If you're unfamiliar with Mary Hughes' Biting Love series...well...rectify that as soon as possible, but don't start here. The series starts with&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Bite-My-Fire-A-Biting-Love-story/dp/B002R2OF4G/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Bite My Fire: A Biting Love story</a>&nbsp;and continues with the stronger second installment,&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Biting-Nixie-A-Biting-Love-Novel/dp/B0024NP39Y/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Biting Nixie: A Biting Love Novel</a>, and they're fun, relatively light, but definitely sexy/steamy/erotic vamp romance novels that blend humor and danger together quite nicely. The Bite of Silence is third in the series, but a short story instead of a full length novel like it's predecessors. Hughes has managed to condense the best parts of her books and deliver a powerful, funny, sexual, and surprisingly complete tale in a much smaller package. I believe, however, that this story would definitely feel lacking to anyone unfamiliar with the series, so start from the beginning.