Eternal Pleasure by Nina Bangs (Love Spell July 2008) (Paranormal Romance)

The Mayan Calendar stops at December 21, 2012. What did the ancient Mayans know that we don't know today?

The Mayan Calendar stops at December 21, 2012. What did the ancient Mayans know that we don't know today?  An alliance of predators, the ultimate alpha fighting machines with their primal instincts and their deadly bodies as weapons have joined forces as The Eleven, in a battle to save humanity from the Nine and a force that seeks the destruction of humanity and the Earth. Fin, has summoned together and called forth forces from 65 million years ago, forces now in human form. Now as the Gods of Night, they must hunt down the Nine and prevent the ultimate catalcysm, the dark force that wipes out dominant species and enlists the otherkin, vampires and werewolves in a wicked plot. The Eleven are an unlikely alliance....ancient warriors, primal warriors with an instinct for the hunt, raw sex and killing. Although they might be human, 65 million years of hunger for the thrill of the kill and mating is too long. Lock these alpha males together in one room, and what a mix! Primal testerone in human bodies. Can they work together as humans to save humanity?

Kelly Maloy takes a job as a driver to pick up some extra money. The job offer and the pay was just too good.... but when Ty Endeka climbs into her car, her whole world is about to change. Terror and desire mix together when Ty enters her life. Ty has never been a stay by your woman kind of man...for him, it's all about sex, he pure pleasure of sex...until he meets Kelly. With Kelly, he finds himself feeling emotions and thinking things he never thought possible... human things that go beyond his exterior tight down to his soul. When Kelly becomes a pawn in this battle, can he protect her? When FIn tells them the cost of their love, does Ty choose to protect her or expose her to the darkness of his soul? His choice might seem difficult, but Kelly has the most difficult choice to make.

Eternal Pleasure is the first in a series. It was also my first Nina Bangs read (and definitely not my last after this one!), even though I have a few by her on my shelves. Wow! This was a fun book! The world-building was very cool....she just kept giving more and more details and left just enough up to the imagination to make me very eager to see how she develops her cosmology. The romance is very steamy, very steamy. Also a lot of humor. A wonderful self-wareness of the genre as well as movies and even comic books that had me laughing with her...and then she would take me into this suspenseful and intriguing encounters between the Eleven and the Nine. She had the perfect mix of introducing some of the other Eleven and other characters while also maintaining a satisfying focus on the dymamic romance between Kelly and Ty. Fin became moe and more intriguing and I am anxiously awaiting to see more of him. A fast-paced fun read. What an ending! (And don't jump ahead because a reader won't understand its significance without all the careful world-building that precedes the ending.)

(Picture of the cover to be uploaded later. I am trying to catch up on reads and reviewing.)

AKA Merri
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