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Nightborn
The High Lord of the Immortal Darkyn has sent his most trusted warrior, Korvel, to retrieve a coveted scroll that's rumored to contain maps to Templar treasures and the secrets to eternal life. Uniting with Korvel to recover the dangerous artifact is Simone Derien, the daughter of the scroll's guardian, and a woman with many deadly secrets...
Reviewer: Susan
Review: Mar 5, 2012
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Nightborn brings us to a different chapter in the world of the Darkyns. The start of a new trilogy and just as thrilling as the previous Darkyn novels, Nightborn brings the mysterious Darkyn existence to a new level as past secrets unleash new threats into their already dangerous lives. Korvel is on a mission from his high lord to find an ancient scroll, which brings him to a more challenging task when he c
Nightshine
As a psychic, Samuel Taske can see the future, but he never predicted that he'd fall for San Francisco paramedic Charlotte Marena, the woman he's been charged with protecting. GenHance-the biotech company willing to do anything to acquire superhuman DNA-is after them. And when Samuel discovers that his Takyn powers have abandoned him, Charlie and her secret nighttime telepathic ability are their only hope for survival...
Reviewer: KariPrintReviews
Review: Oct 4, 2011
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
NIGHTSHINE is a fast paced, exciting new novel of the Kyndred and will definitely make new readers to the Series want to go back and read all the backlist. Kyndred are the progeny of the Darkyn; they are humans mixed with vampire DNA. Evil forces want to capture them, experiment on them, control them, and exploit them. GenHance is their biggest threat and they will do anything to acquire the superhuman DNA.
Frostfire
As one of the genetically enhanced Kyndred, Lilah's mind-reading powers make her vulnerable to a mysterious biotech company willing to murder to acquire her superhuman DNA. But her true fear may come from her own Kyndred brethren...
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Dec 10, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Lilah just wanted to stay off the radar. She knew that her ability to control the minds of animals would be dangerous to her freedom. But she still had to eat so what better job to have than an animal control officer. When she rescues some kids from a bear, it is caught on camera! Within hours it is being reported to GenHance, a company that will do anything to get a hold of DNA from humans who are special. B
Dreamveil
From the New York Times bestselling author
Rowan Dietrich grew up on the streets. Now she's out to start anew, find a job-and keep her identity as a Kyndred secret, as well as her ability to "dreamveil" herself into the object of others' desires.
But Rowan isn't using her gift when world-class chef Jean-Marc Dansant is stricken by her beauty and strength. And when dark secrets from her past threaten her new life and love, Rowan realizes she can't run forever...
Reviewer: Susan
Review: May 16, 2010
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Rowan Dietrich grew up on the streets and the tough lessons she learned is what keeps her alive each day as she restarts her life in a new city. Her identity as a Kyndred along with her special abilities make her a target for those that would like to use her for their own dark reasons, so she tries to keep a low profile every place she makes a home. When she meets Jean-Marc Dansant after wrecking
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Nov 16, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Jessa Bellamy has a talent that she keeps hidden from everyone. When she touches someone she can see their sins. She runs a company that specializes in background checks for employers. When a large contract is offered to her by a large and prestigious biotech company GenHance, she goes to meet with their representative. What she doesn’t know is that it is a ploy to kidnap her, kill her and take her DNA
Stay the Night : A Novel of the Darkyn
From the USA Today Bestselling Author of Twilight Fall
Outlaw, immortal vampire, and art thief, Darkyn Lord Robin of Locksley has evaded authorities for the last 700 years. At the moment, he's falling for undercover federal agent Christina Renshaw, who has no time for an affair. She hopes to snag an elusive art thief, but soon has no choice other than to join forces with Robin.
When the chase becomes dangerous, both will have to choose between losing each other and losing everything they value...
Reviewer: Susan
Review: Nov 3, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Stay the Night is a gripping multi-layered story of the ongoing lives with the Darkyn vampires. This story centers around Darkyn Lord Robin of Locksley as his world collides with FBI agent Chris Renshaw. They must team up to recover an art treasure of a notoriously coveted book by both the human world and the Darkyn world. Chris is a dedicated FBI agent and with all her training and skills, she
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Nov 25, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
I was a little sad to pick up this book since Ms. Viehl revealed that it would be the last of the Darkyn. But all good things should end on an upswing and this is definitely that. Robin of Locksley, introduced in Evermore (one of the best books ever!!!) meets his match with FBI agent Chris Renshaw. She is on the hunt for a thief called the Magic Man and plans to use the priceless Maiden’s Book of Hours
Twilight Fall
Immortal Darkyn Lord Valentin Jaus and landscape artist Liling Harper are two lost souls. Brought together by fate, bound together by passion, Valentin and Liling find solace in each other's arms. But the ties that bind them are deeper-and more dangerous-than either of them can possibly imagine.
