For more than a thousand years, the descendants of a savage alien race have lived among humans. They call themselves the Breed, but humans know them as vampires. Now the Breed is in the middle of a civil war, with a violent faction known as the Rogues, vampires who have given over their minds and bodies to bloodlust, assembling an army whose goal is world domination of both the Breed and the human population. Standing in their way are the Breed warriors; strong, dedicated, and deadly males who have sworn an oath to protect the Breed and destroy the Rogues. Lucan Thorne is their leader, a Gen One vampire whose father was one of the original Ancients who crash landed on Earth. Lucan has spent the past nine hundred years of his life battling the Rogues, but he hides a terrible secret; his body is constantly under siege by the very bloodlust that turns Rogues into heartless killers.

Professional landscape photographer Gabrielle Maxwell has no memory of her mother. Gabrielle was found as an infant, abandoned in a trash bin, while her teenage mother was discovered nearby in a hysterical state and was later committed for insanity, screaming about vampires and clawing at puncture marks on her neck. A week later, she hung herself.

Gabrielle has always believed her mother was mentally unstable, but she begins to question that assumption on the night she witnesses a violent Rogue feeding frenzy, and manages to make a hasty escape by blinding the Rogues with her camera phone. The police don't believe her story, especially when they fail to recover any bodies from the scene, but Lucan, who eliminated the Rogue gang, poses as a police detective to gain access to Gabrielle's apartment and take possession of her phone and the pictures it contains. What he doesn't count on is the strong attraction he feels for Gabrielle, especially when he realizes she bears the mark of a Breedmate, a human female who is destined to be mated to a male vampire. Lucan has no intention of claiming Gabrielle for his own, however, because he fears that he, like his father, will end up killing his mate in a fit of bloodlust. But when the Rogues discover Gabrielle's identity and come after her, Lucan must reveal the truth to protect Gabrielle, and confront her fears as well as the demons he keeps within.

With a gripping opening scene that perfectly sets the tone for the novel, and a fast-paced, action-filled storyline, Lara Adrian has created a dark and powerful world that will keep your blood pumping. For those with a craving for a dark vampire hero, KISS OF MIDNIGHT will be sure to satisfy your hunger.

Book Summary

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell’s deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man— is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind—and the unwitting humans existing alongside them—from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.

Here, in the arms of the Breed’s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .