New York Times bestselling author Nalini Singh is back in the shadows of a deadly, beautiful world where angels rule, vampires serve, and one female hunter must crawl out of the darkness to survive.
The severed head marked by a distinctive tattoo on its cheek should have been a Guild case, but dark instincts honed over hundreds of years of life compel the vampire Dmitri to take control. There is something twisted about this death, something that whispers of centuries long past…but Dmitri’s need to discover the truth is nothing to the vicious strength of his response to the hunter assigned to decipher the tattoo.
Savaged in a brutal attack that almost killed her, Honor is nowhere near ready to come face to face with the seductive vampire who is an archangel’s right hand, and who wears his cruelty as boldly as his lethal sensuality…the same vampire who has been her secret obsession since the day she was old enough to understand the inexplicable, violent emotions he aroused in her.
As desire turns into a dangerous compulsion that might destroy them both, it becomes clear the past will not stay buried. Something is hunting…and it will not stop until it brings a blood-soaked nightmare to life once more…
"I know", she said, determined not to let this drive her back into the dark, "but since you have a reputation of enjoying pain, I'm sure they won't be surprised if I give in to the need to stab you"
Honor and Dmitri were so broken it was amazing they could even try to find pieces of themselves to fit back together again!
The searching for vengeance - for both of them, was excrutiating, but filled with so much beauty and wonder anyway. Their romance was far from easy, as they both had so many trust-issues, but when they made progress, the reward was so incredibly hot and spicy, but still sweet and tentative I was thorn between wanting to read faster, and only wanting to savour the hotness that jumped on me from the pages.
The final resolution was perfect, it almost brought tears to my eyes that Dmitri and Honor could still try to be happy, and that they were capable of still believing in Love with a capital L.
A wonderful book, as always, beuatifully written, Ms. Singh is a master with words, and her senusal play spills over from the pages into my mind... making me want to see if I have a squeeze-bottle of honey on hand!
