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    Laura's Locket: Prequel to the Dantonville Legacy Series, #0
    Laura's Locket: Prequel to the Dantonville Legacy Series, #0
    Laura's Locket: Prequel to the Dantonville Legacy Series, #0
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    Laura's Locket: Prequel to the Dantonville Legacy Series, #0

    By Tima Maria Lacoba

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    A young woman unaware of her heritage.

    A vampire desperate to claim her.

    A family determined to protect her.

    Young and innocent eighteen-year-old Laura Dantonville is celebrating her high-school graduation with her first overseas trip – to Italy. Accompanied by her two best friends, she meets the mysterious – and devastatingly handsome – Philippe. He is gallant and charming, and Laura loses her heart.

    Their meetings are brief and secret, and Philippe gives her a lovely silver locket. She swears to wear it always.

    Knowing Laura is unaware of her true heritage and ultimate destiny, Philippe seizes the opportunity to claim her for himself. But it's not only her blood that ensnares him. Drawn to her like to no other woman, Philippe's passion turns to obsession risking the wrath of her powerful vampire family and the inescapable future they have planned for her - one that does not include him.

    Does he press his advantage and reveal the terrifying truth her family's hiding from her? Or will he bide his time, watching and waiting, shadowing Laura until her coming of age when all secrets will be revealed?

    Click NOW to find out.

    This novella takes place some years before BloodGifted and reveals more of Laura and Philippe's history.

    Series Order:

    Laura's Locket (Prequel)

    BloodGifted (#1)

    BloodPledge (#2)

    BloodVault (#3)

    BloodWish (#4)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTima Maria Lacoba
    Release dateFeb 13, 2014
    ISBN9781393050544
    Laura's Locket: Prequel to the Dantonville Legacy Series, #0

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      Book preview

      Laura's Locket - Tima Maria Lacoba

      Editing by Dionne Lister

      Book Cover by JC Clarke thegraphicsshed@gmail.com

      Formatting By Paradox Book Covers & Formatting

      BOOKS BY TIMA MARIA LACOBA

      Laura's Locket: The Prequel to BloodGifted

      BloodGifted: Book 1 of the Dantonville Legacy

      BloodPledge: Book 2 of the Dantonville Legacy

      BloodVault: Book 3 of the Dantonville Legacy

      BloodWish: Book 4 of the Dantonville Legacy

      Copyright 2013

      All rights reserved

      All the characters and events in this book are entirely fictitious and from the author’s imagination. They bear no relation whatsoever to anyone with the same name or names and the incidents depicted are pure imagination.

      Except for in any review, no part of this text is to be reproduced, either whole or part, transmitted in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, storage in an information retrieval system, or otherwise, without the permission of the author.

      This short story cannot be sold, traded, lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without prior consent of the author in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      LAURA’S LOCKET

      LAURA

      I opened the train window and the cool air rushed in. Although it was January I wanted to breathe in the wintery air. The wind bit my face and made my cheeks tingle. It was refreshing after sitting for an hour in an overheated train compartment. I’d already taken off my coat, scarf and woollen cap, and my angora jumper was scrunched up on the seat.

      In the distance, the Mediterranean Sea sparkled in the late afternoon sunshine as our train snaked around the narrow precipice of the southern Italian coastline. Jagged cliffs dropped away inches from the iron tracks that barely clung to the rocky earth.

      ‘Sorrento, next stop,’ I said with a smile, then left the window and pulled my bag down from the overhead shelves.

      My two best friends, Beth and Angie, also hopped up from their seats to lift their bags down. We’d known each other since seventh grade, and there was rarely a weekend the three of us didn’t have a sleepover at one of our homes. At school we’d been nicknamed The Three Amigos.

      And this was our very first trip overseas. I couldn’t wait to start our Amalfi holiday.

      We linked arms, jumped up and down on the spot and squealed. All through our senior year we’d planned this trip to celebrate the end of high school, worked at part time jobs and saved as much as we could. Our parents made up the shortfall, as did my Aunt Judy, Dad’s sister. She chose our hotels and had even paid for mine.

      I glanced out the window just as we passed a secluded cove and the gentle undulations of an inflated palm tree close to the shoreline caught my eye.

      ‘Look at this. An artificial tropical island!’ I said and pointed. ‘Must be anchored to a rock below the waves or something.’

      Beth and Angie squeezed in next to me and stuck their heads out the window.

      ‘A fake palm tree. That’s classic!’ Beth said while clawing away tendrils of her long, black hair the wind had whipped around her face.

      Beth’s family had migrated from Mumbai when she was three, and their house was only a street away from mine in Earlwood. Her

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