"Dante's story is well worth the wait!"
This is the long awaited story of Dante, the vampire
whom nobody knows anything about and who seems to be the
most mysterious of all the vampires. In my opinion this
story was well worth the wait! Not only does this tell the story of Dante but it
also intertwines several stories. First there's Morgan
DeSilva who lost her adoptive parents in an accident and
found out that not only were they cocaine addicts but they
were deeply in dept. Morgan crept away from the only life
she knew in California and moved to Maine to try to pull
together the pieces of her life. The problem is she's
dying because she has the Belladonna Antigen in her blood.
Then she finds Dante's journals and writes several screen
plays of his life, thinking the journals are the writings
of a madman and are fiction. Then there is Maxine Stuart. When she found out
that the secret government building in her town was burning
down, she and her two best friends decided to go and
investigate. This one event forever changes Max's life.
While there she watches a man badly burned sift through the
rubble and pick up selected things. When he drops a couple
of things Max picks them up. One is a CD and the other is
a name badge. When she gets a threatening letter and phone
call the next day, she puts the CD and name badge in a safe
deposit box determined to forget the whole incident but can
she? Finally there's Dante. He's been chased and hunted
all of his life by the DPI (Department of Paranormal
Investigations) and fanatic vampire hunters. All they want
to do is experiment and then kill all the vampires they can
capture. Dante keeps himself apart from not only mortals
but from his own kind as well except for his beloved aunt
Seraphina, the very woman who brought him over. Then he
accidentally stumbles across Morgan. He can sense that
she's one of the Chosen but what does this mean to Dante? This book was so intense and so graphic with layers
to each and every detail of the story. It is one of those
books that is very hard to put down and I found myself just
reading one more page before I could tear myself away. I
hope to see more vampire stories from Maggie Shayne. I
believe she has many more to tell.
Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted March 9, 2002
| 
