Veritas’ normal role is police, judge, and jury to reprobates like Ian. But she has her own ax to grind with Dagon, so if she can use Ian as bait...well, all’s fair in law and war. As they scour supernatural hotspots to perfect their trap, Veritas soon realizes Ian’s carefully cultivated, devil-may-care roguish image hides something much more powerful. And Ian discovers Veritas has shocking secrets of her own. As they’re drawn to each other with a passion as intense as their peril, either love or justice will prevail. But each will have devastating consequences.
After centuries of existence, Ian is known for his rebellions and seductive manner, and he has collected enemies as well, such as Dagon. The demon wants to collect on Ian's soul but suddenly Veritas, a law enforcer, shows up making a deal with Ian, telling him they could join forces to defeat the demon. Ian was never one to turn his face on a challenge but surely Veritas has some secret agenda she isn't sharing... in the meantime, his charm and personality can certainly make up for most of his insubordination but will he be able to abide Verita's rules?
What time and memories do to us... I loved PNR back in the day and to an extend, I still do, but it is also true that it's not the genre that seduces me the most nowadays. Still, I was fond of the memories I got back when I started reading this book, which is a follow-up to events from the other books in the Night Huntress series. What fascination I had with this series.... Some beloved characters also have cameos and that was quite a treat, especially since I do think Ian, the protagonist, has the "rizz".
Actually, this is interesting because unlike what I assumed, the story is not told from Ian's POV. The Night Huntress books and all the spin offs are narrated in first person, usually a heroine, and the same happened here. The POV we have is that of Veritas, a law enforcer for the vampires and in this story she pairs up with Ian so they can trap and defeat a demon who has a deal with Ian, with the price of his soul. Veritas has a plan to kill Dagon, the demon, and she hopes that with Ian's help things will happen quicker, but of course it's not that easy.
As Veritas and Ian go along with their plans, they deal with some obstacles and they need to elude friends so that they don't get in danger, but while they go on with all this, they still start becoming reluctant friends and, at some point, more than friends. It's to be expected that they share personal things and a huge part of the novel, as it had happened with all the other books before, is focused on seeing them bond and slowly trusting one another the more things they find out about each other.
Reading this story brought back memories and some notions of what had happened in other books, but I'll have to say there were some more specific elements I no longer recalled. I think the author did a good enough job to create a story for a new reader, someone who might not have the information from past books, but not so much that a fan would be fully bored. Still, some things aren't as easy to remember... I must also say that Ian was still as charming but I must have let my impressions slide because I thought he would still be as cocky and rebellious as I remember him being in some books...here, he was a little less revolutionary.
To be fair, the last book I had read by the author was in 2017 and that certainly makes for some of my poor notions. I was still marveled by Ian in general, don't get me wrong, and I did like how he was seen by narrator Veritas, but even accepting this is a romance too, I was expecting more about Ian and not as much about them as a couple...after all, there are more books to come. We do learn things about them and their pasts, things we had not known from the other books, so that did pay off somehow.
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