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Eternal Press |
ISBN-10: |
9781926647 |
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256 |
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April 2009 |
ISBN-13: |
9781926647593
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A Bloody Good Cruise is a humorous story about how romance author Mona Rossi and her on and off again main squeeze, Fausto Silvius, a full blooded vampire, narrowly escape a lunatic fringe group of vampire hunters they call the Vampire Ball Busters. It's set on The Romanza, a cruise ship on a Mediterranean voyage. Its premise is: facing your fears leads to acceptance and may lead to truth, inner peace, and the ultimate everlasting love. What sets it apart is that it's the only chick lit novel set on a cruise ship that I'm aware exists so far.
Readers of chick lit, as well as people who enjoy cruising, vampires, romance, steamy love scenes, and want to forget their troubles for a while.
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Diana Rubino
The heroine, romantic suspense author Mona, is a human, and the hero Fausto is a vampire, and although they care deeply about each other, their different backgrounds create a lot of problems. He can never be one of her kind and she=s deathly afraid to become one of his. But her best friend Tessie is madly in love with Fausto=s vamp cousin Quintus, and makes her life-altering decision to let him turn her. But as they as they all sail the Mediterranean on a writer=s cruise that Mona=s organized, Fausto=s job as the ship=s doctor is hard to perform when he realizes hunters (or the Vampire Ball Busters, as vamps call them) are after him and his fellow vamps. They abduct Tessie, who saves her neck at the last minute by turning Roy, one of the hunters. Now Roy must live as one of the despised creatures he=s devoted his life to hunting. But his problems pale in comparison to Mona=s as Fausto=s ex-wife shows up after four hundred years, hot to snatch him back. She=s not just another bitter ex hoping to rekindle the flamesBshe=s Lucrezia Borgia, history=s most notorious gold digger and husband-killer. When Mona and Fausto team up with the hunters to capture Lucrezia and get her to confess to her crimes, Mona thinks all is lost because Lucrezia refuses to talk. But Mona gets her creative writer=s juices flowing, and right out of one of her suspense novels, tricks Lucrezia into a confession. The tabloid show The Cutting Edge, on shipboard to tape the writers= cruise, beams the story all over the world. Mona and Fausto become instant celebrities, but hunters are still after Fausto. One of them shoots Mona while aiming for him, and she realizes she must let Fausto turn her or she=ll dieBso she makes her decision, which she never regrets. Instead of looking for the next big market trend, she helps Fausto and Quintus write their memoirs, so the world can see what vampires really are about.
Excerpt
Mona forced a dose of cheer through her jangly nerves. Vampire hunters wouldn't have the balls to attack Fausto and his friends on this ship. Security was tight. "Well, you're here, so does that mean you've been going out, and aren't confined to your house any more?"
Fausto shrugged. "Almost. I couldn't wallow in self-pity forever. And I knew seeing you would make it worthwhile."
She smiled and gave him a genuine Italian cheek pinch. "I'll cheer you up, faccia bella, you can count on that. You must feel safe." She gestured at the tacky duds. "I mean, relatively speaking."
"Don't let this scare you." He glanced around over the rims of his shades. Uh-oh. Whenever he said, "don't let this scare you," it scared her. "I got an ominous message at the doctor's office earlier."
"What-" She swallowed a lump. "What kind of ominous message?"
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Professional Reviews
Coffee Time Romance Review
Mona Rossi books a New Years romance writers cruise with the Apollo Cruise Lines. It has been three months since she has seen her on-again-off-again main squeeze, Fausto. After her messy divorce, he was there to console her. The cruise was for him.
Fausto Silvius is a four-hundred-year-old vampire and one of the shipboard doctors, but a personal tragedy kept him from working for six months. For the past few months, he has had to lay low, then gets devastating news about his ex-wife.
Mona is aware her latest romance suspense series has lost its pizzazz. She believes the cruise will help Fausto while reinventing her writing again. Bringing along her book publisher, and best friend, Tessie, she will be able to confess that Fausto and his friends are vampires. Fausto is trying to avoid the vampire hunters while spending time with Mona. No one expected his long-lost, ex-wife, Lucrezia Borgia, to appear saying their divorce was never valid. He wants a divorce immediately, or he will spill secrets. When Fausto receives an ominous message, Mona is certain the vampire hunters are nearby. It appears the cruise hits a snag when a serial killer boards. Could anything else go awry?
From a hot tub of fun to a displeased ex-wife and a serial killer bent on revenge, A Bloody Good Cruise is a high seas adventure with twists and turns around every corner. The lively cast spins non-stop excitement with thrills and enough snags to keep the pages turning. Mona and Fausto are immersed in many complications, yet will do whatever it takes to make a go of their relationship. Diana Rubino crafts a good read with interesting players that never have a dull moment. Tessie is a wonderful secondary character that adds her own personality to this enchanting tale. --Cherokee, Reviewer for Coffee Time Romance & More
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