I came across the author Beth Orsoff through her book Disengaged, which is very much a Rom-Com. This book on the other hand is a more serious affair, but still with the romance in there.
The story follows Gwen Anderson, a woman who was adopted after her real mother abandoned her leaving her only a painted icon of Saint George. This plays a key part in the plot, but given the way Gwen feels towards her birth mother who never has attempted to find her so she can't care less about her, it seems strange that she should hold on to this and keep it as a good luck charm, but never mind.
Gwen has nightmares about her killing lots of people. She meets Alex Romanescu and he, behind her back, uncovers that she is in the Vlad Tepes aka Dracula family line, which upsets Gwen so much that they fall out. ("He'd lied to me from the moment we'd met. Betrayed my trust. We were through.")
And that is the basis of the book.
The first half sort of plodded along, mainly because the two lead characters lacked life. It's only when the big revelations come into it, and the conflict starts, that the book comes to life. So the second half was good. And it is good to see that the story is going to continue into another book, where hopefully Alex and Gwen get back together.
Overall the book is ok, but is not as good as Disengaged, the other book I've read by the author.
I got this book through Amazon Vine. It is listed on Amazon UK HERE.
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