Dark Touch

Sloan Stolar is trying to leave behind her haunted past in California. As an assistant at a busy law firm in Washington, she doesn't love her job, but things could be worse, a lot worse. Kept late one night at work, she meets a man who with a single touch, will forever change her life. A single act of kindness will bring violence and pain to her doorstep.

A man with pure black eyes now stalks her dreams, turning her sleeping hours into an endless nightmare. Confused and afraid, Sloan tries to come to terms with her new reality. Suddenly passing her latest art exam isn't the most important part of her day, now she has to do all she can to simply survive. She desperately wants to tell someone about the man who's become obsessed, but who would believe her? Especially when that same man has supernatural powers. This book has a character with the most realistic reaction to the supernatural I have read in a while. Sloan battles with herself to accept the reality of the supernatural, slowly accepting what is happening to her isn't some mental break. And the inner torment she has at being alone in this situation was heart breaking. It really hit home for me. I would have liked to see Sloan's past be a bigger part of the book. There are moments where it influences her, but it's not enough of a presence. She does seem to have a sort of PTSD from her home life in California and incorporating more symptoms of it would have been an interesting read. While I understand it isn't he focus of the book, it is a large part of who she is and it is only mentioned in full once. The writing style was simpler than I was used to, and some of the dialogue was clunky and didn't read well. The swears Sloan dropped also seemed a bit overdone, like they were being put on the page just to shock readers. I'm also not a huge fan of sudden romances, even in crisis situations, so when Sloan suddenly finds love it fell short. The book was a quick a read and I appreciated the new take on good and evil, though the explanations of it were rushed towards the end. Sloan isn't able to do a lot of information hunting in the book, and the reasons stated were believable, but I still would have liked to see more answers founds out by Sloan, rather than an exposition right at the end. Sloan, for the most part, does have her questions answered, but it was hard to take it all in. I can't say I am interested in reading the next book. I do think people who enjoy fast paced love stories would enjoy this and anyone who needs a quick supernatural read.