Review: I want an Adrian!!!!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 18, 2012
Our strikingly handsome vampire, Adrian, meets Eliza in Ireland in 1811 when he and friend Jamie Fitzgerald venture back home. Adrian and Jamie had met 50 years earlier working the night shift on the NYC docks. This was a vacation to them, recapturing days in their homeland.They went to a small bed and breakfast where the Inn Keeper was known to be discreet. After checking in, they wandered down cobblestone streets to a small pub where Adrian saw her,  a slight  wisp of a girl, a waitress. Her bright red curls were tied with a green ribbon the color of her eyes. He hoped she would come to their table and his wish was granted.  Adrian and Jamie smelled the odor of illness emanating from her. She did not have long to live. Consumption would take her soon.Adrian went to the pub everyday there after, not being able to get her off his mind, until one day the barkeep said she was too ill to come to work. Adrian had watched his entire family die of this dreaded disease, and he refused to let Eliza die too. Jamie thought he was crazy when Adrian told him of his plan to make Eliza his consort. Jamie was appalled that Adrian would be tying himself to this person, this stranger, forever. Adrian had a plan: Eliza would be offered eternal life, and for this she would keep his home and attend to his every need.Adrian has always seen her as more than his consort, but not wanted to overstep his boundaries of their `arrangement'. His every thought burns for her. Every woman he is with has her face when he closes his eyes in the dark. Eliza has no thought of his true feelings. She cares for his home, dies a little every night seeing another in his bed; wishing it were she. She is now seeing another man. Will she leave Adrian? Will Adrian allow her to go? Will he tell her his feelings???So the best made plans of mice and men... and vampires, go astray... Caridad Piniero has written such a sensual story of love and yearning that will have your heart breaking for these two star crossed lovers dying for each other. Actually, it has been 200 years, six months, and 3 days that they have yearned for each other.I loved this story. It was sexy, steamy ...It made my heart ache, yet gave me hope that true love could conquer all. I am such a mush. Caridad, thank you so much for submitting this for review.Review by Gloria LakritzSr Reviewer and Review Chair for the Paranormal Romance Guild