Product Description

Rescued from an attack by a group of vicious vampires by S.W.A.T. team leader Colin Foxe, a former lover, Mia Luchese is unaware that Colin is actually a prime vampire for whom it is forbidden to take a mortal woman as a mate. Original.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #310618 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 336 pages

Customer Reviews

Sexy, exciting and twists galore.
In her steamy new vampire romance, acclaimed author Susan Sizemore pits vampires against mortals, destiny against desire....
Mia Luchese comes from a long line of vampire hunters but has never believed in the supernatural. When she's attacked by vampires, though, Mia must accept her family's dark legacy. What she doesn't know is that sexy S.W.A.T. team leader Colin Foxe, her rescuer and former lover, is also a vampire.

Colin doesn't want to mate with a mere mortal, but his attraction to Mia is blistering. To get to the bottom of the attack on her, he is forced to reveal his real identity -- and Mia hers. But a generations-old battle that should rip them apart cannot break the bond that has their souls hungering for an eternity of ecstasy in each other's arms....

Laurent is next in line, he's a puzzle at times...

Another run-of-the-mill vampire story
This is the third of Susan Sizemore's vampire stories and it mentions some of the characters from her previous books, I Burn For You and I Thirst For You. It also introduces a couple of new characters and I have a strong suspicion there might be books about them in the offing.

There are good things about this series - the worldbuilding is interesting: vampires live alongside mortals and have jobs (the hero of this book, Colin Foxe, is a SWAT police officer), they can go about in daylight if they take particular drugs and they sometimes have relationships with mortals.

The heroine of this book is Caramia Luchese, a fit young woman who finds herself involved in a hostage situation to which Colin Foxe is called. After they meet they have a three month affair which Foxe eventually breaks off - he is a vampire and doesn't want anything long term with a mortal.

However neither of them are able to forget about the other and Colin finds himself virtually stalking Mia and comes to her rescue when other vampires of the Tribe (who treat mortals as lunch) try to attack her. It's not entirely clear initially why the Tribe are so interested in Mia and she and Colin don't ever seem to get much opportunity to actually discuss anything as they are always jumping into bed.

Like in the previous two books, the main thing that seems to bind heroine and hero together is sex. In this book, however, Colin doesn't want to even consider Mia as a long-term partner as he is dismissive of mortals. Over the course of the book he learns that some things are more powerful than his preconceived ideas. Mia is from a family of vampire hunters whose mission is to rid the world of all vampires, even those from the Clan (who work to protect mortals), such as Colin. There is the tension between the two of them, an antagonism, that is there when they aren't having sex; fortunately for them they seem to spend most of their time having sex so get along quite well.

This book revisits the case of the Patron who escaped Colin at the end of the last book (I Thirst For You). Colin is focused on finding the Patron and stopping him but he finds Mia is both a spanner in the works and an aid to his mission. But can either of them trust each other?

I found parts of this book rather slow and, like the other two novels, the characterisation seemed rather one-dimensional. The author evidently likes her Alpha Males (or "Primes") in these books and the vampires tend to seem rather caveman-like over their women. This book did improve and get more exciting towards the end but the plot always felt rather like something to hang the sex part of the book around, rather than the major point of the novel.

It's an OK read but, like the other two books, nothing very special. There are many significantly better vampire books out there which have a plot and some characters alongside the worldbuilding that is important in these stories.

HOT!
Hot and passionate read that you will not be able to put down. I really enjoy this author's work. She makes the characters so believable and the plot is always air tight. Romance fans-watch out this is hot!
also: Katlyn Stewart and Nora Roberts