"Sizzling collection of paranormal novellas."

HOT BLOODED is an anthology that is sure to heat your blood. The chemical attraction between each man and woman sizzles and tantalizes. Each authors' perspective on werewolves or vampires differs slightly. This book is sure to entertain those who enjoy paranormal tales.

DARK HUNGER - Christine Feehan: Juliette Sangria rescues captured jungle cats from a research facility hidden deep in the South American jungle. She is a jaguar, a shape shifter. Riordian, wounded and heavily chained, is bleeding to death inside a room deep within this building. He is a Carpathian male, a hunter of vampires, a guardian of many species. Riordian declares Juliette his life-mate when she saves him, but she is not quite sure she wants to be his mate. Her kind doesn't marry and she is trying to keep her kind alive. He is hunting those who hunt his people. Their attraction to each other is as hot as the steamy jungle. Together they fight their enemy.

AWAITING MOONRISE - Maggie Shayne: Jenny Rose, a professor of Crypto Zoology, is searching for a werewolf. Setting herself up as bait, she almost becomes dinner to one. Since her grant funding is teetering, she won't let anyone know she has seen one until she has positive proof. Jenny goes to the town doctor, Samuel LaRoque. Chemical attraction starts immediately and soon the two can't keep away from each other. But he has a secret, one that Jenny soon learns. When Dr. LaRoque is in danger, Jenny steps in to protect him.

THE NIGHT OWL - Emma Holly: Mariann O'Faolain owns a bakery. She gets up before the crack of dawn and creates her pastry delights. She fantasizes about her landlord, a mysterious man who only comes out a night because of a rare sensitivity to the sun. Bastien Luce is an upyr - a shape- shifting immortal who drinks blood. His animal side is a wolf, and he wants and desires Mariann as no other. When a crazed competitor runs Mariann down on her bike, Bastien does the only thing he can - he saves her from death by binding her to him and making her one of his kind. Mariann isn't sure she appreciates what he has done. Soon, however, she and Bastien learn each other and experience their fantasies firsthand.

SEDUCTION'S GIFT - Angela Knight: Cop Grace Morgan pulls over a speeder and discovers it is John Lance, a man she had a crush on when she was 16 years old - a crush she tries to convince herself she is over. But John Lance is no ordinary guy - he is Sir Lancelot. And Grace is no ordinary woman - she is the granddaughter of Morgana, sister of King Arthur. They are vampires, immortal protectors of mankind. Lancelot is ordered to bed Grace three times to turn her into a majae like Morgana. She is the key to saving mankind. But Grace isn't as accommodating as Lance would like her to be. Yet he knows that if he isn't successful, Morgana will order another man to take Grace by force. And Lancelot loves Grace. Grace can't resist her attraction to Lance, but as long as she doesn't sleep with him three times, she knows she won't turn into a majae. What Grace doesn't count on is the power being so strong inside her that twice with Lancelot is enough to give her psychic powers. Soon an evil is hunting someone, and Grace sees the horror through the man's eyes as it plays out. Now she needs the power of the majae to save the woman and this means binding herself to Lancelot forever. But the timing just isn't right.

Reviewed by Sabrina Marino
Posted August 16, 2004

Four sexy, original stories of sensual predators who come by night...

Summary

"Dark Hunger" by New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan
In a dark jungle, a beautiful activist liberates animals from a secret laboratory--and stumbles across an unexpected prisoner. She releases the Carpathian from his bonds--only to unleash his voracious appetite on herself...

"Awaiting Moonrise" by New York Times bestselling author Maggie Shayne
A science professor enters the steamy bayou to find a new species of animal, convinced that its presence is behind the stories of lycanthropy in the region, but finds herself tempted by a legendary creature straight out of her most sensual nightmare...

"The Night Owl" by Emma Holly
Little ever seems to stir in the sleepy woods of a small Vermont town, until a new owner takes over the exclusive local inn. He is centuries old and has traveled far and wide to find his queen--and now nothing will stop him from claiming her...

"Seduction's Gift" by Angela Knight
All's fair in the war between desire and resistance when a lady cop pulls over a speeder--and finds an immortal lover who is determined to seduce her into accepting her own passionate destiny...

When the sun goes down, each woman will discover the man she desires--within the beast that drives her wild...