Makenna is a fallen angel. Cast out of heaven by God and cursed by 'the Beast', she now lives and works amongst humans, with one huge difference. Makenna's curse means that she carries within her a demon she calls 'the darkling', a being who takes over her body causing her to grow talons and fangs. The darkling has superior strength and superior senses, which Makenna can use to her advantage, the problem is that the darkling is a vampire, and Makenna must drink human blood every now and then to keep it happy and satisfied. If she allows it to become hungry, then she risks losing control of her body.
Gabe is an English professor who has written a book about fallen angels and vampires. He meets Makenna, who owns a bookstore, and she decides to read his book before he does a book signing event in her store. After reading the book Makenna is shocked and angry. She knows that the story is not a work of fiction, but instead the life story of her best friend and fallen angel Abriana, and she sets out to ask Gabe where Abriana is as she has been missing for many years.
Confronting Gabe it soon becomes clear that he doesn't know where Abriana is, and truly believed his book to be fiction. Makenna is far from happy about this though, she knows that if she recognised Abriana's story in Gabe's book, that it will not be long before another demon comes to the same conclusion, and that Gabe is now in danger.
Taking Gabe under her wing, Makenna strives to keep him out of trouble and out of harms way, although this is obviously more difficult than she thought, and she soon ends up with much bigger problems on her hands when Abriana's old lover turns up.
This book is an interesting twist on the vampire idea, but to be honest the vampire stuff is almost secondary to the main storyline, so don't be put off if you're not the biggest fan of vampire stories!
There are a few errors in the text, but it doesn't detract from the story. One thing I did find a bit annoying was that there wasn't much explanation as to what the story actually WAS in Gabe's book, so you sort of felt like you were missing something while you were reading, but overall was a good read and a good storyline. 4 out of 5.
(Book length: 407 pages / 7399 kindle locations)
