American Gothic (25 page)

By Michael Romkey

Published by Ballantine Books:

I, VAMPIRE

THE VAMPIRE PAPERS

THE VAMPIRE PRINCESS

THE VAMPIRE VIRUS

VAMPIRE HUNTER

THE LONDON VAMPIRE PANIC

THE VAMPIRE’S VIOLIN

T
he girl grinned, her teeth so white they were almost blue…. She had fangs like a viper, the tips red with blood….

“I know everything, my love,” she said. “Everything. I can free you from the pain,” she said, her lips now against his ear.

A feeling of warmth flooded through him, releasing all tension from muscle and sinew, his will completely replaced with desire. Peregrine was not a religious man, but now he was convinced that the Angel of Death existed, an exquisite creature whose embrace no man or woman would want to resist. He closed his eyes and waited for the bliss of death to cleanse him forever of misery and hate….

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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Copyright © 2004 by Michael Romkey

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