Beatrix Lesse, Countess of Lente, has grown bored of her
life. The men who surround her no longer hold any appeal,
and the nights just seem to pass by. The games, the
parties, and politics just are the same as they were the
last century and the one before that. The only thing that
she stays interested in is art. Poems and paintings are her
only interest until she meets John Staunton.
John, The Earl of Langley, thought he knew all about
secrets. That's what his whole life has been about. While
keeping the
country safe from invasion, he learns the truth of what runs
in the night. Between the nightmares and the harsh reality
he has come to know, can he accept what Beatrix is and the
thing he has turned into?
I have heard a lot about Susan
Squires, but this is the first time I have read one of her
books. I am disappointed in what I found. With the
reviews that I have read about her past books, I was
looking forward to reading The Hunger, but it wasn't
close to what I expected. I had a hard time getting into the
book in the first place. Nothing really grabbed my attention
in the first two chapters. Then the story line takes you
between London in the late 1800's and then to Beatrix in
the 1100's. The way the story line kept switching between
the present and past, it felt more like bouncing around
and trying to fill in holes to me than building the
character. I also found the book to be a little slow at
least until chapter thirteen, but by then it seemed just a
little to late for me to start enjoying it. Hopefully, I
will like the next one better.
Discover a realm where anything is possible. Where peril
and passion collide. Where a woman is tempted by a man she
wants but can never have. A man she could destroy with just
one kiss. Discover THE HUNGER...An Undeniable Desire...
The year is 1811, and vampire Beatrix Lisse has spent six
hundred years trying to atone for her sins.Yet she can’t
forget the one man she loved many centuries ago—until she
meets John Staunton, the Earl of Langley. John is London’s
most notorious rogue, but he sees an innocence in Beatrix
that she no longer believed existed. But Beatrix can’t bring
herself to reveal her true nature to John, even after they
surrender to their fierce passion. It’s only after John
abandons Beatrix that she learns he has a secret of his own...
Leads to Love that Burns Eternal...
An undercover spy for England, John’s mission is to find out
who is behind the sudden shift in power in the French
government. If he allows himself to get too close to
Beatrix, John knows he’ll put her life in danger. But as
John gets closer to completing his mission, the very person
he seeks is none other than Beatrix’s centuries-old rival.
With the world unraveling around them, John and Beatrix
unite to fight a nemesis whose fury has no limit—even as
their unquenchable passion grows more dangerous by the day...