That doesn't sound like much of a vampire novel, but Christopher Marlowe happens to be the Christopher Marlowe, playwright and contemporary of William Shakespeare, and a vampire. He is interested in being invited into the house, yes, these vampires can't enter unless invited, so that he can get at the collection of occult books owned by the two Aunts. He isn't the only one interested in what is in the house. Sebastian Caughleigh, a local lawyer and, now that the two Aunts are dead, the head of the local coven of witches, wants their files and journals and is frustrated when he can find where the Aunts hid them.
Things abruptly change for Dixie when one morning she is awakened to screams of agony and finds Christopher, naked, rendered helpless by a Druid witches' blade, staked out on her lawn burning in the first rays of sunlight. She saves him, with the help of his two vampire friends Tom and Justin, and is plunged into the world of vampires, a world until that moment she didn't believe existed.
Rosemary Laurey has written very detailed and well thought out vampires. These are traditional vampires; they can't enter the house unless invited, don't reflect in mirrors, are exceptionally strong and fast, can control people's minds, change into bats or other creatures, and fly. She did forgo the aversion to churches, crosses, and garlic and the old tradition that vampires can't cross running water. No coffins, but she does an interesting take on needing native soil. Usually a vampire can't rest without it. In this case, the vampire can't move around without it. It present a problem for vampires not in the land of their birth. Rosemary solves the problem with special shoes filled with dirt, like Chelsea Quinn Yarboro's St. Germain. As a lover of the vampire, I especially enjoyed the look into what happens when you become a vampire, the challenges of adapting.
It seems lately that all the romances I have been reading are about vampires who hate being vampires and want to change, this was refreshing in that Christopher enjoys being a vampire and doesn't want to change. I even forgave the antiquated macho, over-protective, possessive male routine, ala Christine Feehan, since Christopher overcomes it pretty quickly, although with a lot of teeth gnashing.
Walk in Moonlight was a thoroughly enjoyable book, satisfying in both story and
