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IMMORTAL BORN by Lynsay Sands

IMMORTAL BORN

by Lynsay Sands

Pub Date: Sept. 24th, 2019
ISBN: 978-0-06-285521-3
Publisher: Avon/HarperCollins

A young woman who’s taken responsibility for an immortal child finds safety, friendship, and love when the Argeneau clan realizes she’s in danger and takes her under their wing.

When Allie Chambers befriended her neighbor Stella, she never expected that the woman would be a vampire and wind up dead or that Allie would take de facto custody of Stella’s infant son. Four years later, Allie is practically dying trying to keep Liam alive, since he’s a vampire too and she’s giving him her own blood. She’s also been running from the vampires who were hunting Stella, who find her wherever she goes. In desperation, she tries to rob a blood bank, but she faints and is arrested, then is tracked both by her usual pursuers and by the Argeneau family, who track rogue immortals. They quickly realize how little she knows about her son’s legacy and how vulnerable she is. Taking Allie and Liam into their protection opens the door for Magnus, a 1,000-year-old immortal, to explain the truth of immortals and woo her as his life mate even as the Argeneau rogue hunters realize that the person who’s tracking Allie is a villainous enemy they’ve been seeking for centuries and that he wants Liam. Sands’ latest is typical Argeneau fare, with a slight twist in a human foster mother. Magnus is ultrasexy, and Allie is smart and spunky. But it’s disappointing when so much plot depends on ostensibly intelligent people doing dimwitted things—Allie never figures out that she actually has a tracker on her; the Argeneaus are on lockdown but fail to check people coming to the door, etc. Also, Liam is 4 but talks like an 8-year-old.

A paranormal romance that asks readers to suspend disbelief a tad too much.