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Dark Prince: Author's Cut (The Dark Book 1) by [Christine Feehan]

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Dark Prince: Author's Cut (The Dark Book 1) Kindle Edition

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An incomparable gift for Christine Feehan fans, Dark Prince returns in a new, author’s cut special edition. #1 New York Times bestseller Feehan revisits her classic tale of paranormal romance—the breathtaking story of a beautiful hunter with extraordinary telepathic abilities captivated by the powerful allure of a tormented prince of the mysterious Carpathians—expanding the beloved story by 100 never before seen pages! Here is your golden opportunity to experience the first book in Christine Feehan’s remarkable Dark saga as you never have before, whether it’s a glorious re-entrance into this writer’s mystical, unforgettable world…or your very first visit!

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The trouble is not really in being alone, it’s being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don’t you think?
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Never enter the home of a vampire of your own free will. It gives him power over you.
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Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels...' (Publishers Weekly) satisfying action adventure romance ... Love and danger are a winning combination in Feehan's latest (Booklist) The exciting and multifaceted world that impressive author Christine Feehan has created continues to improve with age (Romantic Times) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

About the Author

Christine Feehan has had more than forty novels published, including four series which have hit #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. She is pleased to have made it onto numerous other bestseller lists as well, including Publishers Weekly, USA Today, Washington Post, BookScan, B. Dalton, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks, Ingram, Borders, Rhapsody Book Club, and Walmart. In addition to being a nominee for the Romance Writers of America’s RITA^® Award, she has received many honors throughout her career, including a Career Achievement Award from Romantic Times and the Borders 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award.

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Enter Feehan's world of the paranormal, where Carpathians fight vampires and telepaths communicate with both. Raven Whitney, a telepathic hunter of serial killers, travels to the Carpathian Mountains for a little rest, hears telepathically Mikhail Dubrinsky's cries of loneliness and answers, only to find she is his life mate. Dubrinsky, Prince of the Carpathians, enchants Raven, while fending off a group of vampire killers who are attacking Carpathians. Juanita Parker performs Feehan's tale with wonder in her voice and passion at just the right parts. Sometimes the narration is matter-of-fact, but mostly it is laced with the enchantment Feehan brings to all her paranormal tales. Beware, the Dark Prince will enthrall you. M.B.K. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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Enter the enchanting world of the Carpathians, where dark adventure, mystery, and love await, and the desires of two daring hearts unite in one irresistible passion

A telepathic hunter of serial killers, Raven Whitney’s work has drained her body and spirit, and now, in need of rest and rejuvenation, she embarks on a vacation far from home.

The powerful leader of the Carpathians—a wise and secret ancient race that thrives in the night—Mikhail Dubrinsky is engulfed by despair, fearful of never finding the mate who can save him from the encroaching darkness.

From the moment they meet, Raven and Mikhail are helpless to resist the desire that sparks between them. But just as fate unexpectedly brings these life mates together, malevolent forces threaten to destroy them and their fragile love.

With an additional 100 pages of new material, Christine Feehan’s magnificent tale of forbidden love mesmerizes as never before. Experience Dark Prince as it was always meant to be!

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Feehan has a knack for bringing vampiric Carpathians to vivid, virile life in her Dark Carpathian novels...' (Publishers Weekly) satisfying action adventure romance ... Love and danger are a winning combination in Feehan's latest (Booklist) The exciting and multifaceted world that impressive author Christine Feehan has created continues to improve with age (Romantic Times) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004FEF6EM
Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins e-books; Special, Reprint edition (March 8, 2011)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 8, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1290 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 497 pages
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Christine Feehan is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, with 83 published works in seven different series: Dark Series, GhostWalker Series, Leopard Series, Drake Sisters Series, Sea Haven Series, Shadow Series, and Torpedo Ink Series. All seven of her series have hit the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list. Judgment Road, the first book in her newest series, Torpedo Ink, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list.

