Blood Tears
by Raven Dane, 2005

What if you had the choice-to live virtually forever, unchangingly young and handsome but in humiliating isolation? Or accept inevitable death, as you openly confront your enemies. That is the dilemma facing Prince Azrar.

When a foreign human child is abandoned by her family to die in Isolann’s wolf-ridden forests, she is taken to live under Azrar‘s protection as his ward. For the strange ability that Khari possesses, a power that terrified her own people, could be the only chance for Azrar’s survival. The Prince is not human but the last warlord of the Dark Kind, a race of beautiful but deadly creatures that have preyed on mankind since before recorded history. An ancient Pact of duty and honour binds him to protect the humans under his care in the remote mountain realm in the Upper Balkans. The rest of the world has forgotten this land, only oblivion has saved Azrar’s life until the twentieth century and now that fragile security is under threat from brash new humans and their ever-advancing technology. Azrar has no choice but to stay and fight, knowing it will inevitably mean his death but could that sacrifice alone be enough to save his people?

Blood Tears is the first of a series about Azrar and the other survivors of the charismatic though deadly Dark Kind, books that will delight readers who hate when a Van Helsing type appears to spoil the adventures!