The bitter cold wind whips my hair around my face, thrashes my riding cloak around my body, and threatens to pull me back into the darkness. All the secrets I have been shielded from, protected from, haunted by. I have been in the darkness for seventeen deceitful years; always wondering... I look around for him, my eyes searching the dark forest. Finally he steps out from the eerie darkness, his eyes hungry, but welcoming. He could kill me any second now, but how I desire to kiss those soft, murderous lips. I have made my decision; I am not going back into the dark.... ~ Midnight Shadows tells the haunting story of Anneliese, a young girl who is Princess of a dark, and mysterious kingdom shadowed in secrets. Trying to escape from her past, Anneliese breaks free of the high walls shielding her from the world beyond, and ventures into a life she has never known. But the deeper she goes, the more Anneliese realizes that there is more secrets involving her than she ever knew, and the harder it will be to find her way back...