Heather first saw the beast when it was nearly struck by her date's car one night. For a while afterwards it would visit her in her dreams, in the form of a man with red glowing eyes. This man had a strange hold over her. Six years later, after the death of her parents, she returns to the family cabin, close to where she first encountered him, and the dreams begin again.

Whe she starts to experience different, more vivid dreams where she first experiences, first hand, the fear and emotions of a young woman being tried for witchcraft because she has been visited by a familiar looking night beast. Heather begins to realise that these visions are more than just dreams and she finds herself irrisistably attracted to her nocturnal visitor.

Okay, if you haven't already guessed, this is a vampire story and while the theme has many similarities with other vampire tales (girl is enchanted by the vampire and falls in love with the vampire; vampire falls in love with the girl - can their love survive etc etc).

Crimson Dreams has one major advantage - Heather. It is so nice to have a main female character who does more than flutter her eyelashes, cry "Woe is Me" and wait to be rescued by a male hero. Heather knows who/what she wants and no one is going to stop her getting it.

If I were to make one complaint about this book it would be that there was rather a lot of action in a relatively short novel. This left me wishing that the author had a little more time to expand some of the scenes. This was, to me, most evident in a pivotal "vampire captured by bad-guy, how will he escape" section. It all seemed a little too quick. Still, this has to be preferably to the housebrick sized tomes that you often get - that have about as much action as an average day at work.

This was a fun little tale, one that was thoroughly anjoyable to read. The characters are interesting and I have to admit to getting rather a soft spot for "Sugar".

Synopsis
The summer when Heather was eighteen, her dream beast's nightly visits warded off loneliness and swept her away in flights of ecstasy. Now, returning to the mountains to sell her dead parents' vacation cabin, she finds her "beast" again. But he turns out to be more than a dream, and she is not the only woman who craves his kiss.

Devin's first love, centuries in the past, died horribly because of her devotion to him. Does he dare to expose another mortal woman to that risk?