MISSING PIECES - Willa Okati
Dante's World, Book 6
Changeling Press - www.changelingpress.com
ISBN: (10) 1-59596-613-7
ISBN: (13) 978-1-59596-613-1
Erotic Gay Paranormal Romance - Short Story

Outside Capital City - Dante's World

He awakens to find himself in a passionate encounter with a man he doesn't know.  He quickly realizes that not only does he not know the man so passionately caressing him...he doesn't know who he is, either.  He knows he should call a stop to the encounter, but the pleasure that fills him will not be denied.

Drained from the encounter, the two men fall to the straw covered bed, but when the question is asked, "Who are you?" neither of them can answer.  Flashes of memory tease their consciousness.  Their bodies seemed familiar to each other -- but solid recall of something as simple as a name is beyond them both.  What they remember is passion, but what they forgot could get one of them killed.  You see, one of them is a vampire.

MISSING PIECES starts off with a highly erotic sexual encounter and an intriguing premise.  What would you do if you came to consciousness being made passionate love to by a stranger, and what if you couldn't remember who you were?  As the two try to remember anything about themselves, the passion continues to ignite between them -- until one of them realizes he is not quite human.  Who are they, and why are they alone in a dugout in the middle of a blizzard far from the Capital City?

While the beginning of MISSING PIECES is captivating, and the entire tale unfolds in a dreamlike quality as they struggle to remember, the ending left me a bit confused.  The writing is excellent, the character development and interaction well done, and while in an esoteric way the why is revealed, the how and the who remain a mystery.  I have to admit it's possible that my understanding of these unexplained phenomena would have been better had I read the previous books in the Dante's World series.  However, even with the abrupt and confusing end, MISSING PIECES offers up a hot sexual romance between two captivating characters.

Isabelle Spencer