Erin McCarthy, Bled Dry

Bled Dry

Erin McCarthy

Berkley, May 2007, $14.00

ISBN: 0425215156

In Las Vegas, everyone knows making passionate love with a vampire can be dangerous if your partner loses control and leaves you with a bite more than a hickey. However, making love with the undead also means no need for birth control as no procreation that way is possible. Tell all that to Brittany Baldizzi, who after a night of wild lovemaking is six months pregnant carrying missing vampire Corbin Atelier's offspring though she cannot find him.

Corbin wants to return to being a human so he hunts a cure. However, he is shocked when he learns the woman whom he shared the greatest night of his life with, alive and dead, is carrying his fetus. He wants to be a daddy and would not mind a forging a family with Brittany. However, can a mortal and an immortal make a permanent relationship even for the sake of their half-breed unborn?

BLED DRY is a humorous, chick-lit, vampire romance as the lead couple argue over his paternal rights while falling in love. The opening scene in which a stunned Brittany reacts to Dr. Hopkins; news that "once is all it takes" sets the tone of the lighthearted romp as the future momma thinks Corbin's "boys could still swim." Fans will enjoy this HIGH STAKES fun tale with a BIT THE JACKPOT telepathic chick lit twist.

Harriet Klausner