title: Shadowed Awakening
author: Rowlyn, Rhys
description: Gifted to the New World by the King of France, the daughters of the Vieux Carre will rise from the shadows and into power as their sacred bloodline is awakened by a cursed love...Setting off for a new world an entire ocean away was the beginning of my end. Aboard the ship I met a startling handsome man who changed my life... after ending it.My scent. His blood. Our fates. All intertwined in the shadows. Our mating created a dark curse and I've been waiting nearly three-hundred years for my Phillpe's awakening...When my mate finally opens his eyes, instead of love and desire, I see hate and betrayal. His distrust shatters my lonely heart.We must set aside our differences to stop a feral vampire from terrorizing the streets of New Orleans. I desperately want my mate back, but first I need his help to protect the life I've built for us. Awakened after spending centuries locked in a cursed slumber, I discover my mate has betrayed me with the very blood she was sired with.Giselle was different from the other casket girls, I knew it from the moment I breathed in her intoxicating scent. She was a daughter of the Vieux Carre. Giving her my blood sealed our fates...But before I can uncover the secrets of the curse, I'll have to learn to trust the dangerously beautiful one who guarded me for centuries while I slept.I have to know why she did this to me... to us. Will we ever be the mates we were fated to be or are we doomed to forever be apart?Shadowed Awakening is the first book in the new thrilling paranormal series, The Daughters of the Vieux Carré. Join this family of vampires as they awaken to a new world and changes they never expected. Shadowed Awakening was formerly titled Phillipe.