Dr. Peter MacKenzie is weary. Twenty-four hours after the attack on the unit that has left several of his friends severely wounded, Mac has a full plate. What Mac doesn’t need right now is someone from the Department of Defense Inspector General’s office showing up because they’ve noticed an anomaly in the blood bank records.
Agent Holly Lind doesn’t want to waste her time going to Camp Revells to deal with a bunch of idiots who can’t spot a simple computer error. Dumped out of her job in cyber security after an argument with her boss, Holly is forced to cool her heels for a year in the IG. But that doesn’t mean that she stopped playing with computers. Working under her hacker alias of “Portunes,” Holly is still testing security and on the lookout for unauthorized infiltrations of the NSA and DOD computer systems.
What Holly doesn’t know is that there’s a hacker out there looking for a way into Camp Revells, and he’s sure she’s that way in. “Invicta” is chasing “Portunes” through cyber space and he now wants Holly almost as much as he wants to destroy the vampires of Camp Revells. What “Invicta” hasn’t counted on is that once Mac meets her, he will want her too.
This is hands-down my favorite Indie Paranormal series, and one of my very favorite vampire series, ever. These books go down like dark chocolate or really fine wine.... simple, sweet, and with a taste that energizes and lingers in the best ways. While they are an indie series, the books are incredibly well written and professionally edited. You'd never know they weren't bestsellers, in other words. The characters are brilliant. These are people you know, you love, and ok... occasionally they'll remind you of the people who irk the crap out of you. But always, they are vivid and realistic and driven by oh so human desires and motivations. The fact that most of them happen to have fangs is almost secondary to the hyper-realistic 'human' details. Really a worthwhile series, and definitely the best kind of 'happily ever after' books, which is amazing since they're urban fantasy as well as being incredibly realistic. I just REALLY dig these books, and am anxiously awaiting Lynne Scott's (aka L. Scott's) next installment in the series. If you're a fan of epic true love in a gritty fantasy backdrop, wrought with hyper-realism, you've gotta give these books a read. And if, like me, you were tired to death of the same old vampire stories, these might just renew your faith in the genre.