I am afraid I just have to voice my complaint very strongly about the way this series is being published.  This should have been the first story instead it comes after the others which are also not in order.  The entire series is being published backwards.  So how can I get interested in these vampires when the next book has a married brother unmarried and half the characters missing who were in the last story and someone is married who never had a story.  What sense does that make?  A primary reason for getting attached to a series is that the characters continue to grow not regress.  I can hardly make sense out of who is supposed to be mated and who is not.  What publisher would do such a thing and for what reason. Certainly not to get readers hooked.  Believe me it took me a while to realize what was wrong with the series and why it seemed so confusing to me.  If I were an author I would never let my work be published in that way.  Was Ms. Sands afraid to argue with her publisher for fear of being dumped. She should have held out for the correct order and thus make this series ten times more enjoyable and 100 time more addictive. I was so disgusted when I realized who the main characters were (they were already married in a previous book).  Do yourself a favor wait till this series is finished and then buy all the books and read them in order.  I wish I had taken my own advice, but I realized too late that there was a problem.