I was gifted a copy of this..
A new author to me. I loved this book one thing I love is the series name I live about 80 miles from it and have been there A lot so yeah it's a strange place ( )

Cara Donovan is a country girl in New Orleans looking for a job. She'd love to find a job as a singer, but beggars can't be choosers, so she ends up applying for a job as a waitress in a goth club called Tears of Crimson. It isn't until later that the club is actually a vampire club. Which means, the man she's been lusting over, her boss Rafe, is also a vampire.

Rafe knows he should stay away from her, but he can't. Now that she knows about the existence of vampires, she'll need to be protected, and Rafe appoints himself to that position. When her actions get her into trouble, Rafe will have to decide where his loyalties lie – with the human girl he's just met, or with the elder council of powerful vampires who could end both their lives in a heartbeat.

This story was quite good. These vampires aren't your usual tortured heroes or those with a good heart. These are some mean bloodsuckers who do see humans as cattle to be used as sustenance and to be manipulated. While I liked the building anxiety as the story and the relationship moved along, I couldn't warm up to Cara. I give her props for following her heart when it came to Rafe, but all the times she defied him only to endanger herself and him in the process – I wanted to slap her silly and talk some sense into her. There were quite a few dark scenes in this book. Normally I could do without those, but since the author started out her story with the darker sides of vampire nature, I felt that the scenes seemed exactly like something that vampires with a superiority complex would do. With that said, here's a fair warning about the end – it shocked and angered me that I nearly threw my eReader across the room. I never saw it coming and I felt a little betrayed, but I can't deny that my curiosity is getting the better of me to read the next book so get some closure.

As to some reviews complaining about typos and such, I don't remember seeing any in mine, but maybe the author has since corrected the mistakes and updated it. ( )

This was a free download from Amazon in May. It had a good premise but the execution left something to be desired. Too many adverbs and change in points of view for my taste. ( )