Awakened — Virna DePaul

The FBI's most closely guarded secret: vampires exist, hidden among us. Now the Bureau has created Belladonna, a black ops agency dedicated to keeping rogue vampires from preying on humans -- for killing, for turning, for pleasure.

Ex-soldier Barrett Miles had no idea that vampires were real -- until Belladonna recruits her to serve as a covert agent and infiltrate a murderous sex ring run by the most depraved of immortals, those who feed on the purity and blood of innocents. Their latest victim: a young girl whom Barrett promised to protect. She will be sold -- unless Barren can find her first. Forced to team up with her former lover, Nick Maltese, an under, Over sniper, Barrett is caught between fulfilling her personal mission and shielding her heart from the man who betrayed her.

Nick's hunting a new breed of vampires and harboring a terrible secret when Barrett finds him. Soon a seething underworld of strange desires threatens to engulf them all. Can he save the girl and reclaim Barrett's heart? Nick knows he has only one chance to prove himself to her as the hunt begins -- and their love forces them to embrace the darkest places in their souls.