it raises specters of a past devastation...even when his entire being craves to taste Terri’s blood as he sinks himself deep into her beautiful body.
In a paranormal world where nothing is guaranteed, blood is a commodity, and threats lay around every corner, can Terri and Berith stay alive long enough to defeat the ghosts of their pasts and find true love?
CONTENT WARNING: Contains descriptions of parental suicide.
*****
Demons and Vampires. Elves and Fairies. Mages and Witches. Werewolves and Dragons. Psychics and Telekinetics.
These magical beings and more exist, rubbing shoulders in their daily lives with unsuspecting humans. But a supernatural society doesn’t happen without order. Millennia ago, the Clans—Sanguis, Fae, Magic, Shifter, and Human Paranormal—wisely formed a Council to maintain that order. The end? To ensure the worlds of human and paranormal beings didn’t collide and break out into a war that would result in the extermination or subjugation of either.
As human civilization progressed, the first council formed the All Clan Charter at the natural vortex in Great Zimbabwe, giving each clan a voice in the administration of affairs both between the clans and with humans. Next, Asia formed its council at Chengtu Vortex. Then European at Warel Chakra Vortex. North America came next at the natural vortex humans called Enchanted Rock, in what today is known as Texas.
Now, thriving communities of paranormal beings exist in and around the granite outcropping. Humans scrabble over the dome, not suspecting an entire city exists within its confines: the North American Council and all its departments—Legislative, Administrative, Security, Medical, Vortex Transportation, and Legal, plus restaurants, clan hotels, and shops catering to the paranormal crowds.
Also under that dome? Intrigue, politics, and most importantly, love.
These are the stories of The Enchanted Rock Immortals.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Beyond Terri’s razor-sharp sarcasm, she has zero helpful skills to protect herself until she can testify in an Enchanted Rock court against a mage and earn her freedom. Enter the infuriating, arrogant Berith, a demon and North American Council Security officer who not only possesses the skills she needs to keep her safe, but also makes her body sing with desire and yearn for a love she can never have.
How could he have pissed off the Fates this much? Berith Lequare considers rejecting the assignment to keep Terri alive—after all, she’d betrayed her oath and put a coworker’s life at risk. But if there’s one thing this demon will do, it’s his duty, even when it raises specters of a past devastation...even when his entire being craves to taste Terri’s blood as he sinks himself deep into her beautiful body.
In a paranormal world where nothing is guaranteed, blood is a commodity, and threats lay around every corner, can Terri and Berith stay alive long enough to defeat the ghosts of their pasts and find true love?
CONTENT WARNING: Contains descriptions of parental suicide.
*****
Demons and Vampires. Elves and Fairies. Mages and Witches. Werewolves and Dragons. Psychics and Telekinetics.
These magical beings and more exist, rubbing shoulders in their daily lives with unsuspecting humans. But a supernatural society doesn’t happen without order. Millennia ago, the Clans—Sanguis, Fae, Magic, Shifter, and Human Paranormal—wisely formed a Council to maintain that order. The end? To ensure the worlds of human and paranormal beings didn’t collide and break out into a war that would result in the extermination or subjugation of either.
As human civilization progressed, the first council formed the All Clan Charter at the natural vortex in Great Zimbabwe, giving each clan a voice in the administration of affairs both between the clans and with humans. Next, Asia formed its council at Chengtu Vortex. Then European at Warel Chakra Vortex. North America came next at the natural vortex humans called Enchanted Rock, in what today is known as Texas.
Now, thriving communities of paranormal beings exist in and around the granite outcropping. Humans scrabble over the dome, not suspecting an entire city exists within its confines: the North American Council and all its departments—Legislative, Administrative, Security, Medical, Vortex Transportation, and Legal, plus restaurants, clan hotels, and shops catering to the paranormal crowds.
Also under that dome? Intrigue, politics, and most importantly, love.
These are the stories of The Enchanted Rock Immortals.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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