L.C. DeCarlo
Stolen Sun: The Juliana Lucio Series

Review brought to you by OBS staff member Autumn

Synopsis:

Dr. Juliana Lucio is violently attacked, and turned into a creature of the night, now she’s fighting to protect her son from becoming the same.

Late one night following her shift in the emergency department, Dr. Juliana Lucio is violently attacked and left for dead. To her surprise she wakes up to find she has been turned into a creature of her dreams–a vampire. Now, two new Master Vampires are in town, and want to use Juliana’s unusual abilities to further their own plans of destruction. Because of Juliana’s refusal to join them, they set their sights on Juliana’s teenage son; and they don’t plan on leaving town until he has fangs of his own.

Juliana is then forced to turn to the woman who stole her life, and family, to get her help in protecting them. Can Juliana, her Sire, and her sire’s sexy best friend stop the powerful master vampires before they take her son . . . or will none of them make it out alive? (Goodreads)

Review:

Dr. Juliana Lucio has it all.  She has a loving husband, two beautiful sons and a successful career.  Upon noticing the peculiar new doctor hired on at her hospital, all of that changes.

Ana Chase can’t risk being exposed for what she is – a vampire.  She attacks Juliana but can’t bring herself to kill her and turns her instead.

When Juliana awakens to her new life, she can’t help but mourn what was once hers.  She resents Ana for taking that away from her and is determined to try to get her old life back. Ana’s roommate and vampire companion, William, complicates all of her plans.  He is everything that Juliana could want but she finds it hard to move on from her human family.

When two older and more powerful vampires appear, the stakes are raised to the breaking point.  They present her with an ultimatum, join their coven or lose what she loves the most.

Stolen Sun is such a creative and new approach to the vampire genre.  The storyline moves quickly but keeps the reader engaged and the characters are believable, strong and appealing.  The action packed ending sets readers up keenly for the next book in the series, which is set for release in January.  I can’t wait to read every one of them.