TITLE – The Zen Lounge
SERIES – No series, as of yet, but two more books (one for each of Voryk's friends)
are in the process of being written. They can be read as stand-alone novels.
AUTHOR – A.C. Melody
GENRE – Erotic SciFi Romance
PUBLICATION DATE – November 1, 2014
LENGTH (Pages/# Words) – 288 pages / 99,515 words
PUBLISHER – Red Sage Publisher
COVER ARTIST – Niina C (Cover Designer for Red Sage Publishing)
Welcome to the Zen Lounge, twenty-one floors of customizable carnal pleasures to fulfill your wildest fantasies. Even in the year 2192, it shouldn't exist but Voryk Kade simply couldn't ignore the urge to take a closer look. What he finds is a woman bent on ruining everything he'd ever believed to be true. She holds the key to all of Voryk's darkest, neediest desires and despite her silence, provides the proof behind his belief that there is something far seedier going on under the high-end gloss of professional eroticism.
Enlisting the help of his closest friends, Voryk's only goal is to keep Nexlana safe, naked and his. Unfortunately, she was already someone's favorite pet and when Master comes calling, it’s with a vengeance and the intent of never letting her slip away again. Haunted pasts continue to resurface, only Nexlana's might be far deadlier than any of them could have guessed—connections between her, arson, an assassination and a cold case no one ever wanted to delve into again. To stop the worst case scenario from taking place, they must finally figure out just who in the hell the Master really is.
The waiter lifted the linen, still shouting at him, and the entire restaurant gasped in horrified unison. Voryk's head spun deliriously and he grinned like the devil. Wrapping his hands around the woman's head, his fingertips dug into the flesh of her scalp.
“Teeth,” he ordered through clenched ones. “More teeth.”
When she didn't hesitate to comply, Voryk's eyes nearly rolled into the back of his head. Pain and pleasure collided, melding into one, all-consuming sensation that ripped through his core and the darkness danced in glee.
“Signore!” the waiter bellowed, slamming his hand down onto the table.
Voryk yanked his hand off of the woman's head, grabbed the fork from his plate and stabbed it through the back of the waiter's hand. Even as he howled in pain, no blood came forth—he just began to dematerialize right on the spot. Chaos erupted. People screaming and running, even while more waitstaff and the maitre d' ran toward Voryk's table.
The act of violence, even against a hologram, shot Voryk right over the edge. Gripping his companion's head again, he held her firmly in place as he erupted down her hot, clenching throat. Panting, heart still racing, Voryk looked up with very little interest when the maitre d' pounded a fist down on the table.
“Holo,” he roughed out. “End scenario.”
Name: Voryk Julien Kade
Age: 32
Height: 6 ft.
Build: Athletically toned, lethally agile
Hair: Dark brown to black
Eyes: Sable
Occupation: Sole owner of Kade-Milan Industries, a parent company based in Matron City. Voryk enjoys nothing more than buying up failing companies and converting them into profit-spewing investments.
History: Voryk knows nothing save loss. The brutal murder of his baby sister haunts his every move, and the tragic accident that claimed his parents merely four years later left Voryk too scarred to let anyone get too close. His two best friends, Hilo and Gryph, are the only people he trusts, aside from his family's lifelong head of house servant, Cedron. An unapologetic playboy, Voryk never sleeps with the same woman twice and has yet to meet one who can persuade him out of his phone number, let alone a tour of the infamous Kade Estate.
Favorite Pastimes: Sex, the pursuit of sex, more sex and outbidding his arch-rival, T.R. Rigo on prime commercial real estate.
Name: Nexlana
Age: Unknown
Height: 5' 9”
Build: Lusciously curved in all the right places
Hair: Dark chocolate brown
Eyes: Aquamarine
Occupation: Sex slave
History: For as long as she can remember, Nexlana had always been the slave to one Master; a cruel sadist who derives pleasure from torturing women. Yet no matter how many times he brings her to the brink of death, Nexlana always heals herself, to include her hymen. She's not sure how or why. The memories of something bright and good before being a slave are hazy and few, like bright gems of hope in the darkness, they comfort her alongside the dark angel that visits her in her dreams. She knows that he will save her some day. She just has to survive until then.
Favorite Pastimes: Nexlana has a very vivid imagination and uses it to create her own worlds in her mind, while she's alone in the dark. When her Master leaves her for long periods of time, she draws in the filth covered floor, but makes sure to erase all evidence, knowing that he would use it against her.
A.C. Melody spent the first few years of her life in Hanau, Germany, the hometown of the Brother's Grimm. An Army brat, she moved around quite a bit growing up. She's survived being snowed into her house, severe sunburns and weekly tornado visits – and that was just in Texas! Now, a proud resident of the beautifully green Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, she's trying to survive raising two teenage sons, while chasing her lifelong dream of sharing her stories with the world.
Coming from a background of artists and musicians, A.C. appreciates everything creative. She's an avid reader, professional smartass and javaholic. Always the whimsical daydreamer (a matter that got her into more trouble than not during her school years), she believes in the magic of the written word, the power of music and in the strength of humanity. In her own words: “I am an introverted people person, because I was born to be the biggest contradiction of my life! But, if you touch my coffee, we're gonna have problems...”
B&N / SHELFARI / GOODREADS TBR
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