Lover Revealed

Butch O'Neal used to be a homicide cop. Now he is the one human allowed inside the Black Dagger Brotherhood's inner circle, a place built for vampire warriors. He loves Marissa, an aristocratic vampire whose world has little room for someone like him, and he wants to go further into it than the people around him think is wise.

The trouble starts when Butch gives himself up to save a civilian vampire from the slayers and is left for dead. The Brotherhood turns to Marissa and asks her to bring him back. Her love for him is real, but it may fall short of what the task demands.

This is the fourth book in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series, first published in March 2007. It is paranormal romance, with an urban fantasy war running underneath: the Brothers fight the Lessening Society and its leader, the Omega. The book won the 2008 RITA Award for Paranormal Romance.

Readers who have followed the earlier books will get the most from it, since the cast and their conflicts carry forward. Expect sex on the page and real violence, and a hero who is struggling with drink.