"The Texas vampires are back and as sexy as ever."

By: Diane Whiteside

Genres: Paranormal | Romance Suspense | Erotic

Posted: September 15, 2008

Stephanie "Steve" Reynolds loves being a Texas Ranger, but she'd also love to become a mother someday. Her 15-year on- again-off-again relationship with Ethan Templeton is enough to drive her mad. He excites her, she wants to be with him, but he's a vampire; what kind of relationship could they have?

Ethan loves Steve, but he's never said the words. Watching her grow old while he does not is unbearable and making her a vampira in Texas is against the law. While working on a case of unexplained deaths, Steve requires Ethan's help in finding the monsters responsible. Finding them is proving to be more difficult than anticipated, and Ethan knows how bad they really are -- because he's looking for them, as well.

When Ethan discovers the location of the people he's seeking, he has to face them alone, since everyone else has their own orders to carry out. Steve discovers Ethan and plans to back him up. She's successful until the end of the fight when life as she knows it comes to an end. Now she and Ethan have to make a quick decision, one that could kill them both.

BOND OF DARKNESS is suspenseful and passionate. The story draws you in and makes you really feel it while you're reading it. The Texas Vampires series has been exceptional so far and I generally do not read this type of book. However, I absolutely love Diane Whiteside's writing and highly recommend BOND OF DARKNESS, as well as all the other Texas Vampire books -- they are wonderful!

Book Summary

Hailed as “the master of erotic prose” (Booklist), Diane Whiteside has introduced a sensual new take on the legend of vampires. Now she brings us back to Texas for an exhilarating tale of uninhibited danger and desire…

Texas Ranger Stephanie “Steve” Reynolds is on the hunt for a serial killer who is stalking innocent women in the Lone Star State. The beautiful Ranger comes to suspect the unbelievable – that the killer is a vampire.

Steve knows all about vampiros, since she has a demon lover of her own. For the past several years, Ethan Templeton has been helping her on cases when he wasn’t sharing her bed. But Steve, craving mortal motherhood, refused to get serious about the handsome vampire. Especially after she saw him kill a man she’d just arrested…

Ethan loves Steve, but he thinks nothing can come of their passion. Even if he could convince her to share his immortal life, his vampire patron, Don Rafael Perez, would execute him for transforming her.

But when the killer menaces Steve, Ethan realizes he has no choice except to risk everything. Will Steve agree to join a man she’s called murderer—or will she refuse her one chance at eternal life, lust, and love?

Bond of Darkness by Diane Whiteside

Bond of Darkness

by: Diane Whiteside

A Novel of Texas Vampires #3

Berkley Sensation
October 1, 2008
On Sale: October 7, 2008
Featuring: Stephanie “Steve” Reynolds; Ethan Templeton
336 pages
ISBN: 042522354X
EAN: 9780425223543
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