Nightwalker
Rhonda L. PrintParanormal romance
Available from Liquid Silver Books
ISBN: 978-1-59578-753-8
September 2010
| Leah Wolfe is a private investigator. She was once a police detective, but hated the fact that the criminals rights mattered more than their victims. She also has some paranormal abilities that have alienated many of those closest to her. Her mother abandoned her when she was a child and more recently her fiancé dumped her calling her "an unholy witch". She is forced to deal with him again when his former lover was brutally murdered by something not human. Other women are soon found in much the same condition. Casino owner Ian Nightwalker seems to know more than he is telling and Leah is very attracted to him. He seems to know what she is when she doesn't know herself and she is repeatedly told to let him protect her from the killer who is now focused on her.
Ms. Print has taken this genre and made it her own with this story. On the surface the supernatural private investigator and her vampire lover has been done many times, but this story is fresh and new and not derivative at all. The southwestern setting is unusual in a vampire story being way too sunny for creatures of the night. Ian and Leah are not your average couple either. Ian is a bit more sensitive and vulnerable than the usual master vampire and instead of making him seem weaker and less alpha, it made me like him more. The plotline is fast moving and always interesting and exciting, and the characters, even the undead ones are vividly alive. The author can't write the sequel to this story fast enough for me. This is the best paranormal I have read this year.
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
