title: Powers
author: Waldron, Elaine
description: In an effort to escape the pain of the sudden loss of her husband of six months, young Amber Dalziel leaves home, family and friends in Texas and moves to the Pacific Northwest where she has purchased a cabin near Mount Rainier, hoping to lose herself in her painting. She soon meets Paul Stevenson, the handsome proprietor of the local gas and grocery and his sister Judy. The very first night Amber is in her new home she hears screams in the woods that frighten her so terribly that she doesn't fall asleep until sunrise. Soon there is a knock on her door. Law Enforcement Ranger Grady Brown has come to pay a visit. he wants to know if she heard anything unusual during the night. Amber and Paul quckly develop a friendship that has possibilities of being something more.. However, there is another new resident in the area a quarter of a mile in the woods behind Amber --The handsome and mysterious Dorian Lodovico, who completely unnerves her with a mere glance when he comes in the store while she is shopping one day. Though Paul is trying hard to gain Amber's affection, as he is falling in love with her, she realizes that she has feelings for both men. Dorian isn't going to make it easy. Paul courts her, brings flowers, takes her to dinner and dancing, while Dorian just shows up on her doorstep to borrow coffee, or during a storm when the power goes off, he helps her find candles, anything but a rational relationship, but he literally sweeps her off her feet when he kisses her so passionatey that it leaves her weak and trembling. What she doesn't know -- is Dorian is a vampire and wants to turn her. He caused the storm to keep Paul away.