
Part of Series
Val, Paul, Trey and Soleil—newly sun tolerant after exposure to Ideg Retkove’s serum—voyage to Paul and Trey’s home world of Apoll’ex, where no vampires have ever been before. Val fears that, once on home ground, Paul will reject him. Paul wonders if he’ll ever be able to go home again. When they land, they quickly learn another vampire has preceded them and sown a path of destruction—Retkove. The Apollans unite with the Earthlings to defeat Retkove. But Retkove is not about to give up his foothold in paradise. Desperate to stay together on Apoll’ex, Paul and Val face Retkove in a final confrontation.
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.