Dark Knight: 1

Gabriella Woods has always been drawn to darkness.Her paintings have always been dark, haunting, and impossible to explain-until the creatures in her art step out of the shadows and into her life.After a vampire attacks her outside her gallery opening, Gabriella is rescued by Ethan St. John, a mysterious government agent whose family has protected hers for generations. Ethan reveals a truth her parents took to their graves: Gabriella belongs to a bloodline hunted by vampires, and her blood will become dangerously powerful as Halloween-and her twenty-fifth birthday-approaches.Forced to abandon her ordinary life, Gabriella must trust the guarded man sworn to protect her. But as they flee from San Francisco to hidden safe houses and through the strange world of the Shadowlands, their growing feelings become harder to deny.Ancient vampire Gordon LaCroix has waited centuries to reclaim the power carried in Gabriella's blood. With time running out and betrayal closing in, Ethan must decide how far he is willing to go to save the woman he was never supposed to love.And Gabriella must discover whether her dark knight can protect her from the monsters hunting her-or from the dangerous destiny awakening within her.Dark Knight is Book One of The Shadowlands, a paranormal romance filled with danger, mystery, vampires, and a love powerful enough to cross worlds.