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Moretti Blood Brothers #5
The Vampire Assassin
Will he remain loyal, or win the heart of his fated mate?
Lethal vampire, Ben Ferrero, is in Rome on a covert job to kill those responsible for the experimental tests on his race. When the hit goes awry, Ben finds himself staying longer, taking risks that could reveal a centuries-old secret. Then he meets Anna, and his desire and need to protect her challenges his deep loyalty to the vampire whose secret he protects.
Anna Vitale lived a carefree life until she was kidnapped by humans. Now she’d rather be distracted by Ben—the drop-dead gorgeous male with dimples that could melt panties—than face another therapy session. But when he outwits the powerful Moretti security team, it’s obvious Ben is far more dangerous than anyone realizes. To them and her heart.
Will Ben recognize Anna as his fated-mate, or will his loyalty to the vampire, and the secret he holds, blind him?
The Vampire Assassin is the sixth installment in the Moretti Blood Brothers series of paranormal vampire romances. Part romance, part action-adventure, it will appeal to anyone who loves fated-mates, military romance, and dominant alphas.
Lethal vampire, Ben Ferrero, is in Rome on a covert job to kill those responsible for the experimental tests on his race. When the hit goes awry, Ben finds himself staying longer, taking risks that could reveal a centuries-old secret. Then he meets Anna, and his desire and need to protect her challenges his deep loyalty to the vampire whose secret he protects.
Anna Vitale lived a carefree life until she was kidnapped by humans. Now she’d rather be distracted by Ben—the drop-dead gorgeous male with dimples that could melt panties—than face another therapy session. But when he outwits the powerful Moretti security team, it’s obvious Ben is far more dangerous than anyone realizes. To them and her heart.
Will Ben recognize Anna as his fated-mate, or will his loyalty to the vampire, and the secret he holds, blind him?
The Vampire Assassin is the sixth installment in the Moretti Blood Brothers series of paranormal vampire romances. Part romance, part action-adventure, it will appeal to anyone who loves fated-mates, military romance, and dominant alphas.
327 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 4, 2022
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About the author
Juliette N. Banks
79 books422 followersJuliette N. Banks is a romance author who has taken the genre by storm with her steamy contemporary (mafia and billionaire) and paranormal romances.
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Juliette has a vast background in consumer marketing and was previously published with Random House. She lives in New Zealand with Tilly, her Maine Coon kitty, and travels frequently.
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Juliette has a vast background in consumer marketing and was previously published with Random House. She lives in New Zealand with Tilly, her Maine Coon kitty, and travels frequently.
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February 20, 2022
Addicted!
I am totally addicted to the Moretti Blood Brothers series!! Each book is better than the last! The Vampire Assassin did not disappoint and left me with great anticipation for the next book
I am totally addicted to the Moretti Blood Brothers series!! Each book is better than the last! The Vampire Assassin did not disappoint and left me with great anticipation for the next book
February 20, 2022
The Vampire Assassin
Great story,characters were amazing.I can't wait for the next book to come out.This is a great series of books and a great read on a cold day.Cuddle up with a cup of tea and read the day away.Thumbs up to the author.
Great story,characters were amazing.I can't wait for the next book to come out.This is a great series of books and a great read on a cold day.Cuddle up with a cup of tea and read the day away.Thumbs up to the author.
January 9, 2023
another good one
Stuck true to the main storyline of the series, while giving life to another hea. It also answered many questions that I couldn’t figure out in the Moretti wolves series. I was a little annoyed at bens messing around and the fact that he decided to stay once his cover was blown so to speak. I felt like she deserved more. All worked out well in the end.
Stuck true to the main storyline of the series, while giving life to another hea. It also answered many questions that I couldn’t figure out in the Moretti wolves series. I was a little annoyed at bens messing around and the fact that he decided to stay once his cover was blown so to speak. I felt like she deserved more. All worked out well in the end.
February 15, 2022
Benjamin, Benjamin, Benjamin. I knew you'd be trouble with your dimples and winking and charm.
This is definitely my second favorite book in the series (the Vampire Protector is my first) and like with all of Juliette's pnr books, it has banter, sexy vampires, strong females and spicy spicy scenes.
I'm giving this book a 4.5 only because Anna comes off as childish. You could explain it as a coping mechanism for what she went through (I use sarcasm and smartass remarks as mine) but it was a little annoying.
However, it's a great read and an amazing starting point for the next book in the series The Vampire Awoken.
This is definitely my second favorite book in the series (the Vampire Protector is my first) and like with all of Juliette's pnr books, it has banter, sexy vampires, strong females and spicy spicy scenes.
I'm giving this book a 4.5 only because Anna comes off as childish. You could explain it as a coping mechanism for what she went through (I use sarcasm and smartass remarks as mine) but it was a little annoying.
However, it's a great read and an amazing starting point for the next book in the series The Vampire Awoken.
February 17, 2022
OMG!!! AWESOME DOESNT EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE
juliette juliette juliette 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼i could not put this bad boy down!!! i couldnt even work properly because i kept trying to get to a stopping point that never happen. i love love loved this book. all of them in the moretti series!! i cannot wait for VAMPIRE AWOKEN!!!
juliette juliette juliette 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼i could not put this bad boy down!!! i couldnt even work properly because i kept trying to get to a stopping point that never happen. i love love loved this book. all of them in the moretti series!! i cannot wait for VAMPIRE AWOKEN!!!
March 7, 2022
So, Ben is freakin hilarious, and honestly very relatable 😂 he reminded me a lot of Brayden with Willow trying to navigate the mate bond aha. The story itself was fun, thrilling, with lots of plotting and secrets i really frickin wanted answers too!
The ending was awesome! Cannot believe that that… just… happened 🤣🤩 very excited to see how that works out in the next book!
The ending was awesome! Cannot believe that that… just… happened 🤣🤩 very excited to see how that works out in the next book!
February 13, 2022
This book will make you wet your panties. Ben is super sexy and his love for Anna will be epic. Lots of love, mystery and action in this book. Love that it has all my favorite characters also.
February 15, 2022
Just finished it a few minutes ago. This installment in the Moretti series kept me up all night. I couldn’t put it down. Each book just keeps getting better and better. Juliette writes stories with hot romances, many levels of intrigue, great depths, and you just want to keep turning pages to see where she is taking the story next. The characters have great personalities, and Ben, Anna, Oliver, and Ari are perfect additions to the characters we have come to love! ❤️ Can’t wait for the next book with Ari’s story!
November 18, 2022
A Vampire Assassin???
I really loved this book. It definitely gets much more into Ben and why he is there. It delves into Anna's background, her time spent in the human hospital unable to move while getting all kinds of chemicals pumped through her. Then the moment the two meet and the lightning bolt that goes through both. Things become very erotic at times with Ben and Anna.
Unfortunately like all the stupid male vamps in the series they have no idea when they are being mated. (Big clue: the bite he gave her!! Enough to be able to talk to her telepathically afterwards)
When he does realize, he has agreed again to help the king. When who should show but his boss.
Ben is not a guy you ever want to mess around with in a dark room. He is deadly. But also honest and loyal. When he bows to the King he meant it.
I loved the ending to this. Ben was like a moth to a light, he could not begin to leave Anna even if he really wanted to.
I am really hoping this next book is about Ben's employer.
I give this book a 10/10.
I really loved this book. It definitely gets much more into Ben and why he is there. It delves into Anna's background, her time spent in the human hospital unable to move while getting all kinds of chemicals pumped through her. Then the moment the two meet and the lightning bolt that goes through both. Things become very erotic at times with Ben and Anna.
Unfortunately like all the stupid male vamps in the series they have no idea when they are being mated. (Big clue: the bite he gave her!! Enough to be able to talk to her telepathically afterwards)
When he does realize, he has agreed again to help the king. When who should show but his boss.
