Until Dawn
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Where there are humans, there are also Darklings. Then, in the vines of fate and poisoned blood, there are the Forsaken.
Dawn Colchester is a lonely, tormented girl who lives in the sleepy town of Coldlake. Tormented for the strange marks on her face and still suffering from the loss of her mother, Dawn doesn't believe that she has much else to live for other than her father, and certainly believes she has nothing to lose.
However, on a cold November evening after a short shopping trip, Dawn’s world is turned upside down in a rollercoaster of events. Thrown into the world of the Lathairs, a family of Darklings and the very thing she should fear, Dawn is thrust into a life of royal extravagance and desire, yet remains isolated from everything she longs to understand.
Unnaturally drawn to the oldest royal daughter, Princess Camryn, as well as igniting a lust in more than one male Darkling, Dawn is about to embark on a journey of love, hate and unthinkable friendship, but at what price?
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