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"Lucian Daratrazanoff is legendary among his people, the Carpathians. He and his twin, Gabriel, have protected humans and Carpathians from vampires for over two thousand years. It is his nature to hunt, to defend, and to safeguard. His world is bleak, without color, without emotion. Only by finding his lifemate will he discover joy and peace.
Irony links him with Jaxon Montgomery, a cop who'd been reared in a military family steeped in special ops. Her past is a nightmare that saw everyone she loved murdered, and the madman who did it stalks her. Jaxx refuses to love again. Everyone she loves dies. She can never let anyone close.
Lucian's powers make him all but invincible, but this champion of justice has one weakness: his heart. How this ultra-masculine male is tamed by love is only one half the story. The other half is how his love for her sets Jaxx free."
Kayelle Allen, Resident Scholar
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"Jaxon Montgomery kept herself isolated from all others, being careful not to make friends or spend too much time with anyone else. She was trained as a Navy SEAL and is now a police officer, confident in her abilities and well able to protect herself - except from her stepfather. When Jaxx told others that her stepfather had murdered her Navy SEAL father to marry her mother, she was laughed at and no one believed her. But then they found the brutally slaughtered bodies of Jaxx's younger brother and fragile mother and a few started to believe. When her stepfather returned to kill the family who adopted her, the family of another Navy SEAL, Jaxx refused to endanger anyone else and kept to herself. She feared that anyone else that she showed affection to would be murdered, but she didn't want to be alone...
Lucian was the most powerful of the Carpathians - and the most ancient. For thousands of years he has walked the earth, hunting vampires and protecting the innocent. He even pretended to be a vampire for hundreds of years so that his twin, Gabriel (Dark Legend), would hunt him and not turn vampire. The only thing that kept him from meeting the dawn was the thought that his life mate was out there somewhere, waiting for him...
Jaxx was not at all what Lucian had envisioned in his life mate. Carpathian women are tall, slender with raven hair and jewel bright eyes, Jaxx is short with short blonde hair and a spunky attitude. Sparks definitely fly when Lucian carries Jaxx off to the safety of his mansion, telling all of her acquaintances that he is her fiance. Jaxx fears Lucian, but, deep in her heart, she knows that she can trust him. However, she also knows that her stepfather will start hunting Lucian if he doesn't let her go soon and she cannot bear to have another person killed on her account. She tries her best to protect Lucian, but he doesn't seem to understand the danger. Lucian is not sure what to make of Jaxx. He is the most powerful of his kind and it is almost laughable that this little human thinks she can protect him from anything. Both sides will have to adjust their thinking as they fall deeper and deeper in love and Jaxx comes to terms with being a Carpathian life mate!
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Debbie, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Time/era of story
- Present (2000-2010)
Action/suspense subplot?
Yes
Action:
- chased by/chasing kidnapper/killer
If one lover chases another...
- he chases after her
Fantasy/Magic
Yes
Fantasy/Magical Lover
Yes
Main Male Character
Profession/status:
- wealthy
- champion of justice
Age/status:
- magical being
Has unusual powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main character:
- invisibility
- can read emotions
- can change shapes
- can talk to animals
- fire/lightning/weather cntrl
- mind reading
- mind control
- super strength
- can fly
- can cast many different spells
- is very quick
How sexual is this person?
- very picky
How romantic is this person?
- very romantic
Sex has good effect on him
Yes
Sex makes him
- confident
- less bitchy/arrogant
- blissful
- sensitive
- a better lover
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- bulging muscles
Main Female Character
Age/status:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- infantry soldier
- police/lawman
Eccentric/Mental:
Yes
Eccentric:
- emotionally unstable
How sexual is this person?
- frigid
- naive virgin
How romantic is this person?
- very romantic
- not very romantic
effect of sexing
- confused
- angry
- scared
- guilty
Sex has bad effect on her
Yes
Sex has good effect on her
Yes
Effect of sexing
- confident
- obedient
- a better lover
- less bitchy/arrogant
- blissful
- mature
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
- Very much smarter than other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- Canada
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- Fancy Mansion
Style
Person
- mostly 1st
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately detailed references to deaths
- very explicit references to deaths and torture
What % of story is romance related?
- 60%
- 80%
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references
- descript of kissing
- touching of anatomy
- licking
- impregnation/reproduction
- actual description of sex
- descript. of female anatomy (the big B's)
- descript. of female anatomy (the big V)
- descript. of male nudity (the big P)
Part of a series?
Yes
Focus of story
- Her
- equally on him and her
Consequences of sex
- pregnancy
How much dialog
- roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing?
- 3-4 sex acts
- 5-9 sex acts
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