Jamie Beaverbrook is an English psychologist working for the Los Angeles Police Department. His job - to sort out the insane from the sane, the crazies from the ones who are pretending to be crazy. But Beaverbrook's life is turned upside down one night when the police find a girl crouched over a man with his throat torn out. The girl has blood on her lips but claims she only found the body. Beaverbrook doesn't take long to establish that she's totally sane - but he is forced to face a bigger question. Is she a vampire? And what does she want from him? Once Bitten is a fast-paced 73,000 words, about 280 pages. FOUR AND A HALF STARS from Laura Wallace, a member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team. "4 1/2 STARS for Mr. Leather - Stephen Leather is a well known and successful journalist in the UK and China, and he's written for The Times, The Daily Mail and South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He followed up his successful journalism career with bestselling novels, earning a place on best seller lists. Once Bitten is his latest foray into the world of novellas, being a short but compelling read. This is a book that I would highly recommend, especially on a dark and stormy night!" FOUR STARS from Amazon Top 50 Reviewer Joseph Haschka - "Once Bitten isn't a thriller in the conventional sense. And it's neither scary nor very bloody. Rather, it presents the reader with a different interpretation of the vampire creature of legend and, perhaps for the contemplative reader, poses the question "What if?" "Leather was thinking outside the box. I like that." Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers. He was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. Before that, he was employed as a biochemist for ICI, shovelled limestone in a quarry, worked as a baker, a petrol pump attendant, a barman, and worked for the Inland Revenue. He began writing full time in 1992, he has sold more than three million copies and his books are published in more than ten languages. You can find out more about his work at www.stephenleather.com