title: Once Bitten, Twice Dead
author:  Bianca D'Arc 
description: E-book author D'Arc makes her print debut with an action-oriented, unpolished romance amid zombies. Police officer Sarah Petit finds herself in the middle of a zombie attack on a call she expects to be routine. After she fights off her attackers, Green Beret Capt. Xavier Beauvoir shows up at the hospital and tells her she's one of the few people immune to a disease accidentally developed by the American military. Together they face the monstrosities being created by cookie-cutter villain Sellars, and also discover a dangerously distracting mutual attraction. The sex scenes are hot but undermined by corny dialogue (I think there's voodoo in the air when we touch like I've never felt before) and repetitive descriptions of inner thought. The romance is refreshingly between humans, and the zombies are unambiguously monstrous, but the story never truly lives up to its promise. <i>(Mar.)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: Once Bitten, Twice Dead
  
  BIANCA D’ARC
  KENSINGTON PUBLISHING CORP.
  www.kensingtonbooks.com
  
  Prologue
  Somewhere near Stony Brook, Long Island, New York
  “Unit Twelve.” The dispatcher’s voice crackled over the radio.
  Sarah perked up. That was her. She listened as the report rolled over the radio. A disturbance in 
  a vacant building out on Wheeler Road, near the big medical center. Probably kids, she thought, 
  responding to Dispatch and turning her patrol car around.
  Since the budget cuts, she rolled alone. She hadn’t had a partner in a long time, but she was good 
  at her job and confident in her abilities. She could handle a couple of kids messing around in an 
  empty building.
   
  Sarah stepped into the gloomy concrete interior of the building. The metal door hung off its 
  hinges and old boards covered the windows. Broken glass littered the floor and graffiti decorated the 
  walls.
  The latest decorators had probably been junkies and kids looking for a secret place to either get 
  high or drink