The naturi, said protectors of the earth, despise the humans
and nightwalkers that infest and destroy it. With the queen
of the naturi now free of the realm her race was sealed into
by a triad of nightwalkers centuries before, blood and chaos
will soon reign on earth, unless the unlikely pairing of a
fire wielding nightwalker and half human half bori vampire
hunter can stop them.
Mira could summon fire before becoming a nightwalker. It
was an ability that she kept after her rebirth; a rebirth
designed to make her a first born -- a more powerful form of
nightwalker. Because of this ability she is feared by her
own kind, even to the point of them wanting her destruction.
Danaus has lived for centuries hunting down and killing
nightwalkers in an attempt to rid the earth of their evil so
he may cleanse his own demon possessed soul. Now he is
finding it more and more difficult to come to terms with the
definition of nightwalkers that he once knew. He sees Mira
yes as a viscous killer when needed, but in the line of
protecting those around her; human and nightwalker alike.
With each passing moment in her presence, he is questioning
his ability to finish their dance of death that they must
eventually complete. For now, however, he is tasked with
protecting Mira, from the naturi that want both her and
Danaus dead, and from herself as ghosts from her past begin
to destroy her mind, all while fighting the bori attempting
to take control of his own soul.
Readers find a different point of view in PRAY FOR DAWN, the
fourth book of Jocelynn Drake's Dark Days series. In this
installment, we are lead through the story for the first
time by Danaus. It is quite a change from the sometimes
erratic thoughts of Mira whose wise-cracking antics kept the
pace from getting too thick in the death and destruction
surrounding the characters. This time we see what is
happening behind the dark cobalt eyes of the hunter; how
storms of emotions are rising in him toward the nightwalker
he is to protect and fighting against his ingrained beliefs
that he has come to question. For a character I once
thought was more of a stoic loner, I see now as an emotional
being that is fighting to find the truth and save those he
has come to care about as well as his own soul. If I at
first was disappointed to see the change of view, I ended
the book with appreciation for the look from Danaus' side.
Readers will also be glad to find that the cliff-hanger at
the end of the book will be answered quickly, as the fifth
book in the series, Wait for Dusk, comes out July
27th, 2010.
Pray for salvation . . . Pray for daylight . . . Murder
has pulled Mira out of the shadows and back into the
living world . . . As the fire-wielding enforcer of the
nightwalker coven wrestles with the mind-destroying ghosts
of her dark past, the slaying of a senator's daughter in
Savannah threatens to expose her kind to the brilliant
light of day. The dawn of chaos has come. The naturi have
broken free of their eternal prison to feed on the
defenseless and unbelieving of an unprepared Earth. Mira
and Danaus—vampire and vampire slayer—must unite to
prevent the annihilation of their separate races. But for
Danaus the challenge is intensified, for he must also
fight the bori who covets his soul. And Mira, the
nightwalker he must protect—whose power is the Earth's
last hope—is rapidly going insane.
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