"Encompasses betrayal, pain, suffering, and death, but through it all, love and humor shine."

Kye is out to find and destroy the one who cursed him to this half-life. This is the night he's waited for, for a very long time. He sits waiting for his quarry to make his entrance in this gothic hell humans call a dance club. While scoping out the people, a woman mistakes Kye for the vampire she is hunting.

Balthazar sees humans as cattle, people to be used as he wishes. He's a monster who on more than one occasion acts like a little boy. When he can't get what he wants he decides to destroy all so no one else can have it. This is what he did to Kye and his family, while Kye was forced to watch.

Tali hasn't escaped Balthazar's wrath. He killed her family, and then proceeded to put her in his militarily run orphanage. Tali gets help though from Mari. Mari, also a victim of Balthazar and now a vampire, raised Tali. Both Tali and Mari have tweaked the tiger's tail long enough. Balthazar has now sent out his minions to scour the city, to find the ones who have taken from him.

Kye and Tali join forces to kill a vampire and in the interim fall in lust. THE SLAYER is Tali and Kye's story. It encompasses betrayal, pain, suffering, and death, but throughout it all, love and humor shine through. This is not a story about goodness prevailing. You only find that in a children's book. THE SLAYER shows that we all start out as human with human failings, and that even a man who's lost his humanity can be redeemed.

The only problem with THE SLAYER was the editing. The flow of the story stops when you have to wonder what word was actually meant or was there a letter missing. Can one also wish that THE SLAYER were a longer story? At 217 pages, it fulfilled all the requirements a story needs. Maybe it's the voyeur in me, but I wanted to know what happens next with Kye and Tali.

THE SLAYER is now also in paperback and I am going to add this wonderful story to my library. Ms Burke has another hit on her hands. Stephanie, write faster -- I want to read SLAYER 2.

Sensuality: Oral sex, Descriptive sex. Publisher Rating: NC17.

Reviewed by Hunter McKenna
Courtesy Sensual Romance Reviews
Posted October 6, 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.