Product Description

Explosions, car wrecks, assassins, escaped murderers, and a kidnapping.arranged marriages can really take their toll on a vampire. First installment in The Guardians' League series (stand-alone novels with shared characters that may be read in any order but work best in the correct order). Witness to a brutal murder, Sian Lazuro didn't count on the killer escaping moments after his conviction. Three years later, she's learned the hard way there's only one person she can trust-herself. When she wakes up in bed with a gorgeous stranger who claims to have saved her life, she's understandably wary. Diego Leonides is like no one she's ever met before. Sensual, mysterious, and clearly delusional, he insists not only is he a vampire, but she's now his eternal mate. Diego never dreamed he'd find his mate by getting hit by her car, and he's no happier about their sudden bonding than she is. The only survivor of a massacre that wiped out his entire Clan, he's spent the last century avoiding taking a mate. Now he finds himself stuck with a woman running from a murderer just as the descendants of the vampire slayers who killed his family arrive in San Francisco to finish the job with him. Arranged marriages are hard enough on a vampire without having to convince his mate that the real bloodthirsty fiends are the mortals. Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, violence.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #142333 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-01
• Released on: 2006-09-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 248 pages

Customer Reviews

Wonderful and Fun Read!
I wanted to write a review on this book because I did enjoy it so much.

There are a lot of choices when it comes to paranormal romances and in my opinion it can be hard to find well written and engaging stories. I found Emilia Elias first book Hunted to have all the elements I look for in a paranormal romance read. Great characters you really care about, a good story, romance, action, and adventure.

This is a solid book and I don't think this book will dissapoint.

Bad Romance Novel
I thought I was going to read an exciting vampire novel with some romance thrown it, but this just read like a cheap and bad romance novel. It was same senario as any cheap romance - the pirate, the cowboy, the rogue who keeps the heronine capture then she falls in love with him despite her best intentions and they live happily ever after. In this book it was a vampire. Same story line - different characters. Although there were warnings about erotic subject matter, It wasn't that erotic. I've seen more erotic on daytime TV. The author used the same lines over and over - example: Everytime the heronine ran, she ran, "Like the hounds of hell were on her heals." You would think Ms Elias could have been a bit more creative and/or original.

While not entirely unique, "Hunted" does break a few rules of many popular vampire series'
The Guardians' League Series:

Hunted

Outcast

Chosen

Amelia Elias has created a thoroughly sexy band of vampires who protect the human world from evil beings. This isn't a very unique idea in today's world of paranormal romance, but she did a good job of finding a few ways to make her fantasy world different from the others. The Guardians' League is a race of vampires who hunt and kill enemies known as "Outcasts". The Outcasts are vampires who drink from humans to the point of causing death. The Guardians must feed as well, but they cause no permanent harm. In this sense, The Guardians are much like Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Dark Hunters". While saving humans from evil, Guardians must also fight a league of vampire slayers that are a bit reminiscent of J.R. Ward's "Lesser Society". However, The Guardians' world is different in the fact that humans can be changed into vampires by consuming vampire blood. That is quite rare in contemporary vampire tales. Also, Elias's vampire slayers are human Knights Templar who believe that there is no such thing as a "good vampire". They kill both Outcasts and Guardians in God's name.


Diego is a member of The Guardians' League. He spends his nights saving humankind from the Outcasts. As the last vampire in his family line, the governing counsel of The League has commanded that he must take the next woman he shares a bed with as his bondmate. Only then can he have children to continue his bloodline. Diego isn't thrilled with the idea of giving up his freedom. To avoid becoming bonded, he has remained celibate for over a century.

Sian is a former police officer. She had to give up everything to enter the witness protection program. A murderer whom she testified against has broken free of prison. He has stocked her for three years.

The murderer has managed to track her down again. While speeding through the night to avoid being captured, Sian is horrified when she runs over a man on the street. When she next wakes, she is in bed with him. He claims to be a vampire. He also tells her that she is his mate. Sian is certain Diego is insane.

Diego has his work cut out for him. The leader of the league council has declared that Sian is to be Diego's bondmate. Now he must convince Sian of what he is without frightening her away. His bigger challenge is keeping her safe from his enemies who would use her get to him, and from her own enemy who seeks her death. To make things even harder, he can't keep Sian from running away and putting herself within their enemies' grasp. As days pass, Diego is shocked by his own growing possessiveness. His only hope is to win Sian's heart so that he can live with her in peace.


Overall "Hunted" was a good story. I got a bit bored towards the end and found myself wanting to get through the last chapter and epilogue so that I could read a more exciting Christine Feehan "Carpathian" book. The action was too rare and when it did happen it was far too short. Also, the hero and heroine in "Hunted" were too typical to keep me rapt. He's a male vampire who suffers from the loss of his family through the centuries. (I wish the author had dipped further into his emotions. They were skimmed over, which killed my chances of feeling that sorrowful connection.) She's a pushy and pissed off human female who spends most of the book fighting with him.

On a good note, Elias writes terrifically steamy love scenes. She also paints a clear picture of the surrounding environment in each location the characters encounter. Her "good guy" side characters are intriguing and they make you look forward to future editions of this series. Her "bad guys" didn't receive enough time in the story, which a shame because they were interesting too.


If you are looking for more contemporary vampire romance, I suggest these series':

The Black Dagger Brotherhood:
(I'm only listing the first four in the series to get you started)
Dark Lover (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 1)
Lover Eternal (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 2)
Lover Awakened (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 3)
Lover Revealed (Black Dagger Brotherhood, Book 4)


The Carpathians (Dark) Series:
(First three in the series)
Dark Prince (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 1)
Dark Desire (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 2)
Dark Gold (The Carpathians (Dark) Series, Book 3)

The Dark Hunter Series:
(First three in the series)
Fantasy Lover (Dark-Hunter, Book 1) No actual vamps in this one, but it sets the stage for the rest of the series.
Night Pleasures (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 2)
Night Embrace (A Dark-Hunter Novel, Book 3)