Betrayal's Shadow by K. H. LeMoyne

Story: 6
Presentation: 8
Total: 14
Publisher: Digital Crystal Press
Urban Fantasy Romance
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Blurb: What would you do to save your people from extinction?
What if your race held the key to mankind’s future?
One Guardian will risk hell to change the future.

Descended from the race of Guardians, Turen’s people have survived the last two hundred years, quarantined and isolated. Living in secrecy with no mates and no offspring, they fail to deliver on their ability to replenish and heal human souls through the birth of their Guardian children. Risking his life, Turen chooses capture at the hands of a comrade-turned-enemy to seek answers to change the future.

Mia Bowman has no knowledge of the secret Guardian race. Yet, her uncontrollable, nocturnal summons to Turen’s prison cell and her strong sense of justice leave her with little choice but to help him. She can heed his warning and stay clear of his people’s problems or she can ferret out the lies and unravel an ancient tale of murder and deceit. It will take an ultimate sacrifice to stop the unexpected evil and reverse a fatal ending to the Guardian line.
Review: I will definitely be on the look out for more in this series. I can’t wait to find out what happens to the Guardians in the future. When I first began reading this, I didn’t get the point of the first third of the book. Turen held captive by an insane Xavier, and Mia ‘popping’ in to visit him nightly and then Mia going home to write about it in her journal. The more I read, the more I knew that it was a building block for Turen and Mia’s relationship to flourish. I’m left to wonder, is Xavier as insane as he’s made out to be? Mia was the key to bringing the Guardians back to the way they were before their numbers were reduced by a virus, trusting in each other again.