Morrigan's Cross by Nora Roberts (2006)

Didn't I just say I was going to avoid vampire stories for a while? Well, Roberts' latest series is about vampires and it is more fantasy, magical than most of her books. After reading the short fantasy stories she tried, I thought she was better in other genres, but it looks like this is where she wants to go for a while. One funny aspect is that she tends to work with three couples at once - she will focus on one in a particular book, but the others will be in the background, or ready to happen, and they will be covered in subsequent books. This vampire fighting team consists of six people, but there were only two women, so I was wondering if Roberts would actually dare have a gay couple in one of her books - but no, one of the guys gets killed and sure enough the third woman arrives to fill out the tri-couple formula. She is combining people from different time periods, and I find it a bit unbelievable that they could get along so smoothly.