Book Description
Masquerade balls. Secret identities. Surviving the weekend? Not guaranteed.
When Lila Drake’s twin sister suggests the two women switch places for the Sundown Ball, it sounds delightful, and a little bit dangerous. For the first time in her life, rejected witch Lila enters the glittering world of the High Council coven. Everything’s magical, but she’s not the only one crashing the masquerade.
Haunted and handsome Wren commands the room. Everyone is afraid of the vicious vampire—but Lila finds herself drawn to the man in black in ways she can’t explain.
When she agrees to work in the vampire’s castle in exchange for her father’s freedom, danger lurks behind the job’s demands, and as the magical tasks turn deadly Lila realizes if she wants to survive the perilous deal she made, she’ll have to decide who to trust—and who to save—before it’s too late.
My Review
Lila and her twin sister switch places so Lila can go to a masquerade ball for the coven of witches that rejected her. But while there Wren, a vampire threatens the witches if they don't hand over a dreamcaster. Lila's father is a dreamcaster and was set to be given to Wren to help him but Lila who is also a dreamcaster, albeit a less powerful one volunteers herself in her fathers place.
Wren and Lila leave and once back at his castle Wren tells her that he needs her to dream so she has visions of what he's going to be facing. A dreamcaster has visions while they dream and that's what Wren needs Lila to do so he can stop his brother from opening a demongate and letting demons loose on Earth.
Lila isn't completely truthful about her powers and Wren isn't completely honest at first about what he needs a Dreamcaster for but the more time they spend together getting to know one another and relying on each other for help, the more they come to care for each other.
Lila gets a chance to prove that the coven shouldn't have rejected her and Wren shows her and the other witches that not all vampires are bad. This had a lot of action and the romance between Lila and Wren was a slow burn but I liked watching them get closer as the story of the demongate unfolded. It was a fun read.
I give this book 4 out of 5 stars.
I got this book as part of the Fractured Fairytales books being given away on the Prolific Works website. I don't know if this is still available for download there at this time or not.
