Blood and Fire [Kindle Edition]

Carrie Clevenger (Author), Nerine Dorman (Author)

Book Description

Bassist and all-round slacker Xan Marcelles spends his nights at a remote tavern in Pinecliffe, Colorado. But there’s something else, he’s also a vampire, and although he reckons he has a handle on this secret, he’s not prepared for the day when people he thinks are the FBI drug him and haul him away.

Ashton Kennedy isn’t human anymore and, as a member of a race of beings known simply as Inkarna, exists through the aeons by stealing bodies. At first his mission seems simple enough: break into the stronghold of a rival Inkarna House and liberate an artifact. He doesn’t bank on discovering a vampire, bound and tucked away neatly in a sarcophagus.

The two unlikely allies are thrown together in a house of mysteries, and have to battle overwhelming odds against an implacable enemy. The question is, can they overcome their differences long enough to make it out alive, or undead?

Product Details

• File Size: 205 KB
• Print Length: 65 pages
• Publisher: Dark Continents Publishing (January 1, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B006SD3F2S
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #673,109 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Supernatural thriller January 2, 2012

By Dr. F. S. Ledgister

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This is a pleasant combination of the supernatural tale and the thriller. Eldritch beings living ordinary lives are caught up in an amazing adventure and have to fight their way back to normality (or what passes for it). This is an exciting and enjoyable read, swiftly paced and with interesting twists and turns.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Vampire fun and Egyptian Esoterics January 2, 2012

By C. Korman

Format:Kindle Edition

This second collaboration between Clevenger and Dorman is even more fun than the first. More insight into vampire Xan's previous life, along with his current one. Add mysterious Ash into the mix, and some esoteric Egyptian principles and you'll get way more than you bargained for..
Great fun, I especially enjoyed Xan's self depreciating manner.
For the price of a beer, this is a must read...

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Highly Enjoyable! January 2, 2012

By Melissa Ecker

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Clevenger and Dorman do an excellent job merging the worlds of Xan and Ash. These two characters collide to form the unlikeliest of alliances in this urban fantasy thriller. Delivering plenty of blood and fire via fangs and magic, this collaboration is a quick read filled with action, adventure and some hilarious snark between Ash and Xan. I would definitely love to see more from these two authors.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Collaboration of Characters and Worlds June 29, 2012

By ParaYourNormal

Format:Kindle Edition

Review by Gabryyl Pierce, PYN Review Team
5 of 5 stars

Blood and Fire is the new novella collaboration between authors Carrie Clevenger and Nerine Dorman, following 2011's Just My Blood Type.

Clevenger's character, Xan Marcelles, is a vampire and bass player in Crooked Fang, a rock band who play in a bar in Colorado. Dorman's Ashton Kennedy is an Inkarna (a body thief) who was a woman in his past life. Ash and Xan are soon teaming up to defeat a cult of Egyptian sorcerers.

Dorman and Clevenger have done an amazing job with this novella, integrating their respective characters and worlds while staying true to their own voices. The story is fast-paced and well written and is a welcome addition to my library. Both characters will be reappearing soon in their own novels: Clevenger's Crooked Fang and Dorman's Inkarna.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Blood and Fire is bloody good! January 9, 2012

By Cathy Webster

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The thing most people don't tell you about vampires is that they're addictive - especially tall, muscle-bound, long-haired musician dudes like Xan Marcelles. I've read him twice now, once in Blood and Fire and once in Just My Blood Type, and now I've got a thirsty jones for some more. Xan's a sexy bad-ass laying low in a rough and tumble bar named Pale Rider in the middle of stinking nowhere. He drinks whiskey to smote his need for the blood of tasty young bar patrons, but he also plays bass in a band called Crooked Fang, cleans toilets, bounces drunks and makes egg salad sandwiches. He's about as far from the Twilight boyz, character-wise, as one could get but that's because he's all grown up with all the swarthy, sexy, bed-headed attractiveness that Robert Pattinson and his ilk can only dream of.

In this lightning-paced adventure, Xan is kidnapped by some really bad guys who want to take advantage of his vampire sensibilities and it is in the bowels of a dank labyrinth of a mansion that he meets his alter-ego, an equally tall, equally brawny English dude named Ash. Where Xan is just a regular "bloke" in almost all ways, Ash is nothing if not magic, a mystic figure who uses unusual "abilities" to see what lies ahead, what's hidden, what will be. Ash is in the mansion to find a fantastical artifact but he finds more than he bargained for when he comes across Xan hog-tied with chains and stuffed into a sarcophagus. He rescues the vamp, who thanks him by sinking his teeth into his neck, and thus begins an unlikely buddy story with some of the most smart-assed, whip-cracking back and forth dialogue I've seen in some time.

Authors Carrie Clevenger and Nerine Dorman have happened across their own buddy system that really works.... Carrie writes Xan, Nerine writes Ash, and both talented women give highly individual voices to their testosterone-ladled characters. They did the same thing in Just My Blood Type (only Nerine wrote a sexy female lead opposite Clevenger's Xan). This writerly partnership has given readers a rock 'em, sock 'em read that will leave mere mortals such as myself begging for more.

Which leads me to ask: when's the next one coming out, ladies? Read more ›

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An Alliance Between Immortals January 6, 2012

By Amy Burgess

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Carrie Clevenger and Nerine Dorman have done an outstanding job bringing together two very different kinds of immortals - a vampire named Xan and an Egyptian based soul stealer, Ash - into the same adventure.

Xan, rather trustingly, agrees to take a walk with the Feds to answer a few questions and finds himself in a hell of jam.

Ash, on an entirely different mission, somewhat reluctantly comes to his rescue, although more than once it is Xan who manages to yank Ash out of a tight spot.

This story is awesome, engaging and the pages flew by as I held my breath and braced myself for the rollercoaster twists and turns.

The story trades off - one chapter from Xan's perspective and the next from Ash's. I loved switching between both characters and learning more about them with each passing chapter. Their voices are very different, but it wasn't jarring to go between them.

Ash, the Inkarna, is a very complex character with a wry sense of humor whereas Xan, the vampire, pretends to be a womanizing, hard drinking simple soul but is anything but.

Both authors are female and they did a hell of a job telling the story from the male perspective.

I can't wait for the release of Clevenger's Crooked Fang, which will feature more of the sexy vampire bassist, Xan and Dorman's Inkarna with more about the enigmatic immortal, Ash.

Big thumbs up for this book!