Cover Him with Darkness

Ashbless’s thrilling opening to the Book of Watchers series introduces Milja Petak, the feisty daughter of a Montenegrin priest. Milja’s family has been charged with guarding an immortal evil bound in the cave under their rural mountain church. The last of her line, Milja has doubts about the justice of her family’s task—the prisoner is entirely too sexy to merit millennia of torturous imprisonment. Predictably, Milja releases the prisoner as soon as she can, only to discover that maybe he was a threat to humanity after all, and his propensity for seducing mortal women might have something to do with it. With no allies other than a suspiciously chaste yet fetching Irish tourist named Egan and enemies who range from her Aunt Vera to the archangel Uriel, Milja has to choose whether to betray the lover she risked everything to rescue, or go against the divine plan, while staying true to her own values—all while navigating a rocky romance with an appealing supernatural creature who feeds off her desire for him. This sharp and enticing novel will leave readers eager for the next in the series. (Nov.)