"an imaginative and tightly woven tale"
Harlee Leveaux is a psychiatrist who works for the
government trying to decipher the inner echelons of the
vampires and lycans. When she is awakened from a decadent,
ultra-orgasmic dream, featuring two faceless men, and
kidnapped from her home in the dead of night, she naturally
assumes that the abduction is connected to her job in some
way. Harlee is mistaken and has much to learn about her
heritage; specifically, that she is not who and what she
thinks she is, and all the atrocities attributed to the
vampires and lycans she's been hired to study are
erroneous. But when she is told the whole truth by
her "uncle", and further that she must simultaneously mate
with her two captors, Harlee refuses to accept it. That the balance of peace between vampires and lycans has
been threatened after her "father's" assassination does not
concern her. That she does not feel the requisite sense of
revulsion at having sex with two men, especially the two
men whom abducted her from her bed, does. Duncan Kennard, a charming werewolf from Scotland heads
lycan security. Adrian Baine, a brooding vamp heads vampire
security. Each man has been charged with the duty of
Harlee's safekeeping and "initiation", the latter of which
will prove far more difficult than the former despite the
males' inhuman raw sex appeal, and if the contradictory
Harlee has anything to say about her uncle's decision for
her to mate. Outside fiction and fantasy media, the world at large is
unaware that vampires and werewolves exist and have been
among us for at least ten centuries; if the government has
its way and manages to exterminate the two species as
planned, this ignorance will continue to be the case. If
the banded vamps and lycans have their way, however, more
than just the government will know about and have to
contend with their existence. OUT OF THE DARKNESS is an imaginative and tightly woven
tale of two races establishing an uneasy peace to preserve
their kind, and one woman's trip of self-discovery and
sexual awareness. That the vampires and lycans in the story
come off far more sympathetic and appealing than the humans
is a testament to the Burtons' gift for characterization
and story-telling. Posted December 27, 2005
Reviewed by Gracie McKeever
Posted November 20, 2006
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