Dark Nights

Written by Christine Feehan

Narrated by Jennifer Bradshaw

""The Queen of paranormal romance.""
—USA Today

#1 New York Times bestselling author Christine Feehan revisits and expands her classic novella Dark Descent, bringing to breathtaking new life her story of an immortal Carpathian hunter, a beautiful adventurer, and their dangerous journey toward an unforeseen destiny and an undying love.

In a cave of mystery and wonder deep in the Carpathian Mountains, bodyguard Joie Sanders encounters a most remarkable being. Proud, strong, immortal, he is called Traian—an ageless hunter locked in a life-and-death battle with enemy vampires—and he will be her salvation in a labyrinth protected by the ingenious traps of a mysterious ancient race. What awaits them in the darkness is not known, and each step could be their last—as their destined path leads them toward a fiery passion that will illuminate the perilous dark night.

Dark Nights is a special gift to her many loyal fans: a newly expanded and reimagined version of her classic novella, Dark Descent—100 pages longer than the original—combined with her breathtaking and unforgettable short story, Dark Dream.

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperAudio
• Release date: Oct 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9780062237828

Christine Feehan

Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, with over 90 published novels in seven different series: Dark Series, GhostWalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, Sea Haven Series, Shadow Series, and Torpedo Ink Series. All seven of her series have hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list.

Reviews for Dark Nights

[Lissan A White · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Both book was amazing and bother book the female ain't a virgin either.

[Vicki Skinner · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Traian and Joie's story is by far my favorite in the Dark Serie!!!!! I love how open minded Joie and her family were.

As to the other book in this Audio Book - I do not like the accents the reader portrayed Raven and Shae - neither one had an accent in the other books and it wasn't done very good. But out of all of the voices in the other books - I like this one's probably second best....

[Dorothy Epps · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I enjoy listening to book by Christine Feehan. They are easy to caught up in the story.

[NNEAMAKA PAYNE · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Well, when I started this novel didn’t expect it will cover from the past and entering. Then into the new and present-day of the next generation. It equally opens the door for many discoveries of all the ancients that were sent out to defend humanity and their race. It is excellent way for the writer to take the readers back and making us remember the reason and purpose of most of the hunters being patient and enduring all for a perfect blessing.

[Terri Braun · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

I really appreciate that both Dark Descent and Dark Dream are together in this audiobook offering. Both are novella's that had been included in other anthologies.
Dark Descent is the story of Joie and Traian. This one includes astral projection (lucid dreaming) which I find really interesting. It introduces us to Joie's brother and sister who will be recurring characters from this story on. I love that Gary is back in this one. He's definitely a favorite of mine. I also love that Joie is a kick-ass body guard and isn't bitchy when men think they need to take care of her.
Dark Dream is the story of Sarah Falcon. This one brings in orphaned human psycic children that Sarah is trying to adopt while trying to evade the vampire who killed her family 15 years before.
I really enjoyed both of these escapes from reality. The narrator has a lovely soft voice that helped me"see" each person and kept our leading ladies feminine yet strong. I recommend. Enjoy!

[Michael Darby · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome two stories in one. If you are a follower of this series it fills the gaps and enriches the total experience if this world.

[carol420 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I loved the stories as the Carpathians are among my favorite book characters. The thing i didn't like about the book was it was old stories and titles disguised as "new". The book title would lead you to believe that this was a new part of the series but it isn't. I gave it four stars because as I said, they are among my favorites.

[fidget78 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

See my full review on puretextualty.com

[dearheart_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

The book contains two previously released novellas by Christine Feehan. If you follow the series and haven’t already read these stories, or if you desire to keep all books/stories within a series shelved together, than this book will be a good purchase. Being short stories, we aren’t being bogged down with the Carpathian angst with the darkness in their souls. If you are new to the series, this isn’t a bad place to begin, although starting with Dark Prince is a better choice. But if you’ve read the stories and are looking for something new, you won’t find it here, even with the enhancements made to Dark Descent.Dark Descent was first published in the anthology “The Only One.” It’s the story of Traian & Joie Sanders and our first glimpse into the mage ice cave and the existence of the dragon line. In this story we learn that master vampires are working together to rule the world, a theme carried forward from here through the series. I believe it’s also the first story since Dark Magic to bring Gary back into the picture and in this one he meets Gabrielle, Joie’s researcher sister. The author has enhanced the original story, although since it’s been so long since I had read it, I couldn’t point out to another exactly where. There were a number of times where I thought something might be new. Over half of the story still deals with finding Traian and escaping the cave. What I really like about this particular story is that Joie is such a kick butt character, both mentally and physically. We don’t just get a heroine but an enter family and you won’t find a “victim” among them. Well at least we meet and interact with her brother and sister. We’re teased a number of times that Traian is going to have a difficult time being accepted by their mother who does not like alpha males. Unfortunately we still don’t get to meet the parents or see how that plays out.Joie has the ability to astral travel and uses it at the beginning of the story to escape pain when being worked on in the hospital after getting shot. It’s how she meets Traian, who is lying in a cave trying to recover from his fight with vampires. Off screen they converse every night for weeks and she knows she’s got to find him. It’s the way the author is able to explain Joie’s fast acceptance with the concept of being his lifemate.Dark Dream was first published in the anthology “After Twilight” and tells the story of Falcon and Sara. Their story begins at the 64% area on a Kindle, so it’s a shorter story than Dark Descent and it is published here in its original form.Falcon is on his way home after spending so much time on his own doing what Prince Vladimir had requested; kill vampires to protect their race. He can’t hang on any longer and wants to meet Mikhail before meeting the sun. One thousand years ago, while still recalling memories of emotions, he wrote a journal hoping his future lifemate would find it. He’s about to be jumped by a number of men who want to rob him when Sara jumps in and tells him to run.Sara watched her entire family killed by an ancient vampire who wants her and she’s been hiding from him for the last 15 years. The only thing that kept her going was finding Falcon’s journal and just knew it had been written for her. She’s learned how to fight, always has an escape route, and her passion is children. She’s been working to establish a safe place for 7 gifted kids from the street.The journal and Sara’s familiarity with Falcon as a person through it, is how the author is able to pull the two together in an accepted manner in a short story. What I really like about Sara is her compassion, both for Falcon and the children. The woman is distressed to find out it might be more than 100 years between being able to birth children, but you can bet there will be a lot of adoptions. We get an added bonus with this story. The prologue gives us Prince Vladimir’s difficult decision to ask warriors to do the unthinkable; live alone, away from all other Carpathians in order to hunt vampires and protect their race.Read as ARC through Edelweiss.