Merneptah Seti lay on his death bed, his head swimming with memories of his all too brief life. With all eternity stretching out before him, Seti, known to history as warrior Pharaoh Seti III, felt fear for perhaps the first time in his 30-odd years. As his life slips away, Seti makes a desperate decision, one that will guarantee him eternal life.

Thousands of years later, the warrior king awakes. Changing his name to Adrian King, he trades one desert for another and relocates to Southern Nevada. Adrian opens a casino in Las Vegas and dubs it The Royal Palace. Here, Adrian houses a fabulous collection of Egyptian antiquities. A collection impressive enough to draw even the most knowledgeable of Egyptologists.

Doctor Christine Day has spent her life studying ancient culture, in particular Egyptian artifacts. In Las Vegas as a speaker at an international conference, Christine is a guest at The Royal Palace. When she first spies the collection, Christine is impressed and wanders from room to room enjoying the array of antiquities until quite suddenly, she realizes she has no idea where she is. She hears the sound of footsteps and turns around to find herself in the company of Adrian King, a man she's never met and so should be a complete stranger to her. But Adrian is no stranger -- he's haunted her dreams for years.

Originally drawn by the scent of a woman's perfume, a scent he created himself for a dream lover thousands of years before, Adrian tracks Christine through the gallery until he comes face-to-face with her. Adrian is aware that Christine is the woman bound to him by the gods and fate. He's also aware that he can't tell her what he knows...yet. What Adrian cannot know is that, like him, Christine believes in fate and has already accepted him as her own.

Adrian believes that just as he has awoken in another time, there have been others to do the same thing. The first to follow him was his cousin. His general, friend and protector in life, his cousin continues to serve him now. And Adrian knows there have been others -- traitors, vermin -- those who betrayed him and have now followed him through death into the present. Adrian, as well as those who've followed him, has become Eaters of Blood and Breakers of Bone. What we today call vampires. Unhuman Demons who are coming for Adrian and Christine. Although it's Adrian who possesses the superhuman strength of the living dead, Christine is the one who holds the key to the traitor's ultimate destruction. But even with the traitor finally discovered and defeated, will Adrian choose to stay with his lover, or in his anguish, choose to face the dawn and give himself up to the void. Again, it may be up to Christine to thwart her warrior lover if she is to bind him to her for this life and beyond.

Elizabeth Guest really has done her research for NIGHT LIFE. The details are incredible. Her twist on the Egyptian vampires is completely original. I've never read anything like this before and that's a telling statement considering how many vampire novels are on the market today. Although this is the first book by Elizabeth Guest, the author has had a previous incarnation herself as Suzanne Simmons. It didn't surprise me when I found out -- this isn't the work of a novice.