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Their forbidden love is destined to destroy one or the other.

Desperate to master the rage and volatile emotions that have become his nemesis since he was forcefully transformed into a vampire two years earlier, Michael Lynsay, the enigmatic, sexy lead singer for the rock group The Fallen is setting down his microphone for a few months. If he doesn't learn to control the darkness within, he risks exposing his secret and losing grip on his morality.

Jane Renan is an old soul, and each decade sees her drawing further from the extraordinary confusion of the world and into her own creative arts. Until she discovers a man who is her complete opposite.

Cocky and arrogant, Michael teases at Jane's fickle desires. His sense of humor and sweetness infuses a strange counterbalance to the rock star image he cannot shake, nor does he wish to change his lifestyle of sex, blood and rock n' roll. He is alive and exciting, a prancing peacock who lives for the adoration from his fans. (His fans have dubbed him the Dark Angel because he sometimes wears black angel wings on stage.) Jane recognizes him as someone who can draw her out from her shell—and yet, he could serve useful for a very dark secret she holds. Michael is attracted to her serenity—she calms his monster.

Drawn to one another by inexplicable desire, they both hide secrets to cruel realitites that will challenge their very need to love and survive.

FROM THE DARK is book #1 in the Bewitch the Dark series. Watch for book #2 in October 2007, tentatively titled, KISS ME DEADLY .

"To feed the rock n' roll addicts habit" — That is The Fallen's motto. And below is their logo.

A few terms from the Vampire's world:

— in-born — a vampire born of a female mortal and male vampire. Does not crave blood until transformation in early twenties. Migraines clue to blood hunger. Female vampires are rarely fertile.

— donor/victim — experiences an orgasmic form of the swoon when bitten. Will forget the experience if the vampire masks. Teeth marks will close up thanks to vampire's saliva, yet a bruise will remain. Will only become a vampire if the vampire did not mask them, and they then drink blood before the next full moon.

—thrall/mask — a vampire can influence a victim to forget the bite/attack. Can be used to enthrall an entire room, but is difficult and the vampire must be focused. If a vampire can enthrall a witch, her immortality leaks away during the thrall.

— swoon — the orgasmic results of drinking warm, human blood. The vampire is momentarily out of sorts as the blood rushes through their system, and can be attacked at this moment.

— the shimmer — vibrations vampires feel when they touch another of their kind. It is the only way to tell another vampire without seeing fangs or them in the act of drinking blood.

— danse macabre — after a vampire kills a victim, the nightmares of that victim die slowly within the vampire.

— phoenix — vampire survivor of a witch's blood attack, or a vampire resurrected from ash.

— source — what witches call the unfortunate vamp used for their immortality ritual. Vamps refer to them as 'ash'.

— death cocktail — witch's blood

— blood child — a vampire created by another vampire (who would then be considered his blood master).