Dating4Demons
Serena Robar
Berkley, May 2007, 193 pp.
ISBN: 0425215148

Colby was bitten by a rogue vampire while walking home one night and become a half-vampire, one of the Undead who didn't have a license. Half-vampires are killed by full-blooded vampires because the prophecy states that a half-blood will bring about the end of the vampire world. Colby, a tenacious fighter, convinced the full bloods to let her live and she emancipated the undead half-bloods who now live in the psi phi sanctuary house with Colby as their Protector.

One day while in a shopping mall garage with her friend Piper, Colby comes under attack. This is a normal occurrence for her because full bloods believe in the prophecy, but these are demon-possessed zombie vampires. Hunter, a demon slayer, witnesses the attack and thinks Piper is the Protector. When she straightens him out, she learns she is a demon slayer as well and an Avarice Demon is trying to come to our plane with his minions. Colby learns this because he halfway possesses her lover Thomas and talks to the Protector. Hunter, Piper and Colby have to come up with a plan of destroying Barnaby without killing Thomas.

Serena Robar has written an exciting, action-adventure romance that is targeted for teens but will also be appreciated by adults. Colby is a kick butt person who lives up to her image of a protector because she takes care of matters that could hurt her friend. Piper comes into her own and she learns who she is and despite being frightened, becomes a slayer in deed as well as in name.

Harriet Klausner