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Black Sunshine

by Karina Halle

🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate·spoiler·Dark Eyes #1
Available on Kindle Unlimited

Why Read This?

You'll get a rush of dark, addictive passion and a morally gray book boyfriend who makes you question everything.

Synopsis

All Lenore Warwick wants for her 21st birthday is to hang out with her friends, finish her second year at Berkeley with flying colors, and maybe catch the eye of a hot musician playing a show at a club that she can now (legally) get into. Unfortunately, fate has other plans for her. A week before her birthday, she’s kidnapped by the brooding and dangerous stranger with cold eyes and a lethal touch, who has been stalking her on San Francisco’s fog-shrouded streets. Absolon "Solon" Stavig isn’t your average criminal though. He’s a centuries-old vampire who’s caught between wanting to kill Lenore and wanting to save her. You see Lenore, too, is a vampire. She just doesn’t know it yet. Taken by a pair of vampire slayers when she was just an infant, Lenore was raised never knowing her true nature. All Lenore knows is that she has (normal) parents who love her, that she’s exceptionally smart, and she’s squeamish around blood. But once she turns twenty-one, she’ll fully turn into a vampire, and Solon hopes he’ll be there to guide her, opening her eyes to her deepest hunger...both sexual and otherwise. But this turning can’t be kept a secret. Soon both slayers and vampires are hunting Lenore, with only Solon and his unpredictable motley crew of vampires to save her. If they don’t kill her first. Black Sunshine is a dark adult romance with a paranormal twist, about sex, love, secrets, and revenge, set in contemporary San Francisco.

At a Glance

3.71 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacinginstant attraction

Top Tropes

captive romancedark romancehidden identity

Mood

mysteriousintensedarkbroodingromantic

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

3.71 ★

Page Count

448 pages

Published

2021

Primary Genre

Dark Romance

Pairing

M/F

POV

First Person

Romance Pacing

Instant Attraction

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Sofia Willingham

Narrator Count

Single

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

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Spice Details 🌶️

intense / passionate sign in to unlock

addictiondeathkidnappingmurdersubstance abusetraumaviolencebloodcaptivitydubious consent

World & Setting

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Reading Context

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