"After Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Joss Whedon (who created the venerated Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Christine Feehan is the person most credited with popularizing the neck gripper.”—Time Magazine

“The Queen of paranormal romance.” —USA Today

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Jennifer

Are there some better ones out there

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2018

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I think people forget that this author was one of the breakout writers in paranormal/vampire romance back in the day. And that day was a loong, long time ago.

I read this series when there were only a handful of books and got an itch one night for a reread. Then saw some harsh reviews which I think were unfair. The romance paranormal/vampire genre has blossomed and changed since this novel was written. Are there some better ones out there? Sure. But considering the time in which it was written its still fantastic.

There's a history with a solid background on where the vampires came from and a plot/romance that moves along at a great pace. An alpha male that is trying to save his people and a woman that knows how to handle herself.

Still a good read many years after publication and still a fan.

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Edwina "I Love books"

I LOVED THE UNCUT EDITION OF DARK PRINCE !!!!

Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2014

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Dark Prince is the first book in Christine Feehans Dark Carpathian series. it is the bridge to 27 future books the great romances of Carpathian males and them finding their Lifemates. Dark Prince is about the Prince and leader of the Carpathian race Mikhail Dubrinsky . He is 1000 yrs old and has not found his lifemate. Female's are in short supply in the Carpathian race mostly males are being born and died in there first year of life. Mikhail is about to meet the dawn. Which is meeting death honorably by walking into the sun, rather then losing his sould and turning Vampire. He hears a voice in his head that shouldn't be able to be there and its an American women. Who is she and how can she speak to him on a metal pathway? Raven Whitney is a beautiful young American women who has mental gifts she can track and read others mines. Raven helps law enforcement track and find depraved sadist serial killers. Her last case has left her in a run down mental condition. She comes to the Carpathian Mountains for much needed rest and vacation. When she hears Mikhail's thoughts to kill himself she can't help but intervene!!

Dark Prince is a wonderful and very different PR story Carpathians are a race of beings from the earth. They have Not lost theirs souls but those that do by killing while taking blood become Vampire. These Carpathians are the real deal and not this new Vampires who can drink blood from a bottle and walk during the day. Nor do they eat organic food LOL!! They drink real human blood from a host victim by enthrallment, shape shift into any animal or bird. They can even become the wind, air, mist, fog and rain. They have insurmountable strength. They hunt their immortal race that has turned Vampire. This series is sensual, some my even say erotic. Carpathian are very Alpha Alpha male. . Of course Raven doesn't know Mikhail is a Prince and Immortal. She doesn't believe in Vampires. These two are wonderful characters and their love story is very romantic but hard becasue of one is human and the other is Immortal. The road to them coming together is not easy but very adventurous and exciting. Oh and very dangerous. This story will have you on the edge of your seat! The other characters are very well written, even the human hunter villains in the story. I have been reading The Dark Series since this first book was published in 1999. I love this author and this series and I highly Recommend all of Christine Feehan's series to you especially this one and The Ghostwalker series, No it is Not about ghost !! This Dark Prince is the Authors Cut Edition she has added 136 pages more then the original published book. It actually works very well and adds to the greatness of ths first edition book.

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Jayne d'Arcy

Great but, somebody smack Raven!

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2014

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I first read this as a paperback not too long after it came out. It was recommended to me about the same time Goodreads was suggested to me. Then, as now, I love the book.

Feehan's vampires are not technically the walking undead -- they are alive. They breathe, their hearts beat, they procreate. They do not eat food but metabolise human blood, regenerate in the Earth, and they have a reverence for all things living that vampires do not. They also live a very long time, and their numbers are dwindling because of the male's need to find their lifemate.

Mikhail, and the men of His Kind, are alpha males. They protect their women at all cost, they are arrogant, and have a really bad habit of ordering people about rather than asking.

Raven is human but she has an extraordinary psychic/sensitive ability that has helped her track down serial killers. She has not done this for too long because it takes a great deal out of her encountering such evil as there is in a serial killer.

Raven and Mikhail are brought together on the horizon of war that will involve human hunters, vampires, and the Carpathians.

