If you like hot & steamy, try the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J.R. Ward. This is a vampire series like no other. You get to know each of the charaters and discover how these vampires are sooooo not the typical vampires we normally read about! It took my about 1/2 way through the first book to 'get in to it' and then I was hooked! I read all 8 books in the series. Man-o-man! I would have to say the steamy scenes got a bit repetitive, but I really enjoyed the books in general.