Cirrus@Austlit

'She found something she should never have read, and never have kept, a vampire's journal.

'Now he is coming for her.

'But first, he has to catch her.

'Ah, Josephine.

'I'd like to leave her alive a little longer, find out more about her, she is attractive to me in some undefinable way. But I cannot take the chance. She knows too much of me, of my world, and this cannot be permitted.

'I will come for her tonight. And she will die.

'Of course, I will have to make it interesting; she already knows how I have killed others. Haven't I seen her laugh while reading all about it?

'I will use my imagination with her, give her one last surprise. Although I don't think she will laugh.

'And I am sorry.' (Publication summary)

'When you are being hunted by a vampire, there is only one thing to do.

'Run.

'Run fast, run far.

'Still carrying his journal, Josephine knows she is on a race against time if she is to evade the fangs of Lord Nicholas Montague.

'Hoping to hide where he will least expect her, and planning to try and make contact with a team of vampire hunters, she goes where she believes she can learn the secret to defeating him, someplace he will never think to look - to Ereston, his family estate.

'But once there, she learns all is not as it seems with Lord Montague, and underestimating a vampire is a dangerous, dangerous game.' (Publication summary)

'Imprisoned on Ereston Estate, Josephine finds herself a captive of Lord Nicholas Montague, vampire.

'Turning to the only one she knows who might be able to save her, she is on a race against time to join forces with the hunters and escape the manor with her life.

'But as she gets to know her brooding and increasingly irresistible captor, she recognises that, if she is not careful, there is something she will leave behind - her heart.'(Publication summary)

'I know he doesn't want me to go, hell, I don't want to go, but I must.

'I want a future with children, with a man who can make love to me without biting me and sucking my blood.

'I love him, I admit it, but he is like a drug, a dangerous drug, and I know if I get hooked, I will die using it.

'Fleeing England while she still can, Josephine tries to make a new life for herself away from Ereston and Lord Nicholas Montague.

'But dark enemies pursue her, and daily she wars with her desire to return to the vampire who stole her heart.

'Can she stay away from one who has loved no other in 500 years? Will she live long enough to make that choice?' (Publication summary)