WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE may be read as a stand-alone, but
all of the works in the Love at Stake series are excellent
and do build on each other, so I advise reading them all
just to get to this great book.
Phineas McKinney has a reputation as a lover-boy, but when
he realizes that he, an African-American vampire, is a
novelty, his feelings about maintaining that reputation
start to fade, particularly when the one woman who makes him
distracted by her beauty, ferocity, and personality doesn't
want anything to do with him or any vampires.
He has had to deal with racism before he became a vampire,
but now he has to deal with speciesism with the woman he has
to work with to try and stop the Malcontents, evil vampires
who rate humans as nothing more than cattle.
In addition, he has finally decided to stop hiding his
vampire status from his little brother, whose fear and
distress quickly returns to the hero worship he's always
had. Phin has had to do some dark things to keep his family
safe, so he's worried what the werewolf princess, Brynley,
will think when she learns exactly what he has done. However
he's more concerned that t the Malcontents be stopped.
WANTED UNDEAD OR ALIVE is up to Kerrelyn Sparks' regular
standards of quality writing: it is funny, clever, and has
characters (not just the protagonists, but everyone) that
are richly detailed.
He's a vampire from the big city . . .
Phineas McKinney thought New York City was tough, until he
was attacked by Malcontents—evil vampires who consider
mortals to be snacks. Saved by the good vampires, Phin swore
to devote his now undead life to stopping the Malcontents.
He's got his job cut out for him when word comes that their
enemy may be hiding in Wyoming. What does a city boy like
him know about horses and campfires? Good thing he's got
Brynley Jones with him . . . if only she didn't hate every
vampire on earth.
She's a werewolf princess . . .
Bryn believes vampires are seductive and charming, and that
makes them dangerous. So she's more than a little annoyed
about teaming up with Phin, even if he is the only
bloodsucker able to make her inner wolf purr. But as they
hunt down the new leader of the Malcontents, danger
threatens . . . and Phineas and Brynley discover a passion
that will rock the foundation of their supernatural world.
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