Zen and the Art of Vampires

by Katie MacAlister

352 Page Mass Market Paperback

Dark Ones Book 6: White picket fences can be dangerous to vampires. Sometimes a woman’s gotta choose…

Pia Thomason doesn’t have a typical life, but she wants one. The husband, the kids, the house in the suburbs… With her fortieth birthday looming, she decides to do something drastic, and takes off on a singles’ tour through romantic Europe.

But the few guys on the trip leave much to be desired—unlike the two men Pia sees in a small Icelandic town. Handsome, mysterious, and very dangerous… Just the sight of them puts her in a dither. When their paths cross again, Pia knows one thing for certain: Where vampires are concerned, love isn’t the only thing at stake.

MY TEASE

"Holy Jehoshaphat and the Wizard of Oz."

I swore, fear skittering up my back.

"A vampire..."

~ pg. 92 Zen and the Art of Vampires by Katie MacAlister

Hard Day's Knight

by Katie MacAlister

346 Page Mass Market Paperback

Fairy tales were never this tough.

Men in Tights…

…never looked so good. At least that’s Pepper Marsh’s first impression when she attends the International Jousting Competition at London, Ontario’s Renaissance Faire. An unemployed and unattached software engineer, Pepper has had enough of the computer geeks in her dating pool. She yearns for a man of yore. A man not afraid to stare death in the face and laugh at it. A man with a big lance….

Pepper’s cousin promised to find her a knight in shining armor, on the condition that Pepper walk around in wench get-up. With her mind on her embarrassingly revealing bustier, Pepper promptly steps into the path of an oncoming steed…and is rescued by sexy Englishman Walker McPhail. Once the wild man of jousting, Walker has let a brush with death keep him out of the ring. Though his emotions are clad in an almost impenetrable armor, Pepper finds Walker infuriatingly sexy—and is about to go medieval on his heart…

"This is ridiculous," I complained, my fingers working desperately on the buckles holding Walker's armor on.

"We'll hurt ourselves. Or someone will see us. Or the horses will run off. Or Moth will eat my gambeson. Stupid buckle!"

Walker snarled something as he ripped at the leather buckle on the shoulder of his breastplate.

Truly, what we were considering doing was idiotic in the extreme.

Voyeuristic aspects aside, it was ridiculous to think we could possibly make love while one or both of us was covered in protective armor.

pg. 252

MY TEASE

"My dear lady Pepper, you cannot mean to tell me that you wish to associate with the sort of jousters who show the cowardice displayed by this team?"

"These people are my friends," I said evenly. "I'll thank you not to call them cowards."

~ pg. 173 Hard Day's Knight by Katie MacAlister