Diane Whiteside's Bond of Blood was hailed as a sensual new take on the vampire genre. Now "the master of erotic prose" (Booklist) turns up the Texas heat in a return to an erotic landscape of fiery seduction...
   
    Ever since they saw each other across a glittering ball-room centuries ago, vampires Jean-Marie St. Just and Helene d'Agelet have loved each other. Yet no matter how passionate their attachment, it's always been blocked by demands of duty and honor that neither could break. Jean-Marie, tormented for decades before being saved by the vanpire knight Don Rafael, would rather die than betray the only family he's ever known. Helene, firestarter and British secret agent, longs to regain a simpler life, while always haunted by an unsettled legacy of family ghosts and eternal evil.

    Now Jean-Marie and Helene face each other over something far stronger than ancient ecstasies: Jean-Marie is determined to kill Helene's sister, Madame Celeste--the vampire Queen of New Orleans--before she can destroy Jean--Marie's family.

    But for Helene, that means choosing between the love of her life--and murdering her own flesh and blood...