When Reese Montana was a child growing into a woman, Dez was
her hero, and she wanted him to be more. She knew he loved
her, but the darkness inside him grew to be too much to
control, and he changed. Reese knew if she stayed with him
she would be drawn down into darkness with him, but she also
couldn't bear to leave.
Dez loved Reese, had loved her almost since the moment he
pulled her out of danger as a child and now that she was
grown she was his heart. As he felt the pull of darkness, as
his nightmares became harder and harder to shake off he knew
he was losing his mind, and he couldn't bear to take Reese
down with him. Worse yet, his godfather Louis Keban had
somehow tracked him down, and the sick bastard hadn't changed.
Even more terrifying, the dark artifact Keban brought with
him had some deeply hooked control over the worst of Dez and
before he could stop himself, he fell into darkness.
Years later Reese is a bounty hunter called down past the
Mexican border by a group of people who give off all the
signals of cops or a paramilitary unit. She can't figure out
what they want with her and before she can make a
determination she is captured and held until they can prove
the impossible to her.
These people are telling Dez is alive and they need her to
hunt him down. They also claim to have some kind of super
powers, Dez included, and they need him and the artifacts
his dark guardian is hiding to stave off the end of the
world. Yeah. Right. Still, just to see Dez again, to have a
chance to ask him how things went so wrong and why he let
her believe he had been killed, she is willing to play along
with them.
The suspense is ratcheting higher in STORM KISSED, book six
in the Nightkeepers series. Andersen's tight writing style
and ability to build tension on both the romantic and action
sides of the storylines is never better. Questions raised
earlier in the series are answered and hints of new facets
to be further explored as the series continues are glimpsed
in passing. Another great read.
Dark forces stand poised to crush mankind beneath a
vicious rule of terror and blood sacrifice. Our only hope
rests with a group living among us: modern magic wielders
called the Nightkeepers.
Dez is no angel. The former gangbanger spent years in jail
and alienated the love of his life, Reese Montana. Now he
has a second chance to join forces with the Nightkeepers and
master the Triad magic. Even better, Reese is back--taken on
as the Nightkeepers' sexy bounty hunter. But this time, the
stakes are even higher for Dez and Reese.
The sexual electricity between them is still alive, but when
Dez goes rogue on a hunt for a powerful artifact, Reese
can't help but wonder if he has been playing her again all
this time...what will become of the Nightkeepers with a
potential traitor on the run?