A hunter should never fall for her prey.Her name is Eve, and she was aptly named. The first female accepted into the Asset program, she was the first to rise to the top. She would also be the first woman to travel back in time, assigned with one target in mind: Enoch – one of the first vampires to walk the earth. Her mission was simple: Land, shove her stake through Enoch’s black heart, run to … black heart, run to safety, and jump off something really high so she could warp back home and carve out the life she’s always wanted. The only problem was that time travel was more complicated than anyone realized. She was supposed to travel back seven days, but instead, landed in the middle of England in the year 1348, during the time of the Black Plague.
Enoch never kept his true nature a secret. As a wealthy landowner, he protected and provided for the people under his care, and in exchange, they were more than willing to provide the scant amounts of blood he needed to survive. When a strange young woman showed up at his gate in the midst of the plague and then fell ill, he nursed her back to health. He’d never met anyone like Eve. She was intelligent and witty, and the most beautiful creature he’d ever laid eyes upon. And, he learned, the most dangerous.
Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games, dystopian novels, vampires and their hunters, paranormal romance, science fiction fantasy and time travel stories!
“Hang onto your bookmark, readers- you’re in for one heck of an epic literary ride! Enter Eve, one seriously trained kick-ass heroine, with a hefty task at hand. The future of the world rests on her shoulders as she struggles to change the fate of mankind. The post-apocalyptic/dystopian world Casey Bond has created is beyond special. In the future vampires rule and humans are gruel, literally! Add a sprinkle of time travel, futuristic technology, smoldering chemistry and the mechanics of evil masterminds and we’ve got a series that is EVERYTHING! A stake is firmly planted in this reader’s book loving heart and I’m thirsty for more!” – Cheer Papworth of Band of Dystopian
“I don’t think I breathed for 30 minutes at the end of this book!” – Kelly Martin, Author of the Heartless Series
“The stakes are high in this thrilling new vampire adventure by Casey L Bond, AND I AM HERE FOR IT! Tough as nails Eve travels back in time to stop the vampire uprising before it starts. Only to come face to fang with my new book boyfriend, Enoch. He’s painfully attractive, caring, and doesn’t hide one bit of his bloodsucking nature. I was hooked from page one, and left gasping for more at the end!” – Stacey Rourke, author of The Veiled Series
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Wow what a book high! I’ve been in a serious book funk lately and High Stakes is just what I needed. I’ll be honest I was really scared to read it because I love this authors writing and this was a different genre. But OMG Casey Bond did not disappoint. I absolutely loved the world she built within High Stakes and the characters were just phenomenal. There was so much drama and suspense. Each turn of the page had you wanting more and Casey Bond brought it from beginning to end. Book one had me wondering what’s more to come and I can’t wait to see what’s in store for us in book two, High Seas.
I am not usually a fan of books involving time travel, but this one is intriguing and held my interest. This is the first in a series and therefore leaves you with a cliffhanger and quickly looking to get book two.
Casey often gives fun twists to classic things as she writes and this was the case in High Stakes.
It’s starts off an any dystopian novel-a bleak future wrought by a terrifying event (i.e. monster) and the people who have been training their hardest to do something and make a positive change in their world so that they can live the rest of their lives in peace.
That’s all the typical Casey gives you though.
It’s not long before Eve takes you with her on her headlong rush with gravity to a past she wasn’t supposed to land in, to kill a monster that has not yet become a monster.
Eve spent half her life training and getting technological upgrades to kill a vampire that is the source of all her (and every one else’s) problems, but instead finds the Nephilim he is before he becomes the monster that ravages her world. How is she supposed to kill someone who not only isn’t the monster she knows, but actively nursed her back to health?
Casey takes you on a fun ride that is a refreshing entry to both dystopian and vampire tales. I cannot wait for the next installment, I may die of cliffhanger.
High Stakes starts out really good! It goes right into the heart of things and doesn’t lull in action. Eve is on a mission. She has to kill Enoch. Enoch is the leader and creator of the vampire race. Well, one of 3. Enoch and his siblings have filled the world with monsters and the human race is at war to stay alive. But the mission Eve is on and determined to carry out to the very end might be doomed before it even starts. Everything from the first sentence to the last sentence keeps you hanging on and interested. I absolutely loved this book. Right now you can get this book for 99 cents, which is just in time for Book 2, High Seas, which is coming out VERY soon!! This book is definitely one I recommend.
Casey sure knows how to grab her readers. This was so unpredictable. I usually don’t like futuristic or time travel books, but Casey is amazing and makes it super enjoyable! I can not wait to read more!
Oh, Casey Bond . . .you’ve done it again! You’ve created a dystopian world where the human population is at constant risk from vampires and where genetic enhancements and time travel exist that feels all too real to your readers!
Eve’s been trained and raised as a weapon ever since her mother was killed by a vampire. Now it’s time for her and two other assets to travel back in time to take out the original vampire siblings who created all others, ending their world domination.
Only things don’t go as planned and the assets find themselves in the Middle Ages during the time of the plague rather than 7 days ago at a gala event. Nothing is as it seems, and the enemy she has been trained to hunt and kill since birth isn’t the man she knows him to be . . . and neither are those she thought were to be her allies.
Not knowing how her actions will affect the future, Eve is left trying to discover who she can trust and how will her actions affect the future . . . and, will she ever make it back to her own time.
