Cat Adair founded V-Date.com, a very successful vampire dating website five years ago, yet she doesn't date. When she learns that Ronin McDermott has infringed on her cyber territory, she is livid, even though the thought of Ronin leaves her weak in the knees and furious all at once. Ronin owns a thriving nightclub, but he hits a snag when a human client is nearly killed by an overeager vampire, who was on Cat's V-Date. There's also the matter of decapitated vampires popping up in London, where Ronin is overlord.

THAT KILLER SMILE by Juliet Lyons is an enemies-to-lovers story, not my favorite romantic trope, because too often it involves name- calling and misunderstandings. I loved books one and two in the Bite Nights series, so I wasn't worried for one moment. One would expect a good part of the conflict to stem from the rival websites, but it was barely a blip. The murder angle looked promising and we get there at some point. What we really get in THAT KILLER SMILE is Ronin, your typical manwhore, whose only way of forgetting the one that got away is to sleep around, while Cat is your usual born-again virgin, because naturally of that magical night with Ronin. Who cares if he's rude, disagreeable, and insulting when he's so gorgeous and sexy? Well, I do, especially in light of Cat's reason for hating him. What he did was totally reprehensible and a deal- breaker as far as I'm concerned. I must say I disliked Cat and Ronin equally. Cat came across as a pathetic loser and he was yet another unavoidable irresistible jerk.

I despaired that the uphill climb from the early part of the book would be difficult, and it was actually a lateral climb, if you will pardon this impossibility. It just never worked for me. At some point, they naturally give in to this inevitable sexual attraction, which led to lengthy sex scenes that I barely skimmed, to be honest. At least, the author "told" me that Ronin had changed, because otherwise how to explain his behavior? There was of course the obligatory misunderstanding, which I had predicted from very early on. So much more could have been done with the mystery angle. It was not all that bad, mind you. The (excruciatingly detailed) backstories for Cat and Ronin were interesting, especially Ronin's. The descriptions are as lovely as in the previous books, and the writing is impeccable. It's all a matter of taste I suppose. I know that everything I disliked will be someone else's catnip. I will let you be the judge.