Mischievous, Sexy four stars for Trace of Darkness! 

RB Hilliard's novella of an instalust story/suspense tale between a Vampire Lord and Police Officer in Charleston was a hell of a good time!

Diana is something known as a Sensitive who has just lost her police partner and been transferred to the Paranormal Division. She is lost between her desire to go back to her old department and defending her mind from her supervisor who is consistently teaching her to shield herself by attacking her mentally.

Lord Zacharias is a very old vampire in charge of the Charleston Seethe. He needs Diana to help him find out why his Nourishers are disappearing and turning up either dead or very badly injured.

This book was a giant head trip from the first page, I absolutely died laughing reading the rookie cops last name, leave it to RB to make him a laugh a minute as incompetent as he was with his sense of entitlement and air of "know it all" behaviour!

The suspense between the Paranormal Division, the shifters, the mind reading between Lord Zacharias and Diana was a ton of fun, and a whole new way for me to look at communication between Sensitive humans and Paranormal individuals!

I loved the descriptions of how it felt when Diana let her shields drop between certain vampires and the lead shifter!! The sex between Diana and Zacharias is off the charts HOT AF, and silky smooth at the same time! A fast paced, sexy four stars for RB Hilliard's Trace of Darkness, I'm going to need more of this for sure!