Soul of the Night by Barbara Sheridan & Anne Cain

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Kiyoshi is a three century years old vampire who lives alone. He has not allowed to his demon nature to overwhelm his human behaviour and feed from human only when it's strictly necessary and most of the time from dying human.

But one night he meets Ryuhei, a spoilt actor, full of himself and with all the bad manners of a dethroned kabuki star. But he is also handsome and passionate, and his blood is so sweet. Kiyoshi is inesorably attracted from this man and will do everything to stay with him. Maybe he has found someone to share his life.

But Ryuhei is a mortal man, and while years pass he's aging and he fears his eternal young lover will finally leave him. He doesn't know cause Kiyoshi is still so beautiful and young while the beauty of Ryuhei is fading, and now they are in San Francisco, and the ever so gentle and quite Kiyoshi is acting in a strange way.

I absolutely love Ryuhei: he is the classical spoilt characters, egoistic and vain, but so persuaded that his love must be enough for his Kiyoshi: why he has to search someone or something else when he can have him? And even so, you can't not love him back. He is the perfect image of a kabuki actor.

Ryuhei instead is a "real" character: he is a vampire, with the needs and the desires of a blood sucker. He is not a perfect soul who can resist to the inner claims of his body: he loves and fails.

So we have two unperfect characters so perfect for this tale. I can't wait to read the other stories in this enchanting series.

http://samhainpublishing.com/books/soul-of-the-night

Amazon: Soul of the Night

Series:
1) Blood Brothers: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/91185.html
2) Soul of the Night

Reading List:

http://www.librarything.com/catalog_bottom.php?tag=reading list&view=elisa.rolle


Cover Art by Anne Cain