Rating: 4 stars (Spotlight Review)

Jaz Parks is pretty sure her unfailing ability to destroy public property and leave a trail of wrecked rental vehicles in her wake is going to get her fired when she gets called into her boss's office. She is therefore stunned speechless when she is given the assignment to partner up with Vayl, a 300-year old vampire and the American government’s top assassin. They work well enough until their latest assignment, to take down a plastic surgeon with terrorist connections, reveals secrets about their respective pasts that Vayl was keeping and Jaz couldn't remember.

The assignment to neutralize Mohammed Khad Abn-Assan should have been easy and straight-forward... but is anything in these stories? A ghost out of Jaz's past emerges, partnered with Assan to bring about a plague that will decimate humankind. The only problem is that Jaz can't remember who he is or what he means to her. When Vayl's own ghost emerges, working with Assan the situation becomes even graver. Jaz will need the help of her paranoiac tech-geek Bergman, a mysterious and powerful psychic named Cassandra, and a gum-chewing P.I. named Cole to solve the mystery before the Red Plague wipes out vamps and humans alike.

Despite the seeming cheesiness of the story I truly did enjoy it. The author appears to have taken a page from the Book of Whedon in her writing. The smarmy jokes, pop culture references, and ridiculous fight scenes are very worthy of Joss but with the author's own personal touch to make them nicely original and entertaining in their own right. If you're a fan of the McAlister/Harris type of supernatural-chick story, this is a good fit.

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Orbit (October 8, 2007)
ISBN-13: 978-0316020466
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