FAMILY IS NOT ALWAYS CONNECTED THROUGH BLOOD

This complete series edition contains three full-length novels and a companion novella.

THE CREATIVES SERIES
Enter into the worldBut cast aside old ideas.Step Carefully,But step with deliberation,For there is room for indecisionWhen the devil lies waiting…

Book 1: A SECRET MUSE
5th Annual Beverly Hills Book Awards Winner -- Fantasy Section
UCLA art professor Coco Rhodes hates secrets. But after a near-fatal threat on her life, she can no longer ignore the darkness of her family's past.She turns to her brother, Christopher, who insists she'll find answers in her birthplace of Italy. In her mother's long-forgotten studio, Coco discovers an unfinished painting and is drawn to complete the mystical image. Enter, Gabriel, a vampire-warlock who walks in Coco's shadow, but is he her protector or killer?

Book 2: THE DEVIL AND THE MUSE
Award Winning B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree
Coco is surprised by a horrific vision beneath her most recent painting: the violent attack upon a fragile young girl. When a link is discovered between an education-finance fraud and several girls disappearing from Washington, D.C. schools, Coco's lover and leader of the Allegiance, the vampire-warlock Gabriel, vows to rescue the girls, and topple a corrupt congressman. Concurrently, the dark and twisted past of Kenan, the Allegiance's sworn enemy, is revealed. With Kenan's whereabouts unknown, members of the Allegiance begin to unravel his sadistic plan.

Book 3: THE IMMORTAL MUSE
Complex Betrayal. Secret Murder. Monumental Revenge.
Coco's trust in Gabriel is threatened as, just when she needs him most, images of his past indiscretions emerge from her paintings and she finds love letters to him from an admirer.

While the third incarnation of evil gathers strength, ancient tunnels beneath a Roman villa reveal the morbid history of Kenan and his predecessors and the secret of a fatal affair.