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Violins and Vampires by Cee Bee

30 Monday May 2022

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This post is part of a virtual book tour organized by Goddess Fish Promotions. The author will be giving away a $20 Amazon/BN GC via Rafflecopter. Click on the tour banner to see the other stops on the tour.

Lexa Kozlov must pay off her family’s massive debt to the mob… all while raising even more money to save her little sister. The result? A never-ending (and incredibly illegal) stakeout for the Bratva. Lexa barely has time to sleep, let alone find love.

Enter Caelin Vass, the handsome Scotsman who runs Empire Investments. Caelin offers Lexa a new job with dollars galore, as well as a hot bod (his own) to contemplate every workday. Even so, Lexa isn’t sure. Freaky things keep happening whenever Lexa and Caelin are alone. The energy between them is magical, sensual, and way overwhelming.

Is Lexa leaving her old prison just to enter a worse one… or is Caelin Vass all he seems and more?

***12,000 word novella, previously published on Kindle Vella as Blood Slave***


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Another Saturday night, another stakeout.

This time, I’m watching the apartment of James Fisher, a major Wall Street tycoon and even larger dumbass.

Suddenly, my phone blares the Imperial March from Star Wars. I stifle the urge to groan. That’s the ring tone of my current boss, Otto. He’s a middle aged guy with a beer gut, receding hairline, and iron-fisted grip on my lady balls. Long story.

I pop in my ear buds and click accept. “It’s Lexa.”

“What the fuck?” Otto’s gravelly voice blares in my ears. “I can hardly hear you.”

“I’m in Big Apple Coffee.” The place looks like it fell out of the 1950’s… and didn’t land too nicely. In other words, Big Apple sports dingy walls, a grimy tile floor, and chipped Formica tables.

“Why can’t you run a stakeout from some place that’s quiet?” asks Otto. “You know, like a normal person?”

“I don’t know,” I counter. “Why can’t you text instead of call? You know, like someone from this century?”

A few seconds later, my phone dings with an alert. No question. That’s a text from Otto. I should know better than to look, but I’ve never been the type who knows better about anything.

I take a peep.

It’s a drawing of me as a pin-up girl from the 1940’s. Which isn’t too far off. I’m on the shorter side with lots of curves. I don’t dress in pin-up style–no push-up bras and bright colors for me, thank you very much. With my job, it’s best to blend in. Today, that means a pencil skirt and white top. Unlike this image on my phone which shows me bare-ass naked.

Ugh. What an Otto thing to do.

“The pic is good from the shoulders on up,” I say dryly. The artist captured my heart-shaped face, ice-blue eyes, and long black hair.

Otto snickers. “One of the club shlubs left this under my door.”

Club shlubs. That’s what we call the gents who visit Otto’s Lucky Ladies Lounge And Exotic Dancing Club. It’s a horrible name, but Otto is known for hiring great strippers, not having excellent writing and grammar. I live in the club’s back room and participate in the odd bikini contest for extra cash. Fan art is a sad side effect.

I really shouldn’t have looked.

About the Author:
CEE BEE writes stories that blend epic fantasy, steamy romance, and lots of sass. If you want immersive tales that transport you to fresh worlds (and new book boyfriends) then you’ve come to the right author. To learn more about CEE BEE, please visit http://www.ceebeeauthor.com. Her new book, VIOLINS AND VAMPIRES, is available on Kindle Unlimited: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09ZYVCNC3

CEE BEE also writes young adult fare under the name Christina Bauer. Check out Christina’s books at her website. There’s a literal sh*t ton of them.

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My Adventure into Vella-land

28 Saturday May 2022

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I’ve now posted 5 Kindle Vella stories. Most of them are more novella length. Two are complete: Denouement (an angel/Armageddon story) and Gypsy Ribbons (ghosts). The continuing stories are Night Before Doomsday, Haunted Summer, and Angels Unawares. With Kindle Vella, the first 3 episodes are free, then the subsequent episodes are paid in “tokens”. Normally, my episodes are about 10 tokens.

Gypsy Ribbons – Lady Victoria Darby escapes London society as a spoiled brat. A moonlight ride on the moor and an encounter with a notorious highwayman will forever change the way she lives…and the way she dies. https://www.amazon.com/Gypsy-Ribbons/dp/B09YQPSPDQ/

Denouement – Ellen Tracy has lost her faith in the City of Angels until the Seraph Iofiel appears to rescue her from Armageddon, but she soon learns she has a starring role in the sequel to the end of the world. https://www.amazon.com/Denouement/dp/B09YVHRNSD/

Haunted Summer – Maribelle is determined to escape her small-town existence until an unseen presence begins awakening the woman in her. Mari knows she inherited a gift from her grandmother but doesn’t know Devlyn is that gift, that he is a witch’s familiar, or that she is the witch. https://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Summer/dp/B09YVKPKQ7/

angels unawares – Lark is drowning in grief, guilt, and gin until a naked angel appears in her postage-stamp backyard one stormy evening, offering her a way out  if she’s strong enough to take it. Is her guardian angel all he should be? Angels are not always good. https://www.amazon.com/Angels-Unawares/dp/B0B2KTHQ17/

Night Before Doomsday – All his angelic brothers succumb to lust, but Azazel resists temptation until the wrong woman came along. An alternate history of the Grigori, the angels sent to Earth to teach Man how to survive after Eden. First 3 episodes will go up today!

I hope that you will look up my Kindle Vella offerings and read the first 3 chapters, giving the story a Thumbs-up if you like it, and if you want to read more, simply Unlock the story and proceed.

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Enjoy you long holiday weekend, and sometime during the three days stop and remember why we’re celebrating–our fallen heroes and the men and women who have and are keeping us free.

Happy Memorial Day!

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