title: Be Still My Vampire Heart (Love at Stake, Book 3)
author:  Kerrelyn Sparks 
description: The third entry in Sparks's contemporary vampire series, following the kicky <I>Vamps and the City</I>, raises the stakes&mdash;in more way than one&mdash;as a vampire hunter unwittingly pushes the vamp underworld to the verge of war. CIA "Stake-Out" agent Emma Watson takes her job personally, having lost her parents to vampires six years earlier. Ambushing vamps in New York City's Central Park, Emma neither suspects nor particularly cares that there are, in fact, two vampire factions: one evil, bent on destroying humanity, and the other good, having eschewed people blood for a synthetic substitute. One of the good guys, Scottish vamp Angus McKay, has been assigned to stop her nightly patrols, but instead finds himself falling in love. Soon Emma's deep-rooted beliefs are coming unmoored: undeniably attracted to Angus, she can't bear the thought of loving&mdash;or even trusting&mdash;a vampire, but she's left without a choice when Angus's ex-lover decides to capture them both as a gift to her evil overlord. Sparks's plot, though it lacks the satirical snap of her previous vamp novels, serves the romance between Angus and Emma well. Though it should please her fans, Sparks's latest probably won't win her any new readers in a market saturated with vampire-human love stories. <I>(Apr.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  OF BLOOD AND PASSION
  
  
  
  
  
  A Vamp City novel
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Pamela Palmer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  They call her the last sorceress: Quinn Lennox, the only hope of the vampires
  who are trapped in Vamp City watching their dark otherworld slowly die. But an
  ancient curse shackles the magic Quinn needs to save not only the vampires
  she’s come to call friends, come to care for, come to love, but her beloved
  brother as well.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Arturo Mazza, the ruthless vampire who once betrayed Quinn, and has since
  waged a steady and relentless war upon her heart, vows to help her break the
  curse. But when the mission requires them to face Cristoff Gonzaga—the brutal
  and vicious vampire to whom Arturo once pledged undying fealty—Quinn must find
  a trust in Arturo that will test the very foundations of her soul.
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  “An amazing, action-packed series.”
  
  
  
  
  
  New York Times bestselling author KERRELYN SPARKS
  
  
  
  
  
  (Author of the Love at Stake se