Darkness Awakened

Werewolf Finn Stavros and Vampire Lyra Marius defied the confines of their races and fell in love – 17 years ago. Only Finn, scared for Lyra's safety, cut the relationship off while he fought and won the Alpha position in his pack. He began searching for her as soon as he became Alpha, and has been searching ever since, with no luck...until she shows up on his pack's doorstep, desperate for help.

Lyra has a secret she's afraid to share with Finn, a secret that cost her her position in her Coven, and resulted in her building a life with her daughter in the human world. Now her daughter has been kidnapped, and Finn is the only person she can turn to for help.

Someone is releasing Akkadian demons, and Lyra is fearful they're trying to use her daughter to fulfill an old prophecy...a prophecy she's not told the full truth about. But it only takes their eyes meeting for them both to realize feelings are still there, the WANT is still there.

I really liked Lyra – she's built a life as a single mother for herself and her daughter, and she's done it with no help from family OR friends. She comes across as a strong, likeable woman whose goal to this point has been raising her daughter. Now the very center of her world is being threatened and she's willing to ask for help from a man she believes didn't want her. I liked the way Lyra and Finn interact – while this isn't a long story, I felt like the past relationship worked perfectly for them to fall for one another so quickly. Not once did Katie Reus lose the perspective of Lyra's daughter being the focal point of the story.

Finn's focus has been his pack – and finding Lyra. He's never been able to find another woman who even tempted him...Vampire or not, she's the woman for him. And he's all in to help her find her daughter, no matter the cost. He's strong, sexy and more than willing to show his pack that Lyra is the woman for him. There's lots of sexy, smokin' moments!

This was a great sexy shifter story!

LOVED the narration – I'm not always a fan of a male narrator, but he does a great job with the female voices AND the male voices. And WOW, Katie Reus teases us with a brief glimpse of a sexy Dragon shifter I have already read that as well just haven't been up to date with my reviewing.