Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his Carpathian homeland by Prince Mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in MaryAnn Delaney. MaryAnn is human, but she knows all too well the overwhelmingly aggressive instincts of Carpathian males. And they're not exactly the kind of men she'd prefer to be bound to for life.
A dedicated counselor for battered women, MaryAnn has a fulfilling life with no room for someone like Manolito, born and bred in the Carpathian Mountains, a law unto himself. But when MaryAnn agrees to go to South America to offer guidance to a brutalized young woman, she's oblivious of the trap that awaits her in the sweltering thick of the jungle. She has been lured there by Manolito himself, who has seductive plans for the unaware, irresistibly human female.
Once there, she will be his. Once his, she will never be released. He is her lover, her predator, her lifemate. She is his dark possession....
Book 18 in the Carpathain Dark Series
Sparrowgal's rating: 9/10
Sparrowgal's thoughts - Spoiler Alert!
This was my favourite Carpathian book for a while until Dark Slayer came out. And, it featured a black woman! It felt like there were a lot of new things with this book which is why I enjoyed it so much.
MaryAnn, who features in Dark Destiny as a friend to Destiny, and met Manolito in Dark Celebration, is a therapist who came along to the Carpathian Mountains to meet Destiny's kin. It was in Dark Celebration where Manolito marked her, and she agreed to go to South America with the De La Cruz family to help Juliette's (Dark Hunter) sister who was raped by Jaguar men.
This book was the first book where Carpathians were not the dominant species. MaryAnn has some psychic abilities as a therapist, but she didn't realise it, and she certainly didn't know her parentage. She was an amusing heroine, very urban, not the fighter or jungle girl at all, which she overcame after a while as she fought to help Manolito.
MaryAnn is a Lycan, a werewolf. And when she and Manolito share blood, he begins to take on her aspects not his own. Walking in daylight. Inner wolf protector. I also like how he initially is telling her how it is alright to give up her humanity to become Carpathian but when he becomes more Lycan he is angry how he is changing, giving up his Carpathian heritage and MaryAnn calls him out on the double standard.
The Malinov brothers are the arch enemies to the De La Cruz's. There were 5 of each, and every brother turned vampire. Yet they are banding together to try to bring down the Carpathian empire, to be the new master race. Each De La Cruz book seems to have a Malinov brother in it to defeat.
I think the multiple crossovers also make this a great book to me. I love the crossovers and old characters, probably because I'm a Feehan fan. I would recommend this book to anyone who has read her books before, and even those who haven't, it's not a bad starter either.
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