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L. A. BANKS is the author of the Vampire Huntress Legend series. She has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a master’s in fine arts from Temple University. Banks considers herself a shape-shifter. She has written romance, women’s fiction, crime and suspense, and of course, dark vampire huntress lore. She lives with her daughter in an undisclosed lair somewhere in Philadelphia. You can visit her at www.vampire-huntress.com or crimsonmoonnovels.com

Dark fantasies. Dangerous seduction. Demon lovers.

This time, the fight against evil means giving up everything…

The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead. Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Vampire Huntress Damali Richards and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned strategy has been developed—one that is powerful enough to destroy them both while the fate of the world hangs in the balance…

THE FORSAKEN

Now there is only one entity who can best Damali, send Carlos packing, and put the Guardian team at mortal risk. This powerful being was once banished into a forsaken land and possesses everything that would bring a Neteru to his or her knees. Now it's not only Damali's soul that she risks losing—but her heart….

"In the seventh book in her incredibly successful series…Banks presents interesting myths—both biblical and mythological…with prose that's difficult to match—and most certainly just as difficult to put down."—Romantic Times BOOKreviews (4 ½ stars)

"Banks lays a lot of wisdom on the line about male-female relationships…But It's the characters and their passions coupled with the author's wild imagination that drive the narrative. . .[a] sizzling series."—Publishers Weekly

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Publishers Weekly

Weird energy is going down, and demon-killing Damali is not at all herself in Banks's seventh Vampire Huntress Legend (after The Damned). Soon after Damali walks out on her soul mate, ex-vampire Carlos Rivera, she meets a mysterious stranger who frightens-and tempts-her more than anyone or anything has before. Is he from the Light or from hell? Something is seriously wrong in the universe, and the forces of evil may be getting the upper hand. Banks lays a lot of wisdom on the line about male-female relationships, along with more of her complex cosmology that samples various religions, folklore and a wide array of myth. But it's the characters and their passions coupled with the author's wild imagination that drive the narrative. The story has gotten so complicated it may be difficult for a newcomer to fathom, but readers already enthralled with this sizzling series can look forward to major plot payoffs. (July) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.