This HaBO is from Dawn, who is looking for a paranormal romantic suspense:
Vampires are being murdered in New Orleans, (I think that’s where). The heroine is a detective with special abilities, she can see or sense or touch the blood and ash after the vamps are drained, even after the rain washes away the crime scene. She may have recently moved there?
The hero is a cop werewolf, whose mate died so he’s never gonna find a mate again. The pack is kind of a misfit group. He is drawn to her, but I don’t think she knows he’s wolf. One of them gets migraines? I think!
Yeah so now that I’ve written it down, it sounds pretty crazy sauce.
Two authors that would write something like this are Rebecca Zanetti or Paige Tyler, but I haven’t read enough of their books to pin it down.
While neither of these books fit the description perfectly, thought they might be close enough.
1. Bite the Dust (Blood & Moonlight #1), Cynthia Eden. She’s a baby homicide detective (1st case), he’s the local Alpha werewolf and owns a bar. I don’t remember the rest of the books in the series but maybe something to check out.
2. One of the books in Kym Grosso’ Immortals of New Orleans. It’s not the first book, Kade’s Dark Embrace–hero is a vampire, heroine is human investigator and again, I don’t remember the other books in the series but I sort of remember a werewolf cop in one of them?
I read over 200 books a year and I don’t always remember the finer details but perhaps these ideas will point someone in the right direction.
@SilverJames Blood and Moonlight by Cynthia Eden is the book I first thought of but couldn’t remember the name of. I think that’s it.
For some reason this reminded me of Tempting Danger by Eileen Wilks, although it’s been SO long since I read it I could be way off base.
Lyndsay Sands comes immediately to mind when it is vamires in Nawleans but as she has written so many, I can’t begin to in it down.
I also believe Christina Dodd has some vampire stories in that City.
It’s not the Cynthia Eden. There’s no dead mate in that one.
I agree with Leigh, kind of sounds like the Eileen Wilkes series, but the werewolf isn’t a cop.
@Leigh – It’s not Tempting Danger unless the HaBO details were really scrambled by time and memory. The detective is a woman and human, and she technically has a power, albeit not a very flashy one – if I remember right, she can tell what other people’s abilities are by touching them. No ability to sense vampires in the way the description mentions, though.
Tempting Danger’s hero is a werewolf, but not a cop, and he didn’t previously have a mate who died, although his older brother did. And there are no characters with migraines.
I used to read a lot of paranormal romance, but unfortunately I can’t think of anything that fits the HaBO description. 🙁
Moira Rogers'(Kit Rocha) Southern Arcana series? I’ve only read the first one, which isn’t the HABO, but one of the later books – Deadlock, sounds like it could be. These were originally published by Samhain back in the day.
It kinda sounds like it could be a mix of a few Sookie Stackhouse books- Living Dead in Dallas and Club Dead, mainly. Heroine has special abilities and helps find a dead vampire, meets a Werewolf with a misfit pack. Nothing else really matches the HABO, but I wanted to throw the suggestion out just in case.
1. Sounds like it could also be a mix of books from Carrie Pulkinen’s Crescent City Wolf Pack series—in particular the first, Werewolves Only.
2. Paige Tyler’s Wolf Hunt could fit from the description of the setting and the hero. Not sure about the heroine though.
The migraines thing sounds like it’s from the TV The Originals (just had to throw it out there).
Parts of that description sound like Dark Need by Lynn Viehl, part of her Darkyn series. One of my most favorite vampire series EVER.
jz, you got it! I remembered most of the details lol. I found it in my library, I had only read to chapter 9! lol. The werewolf is like a cop for his pack, (he’s an enforcer). His fiancee mate did die 3 yrs ago. The detective gets the headaches, and she does have “special abilities”. Thanks so much, you are all awesome! I’m going to check out all the other suggestions as well!!
omg yay I’m so glad! ^_^