A Taste of Love and Evil (30 page)
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Authors: Barbara Monajem
Near dawn they lay twined together, sleepy after talking for hours about everything from Shakespeare to the Super Bowl and making slow, sweet love. Thinking about Juma—they had agreed to take her in, if that was what she wanted—Jack asked, “Do you suppose we’ll have vampire children?”
A touch of uneasiness seeped into Rose’s drowsy brain. “Maybe.” Would he mind? She really wanted kids, vampires or not.
He grinned down at her, dimples and all. “What if we produce camouflaging vamps? Imagine that!”
“I am, and they’ll be positively dangerous! We’ll have to bring them up really well, so they grow up to be the good kind.”
“We’ll do fine,” he said. “Remember, we’re a perfect team.”
She laughed and snuggled close. They
were
a perfect team. Whatever they did together would work out well, because they had love, and love was more powerful than evil.
As always, thanks to my husband and daughters. Special mention goes to Sheila Connolly for slogging through the first draft and pointing out how many, many threads I needed to tie together, and to Shamsi Monajem for reading and commenting on variations of the same story over and over again. Thanks also to the many friends, critiquers, and contest judges who were so helpful with the opening chapters.
Thanks go to Dee Deringer Piquette and Christine Merrill for sharing their expertise on costume construction, and to Kathy Payne for brainstorming university names. Much appreciation goes to Dale Rollerson of Australia for inspiring Rose’s gorgeous homemade-fabric dress, and to Drew Reeves of the Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern for his splendid rendering of Iachimo in
Cymbeline.
Jack’s mother impulsively named her son Iachimo because of a performance she just couldn’t forget.
And thanks of course to my editor, Chris Keeslar, for being almost always right.
SUNRISE IN A GARDEN OF LOVE & EVIL
LOVE SPELL®
September 2010
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Copyright © 2010 by Barbara Monajem
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