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I am currently reading "Blood is thicker than Water" by Wynette A. Hoffman. The cover is horrible and it is a good thing I had done a search based on story instead of finding it in a bookstore because given the cover, I would never have bought it. But I am about 1/3 done and it is surprisingly good. I have been thoroughly enjoying it. It has some S&M and vampires as well as some mythology.

I will post again when I am done to let you know how it was.

*backs up suggestions of blood and chocolate* It's a good werewolf book. 3nodding

like you mentioned in your post, I love the books by Kelley Armstrong and I've read the Tanya Huff one's but didn't like them much..I can't think of any else. I really love Anne Rice but they are different than the Anita Blake ones

She wrote 3 books total. And Blood and Chocolate was better than Silver Kiss, I agree. But Alien Secrets is her best work. It's SciFi tho... obviously. I own all three. ^.^

I know of another really good vamp series.... but for the life of me I can't think of the name of it.... bah.... It's kinda annoying. It was a series... thin lil books... vamp books.... Gah! I hate brain farts...

Twenty-three year-old Paige Winterbourne, recently orphaned, has inherited her mother's role as Leader of the elite American Coven of Witches. Paige, is not anywhere near as experienced in witchcraft and lore as her deceased mother, or as some of the elderly and very conservative witches in her Coven. She does, however, have a vision for the future - something sorely lacking now and very necessary. Paige has long been known for her rebellious antics and doesn't have much credibility with her fellow witches. In fact, many of them feel that the younger woman is not fit to lead. However, Paige's goal is an important one - to better her people and bring them into the 21st century - not to hide from the world, as the paranoid Coven Elders, little old ladies with blue rinses on their hair and polyester pants, wish to do. She strives to find hidden grimoires filled with ancient, stronger spells to help witches worldwide regain their rightful power in the supernatural world. Over the years, witches practicing "white magic," for the betterment of the human and supernatural races, have lost power and status to Sorcerer Cabals - kind of like the Mafia, peopled by males, (sorcerers), who make black magic for profit. Paige wants to regain that power for the purpose of doing good.

Nine months earlier, Paige's mother was murdered along with another witch who had an adolescent daughter, Savannah Levine. This precocious young women was left in Paige's care to train and to raise to adulthood. Savannah has supernatural powers far exceeding her age, and her potential for making magic is beyond what most witches can ever expect to achieve. Part of Paige's responsibility is to make sure Savannah's power is used appropriately. The powerful sorcerer Kristof Nash, heir to the Nash Cabal, is Savannah's father and wants custody of his daughter whom he has totally ignored heretofore. Obviously Nash recognizes the potential for evil in his daughter's powers and wants to use her for his own dark purposes. Paige is well aware that Kristoff dabbles in the black arts and would do anything in order to capture Savannah and control her, including murder. Lucas Cortez, a young and handsome sorcerer, heir to the most powerful Cortex Cabal and an attorney also, comes to Paige's rescue. This is completely unheard of, as witches and sorcerers have always been enemies. Yet, the two, witch and sorcerer, make miraculous magic together.