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Two warrior angels. First friends, now lovers. Their future? A WILD UNKNOWN.


Dark Curse

Dark Curse, September 2008
Carpathians #19
by Christine Feehan

Berkley
Featuring: Nicolas De La Cruz; Lara
416 pages
ISBN: 0425223434
EAN: 9780425223437
Kindle: B0015DYJP8
Hardcover / e-Book
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"Another one of the sexy De La Cruz brothers meets his match in this exciting Carpathian novel."

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Dark Curse
Christine Feehan

Reviewed by Sue Burke
Posted August 15, 2008

Romance Paranormal | Paranormal

After centuries of service to his people, Nicolas De La Cruz prepares to greet the dawn. First he'd like to indulge himself, just once. Surely after all the years he's served as a hunter, he deserves this one indulgence. And so he finds a woman, calls her to him, and prepares to drain her life on the night before he takes his own. Nicolas De La Cruz has just picked the wrong woman. Dragonseeker blood runs strong in Lara. Reluctant mage and warrior, Lara endured a horrific childhood and when she finally escaped the depravity of her family, all she wanted to be was normal. To fit in. To live a quiet life, unremarkable and alone. But not so quiet that she'll let a vampire drain her dry without a fight. After a tumultuous first encounter in which Nicolas realizes he's just attacked his life mate, the two settle into a routine...of sorts. Nicolas tries to pull his mate to him with all sorts of dark and delicious temptations, while Lara pushes him away with everything she has. Either they will learn to love and let go of the past, or they will die together to be reborn and try again in the next life. Another one of the sexy De La Cruz brothers meets his match in DARK CURSE, the newest novel in Christine Feehan's wildly popular Carpathian series. There's quite a bit of important back story and information in this volume that moves the story along nicely. Conspiracies are uncovered, treacheries are revealed, and at the heart of it all, the noble (and hot) Carpathians are protecting the world from evil.

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SUMMARY

Born into a world of ice, slave to her evil father, Lara Calladine knew only paralyzing fear as a child. Only by escaping with her mysterious gifts unbroken would she survive to claim her great Carpathian heritage as a Dragonseeker…

Now, Lara is in search of the source of her nightmares—the cold, dark corners of her childhood just on the edges of her memory. Only one man has the power and the will to help her: dangerous, arrogant Nicolas De La Cruz.

Together, Lara and Nicolas search the treacherous Carpathian landscape for the truth about their pasts—and discover a passion that neither has ever known before.

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Re: Another one of the sexy De La Cruz brothers meets his match in this exciting Carpathian novel.

It's a good book, I read it yesterday, and was a little disappointed in the ending - kind-of open ended, like there should be at least another page or two to go if not more. I hope that the next book in the series will smooth that out... The first part was a bit slow for this series, but the last half sped up quite a bit.

Amelia 09/13/08
(A.I. Lehl 2:50pm September 13, 2008)

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