Valin has never quite fit in amongst the rest of his Paladin brothers. His power to manipulate darkness and slip into the shade puts him at odds with the Paladin's purpose of eradicating evil with the power of God's Light. Only his dark-edged humour hides from his brothers how close he is to being lost to his dark nature.


But the vampire Gabriella awakens within him something he thought long buried. It is forbidden for a warrior of the Light to love a creature of the Dark. But maybe he was never all that Light to begin with...