This was a fantastic book! I've found Michele Hauf's work to be so varying, almost from one end of the scale to the other, but this one is definitely the best of her novels I've read so far, (along with, Her Vampire Husband, which got me into these books in the first place)! For those of you who have read previous books, (particularly Nickolau Drakes story), this book pretty much follows on from that and tells what happened to Truvin Stone who was the temporary leader of a vampire tribe.
The whole storyline was excellent, a vampire waking up with amnesia after being attacked and hijacking a young woman, (Lucy) in her car when he is desperate to get away from those chasing him. She befriends him and takes him into her home to help him try to recover his past memories. Truvin does not remember he is a vampire, and Lucy and he develop a relationship. When they find out some of his history and that he is vampire, I did think maybe Lucy was all too calm and too accepting and trusting, taking this stranger into her home etc, and usually I find that a bit unrealistic, but suprisingly I felt it really did fit with this character. Maybe Hauf was just very clever in her detailing of the characters, as Lucy was generally a trusting person and this did come through in the writing as being something you would expect of Lucy, it is probably why it worked! There was plenty of action, as well as intrigue and suspense and it was so well written you could really imagine how difficult it must be not knowing anything about yourself, it left me with a warm empathy for the character, and despite knowing some of what he had done in the past because I had read other books in the series, I still ended up feeling sorry for him!
Full of intrigue, a really pacey, fast moving storyline that pulls you in to what I felt became a really believable world that I wanted more of, and could actually imagine being there! Well written, a good balance of action, plot, sensuous erotic parts, romance and shows that any kick arse hard man can be tamed by the right woman, oh yeah Girl Power LOL! A must read for all paranormal romance fans, but also not too slushy that it would likely appeal to action and fantasy readers too.