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The Vampire's Secret

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This is the second book in the series, after Vampire's Seduction. William Thorne is a 500-year-old master vampire who runs the Savannah, Georgia New World clan. Jack McShane is William's fledgling, whom William turned during the Civil War. This book begins just weeks after Vampire's Seduction and William is keeping his promise to Eleanor, a madam and his lover, to turn her into a vampire. Jack is in love with Connie, a human police officer, or so he thinks. In this book, we delve further into Jack and Connie's relationship.

William captured his squire, Reedrek, in the first book. Now, he expects repercussions from the Old World vampires. William has called a meeting of the New World clan's to discuss and strategize the upcoming war with the old European vampires. The Old World vampires will be out for revenge. However, upon arrival of the New World vampires, they begin to fall ill, which vampires never do. After all, they are immortal. Now a rotting disease has taken hold and they must rush to find a cure before all the vampires succumb to the disease.

Both William and Jack contain the special Voodoo blood, which has been passed down to William and in turn given to Jack in Vampire's Seduction. The Voodoo blood helps both of them and their bloodline to be more powerful, and each will have a different gift. Will it be enough to ward off the disease?

This book is told from first Williams' viewpoint, and then alternates with Jack's viewpoint. The handoff in viewpoint is flawless. The narration picks up right where the other one leaves off. This book has a lusty undertone, wonderful characters, and a continuing story in the next book Vampire's Kiss.

Secret is a fantastic follow up to Seduction. I love the way that the characters were even more developed in this 2nd book in the series. Raven Hart is proving to be extremly talented in this genre. I am just flying through these just to get more of Jack and William.

Love this series! A definite must read....will keep you wanting to know more! I can't wait to see if she continues the series :)

This is my favorite vampire series. I love the characters. I really hope Ms. Hart will be able to write more books for this series!!

raven hart writes with such grace and poise I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE this series and am so disappointed she lost her publisher, how will we ever get to finish reading our beloved series?

As you can read from the excerpt, this author doesn't slight on the sensuality--which slides about a inch from **ick** at all times--or the descriptions of vampire behavior. SO if you don't read much in this genre, this is an excellent start. However, even though her characters are thoughtful and well developed and the plot clips right along, this just didn't make the mark for me. It's hard to figure out which character is where because the author tries to use multiple character voices--she labels the start of who is speaking--but it's annoying to switch voices back and forth in your head. Finally, I know we can't "standardize" the "rules" of vampire behavior, but some authors have vamps fly/or not, reflection in mirrors-windows/not, and if I read one more scene of a vamp drinking from a bag of blood from a blood bank...! Every genre reaches it's saturation point--cowboys, babies, etc--have we reached it with vampires and this book? Could be....

...they're so very "human"! I enjoyed the first Raven Hart book, but really loved this second one and made sure I had the third book firmly in hand before I let myself finish it!

Intense! The steamyness that was Jack and William was amazing! The way Raven Hart writes this series is absolutely outstanding.

I read the first one in the series and enjoyed it, but I liked The Vampires Secret even more. A lot more character development in this book and a lot of surprises. A good series.

"Secret" is an excellent follow-up to "Seduction!" The characters are richly developed, the story is fast-paced and unpredictable, and the dark showdown between the new-world and old-world vampires is both taught and suspenseful. All of the Savannah blood-drinkers just keep getting more tantalizing - on many different levels (as does the city herself). Grab a glass of wine, curl up in a comfy spot and enjoy this one - on a moody day, even better!