High Stakes was simply phenomenal, and I need the next book now (I hope you are writing it as we speak, Casey!) I adored Eve. She is a total bada$$. She’s smart and strong and definitely independent and truly struggles when faced with completing her mission and doing what is right. I loved watching her adapt and maneuver once she finds herself in the Middle Ages. Enoch was an amazing character as well. Not at all what I expected and I was really intrigued by his humanity and the way he cared for those he felt responsible for . . . Casey Bond did a great job of creating interest with this character in how he is in the future vs the past, and I can’t wait to see what causes that shift in character to happen as the series continues.
Eve and Enoch together is something I want more of as well . . . I can’t wait to see where this goes. I also want more from Enoch’s siblings and the other assets that were supposed to help Eve complete their mission.
In case you couldn’t tell, I simply want more! High Stakes ends on a bit of a cliff with Eve literally jumping towards whatever is coming next and I want to know what that is! While I am super excited to continue this series, I don’t feel cheated in anyway with the ending, just anxious to see what Casey Bond throws our way next . . .and hopefully soon! 5 stars!
Once again, Casey Bond does not disappoint! Give her any subject, and she’ll have your heart racing both from excitement and the romance she perfectly builds. This was an intriguing original take on the view of whether vampires should be good or bad in books – how about both? Humans can be both pure evil and adorably romantic, so why can’t vampires be both? And even better…what if the same vampire is both, depending on where in history you find them? I really loved Bond’s take on vampires; especially the little twist of where they originate from. Very cool.
Now, what else would an awesome and original take on a book about vampires have? A kick ass heroine, of course! Eve is perfect for the role. She’s tough on her own, but make the book futuristic, add technology, and now you have an epicly fierce woman with heightened senses, healing, and a bunch of extras that put her on a pretty even playing field with the vampires she hunts. Her trainer? Love him. Her two co-workers? Weeell…I love one of them. Titus is the perfect fun loving, funny, but super competitive guy. Also fiercely protective of Eve, like a sister, since they grew up together in the program. But Abram? He gives a seriously creepy vibe from the beginning, and even if he’s supposed to be one of the good guys, you can tell this is a guy that has something not good inside.
When the big bosses pull one over on Eve, Titus and Abram, sending them back to when Enoch was still good and hadn’t yet started the war, and didn’t even know how to sire vampires, it leaves them in an interesting precarious situation: kill them before they can do so much bad, or try to stop them before they even start? It seems like the safest decision would be to take them out, but oh boy, is Enoch from the old days a hard one to want to kill! I fell in love with him right along with Eve. Even Titus softened to him pretty quick. Bond did a fantastic job making me go from despising Enoch to giving me whiplash from how quickly I turned around to adoring him. The big problem? He has two other siblings that are clearly not as stable as him, and the problem still remains that something happens that turns ALL of them into the deadliest enemies to the entire planet.
There was such an incredible mix of future, past, technology, awesome character development and romance that I cannot believe Bond so seamlessly fit it all into one book. I couldn’t put it down, feeling every heart racing moment right along with Eve. It’s killing me that this was only the beginning, but the cliffhanger wasn’t too terrible. It was the perfect setup for the next phase in the next book. I can’t wait.
Love vampires? This is a must read. I love vampires and to add sci-fi was not something I expected but it works. I absolutely loved this book and even if your like me and don’t like sci-fi, it is amazing.
Casey Bond creates quite the dystopian story with her new release High Stakes, a unique
vampire tale. Set around 100 or so years in the future, Bond begins the tale of a young girl who
lost everything to the ever growing presence of vampires. Becoming an asset was the only
chance Eve had at killing the vampire, Enoch and his two siblings who changed the world
forever.
While this story reads pretty generically at first, Bond takes a unique twist on the typical vampire
story with a touch of time travel. By taking her characters back to the origin of these Nephilim,
Bond builds a unique story that had me on the edge of my seat up until the last page. Ending
on somewhat of a cliffhanger, Bond makes this novel so hard to resist. Will Eve achieve her
task? Will Enoch in present day win out or will her time in the 1300’s have done enough to
change everything? Guess we will find out in Bond’s next release. I, for one, am so excited to
find out!
I’d like to thank Lady Amber Tours and PR for sending me an e-arc of this it is very much appreciated. Over the past year I have fallen in love with Casey Bond’s writing and stories and this one was no exception.
I loved Eve she was fierce and feisty and strong, I really liked that she was willing to take a moment to think and give a chance rather than attacking right away. I loved depsite the fact she had lost someone she still had compassion in her!
I loved the friendship she had with Maru and Titus and I loved the little added humour both of these characters brought to the book as well as Maru being overprotective of her.
I hated Victor I did not trust him and I turned out to be right, I also hated Abrahm so he sucked. I love the action in this book and how Eve was solely focused on the mission before she travelled and how we saw both sides of her personality when it came to the mission. The tension in this book was high! I felt the tension all the way through, you kind of knew what was on the line when and it was good.
Enoch was very charming, I really loved his character I mean if we ignore what happens in Eve’s present he’s a charmer. I really loved how sweet he was to the people he was letting reside in his manor keeping them safe. I also loved how he cared for Eve when she first landed in the past.
I really don’t want to say too much about the plot but in a nutshell Eve, Abrahm and Titus are sent back in time to kill the first original vampires and they land somewhere they weren’t expecting. Things happen I don’t want to say because you’re better off going into this not knowing much!
I really enjoyed the plot, characters and writing in this book. I did not see the end of this book coming and I really cannot wait for the sequel! I rated this
Absolutely loved this book.. I loved Eve and the rest of the characters.. I couldn’t put this down..I highly recommend this book. Can’t wait for the next one.