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Dardanos, Colorado
Dardanos, Colorado
Series ·
14
books · 2011-2016
By
Calle J. Brookes
Books in series
#1
The Blood King
2011
War was cruelty, cruelty was war. Sacrifices must be made by both sides. Rydere Dardanos was king of the Dardaptos people. He’d do anything to protect his vampire race in the war between the Dardaptoans and all those named Taniss. Emily Taniss was the new CEO of Taniss Industries, the company her grandfather started sixty years ago. Now she was charged with unraveling all the evil her grandfather had been responsible for. It would take her years to find all the answers. But Emily didn’t have years, she had only moments. Rydere saw the young female’s death as a necessary sacrifice for his people. So many of his people had been lost at Taniss hands, her death was only fitting. Owed to his people. He didn’t have to like killing her, but he would do it. Rydere held her small body clutched against him as he lowered his fangs toward her neck. He would make it easy on her, he would make it quick. Until his first taste of her blood made it clear to him she wasn’t just a sacrifice. She was his destined mate...and the new queen of his people. But Emily wanted nothing to do with being queen of the vampires. Rydere had to convince her to stay with him before her grandfather's evil overtook them all. (Formerly released as The Blood King)
#1.5
The Seer's Strength
2012
Mickey Taniss had a difficult time trusting men—of any species. And she knew she'd never be able to trust one who'd turned her from a human woman into a vampire! Or a Dardaptoan—whatever he'd called her. She knew the truth—he'd kidnapped her and taken her from the very world she knew. And now he wanted her to believe some goddess she'd never heard of had preordained them being together? He was absolutely crazy. Theodoric Sebastos had spent the long centuries waiting for and longing for his mate, and when he found her he would do whatever he had to in order to convince her that they belonged together and that she could trust him. But how was he to do that?
#2
Live or Die
2012
She was locked in a world of silence. He was locked in a world of vengeance. Cormac Jareth's family had suffered like no others at the hands of Leo Taniss. Taniss’s genocide had taken 1887 of his people, so far—people Cormac was supposed to protect. Surely the goddess demanded blood payment in the form of Leo Taniss' granddaughter, Jocelyn? Josey Taniss had been at the top of her class in medical school despite being hearing impaired. She’d studied hard, and knew she’d earned her position as head of the family’s pharmaceutical company’s Research & Development department. Her grandfather had pioneered a miracle drug, and Josey was following in his footsteps, doing her part to make Taniss Industries the world’s premiere pharmaceutical company. Her path was clear until she learned her grandfather was stealing from the company she loved. And that embezzlement wasn’t his only crime… Cormac took one look at his intended victim and knew…the goddess had screwed him over even further. Jocelyn wouldn’t be his first act of vengeance. She’d be his…mate…but first she had to make a choice...to live or die.
#3
The Warrior's Woman
2012
Vampires didn’t exist, but human monsters did—and Mallory Taniss was going to protect her sisters from those monsters. They would not be victims like she had been. Aodhan Adrastos was the strongest warrior of his vampiric race, sent to stop a human sociopath from targeting his people again. Aodhan had a plan for vengeance that would end the threat to his Kind and avenge the two thousand dead at Taniss hands. But instead of the human responsible for the deaths of thousands of Aodhan’s Kind, there was a mere human woman. The killer’s granddaughter. Vulnerable, beautiful and frightened. Ready to defend her family from him. Aodhan knew with one taste that the impossible had happened—this human female was the mate destined for him from the moment of his birth. Aodhan wasn’t about to leave the mate he’d waited centuries before behind, not now that he’d finally found her… (Formerly titled The Warrior's Woman)
#5
Awakening the Demon's Queen
2011
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ JUST THE DEMON’S MEANS TO AN END ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Demons and Dardaptoan vampires have fought each other for centuries. Rathan, King of the Demons, leads the fight. He’ll have vengeance for the four young women killed at the vampires’ hands just days earlier. When a vulnerable, fragile female Dardaptoan practically falls into his lap, he plans to take full advantage. He is the king of the Incubi, after all, and she seems so very, very tasty... That she is connected to his enemies makes her so much sweeter. ★ ★ ★ DEAL WITH THE DEVIL. ★ ★ ★ Kindara has no choice but to make a devil's bargain with the most seductive creature she has ever seen. He is almost enough to make her forget the pain she has lived with for nearly three decades. Almost enough to make her feel something—anything—for a male again. Almost. Then the stakes rise so high she has no choice but to turn to him, to trust him to protect her in a world far unlike the only one she has ever known. The fate of his kingdom and her people depend on them both. If they don't succeed, Kindara and the daughter she loves so much could be the next ones lost. And Rathan will lose the female he's waited centuries to find... ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ Previously published in 2013 as Awakening the Demon's Queen, book 5 in the Dardanos series of paranormal romances. It has now been updated and expanded. ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆ ◆
#6
The Healer's Heart
2011
Jade always knew she was different and she always knew there was a special someone waiting for her. She hadn't known he would be four hundred years old—or a vampire. Barlaam had waited for centuries for his Rajni—his destined mate. He never expected it to be some human girl who was barely twenty-one! The only honorable thing for him to do was step back and give her a few more years—maybe a decade—before he staked his claim! But that's not what Jade wants... He might be resistent, but Jade was unstoppable. He was hers, and she would have him!
