A Darker Dream
by Madeline Baker
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In all his four hundred years, Rayven had never met a woman like Rhianna McLeod. She was a vision of light, of warmth, of everything he was not - nor could ever be. Doomed to live forever in darkness and solitude, he knew all too well the risk in getting close to her, yet he hungered for her with a fierce passion he swore he'd never allow himself to feel. Rhianna's father had sold her to Rayven to put food on the table - so she had no choice but to go with the dark stranger. to her surprise, show more he gave her everything she wanted - the finest clothes, education and the run of the castle - everything that is, except his touch. for although she sensed danger beneath his soft-spoken manner, although even Rayven himself warned her away, she was drawn to his creature of the night, and loved him as she would no other. show lessTags
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Part 2:Four years late Rhianna returns after her fathers death and decides to stay at home and not return to Paris.After a visit to Rayven Castle Rayven says that he will do one favor to her and her request surprise him as she asks to let her stay a year with him.Since he gave her his word he lets her stay.Rhianna learns about Rayvens true nature.Rhianna stays with him after that and he ask her to marry him for a year with the promise that when the time ends he will broke the wows(and I don't think he meant they will get a divorce,more like I will walk in a sunny day way of divorce)cause he wants her to marry and have children.After 6 months of marriage he leaves her and says that he will never return.She gets depressed to the point of death and he goes to his maker to kill him,the last moment he decides that he wants to live with Rhianna and that he wants to live.He hides in a crypt for a while and Salvatore comes and visits him saying that he has a way to make a vampire mortal again but it has a very high risk.So Rayve and Salvatore return home and he says to Rhianna his decision.i wont say what happens in the end.
Rayvenis a very tortuned character who suffers from his nature.He lives with Tom and only him and his is a very close person.He would have make his life a lot easier if he could embrace his vampire nature and try to make friend even for a while.I like him but I think he was a little overeacting about the whole vampire thing.Rhiannais innocent,pure,young and in love with Rayven.She accepted his true nature and made his nights warm and made him feel alive with her character and that says much about her.
The book was nice different from the usual vampire books.The vampires in this book have characteristics the "traditional"vampires have.
I started to read this book, but just couldn't get into it. Rayven is a vampire and he is in love with Rhianna, who doesn't know he's a vampire..
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Madeline Baker was born and raised in California. She began writing to entertain herself, never telling anyone until a friend told her she was writing a book as well. After letting a few friends read the book and getting good reviews, Baker decided to try and find a publisher. It took her six years and 31 rejections, but one finally accepted the show more manuscript for Reckless Heart. Baker writes historical romance novels for Leisure books under the name Madeline Baker, and paranormal romances for Leisure LoveSpell under the name Amanda Ashley. In 1988 Reckless Heart, Reckless Love, Reckless Desire won the Romantic Times Reviewers Choice award for Best Indian Series. In 1991, Whisper in the Wind won the Affaire de Coeur's Golden Unicorn Award for Best Time Travel, followed by winning the Colorado Romance Writers Award of Excellence for Midnight Fire in 1992. Baker won the Paperback Trader's Romance Readers Award for Best Indian historical with The Spirit Path in 1993 and Loving Devlin won the Best Indian Historical award from the Puget Sound Romance Readers in 1994. 1995 won Baker the Paperback Trader's Romance Readers Award for Best Indian historical for the second time, as well as being voted one of Affaire de Coeur's Top Ten Authors. In 2000, she was voted Historical Storyteller of the Year by Romantic Times Magazine. Her works include Dude Ranch Bride, West Texas Bride, and Every Inch a Cowboy. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Darker Dream
- Original publication date
- 1997
- People/Characters
- Rhianna McLeod; Rayven
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