"Rowe is a paranormal star." ~J.R. WardA warrior with blackened honor.Intensely loyal and yet violently unpredictable, immortal warrior Ryland Samuels has one chance to save the soul of the man he owes his life to, but with each passing moment, he spirals closer and closer to the life that once trapped him, a nightmare that has been waiting to reclaim him for almost a thousand years. An angel driven to the edge.Ravaged by betrayal and loss, Catherine Taylor is almost out of time to save her daughter from a place so deadly, so haunted, that no one has emerged alive in centuries. The angel of death will not let anything stand in her way, not even the deadly, haunted warrior on a lethal mission. Ryland needs her help desperately, but she needs his even more…and they can't both get what they want. Enslaved by their own darkness.Forbidden heat explodes between the two tormented, isolated souls when they meet, a fiery, sensual connection that threatens everything they hold most dear. Will they survive the passion raging between them? Or will it cost them the one thing each cannot bear to lose? "Once more, award winning author Stephanie Rowe pens a winner with DARKNESS UNLEASHED, the seventh book in her amazing ORDER OF THE BLADE series. The eternal battle between good and evil is epitomized in this action-packed, sensual story that will keep you perched on the edge of your seat, eagerly turning pages to discover the outcome…. [DARKNESS UNLEASHED is] one of the best paranormal books I have read this year. Brimming with humor, danger, hunky Calydons, angels, demons, witty banter, sizzling sensuality, surprising plot twists, loyalty, love and revelations, this fast-paced story is one you will not soon forget…You do not want to miss it!" ~Romancejunkies.com"Stephanie Rowe has done it again. The Order Of The Blade series is one of the best urban fantasy/paranormal series I have read...Keep them coming!" ~Alexx Mom Cat's Gateway Book BlogBONUS MATERIAL: DARKNESS UNLEASHED contains excerpts from select Stephanie Rowe novels, including the November 2013 release INFERNO OF DARKNESS. Books in the Order of the Blade series: DARKNESS AWAKENED (Book One), DARKNESS SEDUCED (Book Two), DARKNESS SURRENDERED (Book Three), FOREVER IN DARKNESS (novella)(Book Four), DARKNESS REBORN (Book Five), DARKNESS ARISEN (Book Six), DARKNESS UNLEASHED (Book Seven) (Available August 27, 2013), INFERNO OF DARKNESS (novella)(Book Eight)(Available Nov. 2013), DARKNESS POSSESSED (Book Nine)(Available 2014)ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Four-time RITA® Award nominee and Golden Heart® Award winner Stephanie Rowe is the nationally bestselling author of more than twenty published novels with major New York publishers. Stephanie has received starred reviews from Booklist and high praise from Publisher's Weekly. Stephanie is the author of the bestselling Order of the Blade paranormal romance series, as well as the new intensely passionate Ever After series, and the gripping Alaska Heat series. She will be launching a new dark paranormal series, The Ruined Lords, in early 2014, with the novel GUARDIAN OF THE HIDDEN. She also writes teen fiction, middle grade fiction, and motivational nonfiction.