Dark Needs at Night's Edge
Immortals After Dark 5
Kresley Cole
For Lauren,
my phenomenal editor and a dedicated champion
of the books. This is our tenth project together,
and it's still as crazy and exciting as the first.
Acknowledgments
Many, many thanks to my fantastic agent Robin Rue. So happy to be working with you. To Caroline Phipps, my steadfast friend who's always willing to do a midnight line-edit. To Gena Showalter, because my life's a more meaningful (and riotous) trip with you in it.
And to Roxanne St. Claire, a.k.a. G.U.F. Did I happen to mention you're my rock?
Glossary of Terms from the Living Book of Lore
The Lore
"... and those sentient creatures that are not human shall be united in one stratum, coexisting with, yet secret from, man's."
The Lykae Clan
"A proud, strapping warrior of the Keltoi People (or Hidden People, later known as Celts) was taken in his prime by a maddened wolf. The warrior rose from the dead, now an immortal, with the spirit of the beast latent within him. He displayed the wolf's traits: the need for touch, an intense loyalty to its kind, an animal craving for the delights of the flesh. Sometimes the beast rises... ."
Also called werewolves, war-wolds.Enemies of the Vampire Horde.
The Vampires
Two warring factions, the Horde and the Forbearer Army.
Each vampire seeks his Bride, his eternal wife, and walks as the living dead until he finds her.A Bride will render his body fully alive, giving him breath and making his heart beat, a process known as blooding.Tracing is teleporting, the vampires' means of travel. A vampire can only trace to destinations he's previously been or to those he can see.The Fallen are vampires who have killed by drinking a victim to death. Distinguished by their red eyes.