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Well, it looks like my high school French class finally paid off in the end! Again, I breezed through this book! Dark Needs at Night鈥檚 Edge was such a thrill to read!

To be honest, I was caught off-guard. I don鈥檛 usually enjoy ghost stories so I didn鈥檛 expect to be so transfixed by Neomi the French prima ballerina. But I was. The prologue is fantastic and once I started, I couldn鈥檛 stop!

Murdered by her ex-husband in a bitter rage, Neomi Laress was stabbed to death in her own home after the brightest moment of her career. Thousands of years after the murder-suicide, Neomi鈥檚 spirit still lingers within her beloved home, forever alone and trapped.

But when three brothers haul a crazed and murderous madman into her home, Neomi is helpless in her spiritual form.

Conrad Wroth is a Fallen vampire with red eyes. He is also a skilled assassin who has succumbed to Bloodlust. In an effort to save their brother, Nikolai, Sebastian, and Murdoch have chained Conrad in the long abandoned Gothic manor for him to recover. But despite Neomi鈥檚 fear of having another murderer in her home, she is intrigued by Conrad....Intrigued by Conrad and his phD (and no, I don鈥檛 mean the academic credentials. I mean his pretty huge dick!! ;P) It seems that as a ghost our little ballerina has developed mischievous hobbies, like stealing from her tenants and spying on people. As a former seductress, Neomi can鈥檛 resist Conrad鈥檚 body so she takes her fill when she can, ogling Little Con because she knows he can鈥檛 see.

But Conrad CAN see her! And although he鈥檇 die to touch a single hair on her head, he can鈥檛 because she possesses no body. Cole really lays on the sexual tension in Dark Needs and she does a fantastic job with it! The frustration and need that both characters have for one another is conveyed nicely and it鈥檚 believable. That鈥檚 tough to pull off but Cole manages it with ease.

I also want to mention how bad I felt for these two. The heroine is a ballerina turned ghost and the hero is warlord turned vampire. Both do not like what they have become but they are dealing with the cards that they have been dealt. Even though Con doesn鈥檛 try until later on in the book, he does make a pretty miraculous recovery. And even though Neomi is a ghost, she isn鈥檛 the sulking and miserable kind that we normally read about. In fact, I鈥檇 argue that she has more life in her as a ghost than Conrad did in the beginning. I have to respect her zest for life.

I loved the Gothic Horror feel to this book. The harrowing tone was also perfect for Dark Needs and I think, the next time I pick up one of Kresley Cole鈥檚 book, I鈥檒l have more faith in her writing. Because so far, she hasn鈥檛 disappointed me at all.