• Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
• List Price: $7.99 US/$10.99 CDN
• Publisher: Avon; Original edition (February 9, 2010)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0061583227
• ISBN-13: 978-0061583223

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The night is not safe for mortals. Denise MacGregor knows all too well what lurks in the shadows—her best friend is half-vampire Cat Crawfield—and she has already lost more than the average human could bear. But her family’s past is wrapped in secrets and shrouded in darkness—and a demon shapeshifter has marked Denise as prey. Now her survival depends on an immortal who lusts for a taste of her.

He is Spade, a powerful, mysterious vampire who has walked the earth for centuries and is now duty-bound to protect this endangered, alluring human—even if it means destroying his own kind. Denise may arouse his deepest hungers, but Spade knows he must fight his urge to have her as they face the nightmare together . . .

Because once the first crimson drop falls, they will both be lost.

First Drop of Crimson (the first book in the Night Huntress spin off series) focuses on Denise, Cat’s best-friend that we’ve only had small glimpses of in past novels. Denise has pulled herself away from all contact with vampires, even pulling away from Cat, after loosing her husband Randy in the last vampire war. Suddenly members of Denise’s family start dying of heart attacks, when Denise witnesses a family members last moments she realizes it’s not heart attacks that are killing them off, its a demon. One of her distant relatives reneged on a deal with a demon and he’s out to get her whole family. She must find this relative or risk loosing every single family member left and worse, he’s marked her.  Denise doesn’t want to get Cat or Bone’s involved and all she has left is asking Spade for help. Spade realizes, it’s going to be a lot harder than he expected when he tastes that first drop of crimson.

Readers of the Night Huntress series will not be disappointed with First Drop of Crimson, Ms. Frost keeps true to the series but adds new life! This book was action packed from beginning to the very end, with all sorts of twists and turns. Denise is still having panic attacks around vampires due to the vampire war, so you feel her struggle to get past it and grow stronger. There is appearances by old characters like Ian, Bones & Cat among others. So even if there isn’t a Cat & Bones book until 2011, you do get some time with them in First Drop.

If you haven’t ever read a Jeaniene Frost book, you can pick this one up without reading the previous novels. There’s just enough back story that you won’t feel lost if you start from First Drop and you’ll quickly pick up the storyline.

Fans of “Chapter 32″ from Jeaniene Frost’s novel One Foot In The Grave, will get a big laugh out of…Chapter 23. Seriously, chapter 23. I giggled when I saw what chapter I was reading. Well done Ms. Frost, even if it wasn’t intentional! The chemistry between Spade and Denise was intense, and let me tell you…hot hot hot! Cat & Bones have some competition!

Go out and grab a copy on February 9th, trust me. You won’t be able to put it down!