Ben is not a guy you ever want to mess around with in a dark room. He is deadly. But also honest and loyal. When he bows to the King he meant it.
I loved the ending to this. Ben was like a moth to a light, he could not begin to leave Anna even if he really wanted to.
I am really hoping this next book is about Ben's employer.
I give this book a 10/10.
March 2, 2023
This book kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time I was reading it.
The toing & froing with Ben & Anna before he actually realised that she was his mate was so real it was unbelievable.
Ben was a very strong vampire but didn't realise there were others out there trained for a real reason & so we're more powerful than him in more than a couple of ways.
Anna kept almost calling him back though, no matter what he done. So he felt trapped.
After they traced the humans that interfered & torchered Anna, then dealt with by letting Ben do his bit, he was supposed to leave.
However Ari turned up & let the King & Prince Brayden know who he was & what Ben was actually doing there.
Ben had already told Anna goodbye, but now thanks to Ari him & Anna were now officially paired.
Roll on the next book, thanx for this Julliete it was a brilliant read.
The toing & froing with Ben & Anna before he actually realised that she was his mate was so real it was unbelievable.
Ben was a very strong vampire but didn't realise there were others out there trained for a real reason & so we're more powerful than him in more than a couple of ways.
Anna kept almost calling him back though, no matter what he done. So he felt trapped.
After they traced the humans that interfered & torchered Anna, then dealt with by letting Ben do his bit, he was supposed to leave.
However Ari turned up & let the King & Prince Brayden know who he was & what Ben was actually doing there.
Ben had already told Anna goodbye, but now thanks to Ari him & Anna were now officially paired.
Roll on the next book, thanx for this Julliete it was a brilliant read.
August 16, 2024
For readers who are new to the Moretti Blood Brother series, I recommend starting with volume #1, as the backstory develops from book to book.
Anna is a victim of the secret experiments on vampires and unfortunately still suffers from the trauma that she suffered as a result. Her loneliness and rejection by her parents was sad to read. Anna deserves to be loved.
- It was nice to read how the other characters gradually accepted her into their circle.
Ben's conflict regarding his feelings for Anna and his loyalty to the director was easy to understand. What was more pleasing here was that the others - despite their mistrust - still accepted him into their circle. In places he literally walked on a knife's edge.
And Ari... - This man is absolutely fascinating and incredibly powerful. His story will be told further in the next book.
All in all, another very successful book.
Anna is a victim of the secret experiments on vampires and unfortunately still suffers from the trauma that she suffered as a result. Her loneliness and rejection by her parents was sad to read. Anna deserves to be loved.
- It was nice to read how the other characters gradually accepted her into their circle.
Ben's conflict regarding his feelings for Anna and his loyalty to the director was easy to understand. What was more pleasing here was that the others - despite their mistrust - still accepted him into their circle. In places he literally walked on a knife's edge.
And Ari... - This man is absolutely fascinating and incredibly powerful. His story will be told further in the next book.
All in all, another very successful book.
February 3, 2025
Another mate
This book is similar to the past book series. Ben is Sophia's brother. He has been sent to Italy to handle a job. He is an assassin and works for The Institution. He is offered a job in the Royal Army and sees that as an opportunity to gather intel and also see Anna again after bumping into her. He is immediately attracted to her and she to him. He is very well trained and needless to say he and Craig butt heads. Ben can't reveal who he works for no matter what. He keeps his background secret until he figures out Anna is his mate and his boss shows up. I am hooked on this series no matter how similar the books are because I have to find out what the Moretti's come up against and what they need to do to save their race. On to the next chapter.
This book is similar to the past book series. Ben is Sophia's brother. He has been sent to Italy to handle a job. He is an assassin and works for The Institution. He is offered a job in the Royal Army and sees that as an opportunity to gather intel and also see Anna again after bumping into her. He is immediately attracted to her and she to him. He is very well trained and needless to say he and Craig butt heads. Ben can't reveal who he works for no matter what. He keeps his background secret until he figures out Anna is his mate and his boss shows up. I am hooked on this series no matter how similar the books are because I have to find out what the Moretti's come up against and what they need to do to save their race. On to the next chapter.
