Xcor, leader of the Band of Bastards is working to overthrow King Wrath. While Qhuinn and Blay dance around one another, both desperately trying to come to terms with their true feelings and loving limitations, a coup is brewing. but Qhuinn still comes between them, even if Blay struggles to admit that the feelings he so wishes were buried are anything but. Now Blay has moved on with Saxton, Qhuinn’s savvy and sophisticated cousin, and he’s trying to love the man who is his first true lover. It wasn’t that long ago that Blay was admitting his true feelings to his best friend and fighting partner, and having Qhuinn twist a dagger in his heart when he replied that he could only envision life with a female.

The warrior Blaylock, meanwhile, is still coming to terms with the knowledge that the man he professed to love is moving on and starting a family, with a woman. And while this child was not conceived in love, or even lust, both Qhuinn and Layla are excited to meet their young. The Chosen Layla is pregnant with Qhuinn’s child, a daughter he saw in a near-death vision.

Qhuinn has been shunned his entire life for his physical defect, and has never known a family’s love – so he’s making one of his own. He’s rapidly on his way to becoming an indispensable warrior, even if he isn’t officially part of the Brotherhood, and could never be, because of the heterochromia that marks him as inferior. Qhuinn is the young star of the Black Dagger Brotherhood – a dedicated bodyguard to his best friend, John Matthew, and one fighter who isn’t afraid to risk his life for the cause. Now the bonds that tie these two are all but irrevocably broken. it started as friendship, progressed to unrequited love, fitful lust and finally, brutal rejection. There has been a romance brewing in the Brotherhood mansion for many years now. but as the battle over the race’s throne intensifies, and new players on the scene in Caldwell create mortal danger for the Brotherhood, Qhuinn finally learns the true definition of courage, and two hearts who are meant to be together. As he’s learned firsthand.įate seems to have taken these vampire soldiers in different directions. It’s hard to see the new couple together, but building your life around a pipe dream is just a heartbreak waiting to happen.

And it’s about time: The male has found his perfect match in a Chosen female, and they are going to have a young-just as Qhuinn has always wanted for himself. Even as the prospect of having a family of his own seems to be within reach, he is empty on the inside, his heart given to another.īlay, after years of unrequited love, has moved on from his feelings for Qhuinn. Disavowed from his bloodline, shunned by the aristocracy, he has finally found an identity as one of the most brutal fighters in the war against the Lessening Society. Qhuinn, son of no one, is used to being on his own.

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