Interview with a vampire - Winter - Felicity Heaton - Paranormal Romances with PassionFelicity Heaton

Well, it’s the moment Kiki… I mean, everyone has been waiting. I’ve lured Winter into my interview room for a chat. Yes, we’re back to Vampires Realm people now. Winter is the hero of my werewolf/vampire romance novel Winter’s Kiss and he shares a very forbidden relationship with Nika, his young werewolf lover. You can learn a little more about Winter at my Vampires Realm website: http://www.vampiresrealm.com/vampire_winter.php

(The door opens and Winter enters. I’m not surprised to see that he’s head to toe in black. His stand-up-collared jacket that reaches midway down his thigh is very crisp and his black riding boots are so shiny they reflect the light of the fireplace beside me. He’s the epitome of a guard who takes his job seriously. I’m actually surprised he’s not wearing his armour, cloak and his dragon-like helmet)

FH: Winter. It’s good to see you again. So, what have you been up to since we last met?

WINTER: After the fiasco that happened at the centenary masquerade, things have been slowly getting back to normal. The bloodline has returned to the mansion and I have returned to my duties, both those of commander and envoy. I am due to visit the werewolf bastion again soon with information about the hunters and to collect the information they gathered at the masquerade too. It all needs to be entered into the database. Thankfully, that is a job for someone else.

FH: Of course, I completely believe that you’re going to the bastion just to exchange some information. The werewolf you’re going to meet for this exchange wouldn’t be fair haired, quite young, and pretty, would she?

WINTER: (face remains completely impassive) You know I cannot answer such a question.

FH: It’s not as though I said you would be doing anything with said werewolf besides exchanging intelligence. I could have asked if you were going to swap spit too or perhaps other bodily fluids. (grins at him)

WINTER: You are a dirty little wench at times, you do know that, do you not?

FH: (nods) Yes, but it’s so fun to tease you. Look around you, Winter, there aren’t any Law Keepers present and I’m not interviewing any of them at this time either, so you’re perfectly safe to talk about your relationship. No one will tell on you.

WINTER: (his deep blue eyes scour the room and then he relaxes into the black velvet armchair) Very well. I will be exchanging the information with Nika. We did not get to spend much time together at the ball and it was so difficult to see her there and not be able to speak with her.

FH: I bet both of you were longing to spend some time alone together. How has your romance with Nika been doing?

WINTER: As well as it can under the circumstances. Every night that I wake alone I regret waiting and losing my chance to turn Nika. I only have myself to blame, and it pains me greatly. I want to wake with her in my arms. The only time I can have that is when I am at the werewolf bastion. When she comes to the mansion to visit me as an envoy she cannot stay in my room. It is so difficult. Many of the bloodline would understand and not speak of anything they see or sense, but many more would report us. I am not fortunate enough to have the respect that Lord Hyperion commands. No one in our bloodline would dare expose his relationship. Just as they didn’t dare turn Ineru over to the Law Keepers.

FH: Ineru is home again now, isn’t she?

WINTER: She should not be. Her exile was reinstated but she often leaves the castle and returns to us. It is much easier for her now that she has River back in her life. He can teleport them straight from inside the castle where she is exiled to inside the Validus mansion.

FH: That sounds like a handy trick. Your relationship with Nika is obviously very forbidden, so what was it like to have me write your story and have others read it?

WINTER: Unnerving. I agreed to it so readily, without really thinking it through. It wasn’t so much the fact that my relationship with Nika is illegal and therefore it was a great risk to allow you to write about us… it was the fact that once we began writing the story together, I realised how deeply you delved into the emotions involved and knowing that people would be reading my innermost thoughts and feelings, and my pain, made me feel a little uncomfortable.

FH: I wouldn’t worry about that. You have some fans out there because of how open you were and everything that you went through with Nika emotionally. Women love that sort of stuff. (smiles at him) It won you Nika, didn’t it?

WINTER: (smiles and looks distant, giving me the impression his thoughts are elsewhere) It did indeed.

FH: You really are yearning for her at the moment, aren’t you? What if I told you she’s here because I’ve brought her to be interviewed too?

WINTER: (sits forwards) She is here? In that case, I desire you to end my interview and point me in her direction.

FH: Okay. Hold your horses. I have a few silly questions that I like to ask the people I’m interviewing. Firstly, what’s your favourite colour?

WINTER: Green… the colour of Nika’s eyes.

FH: And your favourite smell?

WINTER: Nika. She smells so sweet. She sometimes sprays her perfume on my pillows so I can smell her when she is away from me. It is a divine sort of torture.

FH: Your favourite possession?

WINTER: I had only one possession, and that was Midnight, my horse. A brave steed. Lord Hyperion has given me a new horse, but it cannot replace Midnight. I feel it will be many long years before I have developed such a bond with this new horse as I had with Midnight.

FH: Midnight was very special to you. I’m sure in time you’ll get used to your new horse. Favourite thing to do?

WINTER: Visit Nika at the bastion because I know I can stay close to her then and sleep the day away with her in my arms.

FH: And finally, what’s your favourite time of year?

WINTER: Any time of the year that I am with Nika. She makes all of the seasons special. I have never seen someone who reacts to each so differently but with such youthful excitement and fascination.

FH: I think she only sparkles in your eyes because you’re so in love with her. (he scowls at me) It’s true, don’t bother trying to deny it. Anyway, thank you for coming to talk to me and Nika is through that door over there.

(Winter is gone in a flash)

FH: He’s going to be annoyed when Nika mentions I’m interviewing her soon.

Well, I hope you’ve all enjoyed this little interlude with Winter.

If you want to know more about him then you can read his vampire/werewolf romance book, Winter’s Kiss. Here’s a little more about it.

Winter’s Kiss

F E Heaton
Their lord drinks blood and they are dead men walking. The tales of the mansion donâ€™t stop Nika from falling for one of the guards, but when wolves attack her and he rides to her rescue, she discovers that her knight is anything but saintly. He is a vampire and she is becoming a werewolf, and love between their species is forbiddenâ€”the penalty death.

Winterâ€™s world is shaken beyond salvation and his allegiance to his bloodline tested as he watches the woman heâ€™s fallen for turn into a werewolf. His heart demands vengeance and that he protects her, both from the werewolf now hunting for her and from himself, but she tempts him more than he can bear and it isn’t long into their journey before heâ€™s torn between upholding the law and succumbing to desire.

Will Nika be able to convince Winter to leave his world and stay with her or will she spend eternity dreaming of Winter’s kiss?

ebook price: $2.99
paperback price: $7.99
genre: paranormal werewolf romance
length: 78000 words
rating: sultry
released: June 2009
Book 8 in the Vampires Realm series

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