Dark Journey

Dark Journey
Susan Krinard

TORN BETWEEN PEACE AND PASSION . . .Former serf Daniel had journeyed to Tanis in search of harmony between humans and vampires. Though the citadel's façade promised peace, it wasn’t difficult to find the danger lurking in the shadows. Yet it was the Bloodlady known as Isis, an ancient, beautiful vampire, who proved the biggest threat to Daniels’s heart.No human had ever excited Isis the way Daniel did. Though she desired him like no other, she knew he had been damaged, body and soul, by her own kind. Would his past forever stand between them? Or, worse, would the malicious forces who made Tanis their home destroy them both before they could explore their deepest hungers?

“I made no attempt to influence you,” Isis insisted.

“You are what you are.”

“That is truly what you think of me?”

“We’re strangers,” he said. “What should I think?”

To Daniel’s astonishment, she worked at the fastenings of her robes, and they fell like water to her feet. Beneath them she was naked. And breathtaking. Her body was sweetly curved, full-breasted and full-hipped, her legs shapely and strong, her waist supple.

“You cannot abide losing control, Daniel,” she said. “Now I give you a choice. You may prove to yourself that I cannot influence you…because I want you, and I will do nothing to make you want me.”

SUSAN KRINARD has been writing paranormal romance for nearly twenty years. With Daysider, she began a series of vampire romances, the Nightsiders series, for Mills & Boon Nocturne. Sue lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, with her husband, Serge; her dogs, Freya, Nahla and Cagney; and her cats, Agatha and Rocky. She loves her garden, nature, painting and chocolate…not necessarily in that order.

Dark Journey

Susan Krinard

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

Contents

Cover (#u072d92c6-56c3-50ca-8cc9-0cff31b7ada4)

Introduction (#u6230aff2-84e1-5ae5-90a6-fd53c7ac2db6)

About the Author (#u6860d108-322b-5bb0-87c8-e3cb01e52c17)

Title Page (#ue258755a-2438-5a0c-868c-f8a0c9dad481)

Foreword (#u9f1a4354-9ed9-58ef-9bb3-4b8dabfd6f22)

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Chapter 2 (#uc7c9286b-094b-570a-99f9-1433db640955)

Chapter 3 (#u8f0400d8-7cf7-5303-a337-16a7c4251ca0)

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Chapter 22 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 23 (#litres_trial_promo)

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Foreword (#ulink_ef53df2f-d41e-56cf-921e-df10ab9705aa)

For thirty-five years after the end of the war between Opiri1 and humans, the greatest hope for lasting peace lay in the self-contained mixed colonies established along the western seaboard of the former United States of America. These colonies—unlike the slave-holding Opir Citadels, which kept captive humans as blood donors, and the human Enclaves, which rejected all Opiri as monsters—demanded full equality between Opiri and human members, and encouraged the willing donation of blood from human colonists.

For many years, such relatively small colonies provided the only working examples of truly peaceful coexistence between humans and Opiri. But rumors of a new kind of mixed colony began to spread: tales of a former Opir Citadel turned free city, populated by hundreds of citizens both human and Opiri.