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Shadows Claim The Dacians
496 pages
A feverish, blood-soaked plunge into a world of lethal tournaments and obsessive, fated love.
What it feels like
Reading this book feels like strapping into a dark, adrenaline-fueled rollercoaster where the stakes are life, death, and eternal devotion. The narrative moves at a propulsive clip, dragging you through shadowy realms and brutal blood-sports without ever losing sight of its intensely beating, romantic heart. It is unapologetically steamy and dramatic, balancing visceral action with a deeply emotional core of fated mates and obsessive love. The prose is sharp and sensory, mixing gothic melodrama with flashes of dark humor that keep the heavy atmosphere from becoming suffocating. It is perfectly calibrated for readers who devour high-heat paranormal romance and love nothing more than a ruthless, coldly disciplined assassin being brought entirely to his knees by an all-consuming, undeniable passion.
- Mood
- steamy
- adrenaline-fueled
- shadowy
- feverish
- Tone
- intense
- passionate
- darkly humorous
- dramatic
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- fated mates · obsessive devotion · lethal tournaments · overcoming insecurity · ruthless protectors
- The writing
- Visceral and highly sensory, blending sharp, modern snark with sweeping, gothic melodrama.
- The arc
- Moves from desperate longing and hidden identities to an explosive, all-consuming mutual surrender.
- Who it's for
- Readers who crave high-heat, high-stakes paranormal romance featuring lethal, obsessive heroes who will burn the world down for their mates.
Content notes
- graphic violence
- explicit sexual content
- blood-drinking
- gore
About the book
Kresley Cole introduces The Dacians: Realm of Blood and Mist, a new paranormal series following the royal bloodline of Dacia, a vampire kingdom hidden within the Lore of the Immortals After Dark. Shadow’s Claim features Prince Trehan, a ruthless master assassin who will do anything to possess Bettina, his beautiful sorceress mate, even compete for her hand in a blood-sport tournament— to the death.
Trehan Daciano, known as the Prince of Shadows, has spent his life serving his people—striking in the night, quietly executing any threat to their realm. The coldly disciplined swordsman has never desired anything for himself—until he beholds Bettina, the sheltered ward of two of the Lore’s most fearsome villains.
SHE’S BOUND TO ANOTHER
Desperate to earn her guardians’ approval after a life-shattering mistake, young Bettina has no choice but to marry whichever suitor prevails—even though she’s lost her heart to another. Yet one lethal competitor, a mysterious cloaked swordsman, invades her dreams, tempting her with forbidden pleasure.
A BATTLE FOR HER BODY AND SOUL
Even if Trehan can survive the punishing contests to claim her as his wife, the true battle for Bettina’s heart is yet to come. And unleashing a millennium’s worth of savage need will either frighten his Bride away—or stoke Bettina’s own desires to a fever pitch....
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