"Fantastic addition to the Dark Hunter series!"

This is the latest story in Ms. Kenyon's Dark Hunter series. I've had the pleasure to read and review five of them. With each new story, I get the opportunity to revisit the past heroes and come to understand these characters more thoroughly. Valerius Magnus indeed joins Kyrian, Talon, Zarek and Wulf as a memorable hero for me. This story has a different mood about it, one of almost a somber finality set inside a tornado.

Valerius is accepting of his position, of his punishment and is convinced he deserves everyone's hatred. When Tabitha Devereaux, a human tornado of actions and emotions, befriends him, the world as he knows it is tossed upside down. Feelings of warmth and companionship so foreign to him give Valerius a strong desire to keep Tabitha in his life, yet he cannot. First, he's forbidden to have a mate, and second, he discovers that Tabitha is Kyrian's sister-in- law. Tabitha is a twin to Amanda, the woman who saved Kyrian's soul and earned his freedom to become a mortal man. Valerius is Kyrian's most hated enemy and he would never want to keep Tabitha from the family she so loves.

However, Tabitha's family is marked and Valerius, as well as the rest of the Dark Hunters and all who know Valerius, must put their hatred for him aside to strive toward a common goal.

SEIZE THE NIGHT is a story of danger with high stakes as the Dark Hunter's enemies learn secrets that give them an edge. It's also a story of Tabitha's empathy and love for people, her ability to look past reputations and accusations to see the person's real heart. This story attacks the obstacles to principles and propriety and goes for the gold -- love conquers all.

Reviewed by Sabrina Marino
Posted January 10, 2005

Summary

Valerius isn't a popular Dark-Hunter-he's a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilization for superceding them. To make things worse, he's very conscious of his aristocratic background and breeding. So it serves him right when he runs into Tabitha Devereaux. She's sassy, sexy, and completely unwilling to take him seriously. (Not to mention that she's the twin sister of the wife of former Dark-Hunter Kyrian-Val's mortal enemy.) What Tabitha does take seriously is hunting and killing vampires-and soon she and Val have to grapple with the deadliest of all Daimons-one who's managed to come back from the dead, and one who holds a serious grudge against both of them. To win against evil, Val will have to loosen up, learn to trust, and put everything on the line to protect a man he hates and a woman who drives him nuts.