Review:
It's technically not necessary to have read the first book in the series before this one, although there are a lot of character cameos that will have more impact if you've read it.
Amelia Collins is a successful accountant who's working with a stressful client during the tail end of tax season. Making time for herself isn't exactly a priority right now, but she still wants to make an effort to be there for family events, like her cousin's upcoming wedding. Unfortunately, she made the mistake of joking about having a boyfriend when her mom was poking her, again, about her single status, and for some reason her entire family took her seriously.
Although she at least tells her brother the truth, she can't quite bring herself to come clean to her parents, which means finding herself a fake boyfriend. Except Amelia hasn't dated in ages, and she's not going to ask one of her colleagues. Her best option seems to be the random hot guy with amazing blue eyes she accidentally ran into on the way to a family get-together. He's got a great sense of humor and, surprisingly, he seems to know a couple of her brother's friends. When he nervously admits to her that he's a renegade vampire, she figures it's another one of his jokes.
Except it isn't. Reginald (Reggie) Cleaves is proud of himself for having told Amelia the truth so soon during their arrangement. He's amazed at how well she takes it, but who is he to look a gift horse in the mouth? His and Amelia's fake dating arrangement will hopefully give him a chance to lose the Collective, a group of vampires who want to kill him because of a fire he supposedly started a century ago. And it certainly doesn't hurt that Amelia's gorgeous and maybe attracted to him as well.
