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Wow! Best one of a series, 5 stars plus!!

Mr. Too Tightly Torn-up Terror meets Mrs Too Tightly Torn up Tidy Pants and the story grips the reader from chapter one until the exciting end. The end portends greater evils to fight and more adventures to face. Woo Hoo! This is why anybody reads fiction. The author Lara Adrian has delivered a great story, great protagonists, great romance and great action.The first chapter was fabulous. We follow a tiny woman, using her dead son's IPOD's rock music to fight the flood of thoughts swarming into her head. She sorts through them all before she drowns in the waves of incoming thoughts. Finally she hears the vicious murderous thoughts of a human who is a slave to a vampire (Minion) and she follows him. Concentrating on the Minion, she follows him to a FED EX store and jack-pot. She finds out not only the Minion she is going to kill, but that he is serving the vampire that was responsible for her beloved son's death. It is getting close to sundown and she knows she has to kill the Minion and get back to her soundproofed flophouse room before she is easy prey for predatory creatures. She kills the Minion. But it is after sundown and soon she is being followed. Tegan, the ancient Breed warrior, is out hunting for Rogue vampires. He has been doing this for centuries. Rogue vampires are ones that have fallen to the disease of Bloodlust and spend all their time wantonly killing humans. The Breed vampires have been protecting humans from Rogues so that humans can blissfully live unaware that they share earth with vampires.Tegan recognizes the tiny woman to be Elise, a woman, readers of the series met in the previous book, Kiss of Crimson. Tegan is a warrior of few words. All he cares about is killing Rogue vampires. He is the member of the Breed Order operating in the Boston area. To his utter surprise, Elise, who had been the privileged, coddled, protected widow of one of the richest and most well respected families in the Dark Haven of Boston (community of well bred and well mannered vampires) has dropped out of her polite Dark Haven society and become a vigilante, roaming the Boston streets to kill as many Minions as she can. It was Minions who lured her only son out of the protected walls of Dark Haven to taste the highs of drugs and the drug Crimson turned her son into a Rogue who had to be killed.The double loss of her husband and her son, unhinges Elise and Tegan finds her with Minion blood on her ragged clothes, a bloody Titanium blade in her pocket and a drawer full of Minion owned cell phones as trophies of her kills in her shabby room.The author gives us a delightful love story between these two most unlikely of lovers. Tegan is the most tightly controlled of the Breed Order. Tegan had to use his prodigious control to survive the losses he suffered centuries before to fight off his grief, anger and guilt that almost had him fall victim of becoming a Rogue vampire. Elise, the high society Breedmate had to be tightly wound up to be the perfect wife, perfect society hostess, the perfect mother. She was tightly controlled so that her natural gift of mind reading would not drive her insane. In the tightly controlled Dark Haven society, Breed Warriors like Tegan are considered nothing more than uncouth, unrefined, uneducated barbarians to be tolerated. Tight Ass Badass Tegan loses control and falls in love with Tight Ass Society Beauty Elise and she falls in love with Tegan.The fun of this series is that Elise is full of courage, talents, strength of character and often "saves the day." The author lets the female characters be full partners in the mission of the Breed Order. Elise, Tess and Gabrielle are more than ornamental bedmates. Elise pulls off some amazing kills and show Tegan that his life before her was nothing compared to what it will be with her. OK, no more spoilers. This book is a keeper. This book is why we read fiction. Keep on keeping on Lara Adrian.