No arguing or snotty attitudes, they wanted to *be together*. and continues to do so, as Butch's new found power is to consume the Lessers (by 'inhaling' them), leaving Butch with no way to flush them from his system on his own.In the meantime, he has to settle the conflict within himself over the love he has for the sweetly innocent Marissa- former fiance of Wrath, the King of the Vamps.What I liked most about Butch and Marissa's story was the fact they knew from the beginning they loved each other and, once they cleared up some previous miscommunications, all they wanted to do was be together. (The way the Big O does it I found to be idiotic, but whatever).Of course the scheme doesn't work because the brother who has the other half of Butch's soon to be discovered power- the enigmatic Vishous- cleanses him of the infecting evil. Butch is a human cop who has befriended the Vamp brothers in Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series.The story starts off with Butch being caught by the Big Lesser, the bad guys in the series, who places a part of himself in Butch to catch the brothers- turning him into a Trojan horse as it were.

And as always, we learn more about the characters that haven't been featured yet. I think the romance and the fighting aspects are pretty well matched, I didn't feel like one overshadowed the other in the novel. They love each other but go back and forth as they seem to have communication issues. There is also the issue that he seems to be exuding bonding tendencies, which is a vampiric trait. While this is going on, we see how Butch works out his love/craving/lust for Marissa, an aristocratic female vampire. This leads to his capture, torture, and release with a parting gift that may or may not put the Brotherhood in danger. Even though he's tough, as a human he is unable to fight alongside the brothers in their everlasting war against the lesser society, an evil society trying to rid the world of the vampire race. This book focuses on Butch O'Neal, a human taken in by the Brotherhood (in the first book), mainly because he knew too much. This is the fourth novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

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