Draining her shot of Cuervo, FBI agent Diana Reyes signals
the bartender for another one to chase the others she just
had, but the strong taste of liquor still can't numb her
whirling mind. After ending her two year love affair with
Ryder Latimer, her vampire lover, Diana is determined that
she doesn't want to follow his rendez-vous with destiny.
Yet, why she wondered, what was she doing still hanging
around the Blood Bank, Manhattan's favourite haunt of the
vampire subculture? After asking Ryder to leave her alone
and not to put the bite on her, she still feels the
incredible pain of her loss with the intensity of the
lingering pain of a severed limb.
As a strategy to get over Ryder, Diana plans to spend more
time with her good friend Sylvia who is thrilled with her
first pregnancy. Before Diana gets to call her again, she
gets an early morning call that Sylvia is dead and her
husband, Raul Rodriguez, was found covered in her blood.
Believing him to be innocent, despite the evidence, Diana
vows to find the real killer, her case or not.
Meanwhile, her investigation into a money-laundering scheme
unwittingly moves into an undercover investigation of the
Cuban Democratic Army by the CIA and brings her back into
intimate contact with Alex, her old lover, in order to
investigate the case. With a biological clock ticking,
Diana is torn between her feeling for Alex who could give
her the baby she craves or the hot passion she misses with
Ryder. But, can she face living for centuries? Will Ryder
he able to control his own strong demon while striving to
honour Diana's request when Stacia, a strong willed vampire
with two centuries of experience in controlling others,
comes on the scene and is lusting to make him hers forever?
If you have not read Caridad Pineiro before, you will be
thrilled by her abilities to integrate fast paced
undercover police work with realistic depictions of the
vampire world in this romantic tale. If you are a fan of
hers already, you will relish this follow-up story of the
two strong willed characters of Ryder and Diana and
Pineiro's skill in interweaving her themes of darkness and
light with sensuous scenes of lust and longing.
When FBI agent Diana Reyes fell in love with Ryder Latimer,
she knew that there were things she would give up. For the
passion her vampire lover brought into her life, it seemed
a fair trade.
Now she isn't so sure. The darkness vampires walk in wakes
something inside her, something that frightens her even as
it excites. Something that makes her wish for a
more "normal" life.
Ryder understands her fears…and has fears of his own: of
losing her, of the void that would fill him without her.
But when a case draws Diana into a purely human darkness,
Ryder must make a decision: Can he let her go? Or will he
step between her and death, no matter if she hates him
afterward?
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