COLD IRON

For fans of Jeaniene Frost and Kresley Cole, COLD IRON is the first installment in D.L. McDermott's fast paced and sexy paranormal romance
series -- a full-length novel available exclusively in ebook.

The Fae, the Good Neighbors, the Fair Folk, the Aes Sídhe, creatures of preternatural beauty and seduction. Archaeologist Beth Carter doesn’t believe in them. She’s always credited her extraordinary ability to identify ancient Celtic sites to hard work and intuition—until today. The tomb Beth has just discovered is the most complete Celtic burial she’s ever seen. Filled with ancient treasure, impossibly well-preserved, the burial has everything—except a body. Her ex-husband, the scholar who stifled her career to advance his own, is unconcerned. Corpses don’t fetch much on the antiquities market. Gold does. Beth knows from past experience that if she isn’t vigilant, Frank will make off with the hoard. So when a man—tall, broad shouldered, and impossibly handsome—turns up in her bedroom claiming to be the tomb’s inhabitant, one of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the mythic god-kings of old Ireland, Beth believes it is a ploy cooked up by her ex-husband to scare her away from the excavation. But Conn is all too real. Ancient, alien, irresistible, the Fae are the stuff of dreams and nightmares, their attentions so addictive their abandoned human lovers wither and die. And this one has fixed his supernatural desire on Beth.

A native of Bergenfield, New Jersey, D.L. McDermott graduated from Yale with a degree in Classics and Art History. For many years she
managed architecture and interpretation at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, and wrote and directed the Witch City’s most popular
Halloween theater festival, Eerie Events. She later earned an MFA in film production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts. D.L. has been a
sorority house mother, a Disney/ABC Television Writing Fellow, a WGA Writer’s Access Project Honoree, and a staff writer on the ABC
primetime drama, Cupid. Her screenwriting credits include episodes of the animated series, Tron: Uprising. Her short fiction has appeared in
Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine and Albedo One. The director of several awardwinning short films, her most recent project, The Night
Caller, aired on WNET Channel 13 and was featured on Ain’t It Cool News. She is married with one cat and divides her time between Los
Angeles and Salem.