A month or two ago I read a book called "Dark Desire" not realizing at the time that it was the second book in a series. Leave it to my husband to notice the series part. He loves series books. (But that's a story for another day.) Anyway, I loved the book so much I figured I'd better find the first book and read it - just to see if I wanted to continue with the rest of the books in the series. Here is that first book, "Dark Prince" by Christine Feehan.
"Dark Prince" follows Mikhail's story line. Mikhail is brother's with Jacques, the storyline for the second book that I read out of order. Mikhail has been the prince of the Carpathians for centuries, protecting them, helping to preserve the ways of their people, and serving up justice where it needs serving up. Lately he has begun despairing of ever finding his life-mate, and is dangerously on the edge of turning into a vampire. If he should turn rogue, he would become the enemy of his own people, who would be forced to hunt him down and kill him.
One evening, in a fit of deep despair, a woman reaches out to him through telepathy. Mikhail is not expecting this link from someone previously unknown to him. His curiosity drives him to find out about this woman is who can telepathically communicate with him so easily. He is torn between his need to make Raven, his life-mate, and the knowledge that he must let this human woman go. Carpathians had tried turning humans into Carpathians before, with disastrous results. The woman always suffered grave psychological consequences from the conversion.
Mikhail finds he is unable to resist his natural Carpathian urges to perform the ritual that binds Raven to him. The problem is that Raven does not understand what it means to be Carpathian. Unfortunately, the two blood exchanges he has performed with Raven, have already made their indelible mark on every system in her body. One more will turn her into a Carpathian permanently.
Raven doesn't know what's happening to her and Mikhail doesn't realize how far the process has already gone. In an effort to protect her from a fresh band of vampire hunters, he decides not to tell her everything. But as Raven unwittingly uncovers some of his people's secrets, she suspects he's lying to her and trying to shut her out. Then the unthinkable happens. The vampire hunters first injure Mikhail, nearly mortally. Then, as he recovers attack Raven so severely it appears she will most assuredly die – which will cause the death of Mikhail, her life-mate. How will the Carpathians survive this attack? How can they continue without their Dark Prince if he and his life-mate die?
In true urban fantasy/bodice ripper fashion, Christine Feehan has woven another gripping tale. I enjoyed this one as much as the 2nd book in the series. I do believe I am going to have read the rest of the series now. If you’re into series books, or vampires, I would suggest you look into this series. It’s well worth the read.
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