Kismet Knight is just a regular psychologist, until she starts seeing teenage girl Midnight, who was referred to Kismet after expressing a desire to become a vampire. As a rational scientist, Kismet knows vampires dont' exist, and interprets Midnight's desires as a suicide wish, until she meets the 'vampire' Midnight has been talking about, Devereux.

Between FBI agent Alan Stevens, Midnight and Devereux himself, Kismet slowly begins to question her own beliefs, helped in no small part by the fact that an ancient vampire is murdering his way right towards her.

The opening of this book is slow. The author tries to tease the reader with Devereux, but I was just frustrated. Once the story gets going though, it's fast-paced and action-packed.

I loved Kismet's doubt about the vampires. Some reviews I've read said it was annoying, but really, how easily would any of us accept the existence of immortal, blood-sucking creatures?

Unfortunately, this inability to believe in vampires doesn't stop her sleeping with Devereux, a client she believes to be mentally ill.

I also loved that Kismet continued to work and see clients all through the book. Too many female characters seem to suspend their lives entirely when they meet the love interest. Unfortunately, this sometimes equates to a boring couple of pages, as we see Kismet deal with non-vampire clients.

Kismet is a great character, with a back story which unfortunately is only hinted at in a session with Kismet's psychologist- it's never really elaborated on.

The secondary characters fall a little flat. Everything we read about FBI Agent Stevens, for example, is revealed through Kismet's narration, not through his own words or actions.

This book walks the line between urban fantasy and paranormal, thanks to Kismet's apparent 'powers'. She gets impressions and feelings from people, which seemed completely superfluous to the plot until the crucial moment in the plot. There's also quite a bit of magic- protection rituals and the like, which all progressed the plot, but which personally I don't love. It makes sense in the book, I'm just not a fan of magic (which is why I gave up on the Women of the Otherworld series, which started so brilliantly).

There was too much in this book that wasn't explained or elaborated on- like Kismet's backstory, without which she can come across like a seriously woman with low self-esteem who suddenly invites relative strangers back to her house to shower with her. It's a little illogical. Alan Stevens as a character had real potential, as did the love triangle between him, Kismet and Devereux, which was also never elaborated on.

The story was great, the writing was good, but there were just a few too many disappointments for me to consider reading the second book.