A centuries-old Moldavian vampire caves under family
pressure and decides the best way to find a wealthy wife and
keep his evil brother from rampaging their homeland is to
join a group of bachelors vying for the hand of a fair
(millionairess) maiden on a reality TV show.
A librarian lottery winner decides the best way to keep
greedy grasping males with proposals in hand from making her
(and her roomates') lives a misery is to publicly become
engaged on a reality TV show.
Raine English has written DATE WITH A VAMPIRE with a style
combining extremely light paranormal romance with a touch of
comic-book horror. This first in the Tempted series
has a virgin heroine, a dashing if somewhat smarmy hero and
a villain whose abilities keep getting a bit more powerful
as the book progresses. It cannot be called a 'sweet'
romance in the same way old-style romances were back in the
1970's but there is a certain flavor of that era of romance
about it none-the-less. One of my favorite characters is
Melody's hair and makeup 'artiste' for the show, Sugar.
The Fijian setting and escapist plot would make this a fine
read for a cold and gloomy winter's night, especially if you
don't mind a touch of bloody horror contrasting with your
romantic comedy.
Melody Johnson dreams of meeting a man as dashing and
wonderful as the heroes in the books she reads. Being a
realist, she knows that’s highly unlikely. Besides, men
always leave her for someone more exciting--until she wins
the lottery, that is. Pursued by scores of men happy to help
spend her fortune, Melody longs to have her quiet life back.
When a network executive offers a reality show, she seizes
the opportunity to show the world she’s off the single’s
market. Melody leaves her quaint hometown in New York for a
sunny island in the Pacific where twenty gorgeous bachelors
will vie for her heart and where she can stage a phony
engagement. What she never expects, though, is to fall in
love with a vampire.
Guystof LeBreque is a four-hundred-year-old Romanian vampire
who hates the taste of blood. He’s roamed the earth for
centuries, loathing the monster trapped inside him. After
his mother’s death at the hands of vampire-hunting
assassins, Guystof vows never to turn a woman into a
vampire. But when his father gives him an ultimatum to marry
a rich woman in sixty days or lose his legacy to his
bloodthirsty brother, Guystof battles his conscience. Does
he keep the promise he made to himself, or does he keep his
brother from power? Guystof resorts to drastic measures. He
becomes a bachelor on a hit reality show. What he doesn’t
anticipate is losing his heart to the woman whose mortal
life he must end.
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