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"Our sister is marrying a vampire."
When the ever practical Caroline Cabot first hears those words from the lips of her fanciful youngest sister, she accuses Portia of having a wild imagination.
But when she discovers their sister Vivienne is actually being courted by Adrian Kane, the mysterious viscount rumored to be a vampire, she decides to accept his invitation to a midnight supper and do some sleuthing of her own. To both her delight and her dismay, she soon finds herself falling under Kane's bewitching spell.
After all, what's a proper young lady to do when her sister's suitor arouses more than just her suspicions?
370 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2005
“Because I don’t lose my wits every time Vivienne walks into a room. I don’t toss and turn in my bed every night dreaming of making love to her. She doesn’t drive me to distraction with her endless questions, her incessant snooping, her harebrained schemes."
★★★★4"Kane"stars
“I can trust myself to protect your sister because I’m not in love with her!”
It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for historical romances depicting a viciously handsome and titled hero tripping over himself in love with the plain eldest sister chaperoning her pretty sisters, laced with witty banters between the leads.When this book was presented to me on a platter in the form of a recommendation,I couldn’t resist.This book provided my much needed respite,pulling me out of an insomnolent book hangover which had plagued me after reading an epic novel and had its death grip over me until this book.This is my first Medeiros novel and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked it.The plot was so intriguing and you’ve got to hand it to the author for doing a laudable job on that score.More than the plot,I was absolutely entranced by her impeccable writing.
I had all kinds of déjà vu while reading this novel as it reminded me very much of The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn.Since I love TVWLM so much and was once swooning over Anthony(the male lead),I cannot refute the hold this book had on me.After reading this book,I can say that Adrian has definitely secured himself a place on my never-ending list of book boyfriends.I liked every single character in this book(except Duvalier of course) including Aunt Marietta whose carping attitude had once gotten on my last nerve.I'd like to someday read Julian and Portia's story in the next book and more of the author's works.I held back one star because I felt the story was being unnecessarily dragged on in certain places.Apart form that,this book was a jolly good rainy read.