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- Burke's Lore Briefs: A Heavenly Date / My Damned Best Friend
- Burke's Lore Briefs: Portrait of a Lady Vampire and Other Vampiric Cravings
- Burke's Lore Briefs: I See What You'll Do There
Vampires are not alive, but they have lives and wants and needs and desires. And other cravings.
Erased from her vanity, Lady Isabelle, a three-hundred-year-old vampire, longs to see her image and commissions an artist to paint her portrait. She's feared nothing but daylight for centuries, but she trembles at the thought of what she might see.
Magnus attends to his Guinevere and her bloody cravings as a cursed event approaches. He takes to the night to find an appropriate snack from the diner but not something on the menu. However, sometimes substitutions have to be made, and they can be found in unlikely places.
Lord Matthias St. John rose under the spell Countess Finch, who'd killed his wife. After her demise, he fled to America to start a new life, such as it was, in New York. How did he come to find himself dying from a silver bullet on a farm on the prairie?
Plus a bonus story!
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Word Count: 10000
Setting: small towns, and 19th century prairie
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters
Word Count: 10000
Setting: small towns, and 19th century prairie
Series Type: Same Universe / Various Characters
As the artist gave the canvas its final brush strokes, Lady Isabella sat frozen in the regal pose she wanted immortalized. She'd held that position since the Moon had risen into the night. Any discomfort would be worth it, though, if Genevieve could capture her essence. She wanted to be able to see herself the way the world saw her.
Seeing oneself wasn't an easy task for a vampire.