Hot Vampire Seduction

Lisa Renee Jones has written across several romance subgenres but readers know her best for two things. Her Inside Out series, which started with If I Were You back in 2012, made her one of the early voices in the wave of dark contemporary erotic romance. And her paranormal work, especially the books featuring vampires and other supernatural entanglements, has its own loyal following.

Hot Vampire Seduction sits in the paranormal romance lane, where Jones tends to write fast moving stories with high stakes and a generous helping of heat. Her vampires are usually centuries old, dangerous, and conflicted about something, which is exactly what most readers in this corner of the genre are looking for. The female leads tend to be capable women who get pulled into worlds they did not know existed, and Jones gives them enough agency that the romance does not just happen to them.

If you are coming to her work for the first time, this is a reasonable entry point because most of her paranormal titles work as standalones even when they share a wider universe. Fans of J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood, Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark, or Larissa Ione’s Demonica series will find familiar territory here. Jones writes the kind of book you can finish in a weekend, and that is a feature, not a bug. She knows her audience and she delivers what they came for.