A centuries-old Moldavian vampire caves under family pressure and decides the best way to find a wealthy wife and keep his evil brother from rampaging their homeland is to join a group of bachelors vying for the hand of a fair (millionairess) maiden on a reality TV show.
A librarian lottery winner decides the best way to keep greedy grasping males with proposals in hand from making her (and her roomates') lives a misery is to publicly become engaged on a reality TV show.
Raine English has written DATE WITH A VAMPIRE with a style combining extremely light paranormal romance with a touch of comic-book horror. This first in the Tempted series has a virgin heroine, a dashing if somewhat smarmy hero and a villain whose abilities keep getting a bit more powerful as the book progresses. It cannot be called a 'sweet' romance in the same way old-style romances were back in the 1970's but there is a certain flavor of that era of romance about it none-the-less. One of my favorite characters is Melody's hair and makeup 'artiste' for the show, Sugar.
The Fijian setting and escapist plot would make this a fine read for a cold and gloomy winter's night, especially if you don't mind a touch of bloody horror contrasting with your romantic comedy.
Melody Johnson dreams of meeting a man as dashing and wonderful as the heroes in the books she reads. Being a realist, she knows thatβs highly unlikely. Besides, men always leave her for someone more exciting--until she wins the lottery, that is. Pursued by scores of men happy to help spend her fortune, Melody longs to have her quiet life back. When a network executive offers a reality show, she seizes the opportunity to show the world sheβs off the singleβs market. Melody leaves her quaint hometown in New York for a sunny island in the Pacific where twenty gorgeous bachelors will vie for her heart and where she can stage a phony engagement. What she never expects, though, is to fall in love with a vampire.
Guystof LeBreque is a four-hundred-year-old Romanian vampire who hates the taste of blood. Heβs roamed the earth for centuries, loathing the monster trapped inside him. After his motherβs death at the hands of vampire-hunting assassins, Guystof vows never to turn a woman into a vampire. But when his father gives him an ultimatum to marry a rich woman in sixty days or lose his legacy to his bloodthirsty brother, Guystof battles his conscience. Does he keep the promise he made to himself, or does he keep his brother from power? Guystof resorts to drastic measures. He becomes a bachelor on a hit reality show. What he doesnβt anticipate is losing his heart to the woman whose mortal life he must end.
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