Blood Kiss

The bestselling author J.R. Ward delivers the first novel in a new spin-off series featuring the recruits to the Black Dagger Brotherhood--where romance is high and the stakes are even higher.

The legacy of the Black Dagger Brotherhood continues in this gripping spin-off series from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward.

Paradise, blooded daughter of the king s First Advisor, is ready to break free from the restrictive life of an aristocratic female. Her strategy? Join the Black Dagger Brotherhood s training center program and learn to fight for herself, think for herself...be herself. It s a good plan, until everything goes wrong. The schooling is unfathomably difficult, the other recruits feel more like enemies than allies, and it s very clear that the Brother in charge, Butch O Neal, a.k.a. the Dhestroyer, is having serious problems in his own life.

And that s before she falls in love with a fellow classmate. Craeg, a common civilian, is nothing her father would ever want for her, but everything she could ask for in a male. As an act of violence threatens to tear apart the entire program, and the erotic pull between them grows irresistible, Paradise is tested in ways she never anticipated--and left wondering whether she s strong enough to claim her own power...on the field, and off.