Sacrament
by Susan Squires

Sara Ashston finds herself fighting for her home against a strange man who contests her deed in 1819 England. Drawn to save him from kidnapping and drug addiction almost against her will, she finds that he is the stuff of nightmares. But it is too late. She has already lost her heart to him. Will she have the courage to embrace the darkness? Their love is a sacrament that will save their souls or damn them for eternity.

What if the man you loved was a vampire? How would you find the courage to embrace the darkness? Sarah Ashton, Lady Clevancy, is sure she is a very ordinary person in a very ordinary Regency England. When her life is invaded by a mysterious stranger, the long lost owner of the ruined abbey adjacent to her ancestral lands now accused of serial murder, she should be appalled, rather than fascinated. But she finds herself saving the devil himself from danger, and falling in love in the process. Her love will lead her across Europe, to the edge of eternity.

Susan Squires' Bio

Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. She's written in several different time periods. But some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels including three PRISMS, the Holt Medallion, and Bookseller's Best award, as well as several reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the most influential mass market books of 2003 and One with the Shadows, the fifth in her vampire Companion Series, a Best book of 2007. No More Lies was a Rita Finalist. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.

Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and three very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddd.

PEARL AWARDS:

WINNER: 2002 Best Futuristic - BODY ELECTRIC
by Susan Squires
WINNER: 2003 Best Anthology - THE ONLY ONE
by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant, and Susan Squires 2004 RITA for Best Paranormal Romance Finalist