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Hotter After Midnight

Hotter After Midnight, May 2008
by Cynthia Eden

Kensington Brava
Featuring: Emily Drake; Colin Gyth
272 pages
ISBN: 0758226020
EAN: 9780758226020
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"Brilliantly toes the line between paranormal romance and romantic suspense"

Fresh Fiction Review

Hotter After Midnight
Cynthia Eden

Reviewed by Kymberly Hinton
Posted May 20, 2008

Romance Paranormal | Romance Suspense

Dr. Emily Drake is known as the Monster Doctor in her Atlanta community because of her ability to see the Other who live among us. Vampires, shifters, demons, charmers, Emily can see them all—regardless of whether they want her to. When bodies start turning up with their throats ripped out and animal hairs present, a police officer named Colin Gyth asks Emily to serve as their profiler. Always eager to help out, Emily agrees, but not without some hesitation. She can tell that Colin is Other, and knows that she's a shifter, but she isn't sure what kind and shifters are notoriously dangerous and volatile. Determined to keep her distance, Emily works with Colin on the investigation, but vows to keep her heart guarded in the interim period. A task that is easier said than done. HOTTER AFTER MIDNIGHT is a great new paranormal romance that's both amusing and suspenseful. It's part romantic suspense and part urban fantasy. Emily Drake is an interesting heroine. She's an empath and has a connection to the Other who live around her, but she uses her powers to help them to fit in and find acceptance rather than outing them to paranoid humans who would do them harm. And she's been burned by her gift in the past, which makes her so hesitant to hook up with Colin. And Colin is my favorite kind of hero, all alpha male and possessive nature, he is willing to do anything to protect what is his—namely Emily. This book was a nice change from paranormals that either have so many different things going on that you're not sure where the fantasy ends, and romantic suspense that's so gory and gruesome that you want to put it down. HOTTER AFTER MIDNIGHT toes that line brilliantly, while providing an entertaining and passionate romance to boot. I look forward to reading more of Cynthia Eden's books after enjoying this one so thoroughly.

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SUMMARY

Dr. Emily Drake’s patients tend to be a little unusual. Instead of the typical therapist’s caseload of midlife crises and mother fixations, Emily treats vampires with blood phobias and sex-demons looking for meaningful relationships. But her gift for recognizing and healing the Other—those creatures of the night that most humans don’t even know exist—requires a few house rules. First: Never trust a shifter. Especially not one like Detective Colin Gyth, whose gold-flecked eyes and predatory air make Emily realize how much she’s been longing to lose control… Colin can’t believe the doctor he’s been assigned to work with on the Night Butcher murder investigation is the one person who could expose his true identity as a wolf shifter. Smart, sexy, and stubborn as hell, Emily brings out the alpha male in Colin, unleashing a wild, heady desire that takes them both over the edge. But in the shadows, the Night Butcher waits…eager to spill Emily’s blood and taste her terror. And he’ll use any means to destroy her, including the one person she has grown to trust…


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