The Darkling's Desire

By Lauren Hawkeye

Amazon warrior Anastasia Duras has spent her entire life training for one thing: to hunt and kill blood–drinking Darklings who refuse to follow the Karpaty Council's rule. Her first mission sends her after a newly turned vampire gone rogue – and into the path of sexy Darkling Jasper Nagorsky.

Jasper is on a mission of his own, one that clashes with Anastasia's – but their passionate confrontations arouse a hunger in him that has nothing to do with the bloodlust. Yet dalliances between Darklings and humans are forbidden by the Council. Jasper broke this rule once before and was barely allowed to live. Is their passion worth risking death a second time?

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Australia
• Release date: Nov 1, 2012
• ISBN: 9781460887837

Lauren Hawkeye

A firm believer in the power of a woman's innate sexuality, Lauren originally intended to obtain a doctorate in sexology and become a sex therapist. Instead she was thrown head first into an accounting job (her worst nightmare). When it was gently suggested that perhaps numbers weren't her thing, the English minor made a return to words instead, and found that it was a much better fit. A self- professed "good girl", Lauren loves to take a walk on the wild side in her stories, and she lives vicariously through her kick butt heroines and the delectable men who want them. Lauren Hawkeye is a writer, theater enthusiast, knitting aficionado and animal lover. She's older than she looks-really-and younger than she feels-most of the time-and in her stories she loves to explore the journeys that take women through life. Inspired daily by the Canadian Rocky Mountains in which she lives, Lauren uses the time not spent at her keyboard to hang with her "funny little fur family" -- her pit bull mix Sasha, Persian rescue Sinatra...oh yeah, and her man, Rob. Without their unwavering support, as well as that of her parents, sister, and family dog Rory, whom she lives near, Lauren would never have found the guts to follow her dream.

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