(Although there is a prequel to this story, a novella called “The Warlord Wants Forever” in the anthology titled “Playing Easy To Get.”) This is the first full length book in a new series (The Immortals After Dark series) from the romance author Kresley Cole. Which is a good thing, because with the Accession at hand and the vampire horde suddenly targeting her she will need all the strength she has got. Her anger and passion seem to unlock the hidden strength within her. Lachlain makes a deal with Emma that if she helps him return to his native Scotland he will let her go unharmed, yet he knows she is his mate and has no intention of keeping his word.īeing with Lachlain in Scotland has a strange affect on Emma. Emma is terrified of the Lykae because she has heard they are savage beasts with vicious tempers and dark desires. Lachlain is horrified to find the mate that he has been waiting a millennia for is a vampire and his sworn enemy. She is totally unprepared for the maddened Lykae who chases her across Paris and captures her for his own. She has lived a sheltered life, protected by her Valkyrie aunts and this trip to Paris is the first thing she has ever done on her own. Small and timid she seems to have inherited none of the strengths and all the weaknesses of her parents. She is the child of a Valkyrie mother and an unknown vampire father. This gives him the strength to finally break his bonds and escape his prison.Įmmaline, an orphan from birth, is on a trip to Paris to try and find out more about her parents and her unique heritage.

In a moment of respite from his torture he catches the sent of his mate a woman he has never met, yet he knows that she is the one and only mate for him. Lykae have predestined mates but Lachlain never found his before he was captured and imprisoned by the vampires. His hatred for his vampire torturers has been the only thing that kept him going through his whole ordeal.

As an immortal he can not die, so 150 years of being tortured to death only to revive and be tortured to death again - has pushed him to the brink of madness. Lachlain MacRieve is leader of the Lykae Clan (a Lykae is a kind of werewolf) he has been imprisoned and tortured in the catacombs under Paris for over 15 decades by the vampire horde.

A Hunger Like No Other by Kresley Cole