A moving story, hot vamps and hot sex...what's not to love?
Fallon McGregor has only been a vampire for 18 months, but she's learned to live with it. She has only one thing on her mind...revenge. She escaped from the vicious master vampire who forced her to watch him kill her 5-year-old daughter Christy, and then turned Fallon into the living dead. Every night she's haunted by dreams of her daughter and relives the nighmare of her death. She exists only to find the knowledge that will allow her to kill her maker. If she doesn't die in the process, she intends to end her existence and join Christy. That's the promise she made and the promise she intends to keep.
Adrian Trask is a master vampire who seems to collect strays, both human and vampire. He spent his first hundred years mouring his humanity, his second hundred learning to deal with his state, and this last hundred appreciating what he has and trying to help others. He's never felt a pull as strong as the one Fallon effortlessly exerts on him. The longer he's around her, the more he hungers for her. But can Adrian help her overcome her loss and find the will to enjoy the life that's left to her?
I can't imagine losing a child. Ms. McKade's description of the pain and struggle to overcome such a loss was very true-to-life. I wanted some happiness for Fallon...and all the blistering hot sex was great too :)