"A Brand New Twist to A Great Paranormal Series"
Ricardo Fernandez was born power the ability to harness
energy to heal a life force or take life away with the
touch of his hands. Living in Spanish Harlem, he chose to
use his gift under the guise of a Santeria practice. He had
also vowed never to use the dark side of his power lest he
become dark inside. Sara Martinez is a nurse who put her faith in medicine
until her own mother is pronounce terminal with days to
live, but that was more than a year ago. A year since she
had turned to Ricardo and his gift. The price is a few
blood bags to help his friend Samantha Turner who runs the
women's shelter in the neighborhood. Sara is unaware of the
possibility supernatural abilities. Ricardo with his gift
is not. Samantha is a vampire. Sara and Ricardo are strongly attracted to each other, but
when he tries to tell her that there is only so much he can
do for her mother, she wants to know why. Ricardo knows he
can't tell her, but she suspects that there is something
fishy about his Santeria cover. She's not sure she can put
her heart in the hand of a man who can't be honest with her
having been burned once already and yet she finds him
harder and harder to resist. An evil force has entered the neighborhood drawn to
Ricardo's gift. It is a soul sucking Chupacabra a creature
of myth who survives on blood. The creature had once been
human, a man whose dark nature had earned him this
punishment. But unlike Ricardo's vampire acquaintances the
creature had retained none of its humanity and lived
beneath the sewers surviving by sucking the blood from
stray animals. Moving from place to place as the supply
grows thin the creature arrives in the barrio and sensing
Ricardo's power is reminded of his former human state a
state that it now wishes to return too. The longing grows
more intense as it observes Ricardo's relationship with
Sara. The monster remembers and craves the passion for
himself. Once encounter with the beast nearly drains Ricardo of his
life force. His power has its limits but the beast is
incapable of understanding. It wants and with what's left
of its reason convinces the creature to use Sara as bait.
Ricardo must now choose whether to break is vow and use his
power for dark purposes and risk his soul or lose the women
he loves more than life itself. DEVOTION CALLS, book 5 in The Calling series took an
amazing twist from the usual vampire and human villains
giving the reader a taste of Afro-Cuban culture in a
familiar setting. Have no fear that terror and suspense may
overshadow the romance for these star-crossed lovers will
stop at nothing to protect the other even at the cost of
their life. Series readers will enjoy the reappearance of
familiar characters as the task force formed to track the
creature also consists of Sara and her human lover
Detective Peter Daly as well as FBI Agent Diana Reyes and
her vampire lover Ryder Latimer. Sara is about to enter a
whole new world, a world I just can't get enough of. Look
for book 6, BLOOD CALLS, in May 2007. Caridad Piņeiro is
the new queen of supernatural romance with a Spanish flavor.
Reviewed by Leslie Tramposch
Posted May 13, 2007
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