Review: Fab Author and a Fabulous New Genre for Her!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2012
For more than 170 years, Delano Bowen has practiced medicine, and yes he is immortal.  As of late, he has been doing more along the lines of research vs. practicing on patients.  Obviously, because he is a vampire and never grows older.  What he plans is to create a vaccine to protect the vulnerable from being preyed upon by rogue vampires.  After a century of searching, he believes he's found the key to  creating the vaccine.  He's found probably the last surviving descendent of the Merzetti family who had been hunted down and slaughtered by rogue vampires who feared the anti-vampirism properties in their bloodline.''***  I am always interested in exceptional world building that authors use in writing about vampires.I choose to read this novel after having read this author before and liked her writing of romantic  suspense she had built up in GUARDING SUZANNAH from her Serve to Protect series. Now Wilson has strayed off a bit from genres - still bringing on the suspense - but adding in some paranormal.''The hero, Delano Bowen, was a medical doctor and was turned more than 170 years ago.  Wilson lets you know that right from the get-go Delano is an honorable man.  He was married and stayed with his wife (not a vampire) until she died of old age.  Since that time he works tirelessly in search of a cure, to protect the vulnerable as well as to release him from the hell he was in.  Finally after searching for over a century, he had located a surviving descendent of the Merzetti family.''Our heroine Ainsley Crawford had no idea she carried the genetic gift but the offer of a plumb job at twice the salary she had been making forced her to warily go for an interview at night, in a somewhat bad part of town!  Naturally, she is attacked by a rogue vampire and Delano comes to her rescue.''Basically that is the set-up for this novel and what follows is an excellent story where Ainsley starts to realize all is not as it seemed working for the good doctor, and her sexual attraction to Delano just seems to grow in a way that she'd never expected - nor for Delano either.  Then there is a rogue vampire Radak Janecek who knows what Delano is working on and wants to destroy both his research and eliminating Ainsley whom he is aware that she carries the Merzetti gene. ''Bottom line:  If the vampires and the sensual romance don't get your attention the wonderful artistry of Ms. Wilson's prose featuring scenes of bonafide fighting skills found in most military suspense novels should peak your interest.  Try this author out and make it a point to add THE MERZETTI EFFECT to your book shopping wish list!