A Taste for Blood

by Diana Lee

Ryan was born when Vikings raided the British coast and the highland clans of Scotland feuded with bloodlust and vigor. Raped, killed and remade as a vampire at the tender age of sixteen, she is now over eight hundred years old. Over the centuries, Ryan has ravaged the lives of many helpless victims. Somehow, though, she has found a delicate balance that allowed her to exist as something short of the monster her killer intended her to be. Now known as Lord Wolf—for few mortals know she is a woman—Ryan has risen to a position of power and influence in Victorian-era Scotland. In all her years, Ryan has loved many women, but none have so touched her life as those descended from her first lover.

Carissa is the last descendent of Ryan's first lover—a girl on the edge of womanhood. One night in the moonlit forest, she meets the woman who is her destiny, and her life changes into a dream of blood and passion. A Taste for Blood brings you inside the heart and mind of this beautiful and highly ethical young woman who, newly remade as a vampire by Ryan, must deal with the ever-hungry demon inside her. Will it drive her to kill and kill again in a nightly orgy of blood, or will her conscience drive her out into the killing sunlight to meet her fiery death? Or perhaps...perhaps, could there be another option?

Softbound Alice Street Editions (October 2003)