Lynsay Sands, A Quick Bite

A Quick Bite

Lynsay Sands

Avon, Nov 2005, $6.99, 384 pp.

ISBN 0060773758

Psychologist Dr. Greg Hewitt closes the office feeling rather good, because officially his first vacation since seemingly forever has just begun. He had eight years of practice and school before that, with no time off, but now he is going to spend R&R in Mexico, at least that is what he thought. Instead he has been abducted and finds himself tied up on a bed.

Vampiress Lissianna Argeneau has a minor problem; she becomes ill at the sight of blood. Thus to feed, she barbarically selects humans instead of the civilized modern use of blood banks. Her mother thinks she has found the cure tied up currently on Lissianna's bed. Lissianna is taken aback that her thirtieth birthday present is Dr. Greg Hewitt, who demands his freedom. Instead to everyone's shock, Lissianna desires her doctor who reciprocates her feelings. The Argeneau brood don't know whether it is his the strength of his will and min,d or simply love, but the vampires cannot expunge his memory of them, especially Lissianna.

The latest biting vampire romance starts a bit slow, as Lissianna explains in detail the species vampire to Greg, but once the tale moves past that to the growing relationship between the psychologist and the neck biter, the plot accelerates. Lissianna is an interesting person struggling with her phobia that makes her dine the old fashion way rather than the "normal" sack lunch take out from the blood bank. Greg is her ideal other half, as he does not mind A QUCIK LOVE BITE. Lynsay Sands' latest paranormal romance is amusing once the plot turns to eating in.

Harriet Klausner