The Vampire Shrink by Lynda Hilburn
From Publishers – Pan Macmillan Australia
Release Date – 26 August 2011
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Kismet Knight, PhD, doesn’t believe in the paranormal. She especially doesn’t believe in vampires, but she begins to wise up when she is introduced to a handsome man named Devereux who claims to be 800 years old. Kismet doesn’t buy his vampire story, but she also can’t explain why she has such odd reactions and feelings when he is near. Then a client almost completely drained of blood staggers into her waiting room and two angry men force their way into her office, causing her to consider the possibility that she has run afoul of a vampire underworld. Enter FBI profiler Alan Stevens, who warns her that vampires are very real, and one is a murderer—a murderer who is after her.

My Thoughts: Lynda Hilburn gives us a different spin on the vampire genre her novel The Vampire Shrink. Kismet Knight a successful psychologist is always on the lookout for something that will give her that extra edge in the industry. Kismet thinks that she has found that edge when a  Goth teen who wants to become a vampire enters her clinic.  Kismet becomes the vampire shrink, trying to help people who believe they are vampires. Kismet doesn’t believe in vampires but when she meets the head vampire of the local coven, the sexy and mysterious Devereux and strange events begin happening around her, she is forced to start doubting her beliefs.

The Vampire Shrink is an interesting, fast paced book that had me hooked until the very end. I’m looking forward to the next installment.

About the Author: Lynda Hilburn’s varied career has taken her from rock’n'roll, as a singer/musician, to psychology, as a certified psychotherapist. She has also worked as a typesetter/copy-editor a professional psychic/tarot reader, a university instructor and a workshop presenter, before she turned her talents writing fiction. The Vampire Shrink is her first novel. She lives in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

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From Publishers – Pan Macmillan Australia

Kismet Knight is a young psychologist with a growing clinical practice, and she’s always looking for something to give her the edge in her chosen career. When her new client turns out to be a Goth teenager who desperately wants to become a vampire, Kismet is inspired to become the vampire shrink, offering her services to people who believe they are undead. Kismet herself, as a scientist, knows it’s hokum, but she’s looking at it in a purely psychoanalytic light, already imagining the papers she’s going to write on this strange subculture.

That’s until she meets the leader of a vampire coven, a sexy, mysterious man who claims to be a powerful 800-year-old vampire, and she is pulled into a whirlwind of inexplicable events that start her questioning everything she once believed about the paranormal.

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The Vampire Shrink by Lynda Hilburn
Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer
Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey

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