The first few books alternate between the vampiric Wroth brothers and the Lykae clan MacRieve. The series often takes place in New Orleans, which the soothsayer and Valkyrie Nix the Ever-Knowing (AKA Nucking-Futs Nix) predicts will be the main 'battlefield' of this Accession. Humans within the series have mistaken this for an Apocalypse type battle, but the Lore itself rather looks forward to Accessions as they shake the monotony of immortal life, cull the population of Immortals, realign the factions, and tend to bring mates together. Like windmill vanes on a rusted spoke, it began creaking, creeping to life, only to gain momentum and soar with speed every five hundred years." to come into play, as if fate was seeding future deadly conflicts, involving all the players at a startling rate. As one book describes it, the Accession is a series of events that, "about a decade into it. Each faction makes its own ties, but they are roughly split into the good Vertas and the evil Pravus (though both are very violent and no faction can claim to be uniformly "good" or "evil"). Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, with him as her protector, she begins to crave the demon's wicked touch.Every five hundred years, the Lore, a varied group of mythical Immortals, make their alliances and go to war in the Accession. Raised as a human, Holly never knew that some frightening legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon who inexplicably guards her like a treasure.
But once he secures the key to his redemption, the halfling Holly Ashwin, Cade finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends and then forget haunts him as much as his past.Ī tormented warrior she should fear, but can't deny. From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole, an electrifying standalone tale of a ruthless demon mercenary and the lovely young halfling who enchants him, set in the Immortals After Dark universe.Ī seductive beauty he can never have, yet can't resist.Ĭadeon Woede will stop at nothing to atone for the one wrong that will haunt him forever.
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