In Susan Squires ONE WITH THE SHADOWS we met Gian's mother
Contessa Donnatella Margherita Luchella di Poliziano. Now
with ONE WITH THE DARKNESS, we get Donnatella's full story.
Donnatella has always regretted
one thing in her life and that was that she never turned
her mate. She outlived him and had to watch him die
centuries before.
When getting dressed for the opera one evening, she opened
her jewelry box and discovered a secret compartment with a
note in it telling her to go to the end wall and behind it
she will find something that will make her dream come true.
She doesn't know what to make of this note and why does she
find it now after all these years. Still it intrigues her
and she decides to investigate.
What Donnatella finds astounds her. It is Leonardo Da
Vinci's time machine. Dare she use it and go back in time.
Which time should she go to? Should she go to where she
first discovers her mate or to a later time? She decides to
go back to where she first meets her mate, Jergan in Rome
in the time of Gaius Caesar. The strange thing is when she
sees her other self, she is absorbed and becomes Livia
again. Will she be able to do what needs to be done when
the time is right?
Susan Squires' regency vampire romance novels are amazing.
They are so rich in detail and history that I tune
everything around me out just to absorb the ambience and
the details to the fullest. It is my fervent wish that Ms.
Squires will write more and more of these fabulous novels
for me to enjoy!
Contessa Donnatella di Poliziano has power, beauty, and—as a
vampire—eternal life. Her overwhelming regret is a mistake
she made centuries ago when she chose not to transform her
one true love, Jergan, into a vampire too. Donnatella’s
choice has deprived her of the only true love she’s ever
known. But just as all seems lost, the discovery of a
300-year-old note leads her to a gift left by her old
friend, Leonardo da Vinci: a machine to take her back in
time to rewrite the history of her heart…
Once back in time, Donnatella’s memory of the intervening
years is lost. Yet when she sees the breathtaking Jergan
from afar, she feels like she has always known him. The
instant attraction she feels draws them together. For
Donnatella, the romance is tantalizing, awakening a passion
that feels both old and new. But as the two fall in love
again, a new danger threatens to tear them apart. Now
Jergan’s love for Donnatella will be tested in a most
perilous way—and if he fails, the two lovers will be
separated again…for eternity.
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