Kiss of Midnight: A Midnight Breed Novel (The Midnight Breed Series Book 1)

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night--or this man--is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed--a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.<br><br>Lucan Thorne despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a Breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind--and the unwitting humans existing alongside them--from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.<br><br>Here, in the arms of the Breed's formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all. . . .<br><br><br><br><b>The complete Midnight Breed Series reading order:</b><br><br>Book 0.5: A Touch of Midnight (prequel novella - free ebook) <br><br>Book 1: Kiss of Midnight<br><br>Book 2: Kiss of Crimson<br><br>Book 3: Midnight Awakening<br><br>Book 4: Midnight Rising<br><br>Book 5: Veil of Midnight<br><br>Book 6: Ashes of Midnight<br><br>Book 7: Shades of Midnight<br><br>Book 8: Taken by Midnight<br><br>Book 9: Deeper Than Midnight<br><br>Book 9.5: A Taste of Midnight (novella, ebook only) <br><br>Book 10: Darker After Midnight<br><br>The Midnight Breed Series Companion<br><br>Book 11: Edge of Dawn<br><br>Book 11.5: Marked by Midnight (novella) <br><br>Book 12: Crave the Night<br><br>Book 12.5: Tempted by Midnight (novella) <br><br>Book 13: Bound to Darkness (July 30, 2015) <br><br>Book 13.5: Stroke of Midnight (novella, Oct 2015) <br><br><i>...and more to come!</i>