An army of vampire hunters has amassed to send Saloman back to hell. Sworn to help - yet fearing Saloman's deadly blood lust - Elizabeth seeks to entrap him, offering her body as bait. But something stronger than dread, more powerful than revenge, is uniting Elizabeth to her prey. Caught between desire and rage, Elizabeth must decide where her loyalties lie...and what the limits are to a yearning she can no longer control.
Reviews for Blood on Silk
"BLOOD ON SILK is sensual and thrilling, a wonderful combination of vampire myths old and new. Saloman and Elizabeth's relationship is both amazingly hot and terrifyingly complicated. Readers will fall instantly in love with the world that Marie Treanor has created. You cannot miss this novel!" -- Michele Bardsley, national bestselling author of the Broken Heart series
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An excerpt from Blood on Silk
About Marie Treanor
Marie Treanor lives in Scotland with her eccentric husband and three much-too-smart children. Having grown bored with city life, she resides these days in a picturesque village by the sea where she is lucky enough to enjoy herself avoiding housework and writing stories of romance and fantasy.
You can find out more about Marie and her books on her website: www.MarieTreanor.com.
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Back list
Ellora's Cave:
Hunting Karoly
Guitar Man
Freeing Al
Samhain Publishing:
Killing Joe
Gothic Dragon
Ariadne's Thread
Queen's Gambit
The Devil and Via
Requiem for Rab
Cinderella Unmasked (with Bonnie Dee)
Demon Lover (with Bonnie Dee)
Changeling Press:
City of the Damned
Dragul Rising
Rogue Warriors
Urban Wolf
Forest Wolf
Galactic Wolf
Cry for the Moon
Christmas of the Damned
Witch of Alloway
Swan Song
Cool Pool
Devilish Fantasy
Steamy Nights
Willow the Wisp
The Wild Rose Press:
Ghost Unlaid
Magic Man
An Interview with Marie Treanor
By Holly Hewson for The Romance StudioHH: Marie, thank you for talking with us at TRS! Please tell us about your featured book, Blood on Silk. MT: Thank you, Holly! It's a pleasure to be here again. =)
Blood on Silk is a vampire romance, telling the story of Elizabeth, a rather naive academic who accidentally awakens the most powerful vampire who ever existed. (He's been "dead" for 300 years!) She's then sought out by some vampire hunters who want to protect her, for since she's Saloman's "awakener", he needs her life-blood to recover his full strength. Saloman wants to rule both the vampire and human worlds, so the hunters and the dominant vampires all want him eliminated. It's Elizabeth's responsibility to help the hunters stake Saloman again, and yet with each encounter she finds herself more and more fascinated by him, sinking deeper into a dangerous sexual attraction that seems bound to kill one of them.
HH: Your heroine is on an academic research trip and finds herself in the middle of a paranormal war? Where did you get the idea for this thrilling story? MT: I think it was a coming together of lots of ideas that had been in my mind for some time. I've always loved vampire stories, and the sort of gothic tales that involve ruined castles and brooding heroes =). And I had the awakening scene in my head – the dark crypt, and the curious heroine causing this powerful and terrifying figure to rise from the dead. After that I just began to think what such a vampire might do next and whom it would annoy!
HH: What do you like best about Elizabeth and how do you relate to her? MT: Hmm… Elizabeth's a little like me at the beginning of the story – a thinker and an observer rather than a do-er. But when she's faced by all this terrifying new stuff, she forces herself to rise to the challenge, to learn how to deal with it for herself rather than relying on others to defend her. I like that in her. But I also like the fact that she can do it without losing the basic gentleness and compassion of her nature.
HH: How did you go about creating the world of Saloman? MT: It just sort of grew from Saloman's character. He's older than any other creature in the world, the last of the pure-blooded vampires called Ancients, so I had to establish who his people were, what supernatural gifts they had, and what difference Saloman's "death" would have made to the world. Modern vampires are cruder creatures, with little discipline or aim beyond continued existence, so I imagined how they would react to the sudden reappearance of a being far more powerful and knowledgeable than any of them.
HH: Is this the start of a series? MT: Yes it is! The series is called Awakened by Blood, and follows the fortunes of Elizabeth and Saloman through a trilogy of books. The second, Blood Sin, comes out in April 2011.
HH: What else do you have in store for lucky readers? MT: Well, Bonnie Dee and I have another Fairytale Fantasy book out at Samhain on 28th September. The Fairytale Fantasies (so far Cinderella Unmasked and Demon Lover), are our adult twists on well-known fairytales. The latest, Awakening Beauty, focuses on Sleeping Beauty, and what might happen if she slept longer than 100 years and was wakened in a world very like our own – by a prince of commerce. =)
HH: As an author, has ebook piracy had an impact on you? MT: Yes, it's bound to have. I've seen most of my books on pirate sites. It's impossible to tell how many sales this might have lost me, how many of those who illegally downloaded a book would actually have shelled out money if the pirate wasn't available. It rankles, but I refuse to let it eat up my writing life. Now that ebooks are growing so much in popularity, with the big publishers increasingly involved, things may change, but I suspect ebook pirates, like music and video pirates, will always be with us to a greater or lesser extent – hopefully lesser! Maybe it's a matter of education; maybe most people who download illegally don't realize the impact they have, how much they're depriving an ebook author of her/his legitimate and much-needed earnings.
HH: What made you want to become an author in the first place? MT: I've always told stories as well as read them, lived a lot in my own ( and in other people's!) imagination. At first, I just wrote for my own amusement, although I always had it my head that one day I would write seriously and be published. And one day, when my daughter was a baby, I sat down and wrote a ghost story called Ghost Unlaid, which I'm happy to say was accepted by the first publisher I sent it to =).
HH: What is your happiest moment as an author to this point? MT: That's a hard one. I'm always happy when a new story is accepted for publication, when I read a good review or a reader's appreciative message. And I'm happy just writing - even when characters misbehave and I can't get the plot to work =). But my happiest moment was probably when my agent called to tell me about the sale of the Awakened by Blood trilogy to NAL. I felt like I was finally earning my living – almost! - and justifying the amount of time I've spent on writing over the years, some of it at least at the expense of my family, and definitely at the expense of housekeeping!
HH: Any big plans for the fall? MT: More writing =). I’ve completed a first draft of the third Awakened by Blood book, but I’ve had more ideas and need to go back and do some more work on it before I send it in to my editor. And I have a couple of other stories buzzing in my head that will have to be written!
HH: Thank you!
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