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Book Blurb

Can Max tame Blue enough to make him his partner in the afterlife and a worthy member of the vampire community in the House of Driscoll?

In the midst of the turbulent French Revolution, Max Driscoll turned his stable-hand Galien into a vampire mate to save him from the guillotine. Max later came to regret that rash act, however, when he realized Galien was not a good man, nor the right man for him. Since then, no matter how many miles, how many centuries Max puts between them, he just can’t shake the rogue vampire.

Lured from his French castle to New York City to ‘clean up’ Galien’s series of abductions and murders in the city’s gay district, Max is forced into a long-awaited confrontation and vows to eliminate his nemesis permanently. What he doesn’t know, however, is that it’s not Galien who’s on the killing spree, but a young man Galien turned. Now, Blue is a sweet, sensitive, beautiful, tragic vampire…and a homicidal maniac.

Can Max tame Blue enough to make him his partner in the afterlife and a worthy member of the vampire community in the House of Driscoll?

First edition published by Amber Allure, June 2010.

Book Review

This is one of those books that made me wish I'd had the patience to wait for the sequel before I read it - that was for the first edition. Now that I have reread it, I am still fascinated by the way this story is set up and makes me wish I can go straight to the sequel. Of course - this time I can! 'The House of Driscoll' has an amazing set of characters, some intriguing mysteries, and it felt like the story barely got started, and "bang" - the next thing I read was "to be continued". Man! The language I used to describe my feelings when the abrupt ending caught me by surprise was NOT ladylike.

The characters had me fascinated - I even occasionally yelled at them for being idiots in various ways. Max is a cold block of ice who doesn't know the meaning of love, but he tries to do the right thing. Galien, the man he turned 300 years earlier, still loves him and will do anything to get him back. Blue is an enigma - even to himself, and as he slowly starts remembering things, it only gets "curioser and curioser". Then there's Katherine, beautiful and mysterious in her own right, who is somehow linked to Max.

Add a bunch of human religious fanatics and another vampire who believes he's the second coming, and you've got the ingredients for a truly amazing story. You really do not want to wait for the sequel to find out what is REALLY going on...

 

 

 

 

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Additional Information

Format	ebook
Length	Novella, 162 pages/42622 words
Heat Level
Publication Date	14-September-2018
Price	$4.99 ebook
Buy Link	http://www.extasybooks.com/978-1-4874-2196-0-the-house-of-driscoll/