Paris. A wedding. For one night, everyone can forget the looming threat of war between the races. But no sooner are vows exchanged than the newlyweds are called upon to serve the Court once more. Stateside, an old photograph turns up linking a member of the vampire Court to an organization called Nightshade Holdings. More digging reveals how deep Nightshade's influence extends and brings into question the motivations of the Court and their willingness to start an interspecies war.
Claire is an empath living a life of self-imposed exile. Off to college, all she wants is to disappear. But a chance encounter with Stephen, a boy with his own secrets, leads Claire to understand that her curse is a gift. And when Claire meets James, a vampire, their gifts connect and form a bond the vampire world has not seen for three hundred years. No one can guess where it will take them or how it will change them both.“This is what Twilight should have been!” - Paranormal Book Club“HK Savage is a ridiculously great writer.” - Young Adult and Teen Readers“Everyone should read this series!” - Open Book Society
The bad guys are licking their wounds leaving Claire and James to enjoy what promises to be a merry Christmas. But when someone they trust sends Claire and Stephen both into enemy hands, their illusion is shattered. Past lovers, obligations and rivalries compete, all the while the bond between Claire and James grows and Claire is pulled further toward the vampire side. James is growing dependent upon her feeding his humanity until the boundary that separates them is no longer clear. A potential husband and a job working for the Court threaten Claire's newfound control over her life and stick her firmly under someone else's thumb. She must try to keep her wits about herself enough to figure out what she wants before the choice is no longer hers to make, and try not to get any of her loved ones killed in the process.
"Your daughter is special"Special, that was an interesting word for it. More like broken. Broken and scared she was losing her mind. Or maybe she'd already lost it. Thoughts, images, ideas that had no business in the mind of a child raced through her brain, taking over her consciousness until all she could do was shut down and let them run. There was no room for her. Maybe there wasn't really a "her" underneath all the noise. The only thing that tethered her to her body, to the here and now was the pain. Careful always to hide the marks, Natalie relied on her knife to feel alive. Sent to a college she couldn't remember applying to on a scholarship she didn't try for, Natalie clung to the hope that she could hide her madness from the family it was destroying. Alone at last she would finally have some modicum of peace, right? Luka took the assignment reluctantly. In his Senior year, she was the last "special" student he would have to work with before heading off to intern and hopefully land the job, start the life his family had planned for him. The same one they wanted for his sister before she took her life. Two broken souls with a rare ability in common, Luka and Natalie form a friendship that promises to heal them both until fate intervenes. Faced with a lie so great it threatens all Natalie has come to believe, she must make a choice: lie down and accept it or fight for those she loves.
