by Kresley Cole
Part of Immortals After Dark, book 7
First published 2009
Murdoch Wroth has lived three centuries as a vampire without his heart beating once. Then he meets Daniela, a Valkyrie whose very presence brings his dead heart back to life. Danii wants him just as desperately, but her ice fey heritage makes her skin fatally cold to anyone who isn't her own kind. A single touch from Murdoch would cause them both unbearable agony. The vampire soldier refuses to give up on claiming the woman who has awakened him from emotional death. Danii aches for connection but knows the physical reality of what she is. They circle each other in mounting frustration, their desire growing stronger even as the impossibility of touch threatens to drive them apart. In the second novella, shapeshifter Aleaha Love works as an AIR agent hunting alien warriors. When golden commander Breean captures her instead, she faces a choice between her mission and the first man who makes her want to stop hiding behind stolen identities.
Genres: romance, fantasy, paranormal-romance, urban-fantasy
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, impossible-romance
436 pages · Hardcover · Pocket Books
Content warnings: explicit-sexual-content