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My Immortal Promise

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Hannah O'Shea has lived a century. She is a blood-witch - or baobahn sith, as the locals refer to in Scotland. She has lived in a remote island wanting solitude and peace.

Drake MacKay made a promise to Hannah; that he would hunt the fanatical and evil Luthias and then offer his life to her for her help in saving his niece Deidra and husband Stephen in MY IMMORTAL PROTECTOR.

When he returns to her island, a bored and despondent Hannah frees him from his promise. At a local tavern that night, Drake learns that the villagers are planning too lynch Hannah, so he goes back to warn her.

Realizing that Luthias is not dead, and he still on a psychopathic blood path, now not only to destroy all witches but also all blood-witches as well. It is forbidden for a blood-witch to kill and consume the blood of another, yet that is exactly what Luthias is doing.

A religious zealot, transformed into a blood-witch now, Luthias must be stopped at all costs, since now Luthias wants to exterminate all of Drake's family and Hannah as well.

This was a very fast paced and action packed paranormal. I will say that I liked MY IMMORTAL PROTECTOR better than MY IMMORTAL PROMISE. Both characters - Drake and Hannah were engaging though their relationship was an arduous and difficult one, as Drake blamed Hannah for not saving his wife and allowing her to die. He can't explain his attraction to her, even tough he despises what she is.

The love scenes were not great; quite flat and lackluster. Rushed through and left me feeling that for the most part it was wham-bam thank you ma'am every time Drake made love to Hannah - and I wouldn't even call it that! Which was disappointing. Yet, overall, I found this an appealing story, and was satisfied with the ending.

This book is a sequel to "My Immortal Lover" ... it's very good and I had an enjoyable buying experience with seller. Very prompt, and nice e-mail. I just found it didn't QUITE live up to the first book. But I'll definitely buy from this seller again.

Her abusive husband is killing Hannah O'Shea. Her life is saved by a spirit who changes her from human into a "blood witch" immortal healer. However to stay alive Hannah must have human blood.

Eight decades later a desperate widower Drake MacKay begs Hannah to use her healing skill to save the life of a relative. He offers her his life in exchange with one stipulation; give him time to kill his enemy, Luthias, a baobhan sith like the local witch Hannah. Instead the lonely depressed Hannah frees him from his blood debt. When Drake learns of a threat from the villagers to kill Hannah, he abducts her to take her to safety stunned that she told the locals how to kill her. He is willing to die to keep her safe, but soon learns his family is threatened by a psychopathic Luthias. As they go to keep his blood safe, Hannah finds a reason to live; her love for Drake, who reciprocates her deep feelings.

This engaging paranormal romance stars two flawed protagonists struggling with a blood debt, a nasty villain, and love. Hannah makes the tale with her death wish making her the opposite of her peer Luthias whose death wish is to dine on human blood until his victim is dead. Jen Holling is at her best as readers will be hooked from the opening encounter as fans and Drake will wonder whether a baobhan sith blood sucker can truly be in love.

Harriet Klausner

I thought I would get a continuation from "My Immortal Protector." Especially since the author is the same and the titles are so closely related, but apparently this is a continuation from another series she has. Or at least I have to assume so, since there were an abnormal amount of background references about the exorbant amount of background characters. These characters played a small role, but Hollings felt obligated to talk about each and every one of them. I thought it took away from the storyline.

I thought the story idea was a good one: The hero sacrificing himself to save his niece and having to turn to an enemy for help. It definitely caught my interest. The hero and heroine did not mesh, though. Even though Hollings stated in her writing that they loved each other, their actions and interactions she wrote for them did not tell the same story. I thought it could have been done better.

What's not to like; witches, hot sex, torture, romance, redemption and so much more! Hannah is a Blood Witch who comes off as very detached and sort of evil in the beginning of the story. Drake is angry, rash and consumed with his quest. They are an unlikely couple since Drake blames Hannah for his wife's death. As the story progresses you get to know more about Hannah's background and why she is so detached from everything. The story moves quickly and the romance and intimate moments between Hannah and Drake are hot.

I really enjoyed Drake and Hannah's story. I read My Immortal Protector (one of my favorite books of all time - Deidra and Stephen's story) and Drake and Hannah were characters in that book. I don't want to spoil anything so I won't give any details except to say that if you like adventure, romance, steamy love scenes and don't mind some violence you will probably love this book.