

Now back in London and redying herself to turn over her late husband’s estate to his closest heir, Victoria is thrust back into fighting when there appears to be a vampire feeding on humans during the day. In this installment Victoria and the venators face a new threat. But when Victoria wakes it is quickly realized that she has not been turned, and other than a strange blood lust, occasionally seeing red (both of which Victoria keeps to herself), and the fact that Sebastian feels the same neck-prickling-chill around Victoria that venators feel around vampires, she is fine. Max is ready to stake Victoria in order to keep her from drinking from someone else as it would damn her soul to eternal hell. Though still unconscious, she is presumed to be a vampire by her closest friends, the vampire killing venators. Victoria has been taken to the Consilium after being bitten by Sebastian’s grandfather, the Guardian Vampire, Beauregard.

When Twilight Burns picks up where The Bleeding Dusk left off. The battle is made even more difficult by the legacy of a vampire’s touch – a vampire who left in Victoria’s veins boiling blood that forces her to fight evil on two fronts: against the new breed of undead threatening London, and against the darkness within herself. Meanwhile, her heart is still divided between the enigmatic Sebastian Vioget and her fellow slayer Max Pesaro. Not only is Victoria unable to detect the vampire with her heightened senses, but she’s being framed as the prime suspect behind the killings. Ruining Victoria’s homecoming, a vampire stalks the streets of London – during the daylight. Brie‘s review of When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason, book four in the Gardella Vampire Chronicles.
