And Dark My Desire — John Scherber

AND DARK MY DESIRE

Vampire Monty Townshend has been unable to get out of his coffin for seventy-seven years. When he's suddenly unearthed by highway excavation, he sets about making up for lost time. But 1934, when he was last out and about, was a different time indeed. Taking up residence in his ancestral mansion, he finds it in the hands of a social climber playing by new rules for women. Only Anya, her Ukrainian maid, sees Monty for what he is.

When his eye next lands on Jennifer, a young neighbor planning her marriage, he can't quite decide whether to bite her or seduce her. A new range of feelings competes with the old. He is just beginning to understand Jennifer's starling taste for risk, when everything blows up in his face.

Have no fearâ€"â€"And Dark My Desire is the first book of the Townshend Vampire Trilogy. Plan to see Monty again. He'll be looking for you.