"A Hunger Like No Other" a satisfying read

In Kresley Cole's "A Hunger Like No Other" ($6.99, Pocket Star Book), Lykae king Lachlain MacRieve has been searching for his mate, the one woman made for him alone, for a thousand years. For the last 150 years, however, Lachlain has been a prisoner of the Vampire Horde -- brutally tortured, but unable to find release in death because he's an immortal.

Only two things have kept the werewolf sane: Thoughts of the revenge he will wreak upon the vampires and knowing somewhere out there in the world, his mate waits for him to find her.

Terribly weakened by a century and a half of torture, Lachlain is imprisoned in the catacombs beneath the streets of Paris. Only one thing allows him to escape, though miles beneath the surface, Lachlain scents his mate. He knows he can accomplish anything to get to her and he does -- breaking free of the chains that have kept him tethered for more than a century.

Half Valkyrie/half vampire Emmaline Troy has never been so far from her home in New Orleans. Normally sheltered by her Valkyrie aunts, Emma insists on traveling to France where she hopes to learn more about the vampire father who sired her.

What Emma doesn't expect is to have a half-mad werewolf run her down and abduct her. And Lachlain is sure he must have gone around the bend, because surely his destined mate can't be a vampire, his most hated enemy.

Emma the timid would be the first to admit she's a coward. She wants to survive without drawing her aggressive, remember they're Valkyrie, aunts into her troubles so she agrees to get Lachlain to Scotland (after being imprisoned for 150 years, he's never even seen an automobile) in return for her freedom.

Lachlain knows Emma, the most un-vampirish vampire he's ever met, is his mate, but he doesn't have to like it. But he does have to get the unwilling Emma to Kinevane, his ancestral Scottish home, by any means necessary where he'll have a chance to heal from his injuries and protect his mate from the vampires who are hunting her.

Cole's " A Hunger Like No Other," introduces the reader to the world of the Lore -- supernatural creatures (werewolves, Valkyrie, vampires, ghouls, witches, etc.) who have managed to convince mankind that they are only figments of the human imagination. While the Lore creatures war against each other on a regular basis, they know better than to draw the attention of the prolific humans if they want to survive.

"A Hunger Like No Other" is Cole's first full-length paranormal romance, but not her last according to the preview for "No Rest for the Wicked" at the end Emma and Lachlain's tale.