Avriel Kaplan a man of power and distinction, quiet and brooding, handsome as the devil with an angel's heart hidden deep within his everlasting soul sits night after night at the end of the bar. He's more than human and far from evil and he never leaves the bar alone. He is what he is. He cannot deny it can he? Ariel Decklan a strong-willed intelligent woman, a bartender with bright emerald eyes a quick wit, brilliant mind, a bright smile and a secret power growing within her that she must learn to control. She watched him for months on end unaware that as she was watching she was being watched. He kept his eyes hidden, his smile from his lips and his heart carefully restrained and guarded until the day she inadvertently touched his hand. Out on the streets of LA, something evil lurks taking the lives of the city's untouchables and undesirables alike, people who have committed crimes against their fellow man, wives, husbands, cousins, brothers, sisters, friends; people, their lives mysteriously taken from them. As police and the Cheif Medical Examiner investigate the deaths they lead them to a strange conclusion and an unlikely place. That evil seeks her for the power that lives in her. Can Avriel protect the girl from the evil that lurks out in the city and still keep the desire that burns within from claiming her life too? In Darkness We Lie is a series of short pieces that are out of sequence, out of time, yet just as much a part of the story as any of the chapters you'll find in any of the books, past, present and future. Most Stories will have mature content. 18+ please. --Published-- BloodStream BloodLust --In Process-- BloodRite

Small moments in time for the characters in Divine Intervention. Sometimes sweet, sometimes smutty, and sometimes sad, but all are authentically them

Exhausted and weary from touring Avi fought the urge to just wrap himself in seclusion and therefore force Rayne to do the same. He was certain that she wouldn't mind, but he wanted to be fair, so he accepted Kirstin's invitation to the party. He didn't know he'd come to regret that decision on such a personal level.

What started as a whirlwind wild and crazy adventure in the wilds of the Sierra Nevada Mountains continues in the Hills of Tennessee locked away in their home from the rush and prying eyes of the world by the cold brutal winter storm that has gripped most of the world.

Avi and Lizette's adventure continue in Parents. Read and see how both react when a little extra love is thrown into their mix. Lizette and Avi have been dating for nearly a year. After a short stint of living together in Avi's small apartment, they moved into a bigger house. Life is wonderful, beautiful, and all that they want it to be. When Lizette's parents come to visit LA they stay with Lizzie and Avi things get a little crazy for them. Even though they only stay for a little more than a week, it calls for an adjustment in a stable and happy home as nerves and anxiety increase, while tension builds. Avi is forced to adjust to the changes in his home for the short period of time that Lizzie's parents are staying with them. He likes things a specific way. His home, his kitchen, his pots and pans, his girl, anywhere, anytime they feel the need. Will he be able to make the changes he needs to make, even temporarily, to survive the arrival of her parents? He's feared the day he had to meet them since the day he met her. He wondered if he'd have the courage to ask her father the one question that was burning in his mind. Would he get the answer he desired? And if he did would he be able to keep his mouth shut long enough for it to remain a surprise? He's been searching for just the right ring for what had come to feel like forever to him. After months of searching all he could find was the band that he desperately wanted to wear. Will he find the ring he's been looking for and if he does will he have the strength he needs to carry out his plans? Read this tale of love, function, sacrifice, patience, and understanding and find out. J.S. Barr

Avriel Kaplan: Well dressed, well-groomed, beautifully handsome, quiet, and brooding, until you get him alone, and exactly the kind of man Ariel Declan doesn't need to know. But, that is not for her to decide. He is the one she cannot resist and certainly doesn't want to. Someone sits quietly in the darkness and watches how the pieces fall together while outside in the cruel world, more and more people are dying, and the explanations aren't adding up. Each death was deemed as "death by natural causes" but, was it? The Chief Medical Examiner doesn't think so. Someone noticed. Someone is was listening. No one cares until the suspicious and unexplained death of a wealthy man's wife and several other high-profile cases land in the laps of the police. They can't explain what happened to all the blood went, why so many have died, or where have all the missing have gone? Ariel falls deeper into the man that is Avriel Kaplan. But who is he really? She is still wondering. Is he a man or something else entirely? Will she ever figure it out? How much further can she fall and what is the status of their relationship? Delve deeper into their world as they thrust headlong into a world of swirling chaos, mischief, murder, and love. Someone or something is hunting the homeless and unwanted in L.A. Someone or something is killing her citizens in ways that cannot be understood by the smartest among men. And something is stalking Ariel and is hell-bent on making a victim out of Avriel too. Who or what is killing all those people? Where did those yellow eyes come from? Are they responsible for all the deaths and disappearances? What do the authorities have to say about it? Unravel the mysteries, read BloodRite, book three in the Blood Lies series.

Rae prepares her home for Avi's visit. She tries not to stress too much knowing that she will be introducing him to her family out of the blue.

He just wanted to get a cup of tea and be on his way. She was minding her own business enjoying her morning. Then fate stepped in and tripped him. He stumbled over his own feet, nearly lost his balance and slammed right into a beautiful girl with sapphire eyes and narrowly prevented his hot tea from scalding her. She turned ready to let the stranger have it, but when his face came into focus the words she had died on her lips. For her, it was a random chance meeting of a lifetime. For him, it was love at first site. Follow Avriel and Lizette from their first, chance meeting to the first date and on to their first admission of love in First.

Typically shy and relatively reserved young, Avi finds himself in a sink or swim situation after his friend and college roommate, Kevin, introduces him to Charlotte a beautiful girl that Avi has admired from afar for far too long. Kevin is either the world's worst or the world's best wingman ever. Avi and Charlotte have little trouble spending time together and talking once Avi settles into himself. The chemistry is real and their connection and desire grow as they learn more and more about one another. Everything is perfect and going well. He really likes her and she likes. In no time flat, Avi lands the first kiss. Naturally, he wants more and so does she. He's found himself the perfect girl, warm and bright, smart and beautiful, funny and all his. If only he could find the courage to ask her on the feared first date. It's just one simple question, but it scares him more than anything, anything except losing control and giving in way too soon. Avi needs to come up enough courage to ask her out on that first date before he lets their desire for each other win. Will he find the courage he needs to do so, or will they give into their desires and ruin their chance at a future together?

The wait was over. Finally Avi and Rayne could be together, hang out and get to know each other. They can share their time with the band, sneak away to find quiet time alone together and enjoy the music and life on the road, or so they thought. As their relationship grows and they draw each other into their worlds, somewhere a darkness lurks watching waiting for the right moment to strike.