Stephanie "Steve" Reynolds loves being a Texas Ranger, but
she'd also love to become a mother someday. Her 15-year on-
again-off-again relationship with Ethan Templeton is enough
to drive her mad. He excites her, she wants to be with him,
but he's a vampire; what kind of relationship could they
have?
Ethan loves Steve, but he's never said the words. Watching
her grow old while he does not is unbearable and making her
a vampira in Texas is against the law. While working
on a case of unexplained deaths, Steve requires Ethan's
help in finding the monsters responsible. Finding them is
proving to be more difficult than anticipated, and Ethan
knows how bad they really are -- because he's looking for
them, as well.
When Ethan discovers the location of the people he's
seeking, he has to face them alone, since everyone else has
their own orders to carry out. Steve discovers Ethan and
plans to back him up. She's successful until the end of the
fight when life as she knows it comes to an end. Now she
and Ethan have to make a quick decision, one that could
kill them both.
BOND OF DARKNESS is suspenseful and passionate. The story
draws you in and makes you really feel it while you're
reading it. The Texas Vampires series has been exceptional
so far and I generally do not read this type of book.
However, I absolutely love Diane Whiteside's writing
and highly recommend BOND OF DARKNESS, as well as all the
other Texas Vampire books -- they are wonderful!
Hailed as “the master of erotic prose” (Booklist), Diane
Whiteside has introduced a sensual new take on the legend of
vampires. Now she brings us back to Texas for an
exhilarating tale of uninhibited danger and desire…
Texas Ranger Stephanie “Steve” Reynolds is on the hunt for a
serial killer who is stalking innocent women in the Lone
Star State. The beautiful Ranger comes to suspect the
unbelievable – that the killer is a vampire.
Steve knows all about vampiros, since she has a demon lover
of her own. For the past several years, Ethan Templeton has
been helping her on cases when he wasn’t sharing her bed.
But Steve, craving mortal motherhood, refused to get serious
about the handsome vampire. Especially after she saw him
kill a man she’d just arrested…
Ethan loves Steve, but he thinks nothing can come of their
passion. Even if he could convince her to share his immortal
life, his vampire patron, Don Rafael Perez, would execute
him for transforming her.
But when the killer menaces Steve, Ethan realizes he has no
choice except to risk everything. Will Steve agree to join a
man she’s called murderer—or will she refuse her one chance
at eternal life, lust, and love?