I’m Jaz Parks. My boss is Vayl, born in Romania in 1744. Died there too, at the hand of his vampire wife, Liliana. But that’s ancient history. For the moment Vayl works for the C.I.A. doing what he does best–assassination. And I help. You could say I’m an Assistant Assassin. But then I’d have to kick your ass.

Our current assignment seemed easy. Get close to a Miami plastic surgeon named Assan, a charmer with ties to terrorism that run deeper than a buried body. Find out what he’s meeting with that can help him and his comrades bring America to her knees. And then close his beady little eyes forever. Why is it that nothing’s ever as easy as it seems?

Jasmine Parks has bad luck written all over her. A member of a special forces unit of the CIA known as the Helsingers, Jaz finds misbehaving vampires and makes them behave—or else. That is, until a group of vampires gets a drop on her crew and takes them out, all except for Jaz and her brother David. To make matters worse, the list of deceased include Jaz’s fiancé and her brother’s wife. Like I said, nothing but bad luck.

When the book begins, Jaz is being assigned a new partner. Vayl, a vampire over two hundred years old, is the golden boy of the CIA and he’s chosen her to team up with. The question is, why?

Normally I don’t get into novels involving terrorism - it’s just not my scene - but this book knocked me on my ass and left me begging for more. The history of Jasmine Parks, aka Jaz, is cold, dark, and open to so many literary possibilities. Her relationship with her boss, Vayl, is undefined but obvious. They want each other, but at what cost? The memory of Matt, Jaz’s deceased fiancé, is a fresh wound that won’t allow her to live a normal life let alone be in a normal relationship.

The action sequences are heart-stopping, and the character development is so well done I can actually see the characters, what they’re doing, what they’re feeling. Jennifer weaves a world in which you can’t help but immerse yourself. So much so that I stalked eBay and four local book stores to find the second book in the series.

Book Stats:

• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Orbit; Reprint edition (July 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316043540
• ISBN-13: 978-0316043540

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Books in the Jaz Parks series in the order they should be read:
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Another One Bites the Dust
Biting the Bullet
Bitten to Death
One More Bite
Bite Marks

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