Ten years later, Eve went for a job interview.  While in the building, she saw someone who looked a lot like Alec, at least in the face.  Before she knew it, she was forced into the stairwell, where the Alec look-a-like intimately assaulted her…with no protest from her.  During this time, he pressed the red-hot Mark of Cain into her arm and suddenly he changed; his clothes fell away to reveal a muscular body with rich golden skin and huge white feathered wings, which embraced her.  That was all she knew until she awoke on the floor of the building with her clothes in perfect order and people all around, some offering assistance.  Going home, she looked up the Mark of Cain and found that it was the mark given by God to Cain as protection from harm while he wandered the Earth as punishment for killing his brother Abel.  She has seen this mark before…on Alec Cain.

 

After showering, Eve heard someone at her door.  However, the one person she never expected was Alec Cain.  He looked like her lover from earlier in the day.  However, Cain always calls her Angel, unlike everyone else.  He knew what happened to her and told her that she couldn’t be alone since it was not safe.  Alec also told her that she would need him.  Though she argued with him and even held a gun on him, Alec was not fazed.  Then the fever took her over. Thus began her, ironically, seven days of suffering.

 

He had walked away the last time to keep this from happening.  Alec was determined, this time he was not walking away.  He would be there for the long haul; Alec was in love with Eve.  Now if he could just get Eve to forgive him.  He also has another problem; his brother Reed Abel is the one who gave Eve the mark and he is fascinated with her.  Eve has become the newest bone of contention between Cain and Abel in the longest sibling rivalry ever.

 

EVE OF DARKNESS, the first book in the MARKED series, is a steamy, action-packed urban fantasy.  I absolutely loved it!  Eve, a long time agnostic, has to deal with a celestial administrative system…a system that treats her rather poorly, even sending her off to fight for God without training.  Despite this, she is valuable to them in keeping the brothers in line.  She feels affection for both brothers, but Cain is the one she keeps close.  Author S. J. Day does a terrific job of bringing her characters to life; you almost expect them to step right off the page.  Brimming with sizzling love scenes, an apocalyptic theme, action-packed battles between good and evil, a spunky heroine, hunky heroes and plenty of imagination, this is one urban fantasy you will not soon forget.  Run out and grab your own copy of EVE OF DARKNESS.  While you are at the store, you may want to pick up the two other books in this series, EVE OF DESTRUCTION and EVE OF CHAOS.

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