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Product Description
A deadly crash changes the fate of one lonely vampire.
Brotherhood of Blood, Book 1
Vampire enforcer Atticus Maxwell stands at the edge of his own oblivion...until the faint heartbeat of a desperately wounded mortal woman calls him back. The terrible crash that almost took both their lives has brought him a charming, intriguing woman who just might give him a reason to live again. Lissa was headed for a conference at a resort in a last-ditch attempt to find a job. Instead, on a rain-slick mountain road that almost killed her, she finds the love of her life. A love with the most eligible, reclusive vineyard owner in Napa Valley-one that isn't quite human. No barrier-not even breaking the news to Lissa's friends-seems too great to hold back their blossoming love. Until they learn the accident that brought them together wasn't an accident at all, but a murder attempt by an unknown enemy. Atticus saved Lissa once. Can he keep her that way in the face of a renewed threat? Warning: This book contains graphic language, hot neck biting, outdoor loving and a hot man with a killer smile. This book has been previously published and has been substantially revised and expanded from its original release.
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 Not a master work August 12, 2010
P. McG
D'Arc is not a master writer by any stretch of the imagination, but somehow she made me want to know what happens next. (Due to the fact tht the story stops dead without warning) Only gave it a 3 beacause I want to find out. For 2.50 what can you expect?!
 Painful as a Bus Crash July 20, 2010
Tracy (Fort Myers, Florida, USA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Atticus has walked the earth for a millennium and for so long he has searched for his One, the one woman in all the world meant to be his other half. Now, after having resigned himself to not finding her, after debating the final sleep and turning further and further away from existence, he steps on a girls toes and his entire world changes.
Lissa was feeling apprehensive about taking the shuttle bus up the mountain, but she got on anyway. Slightly psychic, she's feeling very uneasy until she sees a man who literally robs her of breath and makes her heart race. Suddenly those psychic warnings are blaring conflicting messages and when he trods on her toes and looks into her eyes, Lissa knows she'll remember that fantastic stranger for the rest of her days.
A tragedy leads them to each other and dedication to each other will see them through to eternity.
It's not the premise to this short novella that I have a problem with. It's perhaps not the most original of stories, but it has a bunch of sexy male vampires in it, and that's pretty much all I need to enjoy a short story like this. Unfortunately, it was just about every other aspect of the story that made me wince.
I think D'Arc had some sizzling sex scenes in the book that are deliciously graphic and temperature raising, but that's where the good points end. The dialogue is so unbelievable, so cliched and trite and way beyond soap opera-ish that it actually hurt to read some of it. I totally don't get it. I've read D'Arc before and didn't have that problem with the book, but this one was quite literally painful.
The development (and I use the term loosely) of the relationship between Atticus and Lissa was nearly comical in its speed and lack of anything resembling realism, and the 'conflict' of the story arc was...just bizarre. If that wasn't bad enough, it ends with a cliffhanger, and I have a huge issue with cliffhangers. They're in my top three of reading anathemas. At this point not even a life threatening cliffhanger could prompt me to continue with this series, though I did like the interaction between Atticus' friend Marc and Lissa's friend Kelly. I just don't know if I would risk dialogue as horrible as it was here.
Originally reviewed on One Good Book Deserves Another.
Cliche ridden June 30, 2010
Kristen N. Griswold (Rexford, NY)
I am glad I only spent $2.50 on this. A 7th grade English teacher would have failed a 12 year old who tried to hand in something with this many cliches. I do think this imagined English teacher would have found the dialogue to be on the level of a 12 year old however.
not good! June 14, 2010
Trish (new york)
This was a very disappointing book!I could not even read the whole thing. There is no real plot, no real story. I love supernatural romance novels and I have never not finished one I started... Until now! I will not be finishing this book or the other two of the series and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
 Won't continue series June 10, 2010
Nikki Estep (LOL, FL)
I get the whole "One" thing, you know soul mates for life but it was hard to grasp. I mean seriously Lissa and Atticus knew eachother for literally 2 minutes and they are already confessing their undying love and having sex in a cave. Besides the very rushed story line I think the plot was good and would have made a good novel, not a novella. Maybe then the characters would have had time to get to know eachother and gradually introduce us to their relationship. It was a bit unbeleivable how Lissa and her friends accepted there were vampires and other magical beings upon them. Oh you just sucked that guy's neck-oh ok your a vampire no problem... I mean seriously!!
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