the climactic novel in lara adrians new york times bestselling midnight breed seriesand her hardcover debutdarker after midnight invites readers to enter a thrillingly sensual world where danger meets desirein the dark of night a blood war escalates within the hidden world of the breed after existing in secret for many long centuries maintaining a fragile peace with the humans who walk beside them unaware a single act of retaliation has put the entire vampire nation at risk of discovery it falls to the ordera cadre of breed warriors pledged to protect their own and humankind aliketo stop dragos the powermad vampire at the center of the conflict before his push for domination can explode into catastropheat the center of the orders quest is sterling chase once a morally rigid enforcer of breed law now a warrior fallen from grace whose biggest battle is the one he wages against his own savage nature with addiction beckoning him toward eternal darkness chases path to redemption has never seemed more out of reachuntil he finds himself drawn to a beautiful young woman who may be something much more than she seems