The Forbidden

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Macmillan, 2006 M06 27 - 512 pages

The Body of a Goddess...with the Heart of Hell itself.
The devil is a dead-beat dad and his consort Lilith couldn't care less. A stolen embryo stirs in Lilith's womb and a plan pulses through her veins: To unleash her child from the gates of hell—as soon as she destroys the only two vampire hunters who can possibly stop her...

THE FORBIDDENDamali Richards is a woman-child in a world running with blood, depravity and demons. Turned by her lover, Carlos Rivera, and brought back again, Damali clings to the one measure of purity that was handed down to her through generations of the wise, gifted and strong. Now, through the power of magic, through the ache of desire and the touch of her lover, Damali is on a journey from the streets of Philadelphia to the ancient earth of Africa. With a small army, with Carlos and with her own mad skills, she might just save the world from the demon seductress who wants her and her faith obliterated—before Armageddon begins...

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CHAPTER ONE
1
CHAPTER TWO
10
CHAPTER THREE
19
CHAPTER FOUR
37
CHAPTER FIVE
55
CHAPTER SIX
66
CHAPTER SEVEN
79
CHAPTER EIGHT
94
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
245
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
267
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
289
CHAPTER NINETEEN
313
CHAPTER TWENTY
330
CHAPTER TWENTYONE
348
CHAPTER TWENTYTWO
361
CHAPTER TWENTYTHREE
383

CHAPTER NINE
100
CHAPTER TEN
132
CHAPTER ELEVEN
148
CHAPTER TWELVE
162
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
189
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
207
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
222
CHAPTER TWENTYFOUR
400
CHAPTER TWENTYFIVE
428
CHAPTER TWENTYSIX
444
CHAPTER TWENTYSEVEN
463
CHAPTER TWENTYEIGHT
488
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About the author (2006)

Leslie Esdaile Banks was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 11, 1959. She received an undergraduate degree from The University of Pennsylvania and a master of fine arts degree in filmmaking from Temple University. She wrote under the pseudonyms L. A. Banks, Leslie Esdaile, Leslie E. Banks, Leslie Banks, and Leslie Esdaile Banks. She wrote in several genres including crime, thriller, romance, science fiction, and fantasy. Writing as L. A. Banks, she was best known for the Vampire Huntress Legend series and the Crimson Moon series. She received the 2009 Romantic Times Booklover's Convention Career Achievement Award for Paranormal Fiction and the 2008 Essence Magazine Storyteller of the Year Award. She died of adrenal cancer on August 2, 2011 at the age of 51.

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