{"product_id":"2940011231056","title":"Vampire Vintage Book One: Belladonna in Hollywood","description":"\u003cp\u003eBelladonna knew her life was about to get even worse the day she had to throw Rosie off the Hollywood sign.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat she sought was Golden Age glamor, fame, flashbulbs, and the man who played Dracula.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat she got was Hollywood's underbelly – drugs, degenerates, phoneys, and a vampire with one hell of an attitude.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlood, Revenge, Gangsters, Vampires, Bela Lugosi \u0026amp; Guns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Vampire Vintage: Belladonna in Hollywood' is Book One of the Vampire Vintage Novel Series by Alex Severin.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExcerpt from 'Vampire Vintage Book One : Belladonna in Hollywood' -\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter One : This is Hollywood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHollywood, California, Now...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLust hung heavily in the air as he smoldered his way through another song. Drums like a heartbeat throbbed behind his voice and distorted guitars screamed like the adoring crowd.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe warehouse was packed, wall-to-wall, the air wet with excited sweat, the crowd exhaling their desire for him into air that smelled like sex.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelladonna grinned grudgingly and shook her head as she watched him preach to his disciples. Not much had changed in the eighty years that Belladonna had been a vampire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVivant still needed an audience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that audience was still on its knees, vibrating with lust so fierce you could almost touch it, taste it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen and women wanted him, needed him, just like they always had. And some would even die for him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLooking at the people in the crowd reminded Belladonna that fashion never changed all that much over the years. Most of them looked as if they'd just stepped from the corroding celluloid of a silent movie, black-eyed and pale and at odds with the colorful world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was pointless trying to hide; Vivant would have known she was here long before she crossed the threshold. No one could successfully sneak up on him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBelladonna wondered why he had never left Hollywood for any significant period. He'd arrived here from eastern Europe and not left for more than a few weeks at a time in more than a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut it was a foolish question. She knew the answer. It was the reason she was standing there at this moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause this is Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd there's no place on earth quite like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHollywood is where the widest dreams can come true and heart's desires are crushed. The place where legends are made and souls are lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's where fantasies can become a reality and reality can turn into a nightmare.\u003cbr\u003eHollywood is love and hate. Euphoria and despair. Good and evil.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd it is a place where there is always hope. Hope that maybe, just maybe, you are the one. Hope that maybe someday it will be you sitting in the back of that long black car sipping ice-cold Cristal from platinum-rimmed flutes, giving head to the top box office star of the year, instead of parking his Limousine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd Hollywood is where that might just happen. There's always a chance – no matter how small, how miniscule, that it could happen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause this is Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's why everybody always comes back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd why some never leave. Can't leave. Won't leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe smiled. Sepia-toned memories invaded her, things she hadn't thought about in years, but she was glad she remembered them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe was home again. Not that she had been gone for long.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd she was in love again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith Hollywood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alex Severin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47173906661616,"sku":"2940011231056","price":1.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940011231056_p0.jpg?v=1763941698","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940011231056","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}