 | Title: Frostbound
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Description
Every dog might have his day, but the hellhound guards the night . . .
As a snowstorm locks down the city, more than the roads are getting iced. Someone's beheaded the wrong girl, and vampire-on-the-lam Talia Rostova thinks it was meant to be her. Now she's the prime suspect in her own botched murder—and the prisoner of her smoking-hot neighbor.
Lore is a hellhound, bred to serve and protect, so he's not freeing Talia until he's sure that she's the prey and not the hunter. You'd think a beautiful woman in his bedroom would be a good thing, but trouble-prone Talia has run afoul of someone more sinister than your average lunatic killer. An ancient Undead is wreaking vengeance on the city—and on her—and Lore will have to go far beyond a stake to put him back in his grave . . .
Review
I don’t read a ton of paranormal romance preferring urban fantasy because of the greater emphasis it gives to complex worldbuilding. But if more paranormal romances were like FROSTBOUND, I’d read them by the box load.
Both Lore and Talia are fully defined characters with their own backstories and distinct story arcs in FROSTBOUND. Talia is a newly turned vampire in hiding from an abusive life and scarred upbringing that taught her to hate what she has unwillingly become. But rather than a broken scared women, she is brave and cautiously optimistic about her future.
Lore is a hellhound Alpha and acting sheriff dealing with pack pressure to choose a hellhound mate and defend against a faceless magical threat. His hellhound thoughts are simplistic and primitive, but it’s how he controls those impulses (most of the time) as a man that made me fall for him.
Overall, FROSTBOUND is the perfect blend of urban fantasy and paranormal romance. Rich and complex magical worldbuilding, characters with equal strength and depth, and a romance that creates as much heat as it does emotional intensity. No word yet on the next book in The Dark Forgotten series, but it’s already on my wishlist.
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