"exciting vampire thriller"
A millennium ago eight aliens crash landed on Earth and
the only nutrient that could sustain their life is human
blood. Some native females were able to mate with them
and thus the male only vampire was born. The Breeds don't
ever indulge in massive blood taking because it is highly
addictive and they can go Rogue, a mindless monster
straight out of Bram Stoker. The warrior Order finds and
kills the Rogues and while Dante is out looking for them
he is injured and ends up at Tess Culver's veterinary
practice. He takes blood from her before seeing the mark that proves
she is a Breedmate, able to have vampire children and live
eternally as long as she drinks blood from her mate. He
erases her memories and tries to forget her but fails to
do so. However, the warrior breeds have a new problem to
deal with: the drug Crimson. When vampires take the drug,
instead of getting high, it turns them into berserkers;
Tess is connected to the maker and distributor of it.
Dante revisits Tess who has the gift of healing and falls
in love with her. When he is fatally injured she
miraculously heals him and when she almost dies at the
hands of a rogue, he feeds her his blood cementing their
bond until she realizes the truth about her beloved; she
runs hysterically into danger and away from the man she
thought loved her. For background information and another exciting vampire
thriller, the audience should read the prequel KISS OF
MIDNIGHT. Lara Adrian is an excellent worldbuilder
creating a vampire society living among but hidden from
humans. The romance between the two protagonists is not
steamy and so as they both discover what it means to live
without fear. The thriller part in which breeds turn into
terrorists from a drug that is supposed to give them a
pleasant high is exciting and entertaining. Lara Adrian
is the newest star writing vampire romantic tales. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 27, 2007
SummaryHe comes to her more dead than alive, a towering black-clad
stranger riddled with bullets and rapidly losing blood. As
she struggles to save him, veterinarian Tess Culver is
unaware that the man calling himself Dante is no man at all,
but one of the Breed, vampire warriors engaged in a
desperate battle. In a single erotically charged moment Tess
is plunged into his world—a shifting, shadowed place
where bands of Rogue vampires stalk the night, cutting a
swath of terror.
Haunted by visions of a dark future, Dante lives and fights
like there is no tomorrow. Tess is a complication he does
not need—but now, with his brethren under attack, he
must shield Tess from a growing threat that includes Dante
himself. For with one reckless, irresistible kiss, she has
become an inextricable part of his underworld realm...and
his touch awakens her to hidden gifts, desires, and hungers
she never knew she possessed. Bonded by blood, Dante and
Tess must work together to thwart deadly enemies, even as
they discover a passion that transcends the boundaries of
life itself....
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