MOONKISSED begins in New Orleans of 1981 with a prologue where vampyren Arden Moran has found her human best friend Portia dying. Portia had dreams of being turned vampire; but was instead drained by a group of vicious, newly turned vampyren. Cut to present day New Orleans, and Arden has become an assassin for hire, specializing in killing vampyren as she attempts to avenge the murder of her friend. She targets Lucius Mercoix, king of the vampyren race and his followers.

Wolfe Trevlian has come to New Orleans to be a substitute alpha for his cousin Adam's were pack while he is out looking for his own mate, who has disappeared. Since Adam killed the vampyren king's second-in-command while attempting to help his own vampyren mate escape; Mercoix wants Wolfe to hunt down and kill Arden as reparation for Adam's misdeed. Wolfe has set up a meeting with the king's liaison Taylor, and his four bodyguards. Arden attacks the group, killing the bodyguards and wounding Wolfe; who captures and escapes with her when he realizes Arden is his mate.

As Arden heals, the couple do the mating dance. She wants none of him, but is attracted to Wolfe both sexually and for his blood. For his part, Adam is in full mating mode, even though werewolves and vampyren are deadly enemies. It helps little that Arden is actually a dhampir, a half-human daywalker (and more); and tries to escape from him. After seemingly endless rounds of erotic sex and bickering, the couple come to an agreement about the mating. After a bloody battle with Arden's enemies, Wolfe decides to help her in her quest against the vampyren king. All too soon their plans fall apart, leaving them both in grave danger.

MOONKISSED is a short, early work of author Aline Hunter. The story and the wordbuilding are ambitious, but the insta- mate trope is outdated after being so overused over the years. The instant lust also severely inhibits the building of the relationship between the leads to little more than bouts of seemingly casual hot sex with a lot of 'mine' chest beating. MOONKISSED dribbles out a little plotline, then a long steamy scene. Then comes a little back-story, some more confusing wordbuilding gets dropped in, and another sex scene. Instead of being an erotic paranormal, the story vacillates between the paranormal storyline and being a straight up erotica tale.

MOONKISSED will surely be an enjoyable read for and appreciated by current fans of Aline Hunter's work; but is probably not the best place for a new reader to begin reading her stories.