Forever Lost by Paula Hardin

     Forever Lost by Paula Hardin is the a paranormal romance short story.  We find our first character, Elizabeth crying in a cemetery- evidently so hard she wakes the dead!  Enter Benson, the local vampire.  Having come from a time when men were gentlemen, he finds he can not leave her in distress.

     And the romance begins from there.  The story doesn't kill you with love though- I mean, Benson takes immediately to the human, but they do fall for one another.  Even with Benson's evil mother cop-blocking!  Oh the mother, Emily is a piece of this story that is unbelievably awesome!  Characters like her don't come along very often.  

     For a short story, I enjoyed it and hope to find my second book by Paula just as entertaining!  Also, I really love the cover.  Benson's steely gaze and the plantation-like home he shares with Elizabeth is perfect and fits the brief  description.  I could easily see it, because of that lovely cover.  Okay- on to the next Hardin read!