Waking the Darkness: Dark Lineage Series Book 1
Book Details
Author(s)A. J. Koci
PublisherA. J. Koci
ISBN / ASINB00IB1PW30
ISBN-13978B00IB1PW32
MarketplaceIndia 🇮🇳
Description
Something dark is stirring inside of Madison—something she thought gone or buried so deep it would never again resurface. Disturbing dreams and strange impulses tug at her, and she wants nothing more than to hide in the safety of her family's manor. But her father has already announced a ball in honor of her intentions to marry. Propriety won't allow her to hide.
At any other time, Madison would delight in the way her lavish blue and white gown flatters her body, relish the attention from so many fetching young men, and happily spend the whole night twirling amongst the other nobility and rising industrialists on the dance floor, but tonight she is too preoccupied with the ominous desires building in her chest. She's too afraid to get close and hardly expects to find a suitor. But when Augustus Stokes, a peculiar, weather-worn but handsome noble asks for a dance, her heart overrides her fear. Holding his hands, being close to him on the dance floor, she feels strangely comfortable. That is, until the lights go out.
In an instant, rapture becomes terror. Madison's world turns sinister and twisted, and the only person she can rely on is Augustus, a man bristling with weaponry and secrets wrapped in the heirs of nobility. On the run with no one to turn to but each other, each step takes them deeper and deeper into a dark reality of supernatural forces and malicious pursuers with Madison, and whatever lurks inside of her, at the center of it all.
Even as her desires for him grow, she doesn't know if she can trust Augustus. Worse, she doesn't know if she can trust any of the strange new feelings welling up inside of her, and she fears what might happen if she acts on them.
At any other time, Madison would delight in the way her lavish blue and white gown flatters her body, relish the attention from so many fetching young men, and happily spend the whole night twirling amongst the other nobility and rising industrialists on the dance floor, but tonight she is too preoccupied with the ominous desires building in her chest. She's too afraid to get close and hardly expects to find a suitor. But when Augustus Stokes, a peculiar, weather-worn but handsome noble asks for a dance, her heart overrides her fear. Holding his hands, being close to him on the dance floor, she feels strangely comfortable. That is, until the lights go out.
In an instant, rapture becomes terror. Madison's world turns sinister and twisted, and the only person she can rely on is Augustus, a man bristling with weaponry and secrets wrapped in the heirs of nobility. On the run with no one to turn to but each other, each step takes them deeper and deeper into a dark reality of supernatural forces and malicious pursuers with Madison, and whatever lurks inside of her, at the center of it all.
Even as her desires for him grow, she doesn't know if she can trust Augustus. Worse, she doesn't know if she can trust any of the strange new feelings welling up inside of her, and she fears what might happen if she acts on them.
