Return to the seductive world of Christine Feehan's New York Times
bestselling Carpathian novels as roiling passions collide in a perfect
storm of dangerous desire that only a precious few can hope to outrun...
Awakening after all this time in a world of absolute darkness and
oppressive heat, Dax wonders in how many ways the world above must have
changed. But it is how he has changed that fills him with dread and
loathing. Buried alive for hundreds of years in a volcano in the
Carpathian Mountains, Dax fears that he has become the full-fledged
abomination that every Carpathian male fears, a victim of the insidious
evil that has crept relentlessly into his mind and body over the
centuries. But there are some things that never change.
His name is Mitro, the vampire Dax had hunted all these long
centuries. Second in command to the prince of the Carpathian people he
is the epitome of everything malevolent, and perpetrator of one of the
most shocking killing sprees known to man - and beast. Even his friends
and family weren't safe from Mitro's bloodlust. Neither was Mitro's
lifemate, Arabejila, an extraordinary woman with extraordinary gifts.
But now that Dax has re-emerged, so too has Mitro. The ultimate battle
between good and evil has been re-engaged. Between Dax and Mitro, a
violent game has begun - one that has marked Riley Parker, the last
descendent of Arabejila, as the reward.
