"Original, entertaining, highly sensual paranormal romance."

Merlin's Gift is alive and well, sleeping in the blood of Camelot's children. To those whom the Magekind can change safely, the magic of the Mageverse manifests itself in a spectacular display of power used to help humanity through histories' trials and tribulations. The males are vampires (Magi) and can use this power internally, blessed with major strength and shapeshifting. The females become witches (Magae). They control the power of the Mageverse through magic. Latents are the descendants of the vampires and witches and the gift waits dormant inside them. If the council approves the change, the Magekind can transform them, and passion is the key. Making love three times is all it takes to awake the power inside the chosen. However, the change is not always a good thing for sometimes the gift is too great, the chosen too weak and when that happens Human and Magekind alike are in danger. The only possible sentence, then, is death.

Reece Champion has been a knight of Arthur's roundtable for quite sometime. A gifted general, he has guided humanity through many wars. After watching his best friend and his best friend's beloved destroyed by a gift gone wrong, he has no desire to ever turn a Latent. Nor does he wish to find his soul mate for fear that the change will also go very wrong. Reece's missions are top priority, performed with precision and dexterity. Passion is something he takes where he can, when he can. When he first lays eyes on Erin Grayson he is all too aware of her latent ability, which calls to him like a siren's song. However, what the heck, once with her won't unleash the power and after he has just this one taste he'll walk away from her forever.

Erin doesn't know about the power that lays dormant in her veins, nor does she care. Once an agent of the FBI, Erin's only mission is to find the man who played demon and killed her partner. Recruited by a new top secret agency after regaining her sanity, the agency sends her after Reece, a man they believe is the link to terrorism. Enticing him into her arms was never easier, but something in her blood calls out for more. One taste of Reece is not enough, for her or for him. If evil has its way, they'll both get just enough bites to awaken the power just waiting inside.

Neither they nor the Council are aware of the danger from a fey Prince too long denied the power he craves from Merlin's Grail. Erin is the key to his plans, but Geirolf needs Reece to unlock her power so he can take it for his own nefarious needs. Locking the two inside the luxurious prison that once kept him contained from doing any harm, Geirolf waits for the building passion to overcome Reece and Erin. The power requires only two more times before the change will transform Erin.

The glorious tales of Camelot have never been more passionate and intense. Angela Knight has liberally infused this original and entertaining plot with aphrodisiacal magic on a grand scale. Wry humor, fairy tale settings and an intriguing story will keep you sitting at attention all the way through. If you like it hot, then this book is definitely one you should put on a fire proof shelf and read with oven mitts nearby.

Reviewed by Anne Barringer
Posted September 20, 2004

Summary

American agent Erin Grayson has a new mission: romance international businessman Reece Champion. Seducing the handsome millionaire could put her that much closer to the revenge she craves against a murderous death cult.

Erin doesn't realize she's being manipulated by the very cult she hunts. Champion is actually an agent of the U.S. government.

He's also a vampire.

Reece immediately senses the latent supernatural powers hidden within Erin, powers as dangerously irresistible to him as her lush body and hot blood. Yet he also knows that yielding to their mutual desire will make them pawns in a deadly game.

And their opponent is, quite literally, a monster.