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INTRODUCING THE HUNGER HURTS SERIES
BOOK ONE
ACID JAZZ SINGER
This ain't your usual vamp paranormal...
LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION!
ACID JAZZ SINGER
HAS A NEW TRAILER
From that creative genius: Sessha Batto
Denyse Bridger, Award Winning Romance Author, Reviews Acid Jazz Singer
Her name was RayLee. They call her the Acid Jazz Singer… and so begins a tale that is populated with some of the most unexpected and intriguing people you’re likely to encounter anywhere. RayLee is on the run, desperately attempting to escape her maker. As in all good stories, there’s a hero with issues of his own, and some really stellar supporting players. Vladimira is fascinating as she comes to terms with an emerging heart she’s denied having – caring isn’t easy when you’re an ancient and an enforcer.
Assassins, gender questions, vampires, demon… ACID JAZZ SINGER has them all, and the author weaves the threads of her complex and compelling plot like a master, dishing out surprises that will leave readers not only smiling, but thinking – and for me, that’s the greatest success a book can have. The story asks you to think, to be entertained, and most of all to feel for these characters who are anything but typical. The series is called “Hunger Hurts” and book one, the ACID JAZZ SINGER, gives us a tantalizing reminder that there are many kinds of hunger, and often all of them cause hurt in some fashion.
RayLee will intrigue and haunt you, Travis will evoke all kinds of emotions as you watch him and get to know him. The supporting cast, a Dune loving database called Dozer, Joleen… everyone has a place in this story, and adds to its character. Sex, vampires, demons, and one of my favourite phrases: soul-sucking psychic mindfucks…
If you’re looking for a book that will keep you turning pages and wondering what comes next, you’ll love this story. Kudos to Nya Rawlyns for this first book in what promises to be a great time in all ways! Her writing is strong, engaging, & very evocative… scenes are well drawn, and the emotional presence immediate and real. Five stars all around!
When the hunter becomes the hunted, his only hope
is the vamp assassin stalking him.
Her name was RayLee. They called her the Acid Jazz Singer, her sultry voice mesmerizing human and demon alike. She’d been running for three years from her maker and only Travis McKenzie stood between her and the darkness that had become her life.
Travis hunted the hit squads of demons and paid lip service to the Sheriff of the city. The half-blood had gifts, of the magic, shifting kind—and something more. It made him a stone cold killer and the only thing that mattered in his life was safeguarding the woman he was falling in love with.
Vladimira was the oldest of her kind, an enforcer—a gun for hire to the highest bidder. Vamp, human, demon. It didn’t matter. It was all about the job … until the stakes changed and she found a reason to care.
The singer and the protector had a history. But that history changed when a southern bigot vamp turned Travis’ friend into a travesty—neither man, nor woman … but both. Travis fell hard for the trannie known as RayLee. He was having a harder time dealing with his best friend, Ray.
Then the game changes, and Travis and Ray have to rely on an assassin with a secret agenda and uncertain loyalties.
When the demon comes to claim Ray, Travis must walk
through the bowels of hell to save the only being
on earth he cares about.
The problem is … who is going to save Travis from himself?
is the vamp assassin stalking him.
Her name was RayLee. They called her the Acid Jazz Singer, her sultry voice mesmerizing human and demon alike. She’d been running for three years from her maker and only Travis McKenzie stood between her and the darkness that had become her life.
Travis hunted the hit squads of demons and paid lip service to the Sheriff of the city. The half-blood had gifts, of the magic, shifting kind—and something more. It made him a stone cold killer and the only thing that mattered in his life was safeguarding the woman he was falling in love with.
Vladimira was the oldest of her kind, an enforcer—a gun for hire to the highest bidder. Vamp, human, demon. It didn’t matter. It was all about the job … until the stakes changed and she found a reason to care.
The singer and the protector had a history. But that history changed when a southern bigot vamp turned Travis’ friend into a travesty—neither man, nor woman … but both. Travis fell hard for the trannie known as RayLee. He was having a harder time dealing with his best friend, Ray.
Then the game changes, and Travis and Ray have to rely on an assassin with a secret agenda and uncertain loyalties.
When the demon comes to claim Ray, Travis must walk
through the bowels of hell to save the only being
on earth he cares about.
The problem is … who is going to save Travis from himself?
ANOTHER 5 STAR REVIEW FOR ACID JAZZ SINGER
Review by: Bill Kirton on Aug. 12, 2011 :
The popularity of vamp literature means that its stories are becoming repetitive and sometimes appear to be written by people who only know the clichés and not what they represent. On the other hand, there are those with a deeper understanding of the myths and the subconscious urges they represent. Nya Rawlins is one such person. In The Acid Jazz Singer, vampirism is just one of the threads of a gripping, pacey story whose narrator has the sharpness, wit and immediacy of the classic private eye of crime fiction. There’s eroticism, shape-shifting (and perhaps its ultimate manifestation – transgendering), all set in a moral context in which good and bad seem negotiable. The action sequences are breathtaking and Rawlins is in complete control of her medium, whichever of the levels she’s handling.And these various threads aren’t simply exercises in genre-mixing, they’re woven together in a texture which extends the vamp metaphor of draining the essence from another and fuses it with love and its ambiguities. Travis, the narrator, is far from the conventional hero, the characters who surround him are complex beings themselves who resist easy pigeonholing and, amongst the violence, eroticism and mayhem, there’s a sweet central tenderness between him and RayLee, the transsexual he protects and loves.This is the first of a series and, even as its resolution answers some of the narratives challenges, it’s clear that there are more ahead for Travis and that some of these outcomes may be revisited. It’s a very satisfying book, an excellent, page-turning read and a story which transcends the limits of genre fiction.
SARA CURRAN-ROSS REVIEWS ACID JAZZ SINGER
' Anyone who loves the tv vampire series True Blood or is looking for a new slant on the vampire story or indeed a love story would be hard pressed to find any better than Acid Jazz Singer. This is a must have read.'
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Sara is the author of Knight of Swords
Read the full review HERE!
Sara is the author of Knight of Swords
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