Review: Great start to a new book series
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 19, 2013
Serenity Shaw is a woman who can read anyone's soul and use that knowledge to create unique one of a kind tattoos. Despite her gift she struggles with finding lasting human connections with people and finding a place where she feels she belong. She has only two friends. Dougie Alexander her business partner in their tattoo shop and Evan Wade her fiancé.  Serenity has known Evan most of her life and became engaged to him mostly out of a sense of loyalty to him than for love.During a tattoo consultation in walks her Serenity's new client Cyrus Ambrose. Cyrus is devastatingly handsome with black hair and blue eyes who greatly disturbs Serenity when she discovers that he is the first person who she cannot read his soul. Later that evening at a dinner party she meets Cyrus again.  She feels physically and spiritually drawn to him despite her will against it due to her engagement to Evan.  It is not until she meets him for a third time that she begin to discover that Cyrus is much more than he seems and that he is not human he is Kindred. She was even more shocked to discover that she was also not human. Cyrus informs her that she is his Kabashem or the other half of his soul.What follows in this story is gradual information about who and what Kindred is. Serenity is forced to go under Cyrus protection as she is being hunted by others groups of Kindred each for their own political purposes. While under Cyrus's protection, she eventually discovers that Cyrus has other reasons for claiming her besides finding his soul mate that could mean redemption for all Kindred. As Cyrus gets to know her better the lines between his duty and his feelings for her becomes blurred and he is force to choose between his love for her and his duty to his people.I love this story because it is so much more than a paranormal romance. This book takes you on an adventure that has political intrigued, a bumpy romance based on the lack of communication, and a mystery involving what happen to Serenity parents and how she, as a Kindred, was left alone to be raised in the human world. The plot is enticing and has a level of complexity that constantly moving and constantly keeps you interested in the story until the end.  You develop a love quickly for the members of Cyrus's extended Kindred family as they try to understand Serenity humanistic ways and their impatience with her attachments to humanity.  Will they be able to adjust and overcome their differences for the common good and salvation of their people before it too late?