July 7, 2023
Anna is one of the kidnapped vampire & she is carefully being rehabilitated by the Morettis.
Her mentor is Sophia & everything changes for Anna when Ben arrives to see Sophia.
Ben is a deadly assassin who is in Rome to kill a dangerous threat to the vampires so he decides to visit his sister which will have a long term effect in his future when he meets Anna.
This book extends the Moretti storyline & adds another dimension that will be taken forward in other books.
I loved how Ben resists his attraction to Anna which is of course totally futile!
Her mentor is Sophia & everything changes for Anna when Ben arrives to see Sophia.
Ben is a deadly assassin who is in Rome to kill a dangerous threat to the vampires so he decides to visit his sister which will have a long term effect in his future when he meets Anna.
This book extends the Moretti storyline & adds another dimension that will be taken forward in other books.
I loved how Ben resists his attraction to Anna which is of course totally futile!
July 17, 2022
Another amazing book!
Yet again, Juliette has written another amazing book in the Moretti Blood Brothers saga. Ben and Anna's book is full of angst and mystery that had me reading as fast as I could. Now I can't wait to read the next book asap! The more Moretti, the merrier!😊
Yet again, Juliette has written another amazing book in the Moretti Blood Brothers saga. Ben and Anna's book is full of angst and mystery that had me reading as fast as I could. Now I can't wait to read the next book asap! The more Moretti, the merrier!😊
October 31, 2022
Fantastic story😁😂
This story was so moving, exciting, entertaining and just WOW!!!. Finally, finally, a great vamp story!!!. Juliette is a fantastic storyteller and is a PHENOMENAL writer!!!.
This story was so moving, exciting, entertaining and just WOW!!!. Finally, finally, a great vamp story!!!. Juliette is a fantastic storyteller and is a PHENOMENAL writer!!!.
June 3, 2023
Juliette N Banks does it again!
Forget TV! Step into a world of power, justice, loyalty & intrigue. The ups and downs, the unfolding of events…Anna & Ben’s story…I was unable to put it down!
Forget TV! Step into a world of power, justice, loyalty & intrigue. The ups and downs, the unfolding of events…Anna & Ben’s story…I was unable to put it down!
February 28, 2024
More enemies, what will it do to the future of the vampires? With Ben, two separate worlds come together, because he cannot let go of Kate. I enjoyed this story again. The story continues to expand, this series is highly recommended.
May 17, 2022
Oh wow! Ben is HOT 🔥
June 13, 2022
Love the entire series
I can't stop reading one story after another. The stories are amazing. Vampires, sex and drama - delicious! Thank you!
I can't stop reading one story after another. The stories are amazing. Vampires, sex and drama - delicious! Thank you!
July 10, 2022
Amazing
This book is absolutely amazing!! Also amazing is this whole series!! I love the characters and also the story line!
This book is absolutely amazing!! Also amazing is this whole series!! I love the characters and also the story line!
October 31, 2022
Amazing
Another amazing book. Again. Up way too late finishing it. Can't wait to start the next one risotto see what happens next.
Another amazing book. Again. Up way too late finishing it. Can't wait to start the next one risotto see what happens next.
July 2, 2023
The ending was for sure a cliff hanger but I absolutely loved this book!
September 30, 2023
Vampire paranormal romance
I have enjoyed every Juliette Banks book I have read and The Vampire Assassin didn't disappoint. Ben and Anna's story was delicious.
I have enjoyed every Juliette Banks book I have read and The Vampire Assassin didn't disappoint. Ben and Anna's story was delicious.
February 2, 2025
If you enjoy heavy plot with your smut, this is for you! Love the characters, wanted more 🔥.
August 28, 2022
I read the last two of this series to finish it out, but they just arent as good as the first two.
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