Beatrix Lesse, Countess of Lente, has grown bored of her life. The men who surround her no longer hold any appeal, and the nights just seem to pass by. The games, the parties, and politics just are the same as they were the last century and the one before that. The only thing that she stays interested in is art. Poems and paintings are her only interest until she meets John Staunton.

John, The Earl of Langley, thought he knew all about secrets. That's what his whole life has been about. While keeping the country safe from invasion, he learns the truth of what runs in the night. Between the nightmares and the harsh reality he has come to know, can he accept what Beatrix is and the thing he has turned into?

I have heard a lot about Susan Squires, but this is the first time I have read one of her books. I am disappointed in what I found. With the reviews that I have read about her past books, I was looking forward to reading The Hunger, but it wasn't close to what I expected. I had a hard time getting into the book in the first place. Nothing really grabbed my attention in the first two chapters. Then the story line takes you between London in the late 1800's and then to Beatrix in the 1100's. The way the story line kept switching between the present and past, it felt more like bouncing around and trying to fill in holes to me than building the character. I also found the book to be a little slow at least until chapter thirteen, but by then it seemed just a little to late for me to start enjoying it. Hopefully, I will like the next one better.