Samantha Madison is what you would call an outcast. She's somewhat of a goth/artist. Her best friend, Catherine, wears clothes from like the 1800's, she's in love with her older sister Lucy's boyfriend, and her younger sister is a certified genius.
In her third novel, Ahern (P.S., I Love You and Love, Rosie) employs an imaginary best friend to breathe distinctiveness into an otherwise stereotypical Irish tale. Living in her own house in a small, posh Irish town, 35-year-old Elizabeth Egan is an uptight interior designer and adoptive mother to her six-year-old nephew, Luke, whose mother, Elizabeth's 23-year-old sister, Saoirse, prefers boozing to parenting.
When humans begin to go missing, then turn up as newly born vampires, it is up to the D'Artigo sisters to pull themselves together and confront the newest emerging threats. It's strickly let's-get-the-bad-guys. The story culminates with Menolly (the youngest sister and a vamp) battling her inner demons and eventually the one who made her a vamp.
Walking near the beach near his family's farm one night, Nick Bennett sees a boat bringing something unusual to shore - people. He suspects that they are illegal immigrants. When he goes to investigate what's happening on a nearby farm, he realises he was right. Soon Nick finds himself involved with a brother and sister and their desperate attempt to escape from a ruthless people-smuggler.
Lauren Willig continues the exciting series with her fourth novel, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty whose sister accidentally stole her suitor in The Deception of the Emerald Ring.
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