Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Guest Post and Giveaway - Susannah Sandlin - Absolution


The Care and Feeding of a Vampire

Pity the poor vampires, consigned to a permanent low-carb diet, rich in protein and iron, with a taste he enjoys but, really—it’s blood. Night after night after night.

This situation doesn’t sit well with Glory Cummings. She’s an unvaccinated human, but she wants to do something special for Mirren, the vampire who recently saved her from a dire situation. Problem is, Glory doesn’t have much to offer because what she’s really good at is something Mirren can’t use: she’s a great cook with aspirations of owning her own restaurant.

But Glory’s stubborn, so she comes up with a solution: An hour before Mirren rises, she eats something rich that he can taste in her blood. She discovered this quite by accident when she was stuck at his house for her own protection, and a girl’s gotta eat, right? Who knew the big boy would get all fangy over the smell of a pot of her favorite beef stew?

So in honor of Mirren and Glory’s story, which is told in Absolution, is one of Mirren’s favorite food.

GLORY’S VAMP-FRIENDLY BEEF STEW
2 pounds stew beef
2 tablespoons oil
1 teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon each thyme, black pepper, marjoram, basil
1 bay leaf
10-1/2 oz. beef broth
12 ounces beer, preferably a dark or stout (Glory likes to use Abita Turbo Dog)
4 medium carrots, chopped
4 medium potatoes, cubed
6 small onions, loosely chopped
Brown the beef in the oil, place in slow cooker with remaining ingredients. Cook on low ten hours or high 4 hours or until veggies are tender. A half-hour before serving, mix ¼ cup all-purpose flour with ¼ cup cold water, mix well, and stir into stew to thicken.

Consume one hour before vampire rises.

Bon appetit!

ABSOLUTION
The Penton Legacy, Book 2
By Susannah Sandlin

Release date: October 9, 2012
Publisher: Montlake Romance

Book Description:

With the vampire world on the brink of civil war over the scarcity of untainted human blood, battle lines are being drawn between the once peaceful vampire and human enclave of Penton, Alabama, and the powerful Vampire Tribunal.

A Scottish gallowglass warrior turned vampire in the early 17th century, Mirren Kincaid once served the Tribunal as its most creative and ruthless executioner—a time when he was known as the Slayer. But when assigned a killing he found questionable, Mirren abandoned the Tribunal’s political machinations and disappeared—only to resurface two centuries later as the protector and second-in-command of Penton. Now the Tribunal wants him back on their side—or dead.

To break their rogue agent, they capture Glory Cummings, the descendant of a shaman, and send her to restore Mirren’s bloodthirsty nature. But instead of a monster, Glory sees a man burdened by the weight of his past. Could her magic touch—meant by the tribunal to bring out a violent killer—actually help Mirren break his bonds and discover the love he doesn’t believe he deserves?

It’s a town under siege, a powerful warrior in a battle with his past, and one woman who can make the earth move—literally—as the Penton Legacy continues.


 
REDEMPTION
Book One Penton Legacy series
By Susannah Sandlin

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Following a worldwide pandemic whose vaccine left human blood deadly to vampires, the vampire community is on the verge of starvation and panic. Some have fanned into rural areas, where the vaccine was less prevalent, and are taking unsuspecting humans as blood slaves. Others are simply starving, which for a vampire is worse than death—a raging hunger in a creature too weak to feed.

Immune to these struggles—at first—is Penton, a tiny community in rural Chambers County, Alabama, an abandoned cotton mill town that has been repopulated by charismatic vampire Aidan Murphy, his scathe of 50 vampires, and their willingly bonded humans. Aidan has recruited his people carefully, believing in a peaceful community where the humans are respected and the vampires retain a bit of their humanity.

But an unresolved family feud and the paranoia of the Vampire Tribunal descend on Penton in the form of Aidan’s brother, Owen Murphy. Owen has been issued a death warrant that can only be commuted if he destroys Penton—and Aidan, against whom he’s held a grudge since both were turned vampire in 17th-century Ireland.  Owen begins a systematic attack on the town, first killing its doctor, then attacking one of Aidan’s own human familiars

To protect his people, Aidan is forced to go against his principles and kidnap an unvaccinated human doctor—and finds himself falling in love for the first time since the death of his wife in Ireland centuries ago. 

Dr. Krystal Harris, forced into a world she never knew existed, must face up to her own abusive past to learn if the feelings she’s developing for her kidnapper are real—or just a warped, supernatural kind of Stockholm Syndrome in which she’s allowing herself to become a victim yet again.

Susannah Sandlin’s REDEMPTION is the first in the Penton Legacy series. Book two, ABSOLUTION, will be out September 18, and book three, OMEGA, on December 18.




 About the Author:

Susannah Sandlin is the author of paranormal romance set in the Deep South, where there are always things that go bump in the night.

A journalist by day, Susannah grew up in Alabama reading the gothic novels of Susan Howatch and the horror fantasy of Stephen King. (Um…it is fantasy, right?)

The combination of Howatch and King probably explains a lot. Currently a resident of Auburn, Alabama, Susannah has also lived in Illinois, Texas, California, and Louisiana.






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1 Kindle Paper White (or $100 U.S. gift card to Amazon, B&N, or Book Depository winner's choice),

5 signed print or audio copies of Absolution winner's choice of print or audio

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8 comments:

  1. WOW! A slow cooker stew with Abita. Gotta try that, stew weather almost here. Except for the part about eating one hour before vampire rises. LOL.

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  2. So glad the cooler weather is here, so I'll have a good excuse to try this stew recipe. :)
    Also? I think I loved Absolution even more than Redemption. But now I need some Omega! Need! ;)

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  3. Thanks, guys! Stew season is upon us! Gotta find the vampire, though.

    @Rissatoo--glad you liked Absolution! I loved Mirren and Glory's story too. February 5 for Omega!

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  4. ^^ hum a succulent recipe want to try it ^^
    thanks

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  5. Susannah, I am not able to do this right now, but I want to know is there a way for me to buy your books signed from you? I live in WV and I am disable so traveling is not an option. And there has not been any of authors that I read that comes to Huntington WV. So that is really the only way I can get signed copies. Sure I try to win signed copies, but we all know that is a long shot, because of all of the fan's that you all have. I would love to be able to go to signings, and meet the people that feel my life with the joy of reading, but I can not do that. I am going to buy Redemption, Absolution, and Omega, but I sure would like to have signed copies.
    Donna, it is also getting chilly here in WV and that stew would defenately hit the spot!!!
    Happy reading and writing*
    Teresa
    tess102063@yahoo.com

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  6. @Thanks, Miki! You probably can't find Abita but any dark beer will work.

    @Teresa--please email me: susannahsandlin at gmail.com -- we can definitely get you some signed books!

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  7. WoW! This is some giveaway! Thanks!

    -Amanda P
    Paranormal Romance

    prnovel - gmail

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  8. never put beer in my stew before.i'll have to try that :)
    elaing8(at)netscape(dot)net

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