Review: A great twist on the genre
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 19, 2012
Ainsley Crawford had just been fired from her job as an ER nurse, when she receives an offer for a job interview from Dr. Delano Bowen. Even though the interview is at night in a slightly rough part of town, Ainsley decides to check it out and see if it has possibilities. Ainsley soon finds herself in the middle of a centuries old feud between Dr. Bowen and his arch enemy Radak Janecek. She knows she should walk away, but the need to stay with Dr. Bowen is more than she can fight.Dr. Delano Bowen is a medical doctor who has been researching a way to reverse the curse a vampress placed on him more than 170 years earlier. Delano is almost positive that he has found the key to making a vaccine and the key is no other than Ainsley Crawford. Ainsley is the last surviving descendant of the Merzetti family, a family that carries a gene with anti-vampirism properties. Delano is determined to keep Ainsley with him until he finds the cure; he soon finds that he is drawn to Ainsley for more than her blood.Delano and Ainsley try to fight their attraction to each other and race to find the cure before their enemy discovers Ainsley's real identity.Ms. Wilson has given us an interesting twist on the vampire story. Is there a possibility that there is actually a "cure" for vampirism? There are two factions of vampires, those who try to live a regular life amongst non-vampires, using bagged blood for food and hoping for a cure, and those who believe vampires are superior beings and people are nothing more than a food source. Delano is one of the former, Radak Janeck one of the latter.Delano is an attractive man; he's intelligent, compassionate and focused on his search for a cure. He surrounds himself with loyal employees and lives well.  Ainsley is a lot like Delano in many ways; she is dedicated to her profession, is loyal to a fault to her friends and firmly believes in right and wrong. Their attraction to each other was immediate and very dangerous for both, but fun as heck to watch develop. Ainsley deals with the attraction and most of what comes her way with a wicked sense of humor. She was so much fun to be around. Delano seems a bit rigid in the beginning, but he soon found that Ainsley brings out the best and worst in him.  Delano's right hand man, Eli Grayson is a great character. He is a nurse and vet, a big guy with gentle hands and a strong sense of loyalty to Delano and someone I would love to get to know.This is a fun book, the twist on vampires was fun to read, and I read it in one sitting. I did have a tiny little niggle with how easily Ainsley accepted everything Delano threw at her. I would have liked to have seen a little bit more hesitation on her part. Call me silly, but some of the stuff she finds out would send most people screaming, or at least make them mad for more than a day or two. Aside from that one small issue, I enjoyed this book.There is some violence, some of it kind of graphic, but all germane to the story. There are some pretty heated sex scenes, this is not erotica but there was enough heat that this little southern girl almost had the vapors a time or two. There is even a surprising little twist in the end. I recommend anyone who likes hot vampires, strong women and a little humor thrown in, sit back with your beverage of choice and enjoy.Reviewed as a Member of the Paranormal Romance Review Team