title: Vampire Heat
author: Carter, Margaret L.
description: Three romantic tales from the Vanishing Breed Vampire Universe:Tall, Dark, and Deadly: Author Eloise Kern hopes actor Claude Darvell will produce and star in a vampire film she's written. She has no idea that not only does he play vampires onscreen, he is one, hiding in plain sight. Or that by falling in love with Claude, she becomes the target of a vengeful rival from his past.Night Flight: When young human-vampire hybrid Gillian begins her first estrus, her mentor assigns her a mate whom she can't stand. She flees for refuge to her human friend, Paul. When her need becomes irresistible, and lust quickly develops into love, how can a vampire and a mere mortal hope to form a permanent relationship?Heat in the Night: For vampires, mating serves a purely functional purpose, for reproduction, not emotional fulfillment. But a vampire brought up by human foster parents finds herself succumbing to that human weakness, falling in love with her closest friend. When the two of them share a tryst at her first estrus, she fears her true feelings will repel him.