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Dark Curse

Christine Feehan

480 pages

A sweeping, ice-cold paranormal romance that melts into fierce, fated-mate passion.

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What it feels like

Reading this book feels like stepping into a frozen, treacherous landscape that is slowly thawed by an all-consuming, fated passion. The atmosphere is heavy with ancient danger and shadowy magic, wrapping the reader in a world where survival depends on trusting the very monsters you were taught to fear. The prose is lush and intensely sensory, lingering on the contrast between biting cold and burning desire. It moves at a brisk, urgent pace, balancing high-stakes supernatural action with deep, emotional explorations of trauma and healing. This is a story built for readers who crave old-school paranormal romance, where brooding, immortal alpha males meet their match in fiercely resilient heroines, and where love is always a matter of life, death, and the soul.

Mood
  • icy
  • shadowy
  • passionate
  • danger-laden
Tone
  • intense
  • sensual
  • dramatic
  • earnest
Pace
brisk
Themes
healing from trauma · fated mates · burden of immortality · claiming hidden power · overcoming isolation
The writing
Lush and melodramatic, the prose leans heavily into sensory descriptions of cold landscapes and burning desires.
The arc
The journey shifts from paralyzing, isolated fear and ancient weariness into a fierce, trusting, and all-consuming passion.
Who it's for
Fans of old-school paranormal romance who love brooding, ancient vampires and the powerful, traumatized women destined to save their souls.
Content notes
  • childhood trauma
  • violence
  • blood drinking
  • explicit sexual content

About the book

Christine Feehan's “steamy and dreamy...combo platter of danger, fantasy and wild, uninhibited romance continues to sizzle” (Publishers Weekly) in her series. Now, she freezes the blood in her most fiercely sensual Carpathian novel yet...

Born into a world of ice, and slave to her evil father, Lara Calladine knew only paralyzing fear as a child—and escaping with her mysterious gifts unbroken would be the only way to survive her great Carpathian heritage as a Dragonseeker. Human, yet mage, she was of the blood of three species yet belonged to none. She walked her chosen path alone, guided by the wisdom of her aunts—to blend in and let no one know of her ancestry and powers. And never trust anyone. For beyond the frozen hell of her youth was a world of even greater mysteries and dangers.

Today Lara is the leading expert in the field of ice cave study around the world and the healing microorganisms that thrive in them. She’s also in search of something else: the source of her nightmares—the cold dark corners of her childhood. Only one man has the will and the powers to help her: Nicolas De La Cruz, for whom centuries of hunting and killing have long since taken their toll. Dangerous and arrogant, he still longs to feel sensual love without the hunger for blood. Now, between Lara and Nicolas, a tenuous trust has emerged, and a passion neither has ever known before as a melody of dark promise begins.

But as each scales the treacherous land of the Carpathian in search of their past, they also harbor a secret that could save or destroy them. And as each may be desirous of a new beginning as lifemates, they are also haunted by the unknown dangers of a dark curse.

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