By Cate Masters
Don’t you love them? Those alpha males
who can make you swoon with practically a single look?
Even better when they’re a bit
mysterious. He doesn’t share much, plays things a bit close to the vest. Or, in
the case of Cursed, close to the costume. Because Cursed is set during
Carnevale, ten days of wild fun in Venice. But sometimes the masquerade
costumes make it impossible to tell who – or what – is hidden within.
The perfect place for a mysterious
alpha male. Luckily my hero Bruno diCesare meets the perfect woman to solve the
mystery – Melina Weaver, an intelligent, feisty heroine who has no idea of the
complex and dangerous world Bruno lives in but will do anything to help him.
Once she enters his world, there’s no going back.
Here’s a peek at Cursed, book one ofThe Vitruvian Man:
Ten days of
freedom. That’s all Fate had allotted me each year. In the streets of Venice, I
could walk among them. Mingle. Belong.
During
Carnevale, they had no idea who I was. What I was.
For ten days,
it didn’t matter.
Until I met
her.
Bruno diCesare lives alone by
necessity, not choice. An experiment performed by Leonardo da Vinci, who
believed having a dual DNA would grant a person immortality, used magic to
render Bruno a chimera – the head of a lion, body of a dragon. The only time he
can mingle with people is during Carnevale, ten glorious days of masked
anonymity, frivolity and intimacy.
Melina Weaver learned fire dancing to
enliven her dull existence. A scientist, her long hours at the lab leave no
time for a social life. For ten days at Carnevale, she can pretend to be
someone else. Someone sexy and daring, who lives on the edge.
Once she meets Bruno, her wish comes
true, but everything goes terribly wrong. Beneath Bruno’s costume lurks an
alpha male, but is he dangerous? Worse, can she return to an employer who sells
her research to the military to make an army of efficient killers? Her only
hope may lie with the man she’s just met and never seen.
As you can guess, Cursed mixes a bit
of paranormal with science, and a slight twist on history.
I am super excited that Cursed is the
first release in Decadent Publishing’s new Tease line! Find more about this
exciting new line here: http://www.decadenttease.com and news
at its blog: http://decadenttease.blogspot.com/
Check out more about Cursed: http://www.decadentpublishing.com/product_info.php?products_id=767&osCsid=55spbi1c1g6m9c5lo8rdo7jd17
Or on my blog, where I do some fun
extras like Casting Call, where I show you who I imagined as these characters: http://catemasters.blogspot.com/2013/04/cursed-vitruvian-man-book-1-paranormal.html
and you can read an excerpt, reviews and more!
Oh, and I’d love to connect with you,
if we haven’t already! Find me here:
Blog: http://catemasters.blogspot.com Psst!
You can sign up for my shiny new newsletter there! :)
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Cate Masters - Magic, mayhem and a little romance
3 comments:
The first in their new line? Very impressive, Cate!
Thanks Alex! Yes, finishing up the third novella now. :)
Congrats, Cate!
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