Highland Hunger - Hannah Howell, Michele Sinclair, Jackie Ivie I lament the fact that Ms Howell no longer collaborates with Ms Sands on the McNachton series. Since they're all novellas, this requires additional filler and sadly, it's not all that. Perhaps if Ms Howell would just write a full-length novel...

So...the entries

Dark Embrace: another McNachton and somewhat predictable - H finds a Lost One in the form of a female, falls hard for her, takes her home with hunters hot on their heels, goes back and rescues any Lost Ones who have fallen into the hands of The Enemy, etc. Predicable but nothing creepy or...

A Knight Beyond Black - I had a *lot* of issues with this one. First off, H "knew the h was his mate as soon as she was born" and betrothed himself to her while she was an infant (reading too much twilight, dear author?), second, nobody told her until... her 21st birthday. Third, as in several cases of traditional vampire love stories, the author fails to make the distinction between attraction and compulsion. Then there's the whole turning her on their wedding night without even telling her what he was, avoiding her because she wanted answers and he wasn't very good at talking (this involved locking her in a room, btw)... Just not feeling this one AT ALL.

The Guardian - I liked this one. The H made me think of Highlander (the movie), the h wasn't exactly human either, and while I did wonder at her ancestry, at least he wasn't her dad (he hadn't been to the area in 200 years).