Shattered Bounds (Dusk Series Book 5)

Change is sweeping through the world, as humanity fights for autonomy, discord tears apart the foundations of the vampire order, and dhampirs return to the world after centuries of war between two powerful peoples. Dhampirs, creatures known to herald destruction and chaos open an age old wound and reveal the origins of the conflict between vampires and mages that has raged so long few remember.

Within that conflict, Neil struggles to raise his children with Silvia as well as grasp the threads of his past as he sees his family into a new future. When Nicholas Arc shows up unexpectedly in his old territory, it foreshadows the conflict to come, and new allies as well as old foes crawl out of the seams to take sides with or against the new dhampir children.

All the while, Jesse Zehir finds himself sheltered by the Fleurs, trying to manage human demon relations, but also captured by the human liaison who might be more than she seems. Just as he is finding a home for himself, the Fleur councilman shows up and Jesse is forced into a difficult position between the vampires who took him in and the people he cares about.

Peace is harder to achieve than first thought, and not all is what it claims to be under the surface of the budding new world. Can Neil and Silvia find a balance that will preserve the known world and protect their children? Will the affection of those who fight for peace conquer an age old divide between creatures of light and darkness before it rips the fabric of reality itself?

The dead rise, and the very fabric of reality rests in the balance in this final installment of the Dusk Series!