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SUMMARY: WARRIOR, HIGHLANDER, VAMPIRE Meet the MASTER OF ECSTASY. Darach MacKenzie is everything dark, dangerous, and delicious. His voice is a tempting slide of sin, and he's the primitive need that lives in every woman, no matter how much she denies it. But even five hundred years of sensual knowledge haven't prepared him for the woman who awaits him in his clan's ancestral castle. HAPPINESS IS HER BUSINESS In a distant future, Blythe works for Ecstasy Inc. to make people happy. That's her job, and she does it well. Company policy forbids the use of sensual solutions to cure unhappiness, and Blythe agrees that sex is a short-term fix. When her abilities are called into question, Blythe travels back to the Scottish Highlands of 1785 to prove that she can make anyone happy. She hasn't counted on a centuries-old vampire for a client. Darach believes that sexual pleasure is the key to happiness. Blythe thinks that Ecstasy Inc. has all the answers. Neither one considers love as an option. They're about to discover how wrong they can be.

WARRIOR, HIGHLANDER, VAMPIRE

Meet the MASTER OF ECSTASY. Darach MacKenzie is everything dark, dangerous, and delicious. His voice is a tempting slide of sin, and he's the primitive need that lives in every woman, no matter how much she denies it. But even five hundred years of sensual knowledge haven't prepared him for the woman who awaits him in his clan's ancestral castle.

HAPPINESS IS HER BUSINESS

In a distant future, Blythe works for Ecstasy Inc. to make people happy. That's her job, and she does it well. Company policy forbids the use of sensual solutions to cure unhappiness, and Blythe agrees that sex is a short-term fix. When her abilities are called into question, Blythe travels back to the Scottish Highlands of 1785 to prove that she can make anyone happy. She hasn't counted on a centuries-old vampire for a client.

Darach believes that sexual pleasure is the key to happiness. Blythe thinks that Ecstasy Inc. has all the answers. Neither one considers love as an option. They're about to discover how wrong they can be.

From Booklist

Blythe's time-travel trip to 1785 was advertised as a sexual adventure, but she knows better than to mix business and pleasure. As an employee of a twenty-third-century corporation, Ecstasy, Inc., Blythe, whose job is to help people become happy, has one chance to prove to her boss that she'll never get personally involved with a client again. Then she meets her new subject, Darach Mackenzie, a very sexy 500-year-old vampire. Firmly believing that sex is the solution to any problem, Darach tries to tempt Blythe, but even though he promises that her neck is safe with him, Blythe knows surrendering to Darach could be dangerous: What about the rest of her body? Bangs puts a sinfully sensual, darkly brooding hero together with a stubborn heroine; adds an amusing cast of secondary characters, including a white cat with a gift for causing trouble; and then mixes in several different paranormal elements and equal measures of passion and humor to create her latest wonderfully creative, utterly unique romance. John Charles
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Review

This sensuous and funny tale of time travel and vampires brims with excitement, making it a true winner! -- Romantic Times Bookclub Magazine, February 2004