ER Dr. Lara West receives a phone call in the middle of the
night from a stranger who is downstairs and bleeding all
over her living room floor. She has no choice but to help
this stranger man who calls himself Robert. She urges him to
let her call 911 but he refuses to let her. After she
patches him up, she finds herself alone and bound with her
house on fire. She is able to escape the flames, but barely.
Lara is placed in witness protection and given a new
identity to protect her. She is trained as an agent in the
government run unit that studies vampires. Also at the time
there is a vampire doctor called Bobby who works at night at
the hospital and is obsessed with, Meridian, a night nurse
who works along side him. Bobby feeds off the female
patients and tries to keep control of his beast who wants
more. The beast also wants Meridian.
It seems that vampires are using hospitals for their own
feeding grounds and Lara must try and top them. Will Bobby
be able to figure out the equally mysterious Meridian and
will Lara be able to remain alive as an enemy continues to
stalk her?
LOVE WITHOUT BLOOD is a very confusing story that I found
myself barely able to continue. The beginning had great
promise, but then became quickly tedious with the multiple
story lines and characters. You are not sure the character's
motivations and the action takes a long time in coming.
This is not your typical vampire romance. The vampires that
Raz Steel has created are not very seductive or romantic and
some reader may be turned off by how forceful Bobby is as he
tries to understand Meridian. Some may have a difference of
opinion and enjoy this medical paranormal that has a great
deal of mystery undertones.
One interesting fact is that Raz Steel is a male author and
for this initial book, I give him credit on giving the
vampire myth a bit of a different spin.
"I CAN'T STOP THE BLEEDING," said her nighttime caller.
The intruder then compelled Dr. Lara West to
remove the bullet from his shoulder. She treated his wound,
but that quelled neither his desire for the sweet life
pulsing through the flesh of her thigh, nor the rampant
animal lust that defines his existence.
The darkness
has just begun. Dr. West's identity, what she wants--all
stands in danger of being devoured. Nothing is ever the same
for those inducted into the sinister world of vampires, be
they newly turned monsters or the government agents sworn to
destroy them. Lara West has tasted both power and passion,
and a price must be paid. Yet she's glimpsed salvation in
the night. Hope still remains for... LOVE WITHOUT
BLOOD
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