Cameron Dean, Eternal Hunger

Eternal Hunger

Cameron Dean

Ballantine, January 2007, $6.99, 315 pp.

ISBN 0345492555

In Las Vegas Candace Steel works for security in the Scheherazade Casino killing vampires who drink human blood and keeping them out of the casino so they don't tip the odds in their favor by using their powers on the humans who work there. Candice is imminently suited for the job because she can sense when a vampire is nearby and has the strength to complete the task. She also loves powerful vampire Ash, though she can never see him because she doesn't want to be turned and spend eternity with him.

When a strange vampire attacks her and leaves her for dead, Ash appears and gives her a chance to become a vampire, otherwise she will die from her wounds. She chooses to become a vampire, moves in with Ash and learns how to be a vampire, but she drinks no blood other than his. Still, she knows that soon she will have to make a choice because she can drink from him for only so long before she will need other blood. In the meantime, they are both in danger from the Board who seeks immortality through the three objects of the Egyptian god Thoth, and are willing to use the couple in a blood sacrifice. Ash and Candace devise a trap which they hope could save the world from the rule of evil gods.

Candace and Ash's love story, spread out over three books culminates in ETERNAL HUNGER, a beautiful tale, as the reluctant heroine realizes that she loves Ash with all her heart, as he does her. This is one of the best poignant vampire romantic thrillers of the year, and readers will become thoroughly encircled by the magic of the storyline. Fans will have a craving for more Vegas vampiric romantic suspense thrillers by this talented author.