After accidentally stabbing the Dark Hunter Valerius, Tabitha Deveraux feels that she must take care of him despite the fact that his grandfather crucified her brother-in-law centuries ago, and Valerius is the spitting image of his grandfather, and Kyrian loathes him. Beyond her feeling of duty, she is terribly attracted to Valerius, even though he is rather stuck up.

All grudges will have to be put aside when an evil force the entire Dark Hunter family thought defeated starts to arise once more. This time, the Destroyer wants to take control of Tabitha's niece, and it has enough power to even hurt Acheron if he gets in the way.

Most of the books in the series stand alone, but this one has enough ties to the other books that you really need to have the history from the prior volumes. If you do, then this is one of the most moving and exciting books yet. However, Tabitha and Simi provide humor to keep things from getting too dark.

We also find out a bit more about who or what Acheron is. The ending is a little bit on the sappy, happily ever after side. For some, if not most, of us, that's a good thing.

Synopsis
Valerius isn't a popular Dark-Hunter-he's a Roman, which means that the largely Greek Hunters have a major grudge against him and his civilization for superceding them. To make things worse, he's very conscious of his aristocratic background and breeding. So it serves him right when he runs into Tabitha Devereaux. She's sassy, sexy, and completely unwilling to take him seriously. (Not to mention that she's the twin sister of the wife of former Dark-Hunter Kyrian-Val's mortal enemy.) What Tabitha does take seriously is hunting and killing vampires-and soon she and Val have to grapple with the deadliest of all Daimons-one who's managed to come back from the dead, and one who holds a serious grudge against both of them. To win against evil, Val will have to loosen up, learn to trust, and put everything on the line to protect a man he hates and a woman who drives him nuts.