Give Yourself to Me

If Dr. Hollis Delacroix had known she'd be falling in love with a future vampire-murderer when she was seventeen, she...probably...still would've fallen in love. Hilliard had been irresistible then, and he was twice that now. She'd stood him up on prom night and fourteen years later, he's finally found her, and boy has she got some explaining to do. But so does he. He never told her that he was a vampire. But worse than that is that he's suspected of killing other vampires and the bodies are winding up in her morgue. Talk about having some explaining to do!

Hilliard Ashley doesn't go around biting people willy-nilly, and never in his life has he drank anyone's blood without their permission. He's just not that kind of vampire. He'd explain all that to the woman he's been in love with since they were seventeen if she'd just let him. He cannot believe that the girl he'd known as Rose is now the big shot New Orleans medical examiner named Hollis Delacroix. He's thrilled to have found her, but she's looking at him for the murders of four people. Okay so, he maybe he DID kill two of them, but he has his reasons. All very good ones, too. She'd see that if she'd just stand still long enough for him to explain.

He doesn't care if her name is Hollis or Rose. Hill just wants her back, and he wants her back with such desperation that it's almost enough to be embarrassing. He wants ALL of her, no holds barred. She's his, he's hers, and they both know it. They knew it when they were seventeen, and there's no use pretending. Of course, just when Hill sees the light at the end of the tunnel and thinks he can breathe easy, an old pain-in-the-ass nemesis tracks him down and is determined to get his revenge through Hollis, which predictably sends her scurrying away again.

Damn.

Can a vampire (a pretty nice one, by the by) catch a break?