Bit the Jackpot (Vegas Vampires, Book 2) [Paperback]

Erin McCarthy (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 5, 2006

The USA Today bestselling author of High Stakes returns to Vegas, where falling for a vampire isn't such a long shot.

Politics make strange coffinfellows...

Vampire Seamus Fox is supposed to be the campaign manager for a Vampire Nation presidential candidate. Instead, he finds himself running around Vegas keeping tabs on the candidate's wife and female entourage.

Seamus has had his fill of women: a disastrous and deadly love affair has haunted him for over two centuries. Talk about baggage. But suddenly he finds himself obsessed with a mysterious stripper who dances behind a screen. The sultry yet shy Cara Kim whets his appetite for more, but leave it to Seamus to fall fangs over feet for that rarest of Vegas attractions-a good girl.

After a sudden run-in on the street, though, they may soon have a lot more in common...

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The sparks fly between Cara Kim, "the oddest attraction in all of Vegas—the virgin stripper," and Seamus Fox, a 371-year-old uptight Irish vampire who hasn't had sex in 200 years, in McCarthy's droll follow-up to High Stakes. Seamus, who's the campaign manager for Ethan Carrick, the president of Vampire Nation, must turn Cara into a vampire in order to save her life after she becomes collateral damage in a nasty pre-election skirmish connected to Roberto Donatelli, who's running against Carrick. Donatelli is so eager to unseat conservative Carrick, he'll stop at nothing, even if it means driving a stake into someone or drugging an associate. Though Cara initially finds Seamus controlling and his blood too arousing, she soon finds herself and her five pets, including a devilish Chihuahua, doing more than just a shadow dance in this cute paranormal treat. (Dec.)
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About the Author

Erin McCarthy lives in Ohio with her husband and two children.

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Berkley Sensation (December 5, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0425212130
• ISBN-13: 978-0425212134
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,053,229 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Erin McCarthy, the author of Bad Boys Online, Smart Mouth, Houston We Have a Problem, and Mouth to Mouth, lives with her husband and two children.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Good Good, December 10, 2006

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Cherise Everhard (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bit the Jackpot (Vegas Vampires, Book 2) (Paperback)

This is the second book in the Las Vegas Vampire series.
Seamus is a 370 year old vampire. He has been celibate for 200 years. His main focus is politics. He is the best friend and campaign manager for the current vampire president, Ethan (High Stakes). They are currently campaigning for re-election.
Cara is a stripper by night and going to school to become a vet by day. But she also has some wonderful contradictions. For example, when she dances she only strips behind a screen. There is more but I don't want to spoil anything :)
Seamus is immediately drawn to the woman he first sees dancing behind the screen.
But after leaving the club, a vampire fight starts in the alley and Cara is caught in the middle. Both of their lives are going to be changed...
This is a great follow up to the first. As usual Erin gives you a fast paced story with wonderful characters. Seamus and Cara are great together. There are many laugh out loud moments. Some very hot sex scenes, and a little action thrown in.
Can't wait for the next one!

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Better Than Expected, March 7, 2007

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Anna Hope (PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bit the Jackpot (Vegas Vampires, Book 2) (Paperback)

Can I give it 3 1/2 stars? I didn't originally order this book because I thought that it was going to pick up Brittany Baldizzi's love story up where the first book, High Stakes, left off. I wasn't intrigued enough. But I was wrong!

This is an entirely different story starring vampire President Ethan's right hand man, the stuffy and political Sheamus Fox who, after 2 centuries of abstinence, has fallen for the completely inapropriate Cara Kim, shadow stripper at a local Vegas club. Sheamus is stodgey, bumbling, and lovable at the same time. Cara is your typical woman in a first serious relationship where you don't want to be a nag but you have concerns. In her case her concerns are should she be drinking blood from him all the time, have they moved in together too soon, is that vamp goon trying to kill her, does Sheamus not like the new pink curtains, ect.

All of the likable characters from High Stakes appear again, even those you werne't sure if you really should like. And Ethan's fueding with Donatelli will come to a drunken conclusion. All in all it was a good book in its own right and i'm glad I finally picked it up!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars fun vampire romance, December 9, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bit the Jackpot (Vegas Vampires, Book 2) (Paperback)

In Las Vegas where vampires and other paranormal species reside, the rarest species is Cara Kim, a virgin stripper. Over three centuries old Seamus Fox is the campaign manager for the reelection of Ethan Carrick as president of the Vampire Nation, but an ugly incident has brought Cara to his attention. Ethan's opponent Roberto Donatelli caused a fracas that left Cara's life in danger as he does not care what happens to the inferior mortals and she is collateral damage.

Seamus converts Cara to save her life. However, he is shocked how attractive he is to her, but assumes she heats his blood because he has abstained from sex for two hundred years. On the other hand, Cara struggles with this alpha hunk ordering her and her five pets around though she would not mind taking a bite or two from him. As they fall in love, Roberto raises the stakes planning to use the new born conversion as a pawn to eliminate Seamus.

Vampire romance readers will feel they BIT THE JACKPOT with this fun contemporary tale. The background contains a biting "political" campaign in which one side uses bloody tricks that would have sent Lee Atwater roving for a different job. Throw in Vegas and a likable pairing of an abstemious vampire and a newbie and that leads to a delightful read.

Harriet Klausner