Christine Feehan's Dark series is filled with thrills and chills and extraordinary passion. The Carpathians are an ancient race of powerful, near-immortal creatures of the night who share our world. But such powers are not without price. Unless a Carpathian male finds his destined lifemate, he becomes a soulless predator, a vampire. For generations now, a tragic lack of Carpathian females has doomed many males to that terrible fate, and the skilled Carpathian hunters have gone forth to destroy the vile creatures. Carpathian legend tells that the greatest of those hunters were the twins Gabriel and Lucien. Centuries ago, Lucien was lost to the darkness, and Gabriel locked himself and his twin deep within the earth, where no one would be harmed. Recently all that changed. Now both Gabriel and Lucien are free again to walk the night, and in this rising Gabriel has miraculously found his lifemate, Francesca, whose healing skills may turn the tide as the legendary hunter goes forth again to seek his brother -- and protect the living from the undead.