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Gabriel, miembro de la poderosa raza de carpatianos que combaten desde tiempo inmemorial a los vampiros, llega al París moderno donde, aparte de sorprenderse por los avances humanos, se encuentra con la sorpresa mayor de una mujer de su propia especie. Francesca, una carpatiana que ha permanecido cientos de años oculta entre los humanos, hasta conseguir un milagro que ningún carpatiano podría soñar: caminar bajo la luz, sentirse casi humana, y hasta pensar en amar a uno de ellos, el seductor doctor Brice. Pero la llegada de Gabriel, elegido por el destino como su compañero eterno, lo cambia todo. Atrapada entre dos mundos, para Francesca comienza una lucha entre su vida independiente y libre como humana y la irresistible seducción que siente hacia Gabriel, al que todas las fibras de su ser anhelaban desde hacía tanto tiempo. Pero la felicidad de ambos está en peligro: Gabriel no ha sido el único en despertar...
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He woke deep within the ground, and the first sensation he felt was hunger. An overwhelming hunger for blood that demanded satisfaction. But as he hunted the dark streets of Paris for prey, a voice called to him, soothing, calming, giving him the strength to control his craving.
Francesca Del Ponce was a healer, a woman who radiated goodness as powerfully as the sun did light. But surely his obsession with her would turn him as his twin brother had turned, leaving the world with two monsters instead of one.
Though he knew she would be like hot silk in his arms, though he knew the taste of her would be addictive, he feared for her life and his soul if he took her. Then with one mind-shattering vow she gave herself - "I offer freely, without reservation, I offer my life for yours as is my right" - and with a firestorm of long-forgotten feelings, he glimpsed salvation.