There is sex in the book, but they are quite good, well-written scenes. To make love to a Carpathian is over-the-top, but Feehan embraces the incredulity of the imagination and weaves you into the sex scene with true expertise.

My one annoyance with the story came with Raven. She is such a strong character, but there were points where I thought she was being obtuse to the point that it was painful. She needed to be slapped. It took her an awful long, damned time to figure out that Mikhail was not about to have a one-night stand with her, and let her go.

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Dorothy E Ingram

The First Book Of A Good Series

Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2017

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I lucked out and found the first book - the author's cut - of Christine Feehan's Dark Carpathian series. Each book is a standalone novel focusing on one couple. This is the story of Mikhail and Raven.

I love Ms. Feehan's way of telling a story and building the Carpathian world. The plot is solid, the story is full of action and adventure, with lots of humorous interaction between Mikhail and Raven, and the other characters as well. Even the villains are well drawn. Her editing and proofreading teams are excellent.

If you love good, well written love stories with interesting characters - good, decent men and women, and really evil villains, this is good book and series for you. Ms. Feehan also has some other good series,too, that you might want to check out.

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Nel

Honestly I don't know what to think of it

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2018

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I remember I got this for free last year or so. I still had it as unread in my library. It's a slow start about finding a life mate to push darkness away.
There are creatures there are more than vampire.
It's seems an interesting story, but I had problems to get connected with the characters.
Mikhail and Raven two characters find each other. Emotional, I felt jumbled. Description wise not much, I hope for more information and description about history and the surroundings in this area, but nothing it would have lifted the storyline a bit.
The storyline development is very slow, and I struggled to believe that a woman can follow so fast a total stranger. Raven seemed to be a strong character, but she lose her free will. Mikhail is demanding, arrogant and knows no bounds.
I would have loved more involvement with the people in the village it was not enough. The action is written well, but that's all. I liked Griorgi good character. Overall the story lacks on something, I don't think I will getting the second one for this price, to high.

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kellyormerod

A writing style to get used to

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2021

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The storyline itself is really good and I continued to read because I enjoyed this a lot however the romance between the two main characters could have been written a lot better.

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I think that if Mikhail wouldn’t have told Raven about the whole lifemate thing and it was more of a slow burn and a little less obsessive, possessive, toxic love then I would have enjoyed that side of it a lot more and would definitely buy the next in the series because I cared about the characters. Once you get over that though and I just pretend in my head that the time line is months rather than what seems like a week then I enjoyed it much more.

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A vampire but not really

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 7, 2018

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Awesome. She is a psychic who having helped the police track numerous killer's is now burnt out and needs a place to recuperate. He is a dark, handsome hunk who unbeknownst to her is from another race. A race very similiar to a vampire in that they need blood but not in the sense that they kill indiscriminately. Although if they do not meet their soul mate, with time they do turn into one. He is close to turning but meeting her saves him. However his race has been hunted by hunters and when a hunter appears it is her who pays the price. What will happen to both of them? Will their love be enough for them? Brilliant story, fabulous characters (although I must admit that the cover is not how I pictured him). I had bought the hardcopy of this year's ago and have re-read it numerous times, so much so that I need another copy.

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SDS

A struggle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 23, 2020

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I was introduced to this author and series many years ago when I was in Boarders book store looking for a good vampire romance book and stumbled upon Dark Symphony, I fell in love and when I discovered that it was part of a series I immediately went hunting for the books before it.
I found it really hard to complete Dark Prince and honestly it’s not my favourite in the series BUT I do absolutely adore Mikhail and Raven in future books

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Deborah St.

Was better the first time round!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 10, 2021

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A much younger me read all these books & enjoyed them. I do like the story & always enjoy series of books.
Now I'm a fair bit older, I found the writing rather "flowery" & over discriptive. I also skip past all the sex scenes because it's a variation on a continuing theme.
Very popular books & loads of them, so this is just my older opinion. As I said, I did enjoy them the first time round.

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