Blood Lust
Mignon DuPlessis is ‘a woman scorned’ personified! Although a man didn’t scorn her in the traditional way—she was transformed into a vampire after her slave owner, Charles Rabelais, sold her children to a brothel. And hundreds of years later Mignon is still pissed!
Charles is obsessed with Mignon and is determined to win her back. To get Mignon’s attention and to satisfy his lust for power Charles has broken the Praetorium’s rule and has sold vampire secrets to the United States government under the pretense of helping them create a vampire army to fight terrorists.
The Venators are responsible for keeping the peace between vampires and humans and as one of them, Mignon now has another reason to hunt Charles down and kill him. It has been discovered that Charles is transforming criminals into vampires in the hopes of building his own army. This sends Mignon to the morgue, where the dead bodies of the criminals have been shipped. Her job is to kill the criminals again before they are reborn as vampires.
Ryan Lattimore is a New Orleans detective assigned to the case of discovering who is beheading the already dead people in the morgue. When he interrupts Mignon in her attempt to wipe out Charles’ vampire army, he’s introduced to a world he never thought existed.
J.M. Jefferies weaves a wonderful tale of the dark life of vampires, entwining it with human morals and tribulations. I thoroughly enjoyed the flashbacks into Mignon’s life from the time she rescued her children up until the time that she met Martin Luther King, Jr. This tale was told in such a way that it had me looking twice at people on the street wondering if they too were vampires! Even if you are not into vampires or romance, for that matter, this is a great read as it keeps your mind so busy that you can hardly tell where one plot ends and another picks up. I would definitely recommend this book for your keeper shelf.
Blood Lust
J.M. Jeffries
J.M. Jefferies
Genesis Press
ISBN #: 1585711381
September 2005
Reviewed By: A.C. Arthur, Black Butterfly Review