A DARING RESCUE
Emma Paulsen is a geneticist driven by science. But she’s
also a psychic, so when a dark, good-hearted vampire frees her from the
clutches of the evil Kurjans, she realizes he must be the man who’s been
haunting her dreams. But with a virus threatening vampires’ mates, Emma may
discover a whole new meaning of “lovesick”. . .
A DEADLY DECISION
As King of the Realm, Dage Kayrs has learned to practice
diplomacy. Still, it’s taken three hundred years to find his mate, so he’ll
stop at nothing to protect her—even if it means turning his back on his own
kind…
Claimed (Dark
Protectors, book two) by Rebecca Zanetti
Start date: September
15, 2021
End date: September 19,
2021
Rating: 2 ½ out of 5
stars
Trigger warning: intimate partner violence, child abuse
I liked that this book had an actual plot unlike the last book in the series. Emma Paulsen and Cara Kayrs were captured by the Kurjans at the end of Fated. Cara is rescued, and then Emma is rescued offscreen. Claimed starts by showing what happened offscreen. Emma has been whisked off in a helicopter on her way to a Kurjan named Franco who wants to force her to be his mate. Dage teleports (because that’s a power that some vampires have in this series apparently) to Emma’s location and kills the Kurjans in the helicopter before teleporting again with Emma to an area not far from the helicopter crash site. From there, Emma is reunited with her sister and introduced to her new in-laws.