NIGHTWALKER
The World of Nightwalkers #5
Jacquelyn Frank
Releasing Aug 25th, 2015
Loveswept
From New York Times bestselling
author Jacquelyn Frank comes the final chapter in the Nightwalkers saga! As the
momentous showdown with a powerful demon unfolds, a passionate encounter breaks
the ultimate taboo.
Kamen is a Bodywalker, an ancient soul reborn in one human host after another. He’s also a prisoner of his own kind: for it was Kamen who released Apep, the deadly god who threatens the existence of their world. To atone for this grievous error, Kamen accepts an urgent mission: to convince the other nations of the Nightwalkers to set aside their centuries-old conflicts and band together. If he fails, all will be lost. And no tribe presents a greater challenge than the Wraiths, the spectral beings who are feared and despised for their lethal deathtouch.
Kamen makes first contact with a stunning, ghostly pale beauty named Geneviève. Part Wraith and part human, scorned as a half-breed, Viève shares the hunger for redemption—and for connection. Her scintillating touch holds the kiss of death, and yet it makes Kamen feel more alive than ever. Soon his lips are pressed against hers, sending Viève into fits of desire and forging a bond that breaches the divide between them. Now they must unite all the Nightwalkers, from Vampire and Shadowdweller to Djynns, and fast—for Apep is ready for war.
Kamen is a Bodywalker, an ancient soul reborn in one human host after another. He’s also a prisoner of his own kind: for it was Kamen who released Apep, the deadly god who threatens the existence of their world. To atone for this grievous error, Kamen accepts an urgent mission: to convince the other nations of the Nightwalkers to set aside their centuries-old conflicts and band together. If he fails, all will be lost. And no tribe presents a greater challenge than the Wraiths, the spectral beings who are feared and despised for their lethal deathtouch.
Kamen makes first contact with a stunning, ghostly pale beauty named Geneviève. Part Wraith and part human, scorned as a half-breed, Viève shares the hunger for redemption—and for connection. Her scintillating touch holds the kiss of death, and yet it makes Kamen feel more alive than ever. Soon his lips are pressed against hers, sending Viève into fits of desire and forging a bond that breaches the divide between them. Now they must unite all the Nightwalkers, from Vampire and Shadowdweller to Djynns, and fast—for Apep is ready for war.
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Jacquelyn Frank is the New York Times
bestselling author of the Immortal Brothers series (Cursed by Fire, Cursed by
Ice, Bound by Sin, and Bound in Darkness), the World of Nightwalkers series
(Forbidden, Forever, Forsaken, Forged, and Nightwalker), the Three Worlds
series (Seduce Me in Dreams and Seduce Me in Flames), the Nightwalkers series
(Adam, Jacob, Gideon, Elijah, Damien, and Noah), the Shadowdwellers novels
(Ecstasy, Rapture, and Pleasure), and the Gatherers novels (Hunting Julian and
Stealing Katherine). She lives in North Carolina and has been writing romantic
fiction ever since she picked up her first teen romance at age thirteen.
An Excerpt from Nightwalker: Nightwalkers #7
He
had been blind, he thought as he pulled on a pair of slacks. He had discovered
that she just wanted power for herself at any cost. Kamen was a very smart man,
but he had been very stupid when it came to Odjit. He had spent far too much
time engrossed in his books and spells and not enough time living in the real
world and seeing truths for what they were.
Kamen
pulled on a collared shirt but did not button it. He knew he was likely to be
the only one up at this time of the day so he didn’t bother. He looked out of
the windows, their polarized glass keeping all hint of sunlight from touching
anyone in the house. Bodywalkers were paralyzed by the touch of the sun. All
Nightwalkers, in fact, had a weakness to sunlight. Djynns blistered and burned
unless they turned to their smoke form, Night Angel skin turned from ebony to
albino and their natural abilities became muffled. From what he had read,
Mysticals were forced to be in their mystical form rather than their human
form. Phoenixes burst into flame at the touch of the sun, leaving only ash from
which they would be reborn once darkness fell, and one touch of the sun made
Wraiths—who spent the darkness in their ghostly forms that could phase right
through solid objects—instantly solid, which was deadly if they happened to be
phasing through something at the time.
He
had found out about all of these weaknesses during his hours of study. What he
did not know was what the weaknesses of the other six Nightwalkers were, the
new Nightwalkers they had only just discovered: Demons, Lycanthropes, Mistrals,
Vampires, Druids, and Shadowdwellers. He wanted to learn about them, but so
far, it had proven next to impossible. Nothing in their written languages made
sense to him, and, in fact, without a human translator, there wasn’t even any
way of speaking with them. It was as if they weren’t there at all. Besides,
Kamen didn’t think they would be all that willing to share information about
their weaknesses in any event, never mind sharing it with the likes of him.
