Night Acquainted with the Night, (Paperback)

Publishers Weekly,A young woman is thrust into the secret world of vampires in this cliched supernatural thriller, first in a proposed series. When Caroline "Caro" Clifford's Uncle Nigel is murdered, she travels to Bulgaria and ends up on the run with biochemist and soi-disant vampire expert Jude Barrett. The vamps chasing them work for Harry Wilkerson, CEO of a major pharmaceutical company, who hopes to learn and capitalize on the secret of vampiric immortality. Wilkerson is also Caro's long-lost father, and he believes she knows the location of pages Caro's mother stole from a suppressed Gnostic gospel about vampires. To find the pages, Caro and Jude must decode clues left by Nigel while evading Wilkerson's forces-but their growing romance is complicated when they learn Caro may be a part-vampire and implicated in an ancient vampire prophecy. The predictable twists add unfortunate drag to this roller-coaster ride. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.