"What do you get when you cross the Crusades, incredible, sensuous story"** called Bond of Blood. Now Diane Whiteside, "the master of erotic prose" (**Booklist) turns up the Texas heat once again. In this exciting novel she revisits that landscape of fiery seduction while exploring the centuries-old love affair between vampire knight Jean-Marie St. Just and vampire firestarter and secret agent HZlne d'Agelet. But HZlne finds her passion for Jean-Marie threatened once again, this time by an unsettled family legacy of revenge.