"A gritty and emotional vampire tale."

Jaxon (Jaxx) Montgomery has built a reputation as a respected police officer. Having lived through terrible ordeals of victimization and abuse as a child, Jaxx is determined to do all she can to protect people both from the unknown bad guys in the world and more specifically from the evil that stalks her and threatens everyone she cares about.

When Jaxx and her partner are wounded rescuing a fellow officer during an ambush, Jaxx, herself, is somehow rescued by a mysterious, powerful and compelling stranger. Who is he, and how did he manage to bring her back from the brink of death?

Lucian and his brother Gabriel have spent centuries protecting the world from the evil that males from their Carpathian race, turned vampire, can do. Now that Lucian has found the one woman in the world who can bring color and emotions back to his gray world, he vows to protect her at all costs and never let her go.

What he doesn't count on is that this small, wonderful being who has entered his life has a will and a need to protect that is as strong as his own.

Dark, sensuous, sometimes violent and bloody, DARK GUARDIAN is by turns titillating and shocking with its vivid portrayal of the maniacal evil stalking Jaxx, and Lucian's desperate need to protect her in spite of her insistence that he stay out of harm's way. Jaxon has lived through a lot in her short life, and if anyone deserves to have a hero come into her life, it is she.

Reviewed by Janice Bennett
Posted April 25, 2002

Summary

Jaxon Montgomery is a woman hunted. Trained by the Special Forces, honed by a traumatic childhood, she is a policewoman with an undisputed reputation. She meets her match when she is set up to be murdered by an enemy. Hunted on all sides, she can only turn to the mysterious stranger who seems more dangerous than any other she has ever known.

He ran with the wolves?
Materialized from the mists?
Hijacked the very heavens to his whims?

He was the Dark Guardian of his people. So how, after centuries of bleak, soulless existence, had he suddenly come to crave petite, curvy, colorful lady cop Jaxon Montgomery, who foolishly made it her life?s work to protect others from harm?

Fiercely daring, Jaxx would sacrifice anything to shield others - particularly since a deadly menace dogged her every footstep, threatening all who got close to her. And strangely seductive, piercingly erotic, this stranger claiming her was no exception. He was powerfully, perilously mesmerizing-oddly gentle yet clearly a born predator. He had vowed to possess her, to guard her for all time. Yet with his every thirsty kiss, was he drawing Jaxon more deeply into danger?and his dark mysterious desires?