Why we’re excited
Cade Michaels has spent five thousand years as the father of vampires, and for the last forty he has been kept from his own child by a curse. Emily Ryan applies for a job with an interview at midnight, and quickly regrets not leaving when she could.
R.L. Mathewson is known for the comic Neighbor from Hell romances, and this continues her Pyte/Sentinel paranormal series. Series readers will want it first; new readers can try it but will get more from the earlier books.
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What to know about Tall, Dark & Betrayed
We haven’t reviewed R.L. Mathewson before, so this would be our first look at their work.
From the publisher
He was the father of vampires. She was rethinking her life’s decisions.
From New York Time’s bestselling author R.L. Mathewson comes the next installment in the Pyte/Sentinel Series, the novel that explains it all.
For more than five thousand years, Cade Michaels had one job; to turn humans into vampires, father Pytes, and do whatever it took to stop the Sentinels from getting in the way. He battled bloodlust meant to control him, refused to turn another human, and eventually found a way to live among humans. He fell in love, married, and planned a future only to watch as everything that he loved was destroyed and he found himself cursed, destined to be sent back to hell when he broke the rules.
Forty years ago, he broke the rules and was forced to walk away from his child and now...
He needed the small woman, who wouldn’t stop mumbling to herself while sending the door wistful glances, to help him before it was too late.
Emily Ryan has made a lot of bad decisions in her life, but as she sat across from the devastatingly handsome man who wouldn’t stop glaring at her, she couldn’t help but regret her decision to apply for a job that required an interview at midnight.
The second?
Not running when she had the chance.
Now, she was left with no choice but to trust the dangerous man by her side, accept the fact that vampires, shifters, and all those things that went bump in the night were real, and figure out how she was going to survive falling in love with a demon.
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