Eternal Nightshade

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Eternal Nightshade: Book Three - Blood & Prophecy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> opens in the wake of catastrophe. Jennifer Benoit the Nightshade Reborn slayer of an Elder and Jerry Krause the mortal heart of her legend arrive in Paris fugitives wrapped in rumor. The city trembles under her shadow. Bounty posters digital whispers and vampire decrees declare her both saint and monster.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>From the first night Jennifer feels the change inside her. The Elder's blood has altered her hunger twisting it into visions and desire too dangerous to ignore. Jerry's love anchors her but the psychic bond between them grows volatile pleasure and power inseparable. Their feeding becomes ritual; their intimacy becomes prophecy.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Drawn back to the ruins of her old village Saint-Martin-du-Tertre Jennifer faces ghosts of the life she lost and the impossible truth that the old myths of her childhood now bow to her. There she reunites with Valérie Devaux the friend she turned and left behind rekindling both loyalty and longing. Together Jennifer Jerry and Valérie form a fragile trinity lover legend and shadow sheltering a rising tide of Younglings who call her Mother Night.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>As Paris becomes the epicenter of supernatural rebellion the Vampire Council fractures. Some Elders seek her death; others see in her the birth of a new order. Viktor Renaud reformer and manipulator offers uneasy alliance. The Krause legacy returns in blood and warning and a new hunter silent relentless stalks her through the city's catacombs.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Every night brings new hunger new intimacy new war. Jennifer's family of outcasts grows even as danger closes in. Love becomes weapon prophecy becomes curse and her own body becomes battleground the promise of creation or destruction the child or the dawn the end or the beginning.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>By the time dawn rises over Paris the world has already changed. The Nightshade has returned the law is dead and every myth now bears her name.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)>Blood & Prophecy</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(83 90 98 1)> is the story of what happens when the hunted becomes the future and the future demands blood.</span></p>