"Bombshell after bombshell kept on coming which made it near impossible to put this book down!" - Amazon Reviewer
After the devastating loss of her mother and sister, high-school senior Victoria Edwards is worried she’s going crazy. First, she sees a handsome boy floating outside of her room. Then she receives a mysterious letter asking her to go to a nearby pond at midnight. I’ll be waiting for you on the other side, the side you can’t see from here, it reads. Intrigued, Tori investigates—but suddenly finds herself in a different time and place. It’s the year 3130, and she’s smack-dab in the middle of the Kingdom.
The Vampire Kingdom.
She sees him in the kingdom, the same boy from outside her window, and learns he’s a prince. Most likely a vampire prince. Against her will, Tori’s entered in The Trade, in which pretty young maidens are offered as sacrifices to the royals in exchange for crops. In a first for the competition, Prince Dominic proposes to the candidate of his choice—who happens to be a very reluctant Tori. Once she enters the royal compound, she learns that the kingdom is even more treacherous than she could have ever imagined. The prince and his family are dangerous, but Dominic holds the key to secrets about Tori’s past…and more importantly, her future.
Leigh Walker lives on the gorgeous coast of Maine with her awesome husband, their beautiful kids, and her BFF, Choco the chocolate lab. Her smash-hit series Vampire Royals was previously optioned by Netflix. Leigh also writes Billionaire Romance as USA Today and Amazon Top-Ten Bestselling Author Leigh James. Her books have been translated into German, Italian, French, and Portuguese.
Outside of writing and family, her interests include maintaining a sense of humor, reading, sucking at golf, and lifting weights.
“If you cross me or fail to perform as I have asked, I will make sure to let Emperor Lucas know that what he’s been missing all these years has finally been found. The child he tried vigilantly to kill so very many years ago.” - Queen Danica
Following the devastating loss of her mother and sister in an accident, high school senior Victoria Edwards has been living in foster care. One night, she’s disconcerted to see a boy floating outside her window. The next morning she receives a letter with instructions telling her to wade into a nearby stream at midnight, swim under the fence and that he’ll be waiting for her on the other side. “You have to come through. The things you’ve lost will come back to you.”
Intrigued in spite of herself, Victoria ventures into the unknown, only to find herself slap bang in the middle of a Kingdom ruled by vampires in the year 3130 no less. The boy outside her window is Prince Dominic. She barely has time to recover from her shock, when she’s forced to enter The Trade, a ritual in which young maidens are offered as sacrifices to the Royals in return for crops. This year Prince Dominic will choose a bride from the sacrifices and he chooses Tori.
Upon entering the Palace however, Tori uncovers deceit and treachery and must keep her wits about her as she struggles to remember a past she has no memory of...
The Vampire Kingdom trilogy was my first introduction to the author. From the offset, I found myself totally immersed in the premise of the story. The idea of time travel/memory loss in a world where vampires rule and humans are kept as blood slaves. Tori’s blood being ‘different’ playing a crucial factor.
The characters were interesting, appealing and relatable. Initially Tori is understandably out of her depth but as she as comes to learn more about her past, we see glimpses of her strength and resolve. Queen Danica is a particularly nasty formidable villain. I found myself feeling a sense of dread every time Tori was summoned to her presence. The secondary characters were equally entertaining - my favourite being Anthony, who provided light relief whenever things threatened to get too dark.
All in all this was a well executed, fast paced, and entertaining trilogy and I look forward to reading the authors future works.