Part of Series
Two lonely people... A psy-vamp meets an ex priest in a paranormal gathering, Encanto Bay. Trudy has been lonely for so long she sometimes wonders if it is worth it to survive by the Hunt. The daughter of an ancient god and a human mother, she longs for companionship and peace, but she must survive by stealing Lifeforce—soul—from other. Young men in bars and clubs are the easiest, since she has beauty to lure them She arrives at the Encanto Bay Cafe, a place where an Other like herself can relax, even though Heath, the owner, nearly guesses what she is. She is welcome to Hunt of she does't kill or cause lasting harm. Heath works his match making power again and introduces her to Gabriel, an ex-priest—and even worse, one who once studied demonology! Trudy wants a future with Gabriel, but how can that ever be? She inherited a demonic nature from her father, and nothing can change that.
Author
Take a shy bookworm from Montana. Hand her a stack of her much older brother’s sci-fi and fantasy novels, James Bond books and horror comics. Later, introduce Barbara Cartland and the world of romance fiction. Get her a teaching job or two in authentic, one room Montana schools, ala Laura Ingels Wilder. Marry her off to a great guy, move her to a big city in Tornado Alley, then pop three daughters out of her in twenty-two months(one set of identical twins). Then, make her a jinx–every great genre TV show she loves gets the ax– Beauty and the Beast, Dark Angel–and Buffy and Spike never have a happy ending! She gets upset about no romance in the world, and fires up to write her own stories with happy endings. Throw this all together into a small house in Wyoming, along with a small bouncy dog and too many cats, shake constantly and pour it out onto a computer keyboard. There! You have me, Melisse Aires.
