cover image Blood Bond: A Vampire Menage Romance

Blood Bond: A Vampire Menage Romance

Alicia Rayn. Amazon Digital Services, , $2.99 ASIN B010Y6TAZA

Rayn (Black-Winged Tuesday) layers a sexy surface over some deep emotional questions in this time-travel vampire romance. When 21st-century Vegas singer Roxana Collins is transported back to Regency-era London by vampire Darren Highmore, she pretty quickly decides that it sucks—literally. Roxana has to learn to negotiate the social mores and economic realities of the time as well as her powerful attraction to Darren. Their delicious chemistry takes off when they discover the natural alliance between Roxana’s self-injury fetish and Darren’s need to feed on human blood. But even as Roxana learns to share her darker sexual nature with Darren, she falls for the innocent Phillip Branham, the aristocratic and indebted piano player who reluctantly accompanies Roxana’s scandalous nightly performances in a London gentleman’s club. Roxana is caught between two unsatisfying options: returning to a hollow life in her own time, or remaining in a society where she can have love and passion but no freedom. This tension suffuses her touching and cautious sexual exploration with Phillip and her ecstatic experiences with Darren. The story is funny where appropriate, intense where necessary, and full of heart throughout. (BookLife)