"Characters Make This Dark Erotic Romance Come to Life"

He is a mystery -- a man of many disguises and many faces. He is danger incarnate, and more than human. He lives for vengeance, and nothing more. He is Kye.

She is alone. She battles for control of her life, and for the lives of those who suffer beneath the monster's thumb. She is Tali.

First they fight and then they love. Though each intrigues the other, both Kye and Tali carry dark secrets. If they join the fight together, they may win, but can either wounded warrior dare to hope -- or love -- again?

Burke's skills at creating outrageous, loveable, larger- than-life characters shine in this darkly romantic erotic read. From exotic costumes (including a lot of leather) to the sex and music of the club scene, Kye and Tali rock and fight their way into the reader's heart. Outrageous secondary characters flesh out the darkness of Burke's world. The darkness is oppressing, almost depressing. The evil vampire's savagery is explicit, sometimes gruesome. (This book is not for a faint-hearted reader.) The hero and heroine's sexual attraction burns the pages, but the fast- moving, ass-kicking plot doesn't falter for a minute. The romance seems to linger in subtext, more than thrusting itself in the reader's face, and the sexual content rating seems to stem more from explicitness than from frequency of the sexual acts, but fans of dark fantasy novels (a la Laurell K Hamilton especially) will enjoy this richly textured story.

Sensuality Level: THE SLAYER has been rated Hard NC-17 by the publisher.

Reviewed by Ann Leveille
Courtesy Sensual Romance
Posted March 2, 2003

Summary

Born from evil, sustained by hate. Revenge is his goal. Kye will not let anyone or anything stand in the way for his quest for vengeance.

A woman without a past, fighting for a future. Tali was determined to bring down the man who had stolen her life and her very identity.

Their meeting was by chance, their attraction instantaneous. But can there really be a future between a trained soldier with everything to gain and a woman with nothing to lose? Can there be a future with the man known as...
The Slayer.

Publisher Warning: high violence content.
Sexual Content: Hard NC-17. Genre: vampire.