When Leila “looks in on him” he is able to communicate telepathically with her. Vlad is a very old vampire, who has the ability to control fire, which makes him very feared. When she touches them, and sees the owner, she doesn’t realize the powerful being she is connecting with. They give her items to touch, demanding to know when in the future the owner of these items will leave his closely guarded fortress. Her odd abilities get noticed by the wrong type of person, and she ends up being kidnapped by not so nice vampires. Her good friend, and vampire Marty (who is all of four feet tall) can handle her electricity to an extent, allowing her to perform and touch him without fear. These odd abilities prevents Leila from living a normal life (in which she use to excel as a gymnast), which is how she finds herself traveling with a circus, performing in a sideshow using her acrobat abilities. She also can see someone’s worst sin through a single touch and if she touches an object that someone else has touched, she can get a psychic impression of that person, sometimes in the past, and sometimes visions of the future. Now, If she touches someone with her right hand, she sends many volts of electricity through them. When she woke up, she had a scar that ran from her temple down to her right hand. As a teenager, she touched a downed power line, electrocuting herself. And I really enjoyed this book.īefore we get to Vlad, let’s talk about the heroine, Leila. I adore Vlad, who makes many appearances in her world.

So when I sat down with Once Burned, the first in her new Night Prince spin-off series featuring Vlad (currently two books are planned) I was very excited for this one. But I will say, the past few Bones and Cat books haven’t been my favorites in the series. Her Night Huntress series rocks my world – hello – it’s Bones, and he is just one of the best alpha heroes out there. Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost (Night Prince #1)