Review: Angst filled
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 23, 2013
In the short story prequel, 200 years ago, Sebastian is a sailor headed home to his family in Spain when he is assaulted by a woman near his home.  In order to protect his wife and daughter, Sebastian has to accept his fate and leave with his attacker, a possessive vampire who wants him for eternity.The included 10 chapter except from Alone, book one of the series, moves to the present, where Serenity is trapped in an abusive marriage with no visible way out. Then while she is gripped in the middle of a panic attack on her way home after being fired at work, a stranger offers assistance.  He later comes to her rescue after her husband attacks her in their bedroom, putting her husband in the hospital.  The stranger is Sebastian, who is drawn to the aloneness he recognizes in her.  Someone else is watching, though. Someone from Sebastian's past. Someone who wants him back.The story is very dark and depressing. I have never experienced the situation Serenity finds herself in, but it seems real. It is not the type of book I would continue to read, though. There is too much angst involved before getting to any possible resolution.