title: Shadow Bane
author: Manning, T.L.
description: In the second installment of the CURSED series, Delilah finds herself at the very mercy a new darkness she has accepted as part of her gifts. In a moment of selfish need she does the unthinkable and changes the very nature and future of Xander, the one she loves. With Lukin lovingly by her side, they are forced to travel to an unknown realm filled with every fairytale and nightmare they could ever imagine in an attempt to make it all right again, save the lives of loved ones, and Xanders soul. Soon they are running from the Vamphume, the original creatures we know today as vampires, who do not drink blood but something much more sinister and evil. With everything, including time against them can they make it out the same way they came in, or will they forever be changed and trapped?