The last thing she wants in her life, even as submissive as she is, is another vampire.Ĭan this wounded man and this broken woman find their way to love? And if they do, will it finally heal them? Sure he's nearly 900 years old, but he can't go through that again.įor her part, Jessica is highly distrustful and wildly unstable after what she's been through. Still, he doesn't want to fall for anyone again after the horrible fate that befell Farida. But now he's her master, and he's quickly smitten by her courage and will. He's supposed to turn her over to the Vampire Council to terminate her for killing her first master. He kills the men, but saves Jessica, heals her and takes her to his South American estate to recover while he figures out what to do with her. When the men who help her find it decide to plunder the tomb, Mason descends on them all. Now hunted by the entire vampire world for killing the sadist and dying of a wasting disease, Jessica has fled to the Sahara. Jessica, who had been forced into five abusive years of service to a sadistic vampire, kept her sanity by reading and then re-reading Farida's diary of her great love affair with Lord Mason. It opens in the Sahara Desert, where vampire servant Jessica Tyson is on a quest to find the grave of Farida bent Asim, who's been dead for 300 years. In fact, once I started, I didn't put it down until the end, around 4 a.m. Hill's newest book, 'Beloved Vampire.' It's the latest in her erotic 'Vampire Queen' line - a series that gets better with every book. In fact, he could rip your heart out, really. He's stunningly handsome, alpha-male built, wise, well-mannered, considerate, rich, something of a recluse, definitely a mind reader, unbelievable in bed, sorely in need of just the right woman to heal his broken heart, cutthroat when he has to be. Oh my, I have fallen in love with a romance novel hero.

Beloved Vampire by Joey W. Hill