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Jun 11, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
What an amazing book, what an amazing series. Lynn Viehl's masterful storytelling is a joy to behold.
In Twilight Fall we return to Chicago and the Darkyn lord Valentin Jaus. When we first met Valentin in Private Demon, we learned that he had accidentally infected a human, Jema, with the vampire virus and she slowly transformed. He was in love with her but she didn't return his feelings and fell in love w
Evermore
The NEW YORK TIMES and USA Today bestselling Darkyn series continues... Jayr is proud to be the only female ever permitted to serve as seneschal to a Darkyn lord. But in her centuries of service to Master Byrne, she has fallen in love with him. Now, Byrne plans to step down and hand over the Jardin to another Kyn lord-a move that threatens not only Jayr's position, but her very life...
Reviewer: Leslee
Review: Jan 17, 2008
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
This is the fifth installment in the story of the Darkyn. I loved this series when it started out and then became tired of vampire romances in general. I picked this one up out of habit and a mild interest to see how Ms. Viehl would handle both the heroine and the hero being Darkyn. Boy, I glad I did. This book was incredible. I had forgotten how original Ms. Viehl's take on vampires is.
Jayr is the only
Reviewer: Dreamweaver
Review: Jul 24, 2009
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Evermore is a heart wrenching story of unrequited love with inhuman restraint and eventual explosive consequences. This is the fifth novel in Lynn Viehl’s Darkyn Series.
Jayr came to “know” the brawny, built, and impressive Byrne when she saves his life as a young teenager. Jayr hears Byrne’s pleas as he is dying at the bottom of a pit set as a trap, impaled upon wooden studs,
Private Demon
Night after night, Jema Shaw's dreams have become a haven for Thierry Durand. But his nocturnal visits have placed her in danger and brought her between two ancient enemies: the Brethren and the Darkyn.
Reviewer: Deidre
Review: Jun 1, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Jema Shaw works in her family's museum and consult's for the local police department. She is also quite sick and lives at home with her, hypochondriac, scheming mother. Jema's mother is attempting to hide a secret from a dig that her husband was in charge of. She also has the, unknown, adoration of her neighbor Valentin Jaus, who has known Jema since birth and is also Darkyn. During an investigation for t
If Angels Burn
Alexandra Keller is Chicago's most brilliant reconstructive surgeon. Michael Cyprien is New Orleans' most reclusive millionaire-and in desperate need of Dr. Keller's skills. In the heart of the Garden District, Alex encounters the extraordinary Cyprien, uncovering a love Alex is willing to embrace, even if she must sacrifice her heart and soul to do so.
Reviewer: Deidre
Review: Jun 1, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Alexandra Keller is a reconstructive surgeon in Chicago. She is very busy, both with her hospital work and her bro bono work. Alex has been touted as having "the fastest scalpel in the World". Her brother, Father John Keller and she are estranged. Alex gets a request to go to New Orleans to perform a reconstructive surgery, on Michael Cyprien, for $4 million. She refuses the request as she is busy with h
Night Lost
Abandoned by his fellow Darkyn, Gabriel Seran is in continual torment as a prisoner of the religious zealots known as the Brethren. His only hope for rescue lies in Nicola Jefferson, a thief seeking a holy relic-and connected to Gabriel in more ways than she can possibly imagine.
Reviewer: Deidre
Review: May 8, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Nicola "Nick" Jefferson has a special talent; she is able to find lost things. Nick is looking for an artifact called the Golden Madonna, an object that her parents were murdered over. Over the last 10 years she has been looking for her parent's killer, during which time she has found Vampires, who are being tortured and held prisoner, and releases them. Nick has begun having dreams about a green man who i
Reviewer: Susan
Review: May 22, 2007
Genre(s): Paranormal Romance
Night Lost by Lynn Viehl is an intriguing story in her fabulous Novels of the Darkyn. Within her multiple storylines I was captivated with the plots involving previous characters Michael and Alexandria and the new ones Gabriel and Nicola.
We have Michel trying to rescue Alexandria from the mentally unstable Darkyn king and Nicola who is drawn to Gabriel through dreams to rescue him from a sealed torture
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