Anna Greer is a quiet microbiologist with her feet planted firmly in reality. Her life gets turned upside down when she finally meets her elusive employer, Gareth Macgregor. Gareth is mysterious, sexy, powerful…and a vampire.
Soon she's drawn into a world she thought was mythical, populated with creatures and beings that should have only existed in nightmares.
Anna and Gareth are drawn together in a fight for their lives and Anna finds that there is a part of her that has lain dormant since her childhood, a power that could save them, or mark them for death.
Gareth's powerful enemy would stop them from finding what Gareth has been trying
to find for centuries—a release from torment and a love that transcends time.
Excerpt
Prologue
“Mommy, there’s something outside my bedroom window.”
It’s an early memory of mine, coming out into the living room one night after my mother had sent me to bed, dragging my beat-up stuffed rabbit after me. Bleary-eyed with sleep, not sure what my young mind had just seen, I was caught somewhere between terror and crankiness.
“Honey, it’s nothing, I’m sure. Go back to bed.” My mother answered me, turning on one of the safe lights in the living room so that I could see her better.
I scuffed my toe on the rug, swinging my arms a little. I wanted to believe her, wanted with all the love and hope my little heart held for my mother to trust her word, but…
“Mommy, it has really big teeth.”
At that moment, a howl cut through the night like a knife, making my mother jump up from her chair and raising the hairs on every inch of my tiny body. The sound was primal and I knew immediately it was from the creature that had been outside my bedroom window.
The scream that pealed from my lungs was pitched high enough to break glass.
My mother snatched me up in her arms, backed into a corner, and pushed me behind her. She used her frail body to shield me from an unknown threat. We cowered there for what seemed like hours, until the phone rang, breaking the paralysis that had seized us.
In the light of the following day, she told my father that wolves must have come down because of snow high in the mountains; it had been an early winter, after all.
To this day, I don’t think she believed what she told my father. Something Other had been outside my window that night, and it wasn’t of the natural world. We both knew it.
Professional Reviews
An excellent tale of lovers and enemies
Theresa Federici mis truly a good story teller. At first i feared that it would be yet another book of a couple destined to be together yet fighting their mutual attraction for most of the book, but happily that was resolved fairly early on. The unexpected alliance between hereditary enemies - vampire and werewolf, witch and sorcerer - was key to defeating the bad guys. There is just enough potential romance, worry about the probable return of the bad guy and hope for the future development of a world changing medical miracle left unresolved to make me want to read the sequel.
That said, i gave the book four stars because of the need for more careful editing. There were enough instances of the wrong words being used (peak for peek, for example), grammatical problems and typos to annoy me, but not enough to make me stop reading. Really, a good story.
You've gotta take a peek...
This is one story that keeps you turning the pages. The tense attraction between the two main characters alone..I mean whew! Loved it and looking forward to more from this author.
A must read!!!
This book was amazing! I read it in one sitting and did not put it down. It has just the right combination of real life vs fantasy. Sexy, exciting, magnificent! I can't wait to read the next book. I'm excited to see where Anna and Gareth go from here and how the other characters lives intertwine.
