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By reading any further, you are stating that you are at least 18 years of
age. If you are under the age of 18, stop here.
Michael waited
until after midnight to risk a glimpse into Cara’s cottage.
From the branches of a tall tree just inside the perimeter of the
heavy-duty camouflage spell that kept the enclave hidden from the outside
world, he’d watched Cara leave her one-story cottage just before dark. Aron had practically dragged her across the small, grassy center square to
the home opposite theirs.
After spending a few minutes there, Cara had left. Without Aron. She’d
turned back to look several times before walking to the building farthest
from her own. There she’d knocked on the door, spent a few minutes inside
then left with something in her hand.
Now, with the crescent moon high in the sky,
he stood outside her door, wanting so badly to go inside and claim her as
his.
Gods be damned, he’d missed her these past
fifteen months.
From the first moment he’d seen her, six years ago in that New York
apartment, he’d known she was his.
And he’d thought he’d never have her.
The
Mal bastards
who had kidnapped her and her twin sister when they were just seventeen
years old had used them as sexual toys for years. As a querciola,
an Etruscan succubus, Cara’s very nature made her a sexual creature. A
walking aphrodisiac. Just her presence could make a eunuch get a hard-on.
Since there had been no known quercioli born in more than a
thousand years, the tales about them had become more like horror stories.
The females—quercioli were always female—had been demonized as wild
animals preying on men’s sexual appetites to fuel their own raging sexual
need.
Michael’s rage rose up to choke him at the thought. Cara was not an
animal. She was a delicate, beautiful woman who’d been brutalized by the
Mal. Yes, she needed sexual energy to survive just as much as she
needed food, but she’d never hurt anyone with her appetites.
And from the looks of her now, she was
starving.
The Mal had
done this to her. Those bastards had forced her and their son to live in
fear, hiding. And by doing so, had deprived her of what she needed to
live.
Fury threatened to make him lose control of
his tightly held anger. And that could prove fatal. To him and anyone
around him.
The strega
who’d created his cloaking spell, the spell that made him invisible on
demand and had kept him one step ahead of the Mal for the past
fifteen months, had tied the spell directly to his arus, the magic
inherent in his blood.
Since he’d been born
Mal and the strega’s magic was the very antithesis of his,
if he used his arus to perform any magic other than the
invisibility spell, it could backfire and kill him, creating enough of a
blast to take out anyone in the vicinity.
And he couldn’t die before he’d made good on his promise to make it safe
for Cara and Aron to live in the world, not just in this little pocket.
He’d killed four
Mal in the past year, men who’d had a hand in enslaving Cara and her
sister. He’d made them disappear completely, but first he’d made them
suffer and he’d told them why.
He hunted one more, one more animal who
didn’t deserve to live.
Would Cara be horrified at what he’d done? Or would she understand that it
was the only way she and Aron would be safe?
Hell, she’d probably never know because he’d
be dead in a few months.
Would she mourn for his loss? Would she even
know he’d died?
Did she miss him with the same burning ache
he felt every day?
Just one look.
Yeah, right.
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Just Erotic Romance Reviews
****½
"'Seduced by Danger' is the sixth
stand-alone story in the Magical Seduction series bringing all
the expected intensity of sex, suspense, and romance of this great
series. I have become a fan of Ms. Julian’s writing style. Cara is a
great character who becomes strong after the birth of her son, Aron, and
starts to control her own fate. Michael is the best bad turned good
Alpha male that I have read about in quite some time. I thought the
chemistry between Cara and Michael was great and I was pleased when they
delivered the same heat in sex. I thought it was great how most of the
secondary characters were from the previous stories and they didn’t try
to overtake Cara and Michael’s story. 'Seduced by Danger' is a definite
re-read for me and I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t read the previous
books in the series."
Fallen Angels Reviews
"Stephanie
Julian gives the reader an explosive romance in her Magical
Seduction series with Seduced by Danger. Michael and Cara's
emotional story will have readers panting for more. Ms. Julian
knows what the readers want, and she gives it to them with explosive
detail. Seduced by Danger is the sixth book in the Magical
Seduction series. This is a awesome fantastic fantasy romance that is
a must have. I loved Seduced by Danger, and I cannot wait to see
what Ms. Julian will come up with next."
Night Owl Romance
"I know it’s not very polite, but I found it uber romantic that Michael
would, and had, killed to keep Cara and Aron safe. Two people who
thought they would never be in love find themselves hopelessly so. Both
afraid to admit it for fear of pushing or scaring the other away, they
tap dance around it. This wonderful story was very hot, emotional, and
romantic. With subtle hints and teasers I see the possibility of more
books in this series in the future, and I certainly hope so."
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