num_pages: 323
description: Valerie Dearborn wants a cotton candy life filled with light sweetness but its more like a puffer fish: pointy unusual and  if not prepared exactly right  deadly. In London for graduate school Val knows she's finally free. Her father and ex-almost-boyfriend are back in California and she's out of the Vampire hunting biz for good. Or is she? She draws the attention of Lucas a 1600 year old Vampire and King to his kind. Hes also wicked hot. As golden as Lucifer and just as tempting he makes Valerie an offer she can't refuse  help him find out if the Others (Empaths Fey and Werewolves) still exist or he'll stop protecting those she loves. Lucas tells her that Empaths were a Vampires biggest weakness before going extinct hundreds of years ago. While the Fey or a Werewolf might kill a Vampire an Empath could enslave them seducing or harming with emotions at will. The one detail he leaves out? Valerie is an Empath. And after 1600 years of an emotionless existence Lucas wants Valerie like a recovering alcoholic wants a wine cooler. Can she keep those she loves alive stop Lucas from munching on her survive a fanged revolution and still find a way to have that boring normal life shes always wanted? Probably not but boy is she gonna try! This is a full length novel and contains adult content.
language: English
title: Love is Darkness
publisher: Host of the Hills