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"Definitely not like Bela Lugosi's Vampire"
Reviewed by Chere Gruver
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted March 4, 2004

Penelope Coddington was born to a life of luxury. But her mother died with her birth and her father never really paid any attention to her. As a child, she was forever at the heels of one of the stable boys, Aidan O'Shea. Her father finally hired a governess for Read more...

"Sometime who you love has been with you since childhood."
Reviewed by Patricia McGrew
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted May 30, 2004

Penelope Coddington and Aidan O'Shea were close friends thoughout most of their childhood. It had never mattered to Penelope that Aidan was a stable boy and she was the only daughter of a very wealthy man. It was only when her nanny claimed that she could win her father's love if she would learn to Read more...

Summary

Behind an illusion of folklore, the Embraced create a barrier between the Dominion and humankind. Penelope Coddington, wealthy daughter of upper class England, was marked at birth to take her rightful place within the ranks of the fully Embraced Vampir.

Aidan O'Shea, a working class Irishman on the Coddington Estate, is also marked. Class difference has kept Aidan and Penelope apart, but soon that will change. The Vampir will realize their birthrights and they will both belong to the same noble, blood-drenched line.

And that's good, because unless these two can come together, it's going to be hell on Earth...