During the rise of Nazi Germany, Hagen Messer joins the Royal Air Force as an American soldier who specializes in tracking. He’s attached to British commandos and given a seemingly simple mission—to find a captive and destroy a dam—but everything goes awry. Hagen’s plane crashes into Germany’s Wehr Forest and he has to use his extrasensory abilities to track the captive to nearby Wehr Wolff Castle, a secret Nazi base where vile experiments are being conducted.

Hagen and his surviving team members must sneak into the castle and devise a way to destroy the experimental labs creating diabolical creatures. Hagen is horrified to find Nazis and scientists with no scruples, and at the most inconvenient time, he learns that he may be in love with one of his teammates, an Irishman named Liam. In order to protect his love and his friends, Hagen must feign nonchalance amidst pure degeneracy and suspicion. Hagen soon discovers, though, that he is in over his head.

What may not only redeem him, but also save his lover and friends, is a childhood past and a darkness lurking deep inside him, just waiting to be engaged.

Legends tell of large cats defending the principality of Tournai, but such creatures have been lost to time.
 
Or have they?
 
Prince Philip inherited the throne at a young age, and since then, his life has centered around ruling his country and resisting those pressuring him to take a wife and conceive an heir—forcing him to hide his attraction to men. When kind-hearted Amory is offered to the prince in exchange for more time for Amory’s father to complete a commission, both Philip and Amory are horrified. But Philip agrees to keep Amory at the palace, where they gradually become friends, then lovers. For the first time in his life, Philip is free to share not only his heart, but the magical shape-shifting ability that runs in the royal bloodline.

Neither Amory nor Philip imagined falling in love, and they certainly don’t expect the lengths those who oppose their relationship will go to keep them apart—maybe even resorting to murder.

“I want you,” he whispered.
Denae smiled, because she knew that was as close to a profession of affection as she would ever get from Kellan. And oddly, it was enough.

Darkest Flame is a wonderfully complex and dramatic Paranormal/Fantasy where dragons are real and humans have no idea of their existence.

This new Dark Kings series is a spinoff of the popular Dark Sword series, which was about Highlander warriors. You should still be able to follow along with the characters and the world Donna Grant has created here even if you haven’t had the pleasure of reading anything from Dark Sword yet. There is a lot to take in and understand with the dragons, the Dragon Kings and their human mates, the Light Fae and the Dark Fae. But I found it fascinating and extremely engaging. The writing is smart, with action scenes that are easy to picture, having just the right amount of detail given. And the characters were vivid, complete and worked well for the roles in the storyline they were given.

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