Still,
Kamen had spent hours in conversation with the Druid called Bella, whose talent
was the ability to read any language put before her. Any language, that is,
written by humans or the six Nightwalker races she knew of. The Bodywalkers
wrote in Egyptian or the language they were reborn into, plus any languages
they had studied over their incarnations. Kamen himself could read and write
and speak almost any language put in front of him. The product of having his
nose constantly in a book whenever he had a body.
But
while this Bella could read Egyptian, she could not read anything that referred
to any of the six races she was not familiar with. Instead, the pages would
simply be filled with the Egyptian alphabet. Something that might seem strange,
but not strange enough to have gotten her to question it earlier. And when
books in the Demon language were brought to Kamen, all he could see was
gibberish that meant absolutely nothing and was completely indecipherable. If
Bella wrote something in English about the other Nightwalkers, it just looked
like pages filled with the English alphabet.
It
was clear that whatever was keeping the two factions apart was determined to do
it in such a way that they would never have questioned it. And yet, for all of
this misdirection and codification, somehow a prophecy in the Demon language
about the twelve Nightwalker nations had survived, giving a hint of what was
out there. It had been useless with no context, until Bella, a half-breed
Druid, had literally run into Kat, a half-breed Djynn. While they could not see
each other nor speak to each other, they could write to each other and use
humans as go-betweens when getting messages across.
It
made for slow going, this communication process. It had been seven months now
since they had first found each other and they were still trying to smooth out
ways of communicating and transferring messages back and forth.
He
had been working with Bella since he had a larger store of language capability
than anyone else in the Portales, New Mexico, compound. If a solution was going
to be found, it was going to be found by the two of them. They just had to hope
it would happen sooner rather than later. Time was growing short.
For
Apep was about to give birth.
In
this incarnation, the imp god had taken over Odjit’s body. He had then chosen a
father from among the Nightwalker breeds, a powerful Night Angel named Dax, and
had raped him in order to impregnate himself. Apep was due to deliver the child
into the world any day now.
One
god was nearly impossible to fight, but two? And while there was still hope
they might stumble upon a text somewhere that would tell them how to get rid of
Apep, the god’s child would be something never seen before. There would be no
telling how to be rid of it.
Apep
had been quiet for the duration of his pregnancy, but after he gave birth, he
would focus on destroying them—Kamen was certain of it. He suspected that the
Nightwalkers were key to Apep’s undoing, and that the god knew it. So he would
destroy them as soon as he was able. Kamen believed that Apep’s pregnancy made
him vulnerable, and while they should probably strike before that weakness was
gone from him,
there were two problems. They didn’t know how to attack him and they no longer
knew where he was.
Actually
. . . Kamen was fairly certain he had a spell that could locate him, only he
hadn’t mentioned it to the others as yet. He felt in his gut that they weren’t
ready to face Apep, that they were missing a key element that would allow them
to defeat him at last. Bella agreed with him. And anyway, the surest way to
defeat him would be if the two Nightwalker factions could coordinate their
attacks, and until they figured out why they couldn’t see each other, they
wouldn’t be able to enact that kind of coordination effectively.
It
was a curse. It had to be a curse.
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Nightwalker:
Nightwalkers # 7
Jaquelyn Frank
Ratings and Recommendations
Rating: 5+ teacups
Recommended: Yes! Yes! Yes!
Book Club Worthy: In genre.
Review
Can Kamen bring all the Nightwalkers together before Apep strikes again? Will Viève and Kamen be able to keep their hands off each other long enough to fight the war?
This is book seven and the final book in the nightwalker series. Frank fans will not be disappointed. If you have never read a Frank book or any of the Nightwalker series, never fear, it is a standalone that you can pick up and still fully enjoy. On my blog it will receive a 5+ rating, because some books are just that good, and this one is that good. I am sorry to see the series end though it will be like saying good bye to a group of old friends. That is what this series of characters and stories feel like friends and their stories, which is how good fiction should read.
The plot is well written, the characters are fully developed. Even though characters appear from previous stories they are not thrown in without explanation that reading their stories is necessary before you understand or enjoy this book. I highly recommend this book and evert other Frank novel. If you are new to her work and start with this and would like to start from the beginning go back to where it all begins with Jacob.
Is this one for you? Frank fan, Sci-Fi, paranormal romance, like a lot of steamy adult scenes with your romance, want some super- hot males as your main men, strong females as your lead characters, and want a book you are going to find it hard to put down? Then this one is for you.
