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HOTTER AFTER MIDNIGHT
Cynthia Eden
Kensington Brava
May 2008
ISBN#: 9780758226020
Paranormal
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Synopsis:
Emily Drake is a psychologist with a very special
talent—thanks to her empathic power, she can touch the thoughts and emotions
of her patients. And Emily’s patients, well, they aren’t exactly typical
either; they’re Other—vampires, demons, all of the creatures that humans
fear in the darkness of the night.
When one of the Other starts killing humans, Emily is pulled into the
investigation. Colin Gyth, the lead detective on the case, doesn’t trust
her, and, since Emily senses he’s a Shifter, a being born with the ability
to transform into an animal, the feeling is pretty mutual. Never trust
anything born with two faces … that was Emily’s motto. However, she and
Colin are forced to put aside their misgivings and work together once Emily
officially joins the investigation as a profiler.
While Emily and Colin search to unmask the killer, an unexpected passion
grows between them. Burned in the past by those he’d trusted, Colin had
never thought he’d let a woman get to close to him again, especially a woman
with a dangerous power like Emily’s. Yet he finds that he can’t resist her.
There’s something about the reserved Doctor Drake that calls to him, and the
beast within the man recognizes his mate. But when the killer sets his
sights on Emily, Colin will have to risk his life in order to protect the
woman he craves more than anything else, and Emily will have to use her gift
to look into the very heart of evil in order to defeat the monster hiding in
the shadows.
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I really enjoyed Hotter After Midnight and I can’t
wait to read more by author Cynthia Eden. This story had me hooked from the
very beginning and there were plenty of curve balls to keep me on the edge
of my chair until the very end.
Dr. Emily Drake is a psychiatrist though her patients are not the usual
confused and depressed, instead they are confused and depressed monsters.
Emily has empathic ability and can “see” the monsters -- demons, vampires,
shifters --for what they really are. The Monster Doctor, as she is known,
helps these Others with their problems and keeps their secrets.
Police Detective Colin Gyth is an Other – a shifter – and has worked hard to
keep his true self from the police department. Colin had suffered severe
consequences in the past when regular humans found out what he was and he
sure as hell doesn’t want to go through that again. But Colin has no idea
what he’s in for when he is ordered by his captain to get Dr. Drake and
bring her to his latest crime scene. Emily knows right away that Colin is a
Shifter, the most dangerous of the monsters, “never trust anything born with
two faces” has always been her motto.
Emily and Colin have to work together to catch the Other who is committing
murder and keep the true nature of the killer from the public. The deeper
they go the more dangerous it gets and the more Colin is drawn to Emily.
Emily fights hard to keep her aloof demeanor but Colin breaks down her walls
and eventually learns all of her secrets.
Hotter After Midnight is hot and Colin is so seductive you’ll wish he
would take a bite out of you. You’ll be hungry for more of Colin and Emily
long after you’ve turned the last page. I highly recommend this book it is
witty, suspenseful and steamy enough to fog up your windows.
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