
Part of Series
In a battle of wills, only one can be on top. Right? A Fangly My Dear book. After an investigation goes horribly wrong, former journalist and brand-new vampire Gabe Morrow, wants to get a life. A social life, that is. Fresh from the vampire halfway house, he s ecstatic and a little wary when Fangly, My Dear fixes him up with San Francisco cop Tanith Kalinski. Although his last investigation had him tracking corrupt cops, one night with this detective blows him away. Vampires have always both repelled and fascinated Tanith. She figures one date one long, passionate night of hot sex will finally get the creatures out of her system. Then she meets Gabe. Their instantaneous attraction is so intense that instead of curing her of her obsession, their one night together makes it stronger than ever. What s worse, Gabe wants more than she s willing to offer. With his murderer still on the loose, keeping Gabe at arm s length risks more than her heart it could mean her life."
Author

By day she's a mild-mannered language teacher. But after hours, Mardi Ballou's wild writer persona erupts and entraps her in bondage...to her computer. Release comes only once she achieves her word count goal, at which point the maniacal chocolate monster will give her one sublime piece. And then she can spend time with her hero husband Lee, who gives great massages at strategic times. So Mardi writes what she knows—romances—hot and mainstream—for numerous houses and distributors. Also women's fiction. Her most recent releases e-book releases are Deja Brew for Ellora's Cave and Emergency Ex from various on-line distributors. In print from Ellora's Cave Perfect Pear in the Ripe and Ready anthology; the Fangly, My Dear series—Byte Marks, What's a Ghoul to Do?, and Playing with Matches from Samhain.