Title:
The Nightlife Series Omnibus (1~4)
Author: Travis Luedke
Series: The Nightlife Series
Genre: Paranormal/Erotic/Vampires
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: July 2 2013
Edition: eBook with Print Coming Soon
Blurb/Synopsis:
The Nightlife Series is violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy.
Vampires, strippers, escorts,
night clubs, pimps & dirty cops – the Nightlife Series is never boring.
Can decadence, corruption and prostitution go hand in hand
with self-control? Over-indulgence, illegal activity and vampires lurk in
darkness when night falls on the city.
The Nightlife Series explores the sexy, dangerous
misadventures of vampires and an interesting assortment of wickedly corrupt men
and women of the night. Gangs, pimps, prostitutes, cartel, mafia, drug dealers,
addicts, alcoholics, and all those wonderfully colorful people you find rubbing
elbows in the back alleys, night clubs, and strip joints.
These creatures inhabit a world of constant blood, sex, and
arousal. The act of feeding is highly erotic, victims often experience multiple
orgasms. A vampire’s bite is the most powerful drug imaginable, ecstasy,
euphoria, and an ever-present potential for nightlife quietly, unobtrusively,
until cornered. Then it gets ugly, people die. addiction. Lethally violent
predators, they can cut through flesh like a hot knife through butter.
The Nightlife Series Includes:
THE NIGHTLIFE NEW YORK
THE NIGHTLIFE LAS VEGAS
THE NIGHTLIFE PARIS
BLOOD SLAVE
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Book #1
Release
Date: Aug 18 2012
Blurb/Synopsis:
Aaron
Pilan’s life is forever changed when he’s shot trying to rescue a drop-dead
gorgeous woman on the streets of New York. Aaron is thrust into the shocking
world of vampiric slavery when Michelle shares her blood to save his life.
Michelle's
existence as a solitary vampire is also altered when she accepts this naive
young man into her life. Bound by her blood, Aaron is subject to her authority.
He walks a tightrope of strictly controlled feeding regiments and intense
sexual adventures while catering to the neurotic control-freak tendencies of
his new master. She vows to eliminate him if he proves too difficult to
control.
This story
is bold and evocative, infusing blood, sex, love and turmoil in an urban drama
about two vampires battling evil outside and within themselves.
My Review:
The Nightlife New York
4 stars
I loved this dark world. It was enticing, intriguing and fast paced. This book kept me going I wanted to know how it would end. These characters Aaron and Michelle draw you in. It was great watching them grow as well.
Can't wait to read the next one.
Book #2
Release
Date: Nov 17 2012
Blurb/Synopsis:
Vampires,
Aaron Pilan and his master Michelle, live by one rule - no bloodslaves. EVER.
Aaron breaks that rule when he meets Anastasia. All Anastasia wants is to be
loved and cherished, but the predatory men she’s attracted to bring her only
pain and abuse. Escaping one train-wreck relationship for another, she finds
happiness with Aaron and Michelle as a bloodslave, a 'pet'.
When Aaron
uses his telepathy to win thousands at the gambling tables, he attracts the deadly
attention of the Colombian Cartel and Aaron and Michelle are 'disappeared'.
Addicted to the bite of her vampire lovers, Ana is desperate to find them. But,
Las Vegas isn't ready for vampires mixing heroin, sex and vengeance. Ana is
trapped in the spiraling chaos.
My Review:
The Nightlife Las Vegas
3 stars
Once again the author delivered a fast paced books. Honestly I don't know how I really feel about Ana. I get her 'need' but for myself I was hoping she would rise above it somehow. Maybe she will later, but for now I could have done without her.
I will say the ending threw me and it was a surprise
Release
Date: April 30 2013
Blurb/Synopsis:
Vampire
master Michelle, and her slave, Aaron Pilan, flee to Paris, leaving behind the
slaughter in Las Vegas. Aaron made the costly mistake of taking a bloodslave,
and then married her. The tragedy of his wife's death has driven a rift between
them and Michelle is desperate to heal the breach.
Struggling
with his predatory alter ego, Aaron is fractious, rebelling against his master.
He desires another bloodslave, and that Michelle cannot allow. She opens her
heart and soul to Aaron and he relives, through her memories, her dark, gritty
tale of survival in the savagery of WWII Paris under the German occupation.
Michelle's staggering revelations are deeply disturbing. The confrontation of
master versus slave comes full circle as the couple faces death and separation.
And they are
not alone in Paris. An investigator has followed them from Vegas seeking the
unique gifts of Michelle’s blood. He’s watching and waiting for the opportunity
to make his move against them.
My Review:
The Nightlife Paris
4 stars
I loved the build of this books. Holy Cow..... The tension, drama, the action in this books really is a page turner. I loved how Michelle opened up about her past. I thought it interested she hadn't done it sooner but glad to see it when I did.
Stand Alone With Similarity to the
Nightlife Series
Release
Date: Dec 23 2012
Blurb/Synopsis:
Her mother
named her Esperanza Salvación - Hope for Salvation. But when a girl works as an
escort for Colombian cartel in the ghettos of Spanish Harlem, there wasn’t much
hope, or salvation.
Hope’s
telepathic ability keeps her a step ahead of ruin, but her unusual gift
attracts the attention of a psychotic vampire bitch. Trapped in a Manhattan
penthouse with the psycho, she thought she was dead meat.
