Shadows Claim The Dacians

Trehan Daciano, the Prince of Shadows, has spent his life protecting the vampire kingdom of Dacia. He is a master assassin and a coldly disciplined swordsman who kills threats to the realm in the night. He has never wanted anything for himself until he sees Bettina.

Bettina is a sorceress and the sheltered ward of two of the Lore's most fearsome villains. After a mistake that upended her life, she is desperate to win back their approval. She must marry whichever suitor wins a tournament of blood sport fought to the death, though her heart already belongs to someone else.

Trehan, who knows Bettina is his mate, enters the contest to claim her. Among the other lethal competitors is a cloaked swordsman who comes to her in dreams and tempts her with forbidden pleasure.

The paranormal romance opens The Dacians: Realm of Blood and Mist, a series about the royal bloodline of Dacia, and belongs to the Lore of the Immortals After Dark. Surviving the tournament is only the first test: Trehan carries a millennium of savage need, and it may drive Bettina away or stoke her own desire.