A Deeper Shade of Crimson

For ten years now the vampires have lain dormant, holed up in their aerie - the palace in Moravia, the capital city of Sardonica. Their king, Riach, seems afraid of something, and hesitant to sally forth. For ten years Belladonna Ghulbane has enjoyed a quiet life, happily married and hidden away from her brother Riach. But Destiny, it seems, hates a stalemate. Now Elf, Druid and Mage alike must learn to set aside their differences as the vampires begin stirring anew. Petty squabbling must surrender to the simple need to survive. And the quiet life that Belladonna knew for a decade will become mere memory, an unholy sacrifice to the gods of war. Swept along by a wave of violence unavoidable even by the angels, Belladonna will be forced to re-think everything she once knew about life, love and magic. She must face her own bitter past, and the brother she so desperately wanted to forget - for she alone holds the right to the Riach's throne, should he be slain. As the world she once took for granted crumbles around her, the reluctant sorceress is faced with a choice. Run some more, hiding from that which she knows to be inescapable.or find the strength within herself to become the queen. The blood-drinkers will not lie quiet this time, and even if they would Sardonica has no more stomach for their presence. One must fall, either the world of men or the aristocracy of the Damned. There is no middle ground. And on the edge of the fray, Rachel - the Angel of Death - watches, and waits. ...... The second installment of Shaun Moser's Sardonican Chronicles, A Deeper Shade of Crimson is the mesmerizing finis to the dark saga begun in She-Wolf. As deeply emotional as it is morbid, it is a story ofpain and retribution - the story of one woman's quest to wash the seemingly indelible stains from her own soul.