Part of Love at Stake, book 5
First published 2008
Toni Davis faces a bleak Christmas. Her best friend sits locked in a psychiatric ward after telling police that vampires attacked her. The only way Toni can free her friend is to prove that vampires exist. She takes a job as a bodyguard protecting the undead. The work brings complications she never expected, particularly when she encounters Ian MacPhie, a Scottish vampire searching for love. Ian carries nearly five centuries of experience but appears to be a twenty-seven-year-old man. Toni finds herself drawn to him despite her original plan to find someone tall, dark, handsome, and crucially, alive. She struggles with the contradiction of desiring someone who should be her opposite. Their attraction builds toward a moment that could change everything. One kiss beneath the mistletoe might transform her entire future and lead to eternal passion.
Genres: romance, fantasy, contemporary, paranormal
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fish-out-of-water
Setting: Scotland
Period: 21st-century
350 pages · Mass Market Paperback · Avon