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269 pages, ebook
First published June 23, 2015
Very interesting storyline, but the romance didn’t work for me.
Melissa Redgrave is a vampire and the daughter of Lucian Redgrave from book 1, Love at Stake. She is looking for love, tired of dating the wrong guy, and decides to get help from Fated Match, the biggest supernatural dating agency in New York.
Enter Tarian Drake, who decides to use the same dating agency. He is a necromancer, which he prefers to keep secret, as necromancers are seen as the monsters of the supernatural world due to their ability to control the dead, which includes vampires.
Melissa doesn’t know what species Tarian is, but she is so attracted to him that she doesn’t care. Tarian’s grandfather finds out about him dating Melissa and decides to kidnap Melissa to ransom her to her father Lucian to gain control of New York. And so the action starts.
I must say the plot of the story was very interesting, but I just could not like Tarian and Melissa as a couple, mostly due to Tarian. He goes to save Melissa, but on the way back he uses his ability to control Melissa like a puppet to keep her from escaping him. This was the major problem I had with their romance. She had absolute NO control over her body when a necromancer used their power over her, they could force her to do anything. Tarian also used his power at the end to keep Melissa from the main fighting event with his grandfather, forcing her to leave to ensure she doesn’t gets hurt. Also, through most of this book Tarian kept saying that Melissa wasn’t important enough, his sister, and the peace between necromancers and vampires was more important than Melissa to him. This kept me from believing that he really felt anything for her.
I loved the first book, and I like this author’s writing style, so I will definitely be reading more books by this author even though this one was not a favourite.