Knowing when the people around you are going to die is not
the problem; it's not knowing her fate that has become the
big issue. For Meena Harper life is all about choices.
Working for the Palatine, an underground military unit of
the Vatican's, has never been simple. Meena knows that the
Vatican should always be in the right...right? However,
people are disappearing all over the city; tourists that
are never seen or heard from again. It is one thing to have
bodies when there are vampires around, but with no bodies
to be found the dead have to be going somewhere. Now
Meena's ex-boyfriend has been turned and sent to kill her!
It sometimes pays to have the prince of darkness be in love
with you, even if he is not everything she hoped he would
be. For Meena her personal life has turned into a mess
where her choice in boyfriends leaves a lot to be desired.
To be with the man she fears to love or to be with the man
she could possibly love forever? On the one hand, Lucien
has saved her life time and again from his own kind and
from hers. However, he is the prince of darkness and from
the looks of things has every intention of being with Meena
whether she wants to be or not. Then there is Alaric, her
partner and her protector within the Vatican. Alaric is
everything a girl should want in a man: honest, dedicated,
on the side of good, and sexy beyond belief. So why can't
she decide?
Meena's life within the Palatine has also turned from bad
to worse. It seems that the Vatican is now openly hunting
Lucien and is not above using Meena as bait. Everywhere
Meena turns someone wants something from her that results
in the death of someone she loves. Where is the justice in
that? The only way to stop Lucien from turning completely
evil lies within a book his mother gave him. The appearance
of a new bishop also leads to the appearance of the book.
The book that the Vatican just happens to have dangling on
display. The Palatine guards are just waiting for Lucien to
be lured to them by the book or by Meena's presence.
Nothing like a game of cat and mouse...but in this deadly
game Meena wonders just who is the mouse?
I found OVERBITE simply delectable. I thought that all of
the characters were very distinct and well written. While I
loved Meena, I seem to have a soft spot for vampires named
Lucien and simply fell in love with his incredibly strong
spirit. OVERBITE was very fast paced and action filled.
The world created by Ms. Cabot was anything but ordinary.
While the main plot kept me in the story, it was all the
little extra sideline entertainment that kept me guessing
and wondering where Cabot would take me next! A cross
between Angels & Demons and Buffy, Overbite was as powerful
as it was alluring. I was left feeling that I had missed
out a lot about the relationships between characters by not
reading the first of the series, which is something I look
forward to rectifying quickly!
Meena Harper has a special gift, but it’s only now that
anyone’s ever appreciated it. The Palatine Guard—a powerful
secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican—has hired her to
work at their new branch in Lower Manhattan. With Meena’s
ability to predict how everyone she meets will die, the
Palatine finally has a chance against the undead.
Sure, her ex-boyfriend was Lucien Antonescu, son of
Dracula, the prince of darkness. But that was before he
(and their relationship) went up in flames. Now Meena’s
sworn off vampires for good . . . at least until she can
prove her theory that just because they’ve lost their souls
doesn’t mean demons have lost the ability to love.
Meena knows convincing her co-workers—including her
partner, Über-demon-hunter Alaric Wulf—that vampires can be
redeemed won’t be easy . . . especially when a deadly new
threat seems to be endangering not just lives of the
Palatine, but Meena’s friends and family as well.
But Meena isn’t the Palatine’s only hope. Father Henrique—
aka Padre Caliente—New York City’s youngest, most charming
priest, has also been assigned to the case.
So why doesn’t Meena—or Alaric—trust him?
As she begins unraveling the truth, Meena finds her
loyalties tested, her true feelings laid bare . . . and
temptations she never even imagined existed impossible to
resist.
This time, Meena may finally have bitten off more than she
can chew.
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