Dinner with a Vampire (The Dark Heroine, Book 1)

Abigail Gibbs

Sep 2012 · The Dark Heroine Book 1 · HarperCollins UK

About this ebook

The addictive, enthralling debut by online sensation Abigail Gibbs is the sexiest romance you’ll read this year.

One moment can change your life forever...

For Violet Lee, a chance encounter on a darkened street draws her into a world beyond her wildest imaginings, a timeless place of vast elegance and immeasurable wealth – of beautiful mansions and lavish parties – where a decadent group of friends live for pleasure alone. A place from which there is no escape... no matter how hard Violet tries.

Yet all the riches in the world can’t mask the darkness that lies beneath the gilded surface, embodied in the charismatic but dangerous Kaspar Varn.

Violet and Kaspar surrender to a passion that transcends their separate worlds – but it’s a passion that comes at a price.

As featured on BBC Breakfast, Sky News, Sunday Times, Guardian, Mail Online, Huffington Post and Sugarscape.

Ratings and reviews

Refreshing to read a well written pnr set predominantly in England. I really loved reading this story and I've recommended it to others. The story follows Violet , a human girl who is kidnapped after witnessing a murder in London. Her kidnappers are vampire royalty and soon she is swept up in a mess of politics, lies, prophecy, violence and lust. I read a lot and this is definitely one of my favourite downloaded books..

Decent story, easy to get into. Had a few cringe worthy moments where I was taken back to the old fanfiction days on Ficwad, and a few characters I barely remember (vampire reading the newspaper being one of them), but I liked it enough to finish.

It was addictive. One chapter after another I felt intrigued. There was romance, obsession, and a whole lot of lust. Not as much as fifty shades but this was good. The protagonists were not annoying so that made me continue reading. Thumbs up!

About the author

Abigail Gibbs was born and raised in deepest, darkest Devon. She is currently studying for a BA in English at the University of Oxford and considers herself a professional student, as the real world is yet to catch up with her. Her greatest fear is blood and she is a great advocate of vegetarianism, which logically led to the writing of her first novel, Dinner With A Vampire. At age fifteen, she began posting serially online under the pseudonym Canse12, and after three years in the internet limelight, set her sights towards total world domination. She splits her time between her studies, stories and family, and uses coffee to survive all three.