Her survival
lies in the hands of Vampire Master Enrique. He seems to respect her, perhaps
even care. As a measure of protection, he makes her his personal Bloodslave.
Helplessly addicted to his bite, Enrique rules her every moment. As always,
Hope must adapt to survive.
Swept into
the decadent nightlife of Manhattan's elite, she falls in love with Enrique and
prays someday he may grow to love her, too. But is it simply a relationship of
convenience? Is she nothing more than a concubine desperate to satisfy his nightly
demands for blood and sex?
And forever
in the background is the fear that one day the cartel boss she abandoned will
hunt her down to collect on old debts.
My Review:
Blood Slave
4 stars
First I loved Hope and her strength. She is my favorite character. Now Enrique...hmmm I am not so sure. I get him being closed off but I wanted more from him. I think if a little more emotion was shown from Enrique he would have also been my favorite. Once again the author did a great job with this book.
These series is a great read!!!!
Author Information
Travis
Luedke is a husband, father, and author of Urban Fantasy Thriller, Paranormal
Romance, Contemporary Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, and Sci-fi. He is currently
catching a 3rd degree sunburn in San Antonio, Texas, and loving every minute of
it.
As
the author of the Nightlife Series novels, Travis lives very vicariously
through his writings. He invites you to enjoy his macabre flights of fancy, but
be warned: The Nightlife Series is
violent, sexy, and occasionally violently sexy.
Author Links
Blog ~
The Nightlife Series
Email ~ twluedke@gmail.com
A Scene from Nightlife Paris, the third of the Nightlife Series Novels.
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“Do you have any flights leaving New York after sunset that arrive in Paris before sunrise?” Aaron Pilan stared unblinking at the travel agent, assaulting her with the full bore of his gaze.
“No sir, not commercial flights. I’m not sure about the charter flights.”
Aaron glanced at the nameplate on her desk and tried a more personal approach. “Penelope, I need your help.” He drilled into her mind with his telepathic probe, digging through her thoughts and emotions. “How long is a flight to Paris?”
“Well … it’s a seven hour flight at minimum, but the time zones …” He read Penelope’s every thought with ease. His eyes seemed to swallow her very soul with the wondrous intensity of his gaze. She fell under his spell in a matter of seconds. “Um … Paris is six hours ahead of New York, so it’s really thirteen hours …”
“Help me, Penelope. Help me find a flight that leaves by 7:30 p.m. and arrives by 7:00 a.m. in Paris.”
His eyes owned her as he read her mind. She couldn’t imagine disagreeing with him. She would give him anything – her heart, her body, her soul – just to know the truth behind his eyes. He read her infatuation as she moistened between the legs, staring at him like a love-struck teenager.
“Um … one of the Gulfstream charters might be able to do that.” She thought hard, considering one company in particular that would fly anyone anywhere, under any circumstances, for the right price.
“I knew you could help me.”
He took her hand and she wet her underwear in anticipation. A blush of rosy heat crept up her face and her little pink tongue darted out to swipe her dry lips. Her desire to be kissed flooded her mind, washing over him as he sifted through her thoughts. She focused on the gleaming white teeth of his smile, and he knew she wished he’d drag her into the alcove and have her up against the wall. Too easy. He could bend her over the kiosk right there.
He read all her fantasies, a series of delightfully wicked things she hoped for. Uncomfortably hot and bothered by his brief touch, Penelope’s fingers moved unsteadily over the keyboard. She tried not to look at him, but she couldn’t help herself.
She cleared her throat. “Executive Pathways can expedite a transcontinental flight tomorrow night for $16,000. Oh wow, that’s really expensive, but they’ll leave whenever you like. Are you sure we can’t make one of these commercial flights work? I can get you first class at a discount …”
“No thanks. I’ll take the charter.” His exacting flight schedule could not be compromised.
She continued trying to dissuade him. “It’s only a couple hours difference ...”
Two hours made all the difference. Vampires don’t do daylight. “I need two tickets.”
“Two? But there’s no discount for the second ticket …”
He followed her mind as she imagined accompanying him overseas. A foreign rendezvous, endless hours of sex in a French hotel suite. She’d let him do anything he wanted, repeatedly.
Michelle arrived, slipping her arm around him intimately. Gorgeous, blonde, glamorous, she could’ve been a model fresh off the runway. Penelope’s fantasy crashed and burned, the screams of dying dreams echoing in her ears.
He smiled at her again, and winked. “We’ll take two tickets.”
Penelope swallowed her demolished pride. He felt a twinge of sympathy as Penelope realized she could never compete with a woman like Michelle. His master was so beautiful it hurt to look at her.
“That’s $34,945.00 with taxes and fees. How will you be paying for that?” Penelope’s eyes kept drifting to the fabulous blonde draped around him.
He handed over his gold card, the plastic so new and shiny it still smelled of Las Vegas. Well over six figures backed that account from his nights as a high roller in Vegas.
She swiped his card and managed to smile without faltering. It touched him that Penelope wondered why she couldn’t have a man like him in her life. And then she glanced at Michelle under his arm, and she knew those women always stole all the Aarons for themselves. Penelope would have to make do scrounging for leftovers.
He leaned towards her, stealing her breath with his proximity. “Penelope, why don’t you join us for a drink when you’re off work?”
He followed her thoughts as she asked the question, is he worth sharing?
“I promise you won’t regret it.” He smiled again.
She bit her lower lip in anticipation. Yes, he was worth sharing, and the blonde might be fun too …
