Vampires are real, and one just happens to be a little person in an acrobatic act for the circus. His partner is Leila, an unusual woman, but completely human. She can read people when she touches them and has the power of electricity in her touch. While her electrical ability sounds really cool, it means she can’t touch anyone without potentially killing them (hence the vampire acrobatic partner - he won’t die). But it’s the reading of people that gets her noticed.

A kidnapping, a rescue, some threats, and a long trip overseas finds her in the amazingly extravagant home of Vlad Tepesh - yes, THE Vlad Tepesh. He is determined to use Leila to find whoever is out to hunt him down, and also prevent them from using her to do the same to him. But first, they need to figure out who the bad guy is.

Vlad is a mercurial sort of vampire. He hides his heart from the world and refuses to let himself love anyone. But Leila intrigues him, and he soon finds that it might just be worth it to open himself up again. Leila challenges him on multiple emotional levels and never backs down from him - something that is usually a very dangerous thing to do.
Leila, and her friend Marty, made this book for me. They are all the friendship goals in the world, and he better not die or I will be really upset. Vlad was fun, but also a bit of the vampire cliche - tall, dark, handsome, brooding, moody, violent - it didn’t seem like anything really new.

I’m excited to read the next book in the Night Prince series. I think there’s a lot of adventure and romance in store for Vlad and Leila, and I can’t wait to see how the battle plays out.