Cynthia's Novels

"The Legend of La Tormenta"
available now from ArcheBooks Publishers
ISBN: Hardcover 1-59507-132-6 eBook 1-59507-133-4
published October 6, 2006
Rating: R - Adult Content, Graphic Sexual Content, Graphic Violence

For infamous pirate Captain Tessa Santiago, all seems lost—her beloved husband Craig, also a pirate and fellow captain, has been caught by the Royal Navy and hanged. Unbelievably, the Naval Commander who hunted him down and executed him was his own identical twin brother, Alex.

However, even after the hangman’s rope snapped Craig’s neck, he refused to die. Though his body died, by a mysterious quirk of fate, his spirit survived. He finds himself inhabiting the body of his twin brother, eager to be reunited with his wife.

That is, until a voodoo woman accidentally knocks him out of his new body. And the only way for him to get back inside his brother’s body to live again is to journey to an uncharted island, where the legendary pirate treasure of Boca Roja is said to lie buried.

But Craig isn’t the only one who refuses to die. The ruthless Captain Culverin Slattery, who originally killed Tessa’s family and took her prisoner and abused her so long ago, whom she believed she had killed, decides to exact his murderous revenge on them both—and claim the treasure of Boca Roja for himself!

"Bound by Blood"
available now from ArcheBooks Publishers
ISBN: eBook 1-59507-004-4, Hardcover 1-59507-009-5
published November 1, 2003
Rating: R - Adult Content, Graphic Sexual Content, Graphic Violence

Aloysius Daye is a Shakespearean actor, a serious actor -- yet it was not always so. He earned his celebrity and fortune playing a fictional vampire on a long running TV series. Unfortunately, he acquired one fan he never dreamed could be possible -- a real vampire intent on bestowing upon him the immortality and wicked pleasures of the night that he's only imagined and pretended.

Aloysius' marriage is in trouble. The rift between he and his wife Lisa has reached a breaking point. In some ways he's already stepped over line, specifically with Lydia, his co-star in the play he is performing in a Toronto theater. He's only just begun to wrestle with his own passions and feelings before the four-hundred year old mistress of the night changes his life forever.

"Bound by Blood" is a bloody tale of intense passion and erotic adventures. It isn't for the faint of heart or the timid. It's graphic and raw, unapologetic in its detail of lusts of the flesh and the insatiable hunger for blood. Read this one with the lights on!

"Succulent Crimson"
available now from ArcheBooks Publishers
ISBN: eBook 1-59507-056-7, Hardcover 1-59507-055-9
published October 25, 2004
originally published by Virtuabooks Electronic Publishers, 1998 under the title "Lost Boys"
Rating: R - Adult Content, Graphic Violence

Christopher Chagny, a famous horror writer's son, has been obsessed with vampires since the death of his father, a tragic and unexplained event he was too young even to recall.

His adoring childhood friend in glasses, Olivia Figaro, can't get Christopher to see her as anything but a kid. His obsession is all he notices. Especially now, because Christopher's mother has a publicity stunt in mind that will finally put her son in contact with a genuine vampire. Countess Della Luna, murdered in Italy nearly four-hundred years ago, is an unsolved mystery and fabulous legend among the truest connoisseurs of vampire lore. Christopher is slated to pose for cameras digging up her grave.

Years later, L.A. life and an interest in police work land Olivia in a great job as bodyguard to famed teenage TV star Taylor Stockton. Taylor has an obsession with vampires that plunges Olivia straight back into the forgotten morass she'd shared with her childhood love, Christopher Chagny. But young Taylor's obsession is based in fear, not rapture. No one believes Taylor was kidnapped a year ago by a real vampire, Olivia included. But as a powerful bond develops between these two, Olivia determines to protect Taylor at any cost, even if it means hunting vampires.

5 * 9 * 07