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.