Taste: A Vampire Fairy Tale

by Melissa Hansen

Hope Havergale first meets the mysterious teenager Christian Livingston on her seventh birthday when he saves her from plummeting into a cradle of water inside a forbidden forest. As he licks fresh blood droplets from her injured wrist, Hope is spellbound. Seemingly powerless to his charms, Hope has no idea that it will be her destiny to embark on a breathtaking, perilous adventure with this two-hundred year-old vampire. As Hope grows up and inherits an old house in the Florida Keys from her estranged grandmother, she secretly pines for Christian-the man who haunts her dreams. While yearning for his good looks and succulent tin-cinnamon scent, Hope is clueless that it is Christian who fell in love with her when she was just seven. Worse yet, Hope doesn't realize the truth about her own veiled past-that even she isn't fully human. When Christian reappears one day, she falls hard, rousing the monster within her. Somewhere between skin and ink and blood and love, a sinful self-discovery awaits Hope as she becomes entangled in a conflict between civilized and savage vampires. In this seductive tale, bloodlust quickly turns to bloodshed when the arrival of a new danger threatens to destroy both their secret love and surreptitious existence.

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 4, 2012

About the author

Melissa Hansen was a model and television-personality before becoming an author. A diehard fan of the paranormal genre, her writing has been published in numerous magazines and newspapers. Melissa earned degrees in fine arts and education and lives in Toronto, Canada, with her own little brood of vampires.

Reviews

[Gayle · Rating 5 out of 5]

OMG...if you thought Twilight, Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle, True Blood, etc. were good...watch out and move over!!!! The newest paranormal romance by new author (and beauty herself) Melissa Hansen has come on the scene with a blockbuster called TASTE. What a read!!!! Don't miss it as rumour has it a sequel is soon to follow. Let the author take you to the Florida Keys for an exquisitely developed adventure!

[Catherine · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome! Took me on a journey.....nice twists.

[Deborah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Meh. I found myself skimming forward, a little bored with the narrative. It hinted at something more to the story but just didn't have enough to keep my attention or interest.