Near Dark is a community existing on the edge of a truth that can never be revealed. It is a place where hunters seek their prey, satisfying a hunger and a need that no human could ever imagine. Now an unknown evil stalks them, threatening to tear their world apart. . . .
Para-forensic Psychologist Dr. Mykael Xanders expected her interview at Tepes Memorial Institute, a covert medical facility for supernatural beings to be brutal. Until the sudden death of an orderly forces her to team up with Administrator Ryland Hynes, an unapologetic chauvinist who believes the best position for a female is in his bed. Together they race to uncover the mystery . . .
Alex dreams of being more than human. Shadowdance sometimes remembers he is more than wolf. Briar wishes she could be nothing more than rabbit. Watcher looks after those who tread these lines. A trucking accident sends a wave of toxic sludge and smoke through the Protectorate of Shadowdance, a Child of Wolf that has Pledged himself to protect the . . .
Faolan runs our family with an iron fist. As a rule, he takes what he wants, and mows down anyone who gets in his way. Or sends Cormac to do it for him. But maybe that’s what it is to be First. Thing is, what he wants now is Keaira, whom I love. He’s says he needs her . . .
The governments of the world are keeping an uncomfortable secret, one that has had repercussions throughout the entirety of human history. They are no closer to understanding the nature of this phenomenon, and for now their best option remains to keep it far from the minds of the general population. Their secret has been dubbed ‘metahumanity’ – the existence . . .
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I’m not much of a fan of revamping old horror creatures—whether it’s Twilighted vampires and werewolves, or the overuse of zombies in today’s culture. I often wonder what we’d come up with collectively as a culture if we weren’t working on the latest Buffy/Twilight/True Blood/Vampire Diary—what if we made up something new?