Melissa a. Bond

Don't Touch the Butterflies is the first in the crime thriller genre for me, and I am so proud of it. I hope it sparks a debate over the defects in our justice system, as well as ethics in media. Of course the critical dialog should be about how we regard crime in today's society. The demons that hide in the shadows don't have claws or razored teeth. They are sometimes our neighbors, our loved ones, our best friends, but thankfully it's more often an outsider we will never meet. With news available at our fingertips, our snap judgments breed evil as quick as our apathy, creating more sufferers to be forgotten. How many must be lost before you have blood on your hands?Lady Justice is blind. . .until you become the victim.Detective Walls is on the case of his life since he started working as a homicide detective with the Lubbock County Sheriff's Office, but others want it for their own agenda when teenager Charlotte Strum is found brutally murdered in a country field. Suddenly, a small West Texas town is turned upside down, creating a wave that rattles the nation in search of the killer. The suspects in the case aren't found - instead they are made, and their conviction is sealed by public opinion and the media before their trial even begins. Though beneath it all is a case glued together by satanic panic and political corruption. Walls fights to have the evidence find the killer, but it's an uphill battle that risks creating more victims, threatening everyone's innocence. Will his efforts stop the killer in time from striking again?

It was bound to happen. The human attempt to exercise authority over vampires was fated to fail. Had humans learned nothing from the consequences of one race dominating another? The uprising of every breed of vampire brought governments to their knees, and left a path of destruction across every nation with cities buried under the dead. David and Melissa Grayson awake from a long slumber to the restlessness growing along their beloved picturesque English countryside. The revolt had spread to their estate nestled in the Cotswolds, the once quiet beauty rising with the smoke from the villages burning on the horizon. The family is forced to turn their home into a prison. Their time is limited, proven when they must slaughter their own horses to feed the humans they provided shelter, and to satiate their own dying thirst. The family is betrayed when one of the humans they protected flees to the village, bringing a careless mob with his return. The family escapes to watch their Camelot burn, setting them on a journey that will try their resolve to stay together, and survive doing it. Only the human apocalypse is merely an undercurrent to the storm coming for them.An ancient Cold Blood with an investment in the family's bloodline becomes obsessed with their youngest, Effy, and will stop at nothing to have her. The family flees to Norway to escape him in the shadows of devastation, building a new life with borrowed time. Their sedated sense of peace becomes a fool's paradise when they are forced to face their origins. Lothaire's costly wager for their survival brings the extinction of the human race to their doorstep, turning their reality into witnessing the beginning of the struggle of their own to survive.The extermination of the human race will spark the largest war in history, the end of a silent requiem between breeds of vampires.

Melissa and David had the perfect family, a perfect love. Only looks can deceive, and fortune can never be trusted. Awren finds the world unforgiving, paying for his parents decisions. Only the cost is richer than his own warm blood. He never meant to find her, she just happened. As much as Awren tried hard to keep her from crossing that fine line, Willow pushed harder against him, blurring the line entirely. Awren and Willow find a comfortable existence in the small town of Fredericksburg, Texas. Living in the shadows of his parents, their existence appeared normal enough. Though when a new student joins Willow's elementary class, the events that occur are anything but normal, the little girl carries a dark secret settled within the coldest of hearts. Their future is born from a nightmare, where walls cry witness to inhuman horror, and revenge hides the darkness. When a string of murders hits close to home, threatening the future of the entire family, they quickly find that no place is safe. Desperate to escape the evil that is stalking them, the family is forced to play a cruel game of hide and seek. When each time they are found, they are forced to bear witness to sealing the fate of everyone they love.Will their immortal bond be enough to survive? Or will their past be too much to face? Only one thing is certain - blood will be spilled.Warning - This book contains graphic violence, some sexual situations, gore and violence involving children. It is not intended for readers under the age of 18.

Before the vampire apocalypse, there was their love. What would you say to a centuries old vampire who knew in knowing him would lead to your extraordinary death? When Melissa meets four curious strangers, who happen to know more about her than she knows about them, her presence in their lives ignites a fuse, shattering her innocence, and the comfortable existence the vampires had grown used to are forever altered. Contains strong themes involving teens, gore, moderate violence, some sexual situations, and suicide. Not intended for readers under the age of 18.