title: The Last Vampire (Annals of Alchemy and Blood #1)
author:  Patricia Rosemoor 
description: Patricia Rosemoor writes about dangerous loveshes the author of more than fifty paranormal thrillers and novels of romantic suspense. She has won a Golden Heart from Romance Writers of America, and Reviewers Choice and Career Achievement awards from Romantic Times Book Club. In her other life, she teaches in the fiction writing department of Columbia College Chicago. <br /><br />After years as an award-winning advertising copywriter, Marc Paoletti decided to focus his energy and passion on fiction of a different sort. He is the author of Scorch, a novel that draws upon his experience as a Hollywood special-effects pyrotechnician, and his short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. He was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He loves his family, horror movies, and apple pie. A native of Detroit, he now lives in Chicago.
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  ## Also available from  
  MICHELE HAUF
  
  
  HQN Books
  
  
  Her Vampire Husband
  
  
  Harlequin Nocturne
  
  
  From the Dark
  
  
  Familiar Stranger
  
  
  Kiss Me Deadly
  
  
  His Forgotten Forever
  
  
  The Devil to Pay
  
  
  The Highwayman
  
  
  Moon Kissed
  
  
  Silhouette Bombshell
  
  
  Once a Thief
  
  
  Flawless
  
  
  Getaway Girl
  
  
  LUNA Books
  
  
  Seraphim
  
  
  Gossamyr
  
  
  Rhiana
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## EPILOGUE
  
  
  
  
  
  Fourteen years later in Faery…
  
  
  VAILLANT HAD ACHIEVED puberty last eve. Cressida had seen the wild look in the
  young half-breed’s eyes, and had expected them to go completely gold as he
  then shifted to werewolf for the first time. He must shift. His mother had
  been vampire, his father a half-breed. Vaillant’s blood was mixed to a
  delicious brew. Faery rejoiced in those of mixed blood.
  
  
  He did not shift.
  
  
  Instead he’d claimed intense hunger, and she suspected it was his vampire half
  that needed mortal blood. She’d had a mortal brought to Faery.
  
  
  He did not drink blood.
  
  
  But still he insisted hunger.
  
  
  Frustrating. She had chos