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Necropolis wasn’t all that
different from any other city in America; high-rises brushed the
night sky, storefronts lined the busy streets, fluorescent signs
declared this week’s special sales and couples out on the town lined
up to get into the hottest nightclubs. There was a difference
though… the people. They weren’t human, they were Other. For the
most part, the existence of the Otherworld community was a guarded
secret from the rest of the world. The human populace on a whole
weren’t aware of the existence of any Otherworld community, let
alone a city built just for them fifty miles outside of San Antonio,
Texas, behind the chain link fence of a supposed military
installation.
Caine Valorian
is a Crime Scene Investigator for the city of Necropolis. His lab
is his baby and he spent months setting it up, getting it organized,
buying the equipment; all of it funded by his own sizeable fortune.
A vampire didn’t live as long as he had without amassing some
wealth… if he was smart. Since the death of his wife, Caine hasn’t
had anything to do with relationships, other than professional ones.
Why did she have to open her big
fat mouth at the emergency lab meeting and say that working in the
Otherworld Crime Unit would be no big deal? Eve Grant works as a
Crime Scene Investigator in
San Antonio and has for the
past two years. She’s processed evidence and maintained the
computer lab, and although she’d been out on a few crime scenes
while in training, this would be the first one she’d be out in the
field alone… well, not quite alone.
The first time
Caine saw Eve, he thought she looked like a Malibu Stacy Barbie
doll. There was an instant attraction¾which
was odd for him; especially since she was a human. The attraction
became stronger when she proved herself to be extremely intelligent
and good at her job. This was bad, he needed to keep his mind on
the case, not on the human that came in to help with it. Eve
expected Caine Valorian to look like a classic movie vampire… long
black hair, aristocratic features, and pale blue eyes but the only
thing he and the vampire in her mind have in common was the color of
his hair. She was in trouble. She just arrived and she was already
imagining the lead investigator of the case in flagrante.
The case… she had to keep her mind and attention on finding out what
a young human woman was not only doing in a city that is off-limits
to the human race, but who her murderer is.
Valorian
Chronicles is a book
that totally captivated me with its intense emotion, mystery and
adventure. Every step that Caine and Eve took solving Lillian’s
murder brought me closer to finding out who the murderer was, but
even with the occasional glimpse into the killer’s mind and life, as
well as the clues that were found, I didn’t figure it out until the
end. Both the romance and the mystery in the Valorian
Chronicles told in this alternate reality felt so real, that
I could easily not only see the story as it unfolded, but also felt
that I could fly to San Antonio, rent a car and drive right to
Necropolis. I have loved every story of Vivi Anna’s that I’ve read,
and the Valorian Chronicles is another one that goes
onto the top shelf of my keeper bookcase. I loved Valorian
Chronicles from first page until last and I can’t wait until
book two comes out!!
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