Dark Need: A Novel of the Darkyn [Mass Market Paperback]

Lynn Viehl (Author)

Book Description

Series: NOVEL OF THE DARKYN | Publication Date: March 6, 2012

AN ACHING EMPTINESS...

Homicide detective Samantha Brown is a tough, highly decorated cop. But for the past twelve lonely years, since she nearly died of a gunshot wound, she has felt a deep inner longing.

A LONG-LOST LOVE...

The mysterious Lucan, with his timeless ability to seduce women, is focusing on the emotionally battered Samantha, who has awakened his wild memories of a long-ago love.

A PASSION THAT WILL BE FULFILLED.

As Samantha pursues a deranged killer, her only clue is a medieval cross inscribed “Lucan”—the name of a man who owns a nightclub near the murder scene. Drawn into a seamy underworld, Samantha falls for Lucan, who believes that he’s a vampire and that Samantha is his reincarnated first love. Now she must save this man who seems beyond redemption—and who fulfills her deepest, darkest desires....

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Lynn Viehl...treats the vampire universe to a sharp new set of fangs. -- Holly Lisle

About the Author

Under her own name and pseudonyms, Lynn Viehl has published over twenty-five novels with ROC and NAL since her debut novel was published in January 2000. She and her family currently live in Florida.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Signet (March 6, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451218663
• ISBN-13: 978-0451218667
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #585,294 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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43 of 48 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating!, June 11, 2006

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Anna Hope (PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Dark Need: A Novel of the Darkyn (Mass Market Paperback)

Dark Need, the third installment in Viehl's Darkyn series, finally stars the evilly delicious Lucan, former Templar knight and assasin of the vampires. He can kill with his touch, is trained in fighting with nearly every weapon, and when he gets grumpy glass shatters.Plus he's the king of Florida's vampires. Oh, yeah, he loves women, too. They are like a sultry smorgasbord for him, which he enjoys to the fullest. Then some freak kills his former mistress and Detective Samantha Brown enters his life to solve the case.

Sam is a no fuss homicide detective with a strange gift, She can read the blood of the dead with her hand. A neat trick to gain after nearly dying herself. With her attacker attempting to come back into her life, a freaky killer on the loose, and Lucan the strange new nightclub owner all vying for her attention she needs every gift she can use.

Sam and Lucan are fantastic together. Watching their stormy relationship play out is entrancing. BUT, the problem is we don't get to see enough of it! Their story gets no more time in this book than the machinations of Michael Cyprian and head boss Richard and possibly less time than John Keller and his trials with the Brethren. If you haven't read the other books in the series, If Angels Burn and Private Demon, you will be completely lost in the vampire world and its counterpoint of the creepy priests. The book gets very creepy at times with the doings of a mass murder out after Lucan.

Everything is unmasked at the end, but comes to a jarring cliffhanger that won't be resolved till atleast the next book is released in April '07. Sam and Lucan don't even get an epilogue and only end up together on the last page. I want more of this couple. It is a romance afterall!

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Different kind of Paranormal Romance, July 26, 2006

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Jen (Des Moines, WA) - See all my reviews

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I have read all 3 books in this series. I had a hard time getting into the first one. Once I got into it, I loved it.
I have had the same feeling with the other two.
This is my favorite so far.
I find that it's hard to get into each book, but right around the middle of the book, I can't put it down.
She is unlike any paranormal romance author that I have read before.
Anyone could read these book.
I think that people who enjoy Laurell K. Hamilton, would like these books also.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Woven stories, complex characters and a great new world..., July 23, 2006

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C. Farley "seafaire" (Bakersfield, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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...encompass this stand alone novel from the Darkyn series. At first I was a little put off by the Franco/Slavic language combo used to describe the various players, but I finally got it--so don't give up. The language is heavy going for the first few chapters. The richness of the world created by the author uses the archaic language to advantage and to add the sauce of the Knights Templar to a vamp series is brilliant. The sensuality is just lovely--inspired slightly by Laurel K's use of ardeur--here is called l'attrait and is noted by a lovely smell--wild rose, jasmine, lavender--of the vamp who is attracted. The plot is complex, the setting is lush So Beach, Fla and the romance between the male & female leads sensual, healing and involved.
A pleasant surprise and a fabulous new author to add to our list.