#7
Once Wolf Bitten
2011
Jason Taniss was a family man, first and foremost. He loved his grown daughters and he was learning to tolerate his vampiric sons-in-law. But as a Lupoiux werewolf he longed for his own mate. She was out there waiting for him, somewhere. He just had to find her. Dr. Annabelle Macgregor ran faster than she ever had before. Her scientific mind refused to accept what she'd seen. Werewolves did not exist. Jason knew the rogue wolves wouldn't stop until they caught the lone female human; he knew what they would do to her if they caught her, too. As an employee of Taniss Industries, the woman was his responsibility to protect. He'd do just that. But when Jason caught Anna's scent, one thing became clear...she was his mate... Anna had been in a relationship with a dominant man before, and that experience was the last thing she wanted to repeat. She'd had to start over before, and it wasn't something she ever wanted to do again. Jason would do anything to change her mind. (Also includes "The Healer's Heart", a short story featuring Jason's younger daughter Jade and her mate Barlaam.)
#8
The Wolf's Redemption
2013
He had amends to make to the woman the gods had paired him with—but how was he to do that when those very gods made such demands on both of them?
#9
The Wolf God and His Mate
2013
She cried 200 tears, and where they landed, her people grew… A goddess was supposed to protect her people. Guide them. Answer their prayers. Kennera had failed them. For three thousand years, their mournful cries had twisted her heart, made her imprisonment unbearable. But she had a plan to save her Kind. Even if it meant her death at the hands of the Wolf god. He'd had three thousand years to plan his revenge against the foolish Girl Goddess responsible for his captivity, and once they were free, Eiophon would stop at nothing to act on those plans...
#10
A Warrior's Quest
2013
She was going to die. Aureliana Adrastos knew it, and would meet that death face-to-face, sword in hand. That was one reason why she’d kept the knowledge that she’d found her mate to herself. The grief for the life they would never have together nearly crippled her. What purpose would it serve to tell him? It would only cause them both far more pain than Aureliana could ever hope to endure… Ren, prince of all warrior demons, wanted the fiery Dardaptoan female for his own, and she wanted him, too. So why was the bravest female he’d ever known running from him? He’d followed her anywhere; honor demanded it. He would stop at nothing to have her—or to keep her safe. Nothing would stand between them. Not even the warrior girl herself…
Author
Calle J. Brookes
Author · 79 books
#11
Out of the Darkness
2014
Every Kind had its Evil... He was the monster in her nightmares, and he knew it. Her grandfather had tortured him and made him into a monster - part vampire, part shifter, part goddess-only-knew what. He wasn’t what a naive young woman like Cassandra needed. Even if she was the mate given him by the goddess he so despised. He’d promised to keep his distance and had kept that vow for over a year - until something yanked Cassandra into another world. Now Nalik will do anything to keep her safe. Even if that means he has to claim his mate to do so....
#12
Warrior Blind
2014
Destiny finds you, no matter where you go... Bronwen Sebastos had hidden from the world and the people who cared about her for the last fifteen months. But now those people are needing her to help them prepare for the war that was to come. But Bronwen knew the truth - she could not lead the band of healers into the strange new place. How could she? She was the smallest, the youngest, and the weakest. And she had been blinded over a year ago. How could a blind woman lead? Koios Lothicanos would always feel the guilt for his actions that led to the healer girl's injuries. But the Warrior King had his own destiny to follow, and that destiny included protecting Bronwen from all that would harm her. Even himself... But how was he supposed to do that? When the worlds around them were about to erupt into battles the likes of which he had never seen?
#14
Balance of the Worlds
2015
Sometimes destiny was terrifying. You could not escape it, and it mattered little if you even tried. Nelciana Nellano had tried thousands of years before, but the Goddess of Family had lost every loved one before. Nothing would stop her from protecting the family she had left. Not even the father of her children... Lothonos, God of Logic, knew the birth of his children righted the worlds temporarily, but if anything were to happen to the babes, everything they'd gained by the children's conception would be lost. And that would put the nineteen worlds in chaos again. Something no one could afford... So why was the mother of his children going in to battle when her place was next to the babes, protecting them—and herself—from the ugliness that was war? Surely Nelciana knew that he would do whatever was necessary to protect their children—and her—from the horrors that were coming? Surely she knew that there was nothing he would not do for her...?
#14.5
God of Nightmares
2016
Acylias was one of the most ancient and powerful gods. He searched the worlds for the lost shifters as a bird of prey, and knew he was a terrifying sight. All feared him. And he liked it that way. He was the God of Nightmares, after all. He would not be brought low by a half-human, half-witch female of less than thirty years! Until her arrow sent him hurtling from the sky. Teagan Taniss would defend her children however she could. She’d fended off demons and before, and she’d face them all again if it would keep her family safe. And something was coming for them all… Teagan had to make a choice—go with the shifter in front of her promising protection, or stay and defend her children alone. She had only minutes to decide… God of Nightmares is a novella from the Dardanos, Co. paranormal romance series.
