Mercy of These Bones

by Vivien Dean

Four years ago, Mathias Larsen broke siring laws to save a lover’s life. Four months ago, that lover turned on him, leaving him for dead. Now Mathias has followed her path of death to Las Vegas, straight to the last vampire who wants to see his sire. The man he left for a woman who stabbed him in the back. Edmund has found love again with a nightclub owner, the very human Darby Bell. He doesn’t want to believe Mathias’s warnings, but a murder that hits too close to home gives him no choice. While he struggles to keep Mathias and Darby safe, emotions run high as old love collides with new. But the clock is ticking. The vampire Assembly is coming to town, the local police are alerted to Mathias’s nocturnal activities, and passions are flaring high. Time is running out. By the time death strikes again, all bets are off.

230 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Vivien Dean has had a lifetime love affair with stories. A multi-published author, her books have been EPPIE finalists, Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Nominees, and readers favorites. After spending her twenties and early thirties traveling, she has finally settled down and currently resides in northern California with her British husband and two children.

Reviews

[ElaineY · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me awhile to enjoy vampire romances and when I finally did, J R Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood helped get it out of my system. Nevertheless, frustrated by Ward's cop-out over Butch and Vishous, I decided to make up for it by reading a gay vampire romance. What I got in Mercy of These Bones was more than I expected.

A menage a trois featuring Edmund and Matthias, vampire lovers and the human woman they fall in love with, Darby. MOTB is erotic and intense and I was sucked into the two male vampire's desire for each other. I've read some m/m/f menages where the woman could have been dispensed with, e.g. Carol Lynne's Ben's Wildflower and Branded By Gold. In the case of MOTB, both the gay and hetrosexual relationships worked well within the menage.

Though the story is character-relationship driven, there's suspense as well in the form of someone out to kill.

[Sassafrass · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't really get into this one too much. took too long to try to draw me in, and by the time it started getting interesting, it was too late for me to really care.

[Helen · Rating 3 out of 5]

The plot was gripping and the dynamic between the 3 protagonists worked really well.