Kelwyn Grayson is just one more faceless runaway on the streets of Tower City. Among elves, gnolls, and dragons, one winged boy fades into the background of life in the Eternal Kingdom.  But when he cuts the purse of the handsome were-lion Harun Rashid, he finds himself dragged out of the crowd.<br><br>Rather than a cell, however, Harun offers a helping hand to set Kelwyn on the road to a respectable, peaceful life ... if he could just bring himself to stop flirting shamelessly with Harun, keep his sticky fingers to himself, and avoid bringing the wrath of a powerful, mad vampire down on his head.<br><br>But even faced with Kelwyn's death -- or undeath -- Harun will not give up on him, and Kelwyn will not give up on finding his way to sharing that peaceful life with Harun.  Two men, love, and magic are bound and determined to find their way to their shared dream of a future -- and family.

Blood and Fire

Harun struggled for breath as that pressure clamped down harder and harder, feeling himself growing weaker, grayness hazing his vision. He was on the edge of passing out when he felt Kelwyn kneeling next to him.


“Lucretious, please, please don’t do this. I…uh…I don’t want to see you like this. Please, you…” His voice caught for a moment, and he finally said, “You’re better than this. The Lucretious I love is better than this.”


“Maltheus?” The hands choking the life out of Harun loosened fractionally. “You remember?”


“A little. Enough to know I don’t want to see you so…so violent.”


“But he was taking you from me. You were leaving me again…”


The vampire’s hands let go of Harun, who lay still, coughing and gasping for breath as he tried to recover, feeling completely confused. What was going on?


“You were leaving. He was stealing you. I can’t bear to have you leave again. I have to kill him, do you understand, Maltheus?”


Chapter 15