Review: Good Book!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 27, 2014
Covet is an exciting imprint that never fails to disappoint.  Contemporary love with dollop of paranormal is a winning combination time after time.  I am always tickled pink when I get the chance to read and review a Covet romance.Love at Stake by Victoria Davies is about matchmaking and finding love in the world of supernaturals. Abbey is the only human working for Fated Match, a dating service catering to the supernatural society in New York City.  She gets roped into wooing a new client, who just happens to be a vampire, a species that she does not care to much for.Lucien Redgrave is a very old and very wealthy vampire.  His daughter Melissa wants to become a Fated Match client, so in order to ensure that the company is on the up and up, he agrees to trial their offerings himself, before he allows Melissa to do so. However, as a condition of enrollment, he wants Abbey to be in charge of his dating account.  She agrees reluctantly, because her job and well as the firm's success is on the line.Abbey and Lucien spend a lot of time together, which evolves into much more than a just professional relationship.  In fact, they are both experiencing true love for the very first time. Which in Lucien's case is extremely rare because not only is he gorgeous, but he is over 900 years old. However, a relationship between a human and a vampire is riddled with an uncertainty that both Abbey and Lucien are slowly discovering.I really enjoyed this story.  I learned that the supernatural community has many different species and that each one garners their own little idiosyncrasies that can be exploited to lure a potential mate. Lucien and Abbey are steamy together and their sexual chemistry is undeniable. Overall, a solid, contemporary read that even non-fans of the paranormal genre will enjoy.