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The A-List: Shadow Lives
(2012)(The first book in the Hollywood Vampire series)
A novel by Heather Atkinson
Eva Gallo is a renowned A-list actress, her beauty and talent famed throughout the world. However she carries a dark secret. She is a powerful vampire, turned against her will.
When her husband is murdered by Alex, her psychotic maker, she tracks him down to LA intent on revenge. He proves elusive and as her search for him continues she finds herself hunted by the Hoplites, vampire slayers descended from the Ancient Spartans themselves, they use their ancestor's formidable weapons and tactics to lethal effect.
She negotiates a deal with the Hoplites, promising she will willingly hand herself over to them if they help her eliminate Alex. With their assistance she tracks him through the best known landmarks of Hollywood, which masquerade as vampire havens.
Along the way she falls in love with one of the slayers, fighting against the guilt of what she feels is a betrayal of her dead husband, as well as the knowledge that her lover will be the one who will execute her.
Together they face all manner of vampire from the basest mindless creature to the sophisticated vampire, many of whom masquerade as famous actors, actresses, singers, the cream of Hollywood.
The A-List is a satire of celebrity and a love story between two people who are worlds apart.
This is the first part of a quadrilogy.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
When her husband is murdered by Alex, her psychotic maker, she tracks him down to LA intent on revenge. He proves elusive and as her search for him continues she finds herself hunted by the Hoplites, vampire slayers descended from the Ancient Spartans themselves, they use their ancestor's formidable weapons and tactics to lethal effect.
She negotiates a deal with the Hoplites, promising she will willingly hand herself over to them if they help her eliminate Alex. With their assistance she tracks him through the best known landmarks of Hollywood, which masquerade as vampire havens.
Along the way she falls in love with one of the slayers, fighting against the guilt of what she feels is a betrayal of her dead husband, as well as the knowledge that her lover will be the one who will execute her.
Together they face all manner of vampire from the basest mindless creature to the sophisticated vampire, many of whom masquerade as famous actors, actresses, singers, the cream of Hollywood.
The A-List is a satire of celebrity and a love story between two people who are worlds apart.
This is the first part of a quadrilogy.
Genre: Paranormal Romance
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