Forbidden: The Sacrifice

Mouth watering Vampire Romance

Dell Reinfield is a handsome Vampire who works for his father. He does whatever his father asks of him. His father started a revolution awhile ago, and Dell feels it is his fate to help out. One day Dell gets a new partner....Alex Sanchez. She is mysterious and Dell is captivated by the woman right from the start. On their first project, they pose as lovers to infiltrate a bad bunch of Vampires. Of course since they are playing lovers, Dell has no problem living up to his role. Dell and Alex make a wonderful partnership. This book will keep you on the edge of your seat, and wanting more. I found it really intriguing and hard to put down. You have got to read this book!

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The Temptation is hot!

The Blurbage:

Jacob Madison is the accidental werewolf. While hiking in Yosemite Park he fell and was badly injured. A local werewolf pack found him and saved him, but one of the pack mates accidentally bit him while trying to rescue him. Jacob isn't happy about being a werewolf, he would much rather have his human life back. Then he meets Allison Connelly, who has recently divorced, and is wanting to put her past behind her. She has gone back to the spot where she met her ex-husband to get rid of the wedding ring, but a storm rolls in and she falls down the ravine. She thinks she's left for dead, but Jacob and his pack find her, and Jacob is determined to rescue her in his human form no matter how difficult. He will not leave her to the same fate should she get bitten or scratched accidentally. The two have their secrets that they are afraid to share, and neither know that they are going to be under attack by a serial killer. The only way for Jacob to save his pack and Allison is to let the beast inside him take over, even if it might cause him his new relationship and his humanity.

The Reviewage:

I've enjoyed Samantha Sommersby's Forbidden series, her characters are always likable, even though sometimes their minds get geared to sex and tend to stay there for awhile. I can understand this though, because the beginning of a relationship is the most exciting time. Everything is fresh and you want to be with each other every second of every day. Our hero Jacob is a southern gentlemen, and he really works Allison over once he gets her alone in his cabin...if you know what I mean. The two have fantastic chemistry, and work really well together. The villain is believable, the conflict is interesting, and the characters are well fleshed out. The only problem I have with Forbidden: The Temptation is that the beginning starts off good, but then it dives into quite a few chapters of the couple locked up in a cabin together, making love pretty much the whole time. There are flashes of conversation in here, where you see them connecting emotionally as well as physically, and then the story jumps right back and it's full of plot. I feel had their relationship been spread out more through the book it would have been more believable. I won't lie, erotica isn't usually my thing, but I enjoy what Sommersby has done with the genre.

Other books in the series:
Forbidden: The Claim
Forbidden: The Awakening
Forbidden: The Revolution

Excellent Second Installment on this Series

Excellent second book in this contemporary erotic vampire series. Heat and lots of it, humor and intelligence. The winning triad for me.

Another reviewer has provided a well written story summary; I won't be redundant. I loved the premise in the first book, "The Claim" and fell into the story line immediately. This second book is a continuation of the first book. I hope that the publisher will eventually combine the first two books into one larger book. They really belong together.

I love the way this author writes and love her new twist on the vampire alpha male. Byron Renfield "Ren" is everything you could want in an Alpha male vampire hero; sexy, very hot, but Ren also has elements of a sensitive romantic nerd rolled in to his character. A "he had me at hello" kind of guy.

The tension and attraction between Ren and his HEA Violet is drawn in a way that raises your blood pressure and occasionally gets one's tear ducts working. Violet's character is also well drawn and developed over the first two books. She is in her way an Alpha female and she and Ren balance each other. There is a cast of characters incorporated into Ren's and Violet's story, with their own stories that follow from the first book to this book, and new characters are added here in the second book, who one hopes will be developed in future books.

I downloaded all three books of the series on the same night from allromanceebooks.com and read all night. I cannot wait for the next, fourth book in the series. I am hoping for a long relationship with this series.

Excellent Start for a Great Series

Excellent contemporary erotic vampire series starter. Heat and lots of it, humor and intelligence. The winning triad for me. I loved the premise and fell into the story line immediately. I really love the authors new twist on the vampire alpha male. Byron Renfield "Ren" is everything you could want in an Alpha male vampire hero; sexy, very hot, but Ren also has elements of a sensitive romantic nerd rolled in to his character. A "he had me at hello" kind of guy. The tension and attraction between Ren and his HEA Violet is drawn in a way that raises your blood pressure and occasionally gets one's tear ducts working.

