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Tucker is a cowboy in Wyoming, mightily annoyed by the alpacas that keep winding up in his pastures. He's in love with Lizzie Vaughan, a reporter from New York City. They never expected to fall in love with each other, and this long distance thing just isn't working for Tucker. Lizzie is busy in New York, doing her best to succeed in her field. She misses Tucker but doesn't have the same amount of quiet time to reflect on him. She is also clueless that she is the culmination of centuries of vampiric breeding, or that she is destined to be the queen of darkness for ever and ever. Tucker decides to head to New York. When he gets there, Lizzie is missing. One of the vampire leaders, Julius, is determined that she will be his queen. Tucker doesn't agree. Neither does Lazarus, the vampire that Julius needs to kill. Lazarus had history with Lizzie, even though she doesn't know it. There are skirmishes all the way from New York to Wyoming, and on down to New Mexico, where Lazarus has his fortress. Lots of vampires get killed, and a few humans, although not as many as one might expect. Then there is the big battle, and most readers will know what to expect from that. As a romance goes, this isn't wonderful. It isn't bad, it's just not great. Even readers unfamiliar with the genre know that Tucker and Lizzie are going to live through this and be together forever. One never is quite sure WHY this is going to happen, but there it is. They love each other and will kill or be killed if that's what it takes. Ain't love grand? The mystery is minimal. In fact, there may not be one, other than the mystery of why Lizzie and Tucker are destined to be together. Perhaps the mystery is why the alliances shift the way they do. Don't read this for the plot. The writing is acceptable. The point of view shifts from Tucker's "aw, shucks, ma'am Western thinking to Lizzie's New York frame of mind; it's obviously difficult sometimes to switch from one to the other with any kind of smoothness. All the elements of a western are there, wrapped in the vampire story: good guys vs. bad guys, lots of weapons, and the beautiful woman that makes it all worthwhile. Readers of westerns will have to put up with the romance and the vampire stuff to get what they want; vampire folk have to suck up the western elements, and romance readers will not find much to enthrall them. § P.J. Coldren lives in northern lower Michigan where she reads and reviews widely across the mystery genre when she isn't working in her local hospital pharmacy.
Reviewed by P.J. Coldren, December 2010
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