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The Gilded Cross

Nightwalker, Book 2

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A new dawn, a new weapon.

Alice thought she understood her purpose.

She was the first Nightwalker, a vampire made to hunt her own kind.

But the Order of the Morning Dawn has a new creation.

A rebellious progeny, forged by Alice's own bite.

Loyal only to the Order, he wields a glowing silver crucifix, a "Gilded Cross."

They claim its light is celestial, a gift from angels.

Alice, secretly sustained by the Eucharist, suspects a darker origin.

Could this holy light be born of the very witchcraft the Order condemns?

As the lines between good and evil blur, Alice must uncover the truth.

Is the Order truly fighting darkness, or are they the greater evil?

And can she save her soul when her own creation is turned against her?

In 1891 Alice Bladewell lost her human life. It was when her new existence began. For more than a century, she was an agent of the Order of the Morning Dawn, a pseudo-religious organization dedicated to the elimination of all vampires and witches.

You've learned about Alice before in The Legacy/Fury of a Vampire Witch, in The Legend of Nyx, and in Alice in Vampireland.

This is Alice's story. How she became a vampire, made to kill other vampires — and how she became the nightmare that the Order feared the most.

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A great spin off from the Mercy Brown series focusing on Alice, full of fast paced drama, devotion, faith, humor and action with vampires, witches, priests, twists and more.

Having escaped the Order, Alice along with Desiderius, Rebecca and Ruth are working with Father O'Malley, hoping for redemption and to avoid the pull to feed. But with age catching up on him, the Father has to retire and with Matthias, a progeny of Desiderius, appearing wanting them to rejoin the Order in New York they take the opportunity to infiltrate the order.

But can they fight their true nature?

I enjoyed reading this and have to admit the audio took me a little while to get used to (it felt like the wrong tone/emphasis was used at times) but it did get better and I look forward to listening to more of this series as I haven't been able to put this down.

I received a free copy of this audiobook and am voluntarily leaving a review.

Great story

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