Can One True Love Keep Your Demon From Going/Becoming Truly Evil?

By Rita Herron

I think the best way to answer this question is for you to meet the demon hero in Insatiable Desire. Once you get to know Vincent and read his story, you’ll understand how that one love, that soulmate, can save a demon from his own evil side – and how important is it that he hold onto her!

Vincent Valtrez:

I am evil.

Vincent Valtrez is my name, and I was born that way. Born from a descendant of Satan and an Angel of Good. But the Satan part won out and my father killed my mother. And now he’s set to become the new leader of the underworld.

The strongest and most evil leader the world has ever known.

He wants me to join him, to sit at his side, to fight for his cause and spread evil such as the world has never known.

 

After all I am his son and carry his bad blood.

This darkness pulls at me. I fight it every day, with every decision I make, with every breath I take.

But I HAVE been fighting it – and sometimes I win.

I am an FBI agent – I use my skills, my dark side, my knowledge of the killer’s mind, his hunting instincts, his need to feed on innocents — to track down the others like me. The ones who have lost their souls to the dark side.

Now, the girl I left behind years ago, Clarissa King, a girl who talks to spirits, the only one who ever believed in me, has called me back to my hometown. She claims there is a serial killer targeting the locals of Eerie, Tennessee. A killer who touches his victims, learns their greatest fear, and uses it to kill them.

This killer, Pan, the god of Fear, knows my weakness, my fear – that I will lose myself to evil as my father did.

I have to prove him wrong. But in order to do so, I must join forces with Clarissa, the young girl I left behind, the medium who talks to the victims, the one woman who can save my soul.

But joining with her means facing my truly biggest fear – loving someone and losing then to the evil that calls at my very soul…

Rita Herron:

 I’ve always been intrigued by psychology and human behavior. What makes one person who experienced a tragedy use it to make him stronger while another person folds and lets it eat him inside? The age-old nature versus nurture argument — are we born bad or are those learned behaviors?

This question sparked the premise for my heroes. Not only are they strong alpha males tracking down killers, both human and demonic, but they understand the killer’s mind because they, too, are drawn by this dark side.

Being the incurable romantic that I am, I had to explore the idea that even if these tough, alpha males are fraught with evil thoughts and struggling with their own inner demons as well as the ones in the world they face, that there is one woman meant for them.

One woman meant to tame that twisted part of their souls. One who can restore their humanity and stand by their side. One woman whose love is so powerful that it makes them stronger so that good can win over evil and love and goodness can reign on.

It takes a special woman to tackle these men, to love them, to forgive them and stand up to their demanding ways. But that tough, tenacious, sensitive woman is a true heroine in her own right. She saves lives in her own way. She has overcome her own obstacles. And although she’s vulnerable, she needs his love as much as he needs hers.

What more powerful romance can there be?

I hope you fall in love with the demonborn,  and that their struggles to redeem their souls and find love touch you as deeply as they’ve touched me.

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In addition, there will be one grand prize winner for the week who will win a book from each participating author, a $20 gift certificate from me from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Borders, and two autographed books from Kresley Cole – Dark Desires After Dusk and Kiss Of A Demon King. 

All winners will be announced Sunday, May 24. Good Luck!***