Darkness Revealed

Guardians of Eternity
Book 4

March 2009
Zebra Paranormal
ISBN 978-0-8217-7939-2

Two hundred years have passed since Anna Randal gave herself to Conde Cezar in a night of relentless passion.  Since then, Anna has become filled with unearthly power she can't begin to comprehend.  And the sexy, charming vampire responsible has eluded all of her efforts to track him down, until now...

Cezar's blissful encounter with Anna cost him two centuries of penance.  But one thing hasn't changed...his body's response to her is as urgent as ever.  Now, commanded by the Oracles to keep watch over Anna, Cezar finds himself torn between his need to protect her...and to possess her...

Someone wants Anna dead.  And as an ancient enemy prepares to wage a terrifying battle, Anna must decide whether to succumb to a dark. burning desire...and accept a destiny that could change the world forever...

Reviews

 Ivy expands her vibrant paranormal world with a new story that focuses on star- crossed lovers forcibly separated by powers-that-be. In addition to her sexy  vampires, Ivy weaves in Arthurian and fey plot threads to keep the action brisk
 and the danger imminent. Her place in the paranormal pantheon is assured!

 Summary: Two centuries ago, a chance romantic encounter between vampire Conde Cesar  and Anna Randal changed both their lives. Before, Anna thought of herself as normal, but  since she hasn't aged in the 200 years since, she blames Cesar for both her circumstances  and his apparent abandonment.

 It was not Cesar's choice to disappear from Anna's life. He was forcibly removed by the
 powerful oracles. It's Anna's destiny to become an oracle herself, and as penance for their  sexual encounter, Cesar has been forced to serve the oracles. Now a new threat against
 Anna has arisen as Morgana, queen of the fey, is determined to destroy her. Protecting
 Anna is Cesar's mission and obsession, but can he gain a second chance at love?
 (ZEBRA, Mar., 384 pp., $6.99) HOT

—Jill M. Smith

 Darkness Revealed by Alexandra Ivy
 5 Blue Ribbons
 Guardians of Eternity, Book 4

 Alexandra Ivy's fourth Guardians of Eternity installment features Conde Cezar and Anna  Randall. Hundreds of years ago, their one indiscretion changed their lives forever. Now Anna
 is back and she has questions. Questions only Cezar can answer.

 Over two hundred years ago, Conde Cezar's immortal life changed. A vampire, he was used to
 being pursued as well as pursuing. When he notices innocent Anna Randall's fixation with him  at a ball, he lies in wait for her knowing that she will go in search of him. And she does. Without
 clearly thinking his plans through and in a blaze of passion, Cezar seduces Anna.  Both  succumb to their mutual attraction to each other only to lose each other within minutes.

 Anna Randall doesn't know what Conde Cezar did to her the night he seduced her but  whatever it was, he needs to make it stop. Unable to form relationships with men, Anna can't  make herself even date. Then there is her life. She is over two hundred years old and still
 looks like a young woman. But the most important question Anna has for Cezar is the strength  and psychic abilities she seems to have acquired. It has taken her this long to find him and he  owes her some answers - answers that Anna might not get if whoever is after them succeeds in  finding them.

 Cezar has more than paid the price for seducing Anna Randall. Two centuries of penance to  the Oracles more than makes up for his seduction of her. Now, he has been given the task of  protecting her from her arch enemy. Cezar knows that the attraction he felt for her so long ago  has never died - it has just grown stronger. Forbidden to touch her because of her destiny,  Cezar finds it harder and harder to obey. When her life is threatened yet again, enough is  enough. Anna Randall is his and Cezar decides that life isn't worth living if they are not  together. He just hopes the Oracles will understand.

 Talk about true love! Anna and Cezar had no idea the plans they were setting into motion two  hundred years ago when they couldn't keep their hands off of each other. Anna's life was in  the hands of the Oracles, protected, and so Cezar made a grave error in judgment in his  seduction of her. I like to think that had he known how important Anna would come to be that  he would still have seduced her. I could feel the love he felt for her in every scene, especially  his old world style of thinking that as a woman she needed protecting. Laughing more than  once at Anna's inability to do what Cezar tells her, I couldn't help but see her feelings for
 him as well.

 The path to true love is never easy; especially if you are protected by the chosen ones and
 the mate of a vampire. Anna's true feelings for Cezar, while she really wanted to be mad at
 him, were easily apparent and her confusion at his so called lack of attachment to her made
  me miserable for her. She wanted him to love her; and he did, with his entire being, but he
 was also stuck. To love Anna meant to lose her and Cezar was desperate to make sure he
 was never without her again.

 Poignant, passionate and highly addictive, DARKNESS REVEALED is not to be missed.  Alexandra Ivy continues to up the ante on these highly entertaining and emotionally gripping  novels. My fixation with this series continues with no sign of letting up!