This another I'm struggling with. I haven't finished it and each time I pick it up, I get bored after a couple pages.

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Guilt over past mistakes, Byron Justicano sentenced himself to become a hunter, taking himself away from his home, his family and friends. Finding his lifemate and deciding on courting as a human would was a test in patients and control the Byron had to pass. Being blind and having to rely on others senses, Antonietta Scarletti could feel every time Byron came into the room, he made her feel safe. When an attempt on Antonietta’s life was uncovered, Byron knew his patience had come to an end, he could not wait any longer to claim her for fear of losing her completely. The difficult part was trying to find a way to merge Anonietta’s world with Byron’s, especially once their differences were fully known to them.

Book 10.…. Really great, more feelings with a little less action. No vampire fights (Byron is not really a hunter). Introduction to another species (jaguars). Reminders of many of characters from previous books. Not the same old Carpathian story. The ‘bad guy’ was not a vampire, but jaguars and humans, that made just as much trouble for the Scarletti family. The only problem I had with this story, Byron’s history, he says he left the Carpathian Mountains because of putting Mikhail, Raven and Jacques in danger (that was about 8 or 9 books ago). I would have liked a little more reminder than that, I don’t remember much of Byron’s role in trouble the Prince had, but I did like finding out what Byron’s talent really was. ( )

Set in modern-day Italy, this is book 10 in Christine Feehan's Dark Carpathian series. This time around the focus is on Carpathian Byron Justicano, a master craftsman capable of calling gems up from the earth. After unintentionally putting the life of his best friend's lifemate in danger years ago, he decided to exile himself form his homeland and family. He turned his back on his craft and put his own life in jeopardy hunting vampires - Carpathian males that have embraced evil and kill for pleasure, thus endangering all Carpathians.

He was not born to be a hunter however, and eventually he is drawn to the haunting music created by Italian concert pianist, Antonietta Scarletti. She is his lifemate - born to be the light to his terrible darkness, and destined to be bound to Byron for all eternity. Blinded and orphaned as a child by an explosion on the family yacht, Antonietta, a strong psychic, is heir to the Scarletti family fortune and the massive Scarletti palazzo, where she lives with all her relatives.

When Byron learns that someone within the family is siphoning off the family treasures and slowly poisoning Antonietta, her grandfather and her cousin, he draws upon his supernatural powers to catch the villain, but he soon finds out that the Scarletti family has a supernatural secret of their own.

From reading other people's review of this one, it seems that you either really like it, or you hate it. I liked it a lot. I found it to be a departure from the previous novels in the series. Unlike the women in the other books, Antoinetta was unafraid of her destiny. She was not running away from her fate and she "saw" Byron with perfect love and acceptance from the beginning of the story.

Byron also felt different than the other Carpathian males I've come to know and love over the past few months. He was not as rigid (pardon the pun)and demanding with Antoinetta as other males have been with their lifemates. He would have been perfectly happy to live with her as a mortal, and in the end, die with her. Bryon left the decision up to Antionetta completely, and she chose him. ( )

Byron, a Carpathian male and hunter of the vampire follows the sound of compelling music to Italy. There he discovers his lifemate, Antoinetta Scarletti, heiress to the great Scarletti fortune. A renowned concert pianist, Antoinetta is the glue that holds the Scarletti family together. Blinded in an explosion that killed her parents, she nevertheless stands to run the family shipping business.

Antoinetta lives in the palazzo della morte, the palace of death. There, like her ancestors, she finds someone wants her dead. Antoinetta has a few secrets of her own and together, Byron and Antoinetta face the killers and one out of control Carpathian youth. ( )