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    This Time Next Year
    This Time Next Year
    This Time Next Year
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    This Time Next Year

    By Catherine Peace

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    Vampire Kiernan Shaw has never forgotten the night twenty years ago when he’d been forced to stand by while another vampire killed a six-year-old girl’s parents in front of her. He’s spent the better part of the last two decades watching over her, protecting her and hoping for an opportunity to make amends one day.

    Ever since surviving the vampire attack that killed her parents, Moira Curran has dealt with the resulting nightmares and abandonment issues the only way she could—by throwing herself into her biochemistry career, preferring a life of a hermit in her lab to facing the reality of her lonely life.

    Madame Eve brings them back together for one fateful night. An immediate bond of sizzling chemistry and respect forms, but can it heal her fears and his guilt?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateJul 11, 2013
    ISBN9781613335628
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      This Time Next Year - Catherine Peace

      The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of this copyrighted work is illegal. Criminal copyright infringement (including infringement without monetary gain) is investigated by the FBI and is punishable by up to 5 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000.

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      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      This Time Next Year

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      Copyright © 2013 by Catherine Peace

      ISBN: 978-1-61333-562-8

      Cover art by Tibbs Designs

      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work, in whole or in part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

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      This Time Next Year

      A 1Night Stand Story

      By

      Catherine Peace

      ~Dedication~

      To my multiple support networks who never let me give up when I’d given up on myself, and to my parents for sharing my successes and failures.

      Chapter One

      Moira tried not to scream.

      Her voice cut through the otherwise silent house. Embarrassed and fighting tears, she leaned back into the comfort of her pillows. She hated waking Tandy, but as usual, the dream seemed so…real. Shivering, she jerked her favorite blanket up to her neck—the one she’d kept since that horrible night, as though the thin, tattered fabric would shield her from the fangs that attacked her every time she closed her eyes—and waited for her best friend to knock on the door. Three, two….

      Two quick raps on the door signaled her arrival. The woman had reliable timing.

      Get in here. In the time it took her to blink, Tandy joined her on the side of the bed, wrapped her arms around her and drawn her close. Are you okay, sugarplum?

      She chuckled at the nickname. Tee knew how to calm her, even when they were children, knowing what to say, what to do, to keep her mind out of the darkness. When she was in the room, the fangs seemed duller, the flashing red eyes less terrifying.

      With a grateful smile, Moira lowered the blanket from her neck. Yeah. She sagged into the pillow. I’m so sorry. Again.

      You know I don’t sleep anyway. Moira relaxed further as her friend stroked her wild curls. Same dream, huh?

      It was, except it wasn’t. She’d memorized the dream, like a movie one had seen way too many times, but tonight something had changed. The paralyzing fear remained. The blood-colored eyes and cruel smile still appeared. Her younger self still cried and the wind still licked at her face. This time, though, a second set of eyes and another set of fangs joined the first; they didn’t evoke the same fear.

      Sort of. Twenty years, and I’m still dreaming about this.

      What changed?

      I saw another vamp. He might have been protecting me. The idea went against everything she believed, but at the same time, it rang true.

      Sounds like progress, sugar.

      Only Tandy knew about the

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