The Bitten: A Vampire Huntress Legend

By L. A. Banks

The vampire civil war has been averted, deadly were-demons have been beaten back and now it Damali Richards and Carlos Rivera (now a Council level vampire) will finally have the chance to settle in and explore their deeper, sexier love. But Carlos and Damali should know by now that there is no rest for the saviors of the known world. One of the four topside Master vampires has stolen one of the Keys-the living blood of Christ---that opens the sixth seal as foretold in Revelations. He who possesses the Key and the Seal can decide to the outcome of the Final War, a.k.a. Armageddon. With a vampire in possession of the Key, the balance between the Light and the Dark have been thrown off and even Damali is deeply effected. She is now sporting a pair of fangs. In order to retrieve the Key, Carlos and Damali are quickly thrust into a web of vampire politics and intrigue. And when Carlos's secret drug, Oblivion, finds its way into the hands of the enemies, even the seventh level of Hell comes calling.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Feb 1, 2005
• ISBN: 9781429994484

L. A. Banks

L. A. BANKS was the author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series and the Crimson Moon Novels, including Left for Undead and Never Cry Werewolf. She had a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and a master's in fine arts from Temple University. Banks considered herself a shape-shifter, writing romance, women's fiction, crime and suspense, and of course, dark vampire huntress lore. She lived with her daughter in Philadelphia until her death in 2011.

Reviews for The Bitten

[rainyreader · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is the fourth book of the Vampire Huntress Legend series and picks up with Damali and Carlos getting to know eachother better after the battle of book three. LIke the rest of Banks' books, there is plenty of action and she has a real talent for writing some page turning battle sequences. This book however, is very dialogue heavy...there's LOTS of talk here....There's much discussing of feelings and actions, and consequences of actions and not a whole lot of doing...It was still a fun book but I found myself dragging through a lot of it. It didn't read as fast as the first few and the ending got pretty muddled. Still a good addition to the series and Banks continues to build on her chilling descriptions of Carlos's hellish underworld and it's politics!