Book Description
A four-century-old secret. A vampire curse.
Can she uncover the truth about her family before it destroys her?
Following the death of her grandmother, Becca Martin comes face to face with an ancestor she is unaware of; an ancestor who threatens her very existence.
Antony Cardover bears a vampire curse, and he will stop at nothing to sever his ancient bindings.
As she uncovers the dark truth about her family, can Becca embrace the legacy she now bears?
Or will the mistakes of the dead return to kill her?
If you like A Discovery of Witches and The Vampire Chronicles, you will LOVE Marie Anne Cope’s BONDS series.
Step into a world of magic, mystery and mayhem, buy BONDS today!
Book Extract
‘Free at last,’ Antony said as he pushed the lid of the sarcophagus aside. He stood, but his weak body, not yet fully restored, caused him to hunch over like a frail old man. He examined his hands in the darkness and saw that the bones were still only loosely threaded with tissue and flesh. He needed to feed. He needed that heartbeat to restore him, to make him whole again.
‘Hello? Is there anyone down there?’ a voice echoed through the crypt and Antony saw a shadow block the fading light at the top of the stairs. He lay back down in the sarcophagus and scraped his skeletonised fingers along its side. The noise had the desired effect.
‘Tom? Is that you?’ the man said, and Antony heard his footsteps as he descended the stairs. ‘What are you doing down here? Do you need a hand?’ The footsteps stopped, and Antony heard a click and then the cellar was swept by a beam of light.
‘Tom? What the hell?’ The beam rested on the open sarcophagus.
‘Come on,’ Antony muttered. The footsteps grew louder as the man approached and Antony could smell his bad breath before he saw him. The man leaned over the sarcophagus and shone the beam straight into Antony’s face, casting the rest of his body into shadow.
‘Jesus Christ! Tom have you... arghh!’ Antony gripped the man by the throat and dragged him into the sarcophagus. The torch, knocked from the man’s hand, hit the floor and went out. The man put up a good fight, much to Antony’s pleasure, making the blood pump even faster. He sank his teeth into the man’s neck and gulped down the adrenalin-filled blood. He heard the heartbeat pounding in his ears and, as it slowed, he slowed his feasting. The second the heartbeat stopped, he hurled the man out of the sarcophagus and pulled the lid into place. He could feel the tissues building themselves. Soon he would be whole.
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Author Bio
Marie Anne Cope is an author of contemporary and paranormal fiction. She grew up in Manchester, moving to North Wales in 2005, where she lives with her three cats, Jasmine, Texas, and Stoker.
She writes for women who want to read gripping stories that combine strong female leads with powerful, provocative storylines, which take them to the edge of their comfort zone.
Marie has always had an interest in the darker side of fiction—particularly in crime and the supernatural—but it wasn’t until her mid-twenties that she began taking a serious interest in writing. She published the first novel in her dark paranormal BONDS series in 2013 and followed it with the second and third novels in the quartet, BROKEN BONDS in 2015 and BONDS RE-BOUND in 2018. The journey ended with ETERNAL BONDS in November 2021, the Kindle edition reaching number one in both the Vampire Suspense and British Horror Fiction categories, as well as number three in Contemporary Fantasy Fiction.
The BONDS series is set against both contemporary and historical backdrops, following the story of the complicated and unusual relationship between Becca Martin, a reluctant witch forced to face up to who she is and accept her gift of the Craft, and Antony Cardover, a man who traded his soul for the chance of vengeance and paid the ultimate price - eternity bearing a vampire curse.
BONDS was a finalist for the 2020 Golden Stake Literary Award at the International Vampire Film & Arts Festival, as well as a quarter-finalist for the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.
Marie has published two collections of dark short stories under the series title TALES FROM A SCARYGIRL. The first volume, entitled DARK AND SCARY, moves from the realms of the supernatural into the borderlands where folklore and superstition meet real-world fear, while volume two, entitled DARKLY SINSITER, delves into the darkest vaults of the human psyche, daring the reader to question what lies beneath the surface.
DARKLY SINISTER came out on Hallowe’en 2020, with the Kindle edition reaching number one positions in the Horror Short Stories, British Horror Fiction and British & Irish Short Stories categories, as well as number two in Psychological Thrillers.
Under the pen name M A Cope, she has also published her first children’s book called THE MISFITS. The story follows an unlikely group of supernatural misfits as they embark on an adventure that teaches them it is okay to be different from who they are expected to be; the important thing is to be happy in their own skin.
Marie is working on several other projects at the moment, including a screen adaptation of BONDS and a contemporary romance novel called CHASING RAINBOWS.
At the heart of everything she writes is a simple aim - to tell stories that captivate the reader.
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