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Book Blurb

Life with vamps is never easy.

 

Abernathy Meyers is already mated to a vamp, Zebulon. It’s just too bad that Zebulon doesn’t give a darn about him. Abbie’s stuck with the man for eternity—or until they die. Some days, Abbie thinks that can’t happen soon enough. He’s tired of being treated badly, yet he doesn’t really want to make his earthly exit yet.

 

Because he’s longed for another man—another vampire—for years. Forbidden love—is anything more compelling, or more heart-breaking?

 

There’s a twisted past, a hidden story linking Abbie, Zebulon and the coven leader, Claude.

 

Claude lives with a fear of turning to dust at any moment. It isn’t reasonable, but he can’t shake it. He’s let his own fears impede his potential happiness, and instead he puts the needs of his coven first, ignoring his own. But if he’s deliberately blind to one particular human’s needs because that human is a mate to another vampire, then is Claude truly leading to the best of his ability?

 

It’s a tough question for him to answer and soon, he’ll have to make a choice that will affect him and Abbie, forever.

 

Publisher's Note: This book was previously available on the author’s blog.

Book Review

"Anger coursed through him, along with that arousal. Abbie knew now that Zeb hadn’t ever loved him. Thinking about his situation wasn’t helping. There was nothing he could do to change it, and mooning over Claude was a waste of time."

I'm a sucker for unrequited love, and yes the pun was intended. *grins* I adored Claude from the first book, and Abbie too, so I was rooting for them throughout this installment. I despised Zeb for having mated Abbie just to have what Claude wanted. I understood Abbie's reasoning since as a human he was dying of cancer, and he didn't want to die. But I was also a little irritated at Claude for having wallowed for so many centuries, certain he was going to poof into ash at any moment like his sire did. Silly vampire.

I was very interested in this plot line as I assumed, and you know where that leads you, that the author would continue her vampire hunters secondary storyline. Instead, my fabulous Bailey, went hog wild and introduced a concept where a couple of bad to the core vamps, Zeb being one of them, have discovered how to break the mate bond without dying. Think about it peeps. There are a lot of potential negative ramifications that could occur if all of vampirekind were to discover this. And then the author brought out the huge plot twist that I can't tell you about. Big spoiler. Huge. Needless to say, I was eagerly turning the pages.

This was an excellent addition to the series, and, in fact, was far better than I thought it would be. Claude and Abbie are incredible together, the love story has zing, and the sex is hot. The introduction of West and his four young siblings at the end, was heartbreaking, and makes me eager to get right to the next book. Thank you, Bailey, it's marvelous!

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 121 pages/33683 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	20-October-2015
Price	$4.50 ebook
Buy Link	https://www.pride-publishing.com/book/sunshine-is-overrated