title: Desire After Dark
author:  Amanda Ashley 
description: This contemporary vampire romance may lack the violence, intensity and eroticism typical of the subgenre, but bestseller Ashley (<i>After Sundown</i>) still delivers an exciting plot and a heroine who can kick ass with the best of them. A killer is draining green-eyed redheads of their blood in the Midwestern town of Pear Blossom Creek, and 22-year-old Victoria Cavendish knows she should be leery of mysterious men like Antonio Battista, who orders food he never eats at the diner where she waitresses, then disappears into thin air. In fact, Antonio is a 600-year-old vampire. While an obsessive, yellow-eyed vampire stalks Vicki and a vampire hunter remains convinced Antonio's the killer, the innocent smalltown girl and Antonio fall in love. Even if they can survive the danger, what will happen to their love? A ghost living in Antonio's isolated Spanish castle provides additional paranormal flair, and a secondary romance between the vampire hunter ready to retire his stake and Vicki's best friend round out the story. <i>(Feb.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  “INDESTRUCTIBLE,” HE REMARKED, NIBBLING HER EARLOBE. “THAT’S ME.”
  
  
  “Irresistible, too.”
  
  
  “You are.” Gazing deep into her eyes, he murmured, “How did I live so long
  without you? I look back at all those empty years . . .” He shook his head.
  “But now you’re here and it’s like I’ve been reborn.”
  
  
  Abbey looked up at him, her throat thick with unshed tears. “Was it really so
  awful?”
  
  
  He drew her down on the grass beside him, then pulled her close to his side.
  “You have no idea. After Mara left me, I wandered aimlessly from place to
  place. I hated what I’d become and yet—I probably shouldn’t be telling you
  this—I loved the blood. The taste of it on my tongue, the power of it! I loved
  the hunt, and yet, at the same time, I hated it....
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Other titles available by Amanda Ashley
  
  
  A WHISPER OF ETERNITY  
  AFTER SUNDOWN  
  DEAD PERFECT  
  DEAD SEXY  
  DESIRE AFTER DARK  
  NIGHT’S KISS  
  NIGHT’S MASTER  
  NIGHT’S PLE