My only complaint; it was over too soon. I immediately downloaded the next two stories and read all night. I cannot wait for the next, fourth book in the series. I am hoping for a long relationship with this series.

While the story is short and pricey for a hard copy, it is worth the price if hard copy is what you require. I found it at allromanceebooks.com for a much lower price in the electronic format. However, having read it, I would happily pay the hard copy price now. I am hoping though that the publisher may think of combining the first two books into one larger book. They really belong together.

Excellent Third Installment

Excellent third book and best so far book in this wonderful contemporary erotic vampire series. Erotic sensual heat, dry and droll humor, and intelligence in the characters and by the author. I am definitely hooked on this series and this author.

Other reviewers have provided well written story summaries; I won't be redundant with too much detal. I loved the premise in the first book, "The Claim" and fell into the story line immediately. This third book is a continuation of the story from the first and second books. Ren Renfield is in charge of an organization and hundreds of billions of dollars he is using to integrate vampires into human every day life, while keeping the villians locked up or at bay or by getting rid of them.

Ren's and Violet's son, Randall, "Dell" Renfield is 24 or 25, and is definitely his father's son, as he frequently states of himself. Dell, like his father, is everything you could want in an Alpha male vampire hero; sexy, very hot,and very intelligent. He also is a very strong Mage, and magic an intergal part of him. The author's web site has a free story "Its Magic" about a Halloween event Dell briefly recalls in this story at www.samanthasommersby.com/FreeReads/ItsMagic.html

It takes Dell longer to sort out the reason for his need of and attraction to Alexandria, "Alex", who is really someone else we met in book two, than it took his father to decided about his mother. Dell is engaged in continued conflict about his youth and life time commitment, and sex versus love. His conflicts between his thinking head and "Mr Happy's" desires are hysterically funny at times.

The tension and attraction between Dell and his HEA Alex is drawn in a way that keeps you wondering and interested. A really good, amazingly hot love story. Alex's character is also well drawn and developed. She, like Dells mother Violet, is an Alpha female. Alex more overtly and physically so. Alex and Dell balance each other in a more physical and action oriented way than do Ren and Violet whose connection is more mind action based.

The cast of characters incorporated from Ren's and Violet's story,follow to this book, and new characters are added here, all of whom, one hopes, will be developed in future books.

I downloaded all three books of the series on the same night from allromanceebooks.com and read all night. I cannot wait for the next, fourth book in the series. I am hoping for a long relationship with this series.

THE PLOT THICKENS WITH THE TEMPTATION,

We first met Jake in Forbidden The Revolution. He is the accidential werewolf, determined to be "normal" and try to ignore the fact he is no longer human. As with Samantha Sommersby's other male protagonists Byron and his son Dell, Jake is worth trading a 2 pound box of $50 a pound dark chocolate truffles for and like the chocolate truffles, you will still want more when the end comes.

Jake is spending some time with a small pack of weres he has joined, attempting to become more comfortable with what he is, and trying to embrace his inner wolf. Jake rescues a woman, Allison, who has fallen onto a cliff ledge. Instantly there is an erotic romantic connection between them. There is also a connection between Allison and one of the women who is a pack mate of Jakes. Allison had helped convict the woman's were mate of mass murder and then helped get the woman into witness protection. There is now a love connectin between one of the other male pack members and the woman in witness protection. The story tells of the rapidly developing mate like relationship between Jake and Allison and the developing romance of the other two pack members and how they overcome a number of problems, not the least of which is the return of the serial killer bad mate and his attempt to take back not only the unwilling mate, but take over as pack leader.

We also briefly see Dell, who has obviously developed more of his magical powers in addition to being a vampire he is also an accomplished Sorcerer and there is reference to Dell's father Byron who heads a paranormal organization. Jake wants to find out why Byron wanted to recruit him. So do I.

This is really an installment in an ongoing series of short novels or long short stories. A series I happen to think is excellent and one I greatly enjoy. I love the heat, humor and intelligence Ms. Sommersby writes into her characters and scenes. Like other reviewers of her books, I wish the stories were longer or that they were combined into larger books. HOWEVER, I will take what I can get and gladly pay the price. Write faster Samantha Sommersby!

True love?

This is my first time reading Samantha Sommersby, but I can say it won't be my last!!! Her novel 'Forbidden: The Awakening' was so hot I read it in one day. Yes a few hours. She shows you that just because a love may be forbidden doesn't mean it's always right. She used her characters to show you a different light. What I loved most about her book was how her characters were so open to the new experiences that were happening to each and every one of them. Great Job Samantha!!!!!

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