Ok beginning but it started to spiral out of control into the ridicilous towards the end. ( )

Set in historical Italy during their fight for independence from the Austrians, the heroine travels to a villa that's be given to her by her uncle as payment for her to care for her cousin unborn bastard child. She encounters the 'owner' of the villa who's a vampire and in his time of cresting they call it. Basically he's so consumed with the urge to mate with a virgin he's afraid he'd resort to rape. After the cresting time is finish he discovers that he's still consumed with desire for the heroine. The one problem with the book is the ending. The heroine is kidnapped and the Austrians with a priest is tow, plan to murder her for being a spy. Instead the hero shows up and demands to kill her himself. That's all fine as the author knowing he's not going to do it-I mean it would be a pretty depressing romance novel. But the heroine is absolutely sure he means to shoot her. Sorry but if they can read each others mind and be so in tuned with each other it isn't right for her to be so deathly afraid of him killing her. It wasn't right. ( )

Very good story. I love the writing style. Very easy to read and get stuck in the plot. Very different take on the traditional background of a vampire. ( )