DARKNESS HAS OVERRUN THE EARTH... Vampires and their plague-poxed brethren threaten to drown Europe in a blood-borne wave. At their helm, is Beltran, a vampire whose malicious nature is as black as his many secrets and sins. Standing between such evil and the destruction of all Cruximkind is Amedeo Aeternus-the immortal half-Cruxim hybrid and dark hunter of the prophecy, the fallen angel Cruor driven on by an unremitting desire for revenge on vampires worldwide. Along with the Sphinx Sabine and Cruxim Skylar-whose love for him is as fierce as their huntress natures-and a handful of Cruxim, mortals, gargoyles and other mythological creatures, Amedeo the dark angel must make a final stand, leading an epic battle that will end the horrors of his past and create a future for all of Cruximkind. But secrets still haunt him, too. With a battle so bloody on his hands, will the weight of Amedeo's fears for Skylar crush their romance beneath the very Crux their people have suffered for millennia? Or will Amedeo's strength raise his people up to the worship of a new creed, one of liberty, love, and redemption? An erotic, epic paranormal romance set amid a great war between vampires and angels in 18th Century Europe, the culmination of this critically acclaimed fantasy series is sure to leave dark angel lovers and vampire romance readers breathless.