Author Description

There are more than a thousand ways to kill someone and Hali knows them all. Bound to the powerful assassins’ Guild, she has been working to buy her freedom. Now she only has one last job to do, but everything is going terribly wrong and she’ll be lucky if he survives! So what she doesn’t need is one sexy vampire complicating things. Mike wants nothing more than to quit his job and escape to Concordia University to be a historian. Unfortunately he was born into his job... actually title, for Mike was Emperor Darius Michael Roald Barantas, IV, Kith of Samsula, Prior of the Universal Tree, Lord Head of House Barantas, Ruler of a Hundred Worlds, and Emperor of all Proxima, a weighty title and one not lightly cast aside. One way to get out of it, though, is to die. Julian, Lord Desmond of the Proxima Empire, lives with secrets that could get him killed. Mike is one of the few people who can call this vampire a friend, but how far will friendship go with an empire at stake and a fist-full of heirs fighting over the title? Electing a new emperor is a serious business, a time of diplomatic maneuvering and treachery. Suddenly fluid, the politics of the Empire are in the process of remaking themselves to fit a new figurehead, who ever that might be. Some will rise, others fall, but when the final decision is about to be made, no one dares to stay away, even though being there could cost them their lives. And then there’s the cat … Romance and Adventure! This is the best kind of space opera!