Antiquities expert Jem Shaw spends many a lonely day
working at the museum her father started, cataloging
artifacts he collected on many digs before he died in an
explosion. She secretly dedicates her off-time assisting
the police with crime scene investigations.
Jem's mother fusses over her, almost controlling Jem's life
because she has diabetes and is wasting away. Jem will
never live long enough to have a family, and for her,
marriage is out of the question. However, she owns her own
dreams where a warrior appears and provides her fantasies.
Jem is free to love, free to live and free to experience a
sensual life. Night after night, her dreams are full of the
same man. During the day, her cheeks flush as she remembers
the man.
A demon is searching for answers, answers he thinks Jem
harbors in her mind. Attacked and left for dead, Thierry is
lucky when Jem happens upon his shadowed body. Death almost
upon him, Thierry drinks some of Jem's blood, only to learn
later that she's the one he searches for and she is sick.
Heartbroken that he may have caused her great harm, Thierry
searches for Jem until he finds her again. He means to
probe her mind for the answers, yet he's so drawn to her,
he can't help but reach out to her night after night in her
dreams.
When Jem discovers that her dream lover is a living,
breathing demon, they are drawn together in a search for
the answers that can set them free.
This second installment in Viehl's Darkyn vampire series is
a welcome perspective of a vampire's plight. When evil
overtakes a people thought to be good, whose life goal is
to kill vampires, the Darkyn must prove their right to
exist and that they are not the evil creatures they're made
out to be.
Antiquities expert Jem Shaw has two lives: one during the
day, when she catalogs museum artifacts and cares for her
crippled, bitter mother; the other during the night, when
she works with police to search for crime scene evidence.
The only place Jem truly feels alive is in her dreams,
where unlike real life she can pretend that she's safe and
loved and wanted.
Yet when a demon warrior begins showing up in her mind each
night, he draws Jem with him into her most secret, intimate
fantasies. Finding the key to solving three brutal assault
and murder cases, however, isn't as difficult for Jem as
waking up to discover that her dream lover is very real --
as are the killers coming for both of them.
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