Widowed at twenty-two, Kristina Holbrook vows to never give her heart away again. But when she meets Max, a likewise-widowed high school football coach, she begins to question her decision to live out eternity alone.Kristina is the daughter of Maeve and Calder, a lovely and spirited vampire and the mortal-turned-vampire Civil War doctor with whom she fell in love. Miraculously conceived, the beautiful and magically gifted Kristina eats, drinks, and sleeps as a human, but though she is close to 130 years old, she doesn't look a day over 30-when she stopped aging as humans do.Like her mother before her, the last thing Kristina wants to deal with is falling in love with a mortal? for a second time. But as she knows first-hand, life always finds a way to complicate things.Originally published in 1996, Tonight and Always is the richly detailed and emotionally satisfying closing chapter to Miller's Black Rose Chronicles quartet.
From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author, a widow cursed with immortality vows to spend eternity alone rather than risk love with another mortal.
Widowed at twenty-two, Kristina Holbrook vows to never give her heart away again. But when she meets Max, a widowed high school football coach, she begins to question her decision to live out eternity alone.
The daughter of vampires, Kristina has many gifts, including the power to move things with her mind. But her immortality feels like a curse whenever she's around Max, the first man to awaken her senses since the loss of her husband. How can she explain to him that while she looks thirty, she's actually a hundred years older? Or that her grieving heart could not bear to fall in love with another mortal, only to watch him age and die? Yet something draws Kristina to Max over and over again, something that is starting to feel like fate . . .
Tonight and Always is the richly detailed and emotionally satisfying closing chapter to #1 New York Times- and USA Today-bestselling author Linda Lael Miller's Black Rose Chronicles quartet.