Book Blurb:
Fifteen years ago Jared Bonatelli had it all. The youngest son of one of the founding families in the Conservatorship of The Dark Order he lived a life you only thought existed in novels and nightmares. He had just graduated from Oxford University and became engaged to his childhood sweetheart when he lost it all in one violent act. The very next day he found himself shipped off to New Orleans with only the money in his pocket and whatever he could fit in one suitcase. Since that night he has suffered reliving his fiancé’s murder repeatedly in his dreams. It isn't until he finds himself summoned back to New York for an emergency meeting of the Conservatorship that the comfortable world he lives in begins to crumble around him.
Alexandra Toscano has been searching for the one assignment that could catapult her journalistic career. When her editor Gene O’Hanlon drops a manila folder in her lap, Alex is immediately skeptical. At first glance the information he hands her seems like a publicity piece that is till she comes across an article he wrote some fifteen years ago about Vampires murdering a young woman in Central Park. She is ready to laugh it off as a work of fiction until he points out he was an eyewitness to the whole thing. But that wasn’t all. The girl’s boyfriend was a member of a prominent Italian family who vanished the very next day.
Now as Alex begins to dig deeper into Jared’s life she begins to question her own past. Could the answer she seeks be found in the glowing eyes of the one person she is sworn to expose? Or will they both find themselves torn apart by a world Beyond the Sun?
My Review: 5 stars *****
I was lucky enough to receive and ARC for a review.
Contains Spoilers.
This book took me by surprise. I was thinking its just another vampire book, don't get me wrong, I love vampire books but sometimes they all seem to be about the same thing... This one was totally different and sooo good... I want more and at the end of the book is the preview to the next book.
So, this book starts off with Jared Bonatelli and his fiancé Giovanna. They just got engaged over dinner and they are going for a carriage ride thru central park. (swoon!!) As they are talking, they are suddenly attacked. Giovanna was killed (or was she) and they came after him.
Then it jumps to 15yrs in the future. Jared wakes up in a panic. Sweat all over and his legs entwined in the sheets. He grabbed his prescription of Xanax and realizes he is out... Its been 15yrs since he has been home. After all that happened with Giovanna the Conservatorship sent him to New Orleans to hide out.
Then we go to Alex. who is a reporter at a local paper. She just got handed this assignment that she thought was just one big cruel sick joke... She went in to confront her boss. Turns out the assignment is an expose on Jared Bonatelli and how his girlfriend/fiance was murdered by Vampires 15 yrs prior. After looking into the file, she sees that her boss was the original eye witness and saw the whole thing. Well the Conservatorship being what it is, It protects all the supernatural. So they covered up the attack and made Gene O'Hanlon look like he was off his rocker. Made him a laughing stock. He made it to where Alex was going to the black tie benefit that night to make initial contact with Jared.
Alex made it to the benefit and saw Jared come in... she kept her eye on him. Jared feeling that someone was watching, looked up right at where she was standing. Alex effectively moved just in time to not get seen ran right into the Princess of Vampires, Absinthe. After an altercation between them, Alex hears a very manly voice behind her. She turns around and sees the most beautiful blue eyes she has ever seen, Jared. They talk and he realizes that unlike most people in his life he feels like he can talk to her. They chat for a while and she realizes it gets late and she has to go. She gives him her card so he can call her for coffee.
After the benefit, Jared decides to go by the cemetery where Giovanna is buried. Hes at her grave and crying about how he misses her and loved her with all his being. He feels like there is someone else in the graveyard with him. After calling out and no answer he decides to leave. Then we find out Absinthe was in the graveyard hiding with her "pet" showing her that it was all a facade and that he doesn't really miss his lost love. That while he was gone he got over that love and moved on.
Jared and his best friend, shifter Lance go to the Conservatorship meeting. They find out the reason Jared was summoned back from New Orleans was cause his dad, the head of the Conservatorship would like to retire and have Jared take over. Jared's older brother Tony, who has always had his back, gets pissed. He thinks its his right to be the head of the Dark Order, not Jared. He said Jared wasn't even blood, how could he become the head of the Order? Jared and Tony get into fisticuffs and Jared beats Tony down. After Lance pulled Jared off his so-called brother, they left and went to the Final Resting Place, a bar that caters to the supernatural. Jared invited Alex to join them.
After they find out that Giovanna didn't die in the park 15yrs prior, Jared gets drugged and Lance and Alex take him back to Alex's apartment. After sleeping it off, he gets up the next morning and sees Alex at the table on her laptop. Alex decides to have full disclosure with him and tells him that she was assigned to expose him and all his secrets... Jared knowing that was going on, said some hurtful things to Alex. She ran to her room and locked the door asking him to leave.
So a lot more happens in this book that if I keep going I will give away everything and I can't do that... Then whats the point of you reading it??? Anyhow... this book was phenomenally written and I loved every single word... I laughed and cried and felt pain as if it were me in that book. I love when a book can fully hit me emotionally. I feel what the characters are feeling. If you like books where you are deep and entrenched into the characters, this book is for you!!
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