KISS OF NIGHT was fascinatingly fresh and surprisingly stunning! From the first page, I was caught up in the grief and soul searching that Susan was about to encounter. I was swept away in the city of Prague attending a funeral for the woman that raised me and watched as my every belief seemed to crumble all around me. I thought that this new outlook on vampires was very fresh and the story was told through a new pair of eyes. The vampires story that Debbie Viguie presented left some things the same, but I was very happy with her tale and the truths about vampires that were uncovered during the story.

Susan, our heroine, was as real to life as it gets. Susan is a woman coping with a tragic loss and left shaken in her beliefs. I loved watching her struggle to trust, struggle to fight, and struggle to find meaning in the chaos. As a vampire, Raphael was about as good as it gets. He was full of darkness, mystery, and had his own inner battles to wage. Both characters greatly complimented each other.

The first book in a new series, KISS OF NIGHT, opened up the playlist for all the other actors as well. I really appreciated the fact that Viguie did not let anyone get lost in the story. She stayed with the characters and each played a significant part. The next book cannot come soon enough for this one left me wondering what could possibly happen next?

The sudden loss of her grandmother has brought Susan Lambert's family to Prague. This is where her grandmother wanted to be laid to rest and this would be the place that Susan's life was about to be changed. When her cousin Wendy disappears, Susan realizes that she must seek help from an unusual source. The strange, yet eerily compelling, man that she only met yesterday. Raphael is not like any man she has known before. In a matter of days he has changed her perception of the world and opened her eyes to the fact that there are worse things than bad people in the world. In fact, he has shown her that vampires exist and that they are after her. Running to stay alive at every turn, Susan soon realizes that the answers she seeks may be found in her grandmother's will. The answers that she needs can only be found in France at Bryas. Bryas would only be the beginning of the struggle for Susan. As it is not just the answers she needs, but to know the truth is to trust herself and her heart.

Raphael has lived a long life of fighting and searching. If he wasn't fighting in one man's war he was waging another. If he wasn't searching for something he was searching for someone. Raphael had to learn the hard way that no one could be fully trusted. He has watched the Bryas women through the centuries and he has guarded their secrets, but now it is the time for action. The war has come to him and the war has most definitely come to Susan. The strange woman has found a place in Raphael's world and somehow she has managed to find a place in his heart.

Book Summary

Centuries ago, Raphael was a blasphemous knight who fought in the Crusades purely for his own mercenary benefit, and to satisfy his taste for killing. Now, condemned for his evil passions and hypocrisy, he wanders the earth a vampire, cursed with first-hand knowledge of the supernatural world he once denied existed. The powerful relic he still possesses from his days as a Crusader has been stolen by a rival vampire who has recruited an army of soulless underlings to aid him in spreading evil. At the time he learns this, Raphael has been hunting this vampire for nearly a century, and it seems the final battle is destined to take place in Prague. For help in this quest, Raphael must enlist the aid of two humans, David and Susan, who suddenly find themselves immersed in a world they never imagined, entangled with supernatural forces they can't control. Susan, in particular, finds herself conflicted as she struggles with her inexplicable attraction to Raphael. In the end, both Susan and Raphael will be called upon to exercise courage and faith, and in the process, the question What would happen if a vampire truly accepted God? is answered.