A Rush of Wings

November 12, 2007
Set in the brooding New Orleans area long established as the best location for all things vampiric, Phoenix’s lively debut has it all: “Rogue agents, Bureau-ordered hits, mad-scientist experiments in psychopathology, vampires and fallen angels and a slicing-dicing serial killer.” Smart, sexy FBI Special Agent Heather Wallace has been trying to catch the Cross-Country Killer for three years when the trail leads to New Orleans and Club Hell, where Dante Prejean performs with the Inferno, an industrial/goth rock band. Dante is a Cajun and a born vampire whose memories of his terrible past have been erased, leaving him vulnerable to the psychopathic killer, E, who knows all that Dante has forgotten. As E begins targeting Dante’s loved ones, Heather must swallow her skepticism and work with Dante’s vampiric friends and family to save him. Phoenix alternates romantic homages to gothdom and steamy blood-drinking threesomes with enough terse, fast-paced thriller scenes to satisfy even the most jaded fan.

January 15, 2008
FBI Special Agent Heather Wallace's pursuit of the sexual sadist and serial killer known as the Cross Country Killer leads her to a New Orleans venue called Club Hell and its enigmatic owner Dante Prejean, singer and frontman of the rock band Inferno. Investigations into his past, however, turn up no information except the speculation that he might be a "vampire" and that, in fact, he could be the killer's next victim. Following hard on the heels of such urban fantasy authors like Tanya Huff and Jim Butcher, Phoenix blends the elements of crime and vampire fiction in this tale of supernatural romance between a savvy detective and a thoroughly modern creature of the night. A good choice for libraries where vampire fiction is popular.

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