{"product_id":"crave-the-night-isbn-9780345532657","title":"Crave the Night","description":"\u003cb\u003eWith the acclaimed Midnight Breed series, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Lara Adrian has written thrilling novels of electrifying romance and heart-pounding suspense—page-turners in which humans and vampires live tenuously side by side. In \u003ci\u003eCrave the Night,\u003c\/i\u003e Adrian brings the Breed and its world to the brink of war, where even the deepest passion can shatter into violence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Born and raised to be an emotionless killing machine, Nathan is one of the most lethal Breed vampires in existence. A key member of the Order—an elite group of warriors charged with protecting both mortals and vampires—Nathan executes each mission with flawless precision and a total lack of mercy. Now he must pursue a powerful, hidden enemy. But Nathan’s hard discipline and training are no match for the fierce pull he feels toward a young woman he has no right to desire—a woman of wealth and high social standing who has long been promised to another Breed male, and who may also prove to be the key to rooting out Nathan’s elusive quarry.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Jordana lives a life of glittering privilege as a member of a prominent Breed family in Boston. Surrounded by fine things and fawning admirers, Jordana wants for nothing—until she crosses paths with a dark, intense warrior from the Order and finds herself swept into an impulsive, sizzling kiss that neither of them will forget. As much as she tries to deny her deep feelings for Nathan, Jordana cannot resist the craving to be near him, to break through his forbidding walls and see the man he truly is. But getting close to Nathan will thrust Jordana into a treacherous new world, forcing her to risk all she has and all she knows about herself and her past. And loving this seductive man could be the most dangerous temptation of all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCrave the Night\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] thrilling and romantic read.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Stunning in its flawless execution . . . The sexual tension between Nathan and Jordana is off the charts and sizzles each of the pages.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003eUnder the Covers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Impossible to put down.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Fresh Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Steamy and intense.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“The adventure continues in the twelfth Midnight Breed novel from prolific and talented [Lara] Adrian. This time it’s Nathan, a first generation Breed vampire who was raised as an emotionless hunter, who takes center stage. In the previous book, the revelation of a new enemy turned the world of the Breeds and humans upside down, forging new alliances. Although polar opposites, the fire that sparks between Nathan and privileged Jordana Gates is not to be denied—ensuring readers are in for one thrilling and romantic read!”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eRT Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nothing beats good writing and that is what ultimately makes Lara Adrian stand out amongst her peers. . . . Adrian doesn’t hold back with the intensity or the passion. The sexual tension between Nathan and Jordana is off the charts and sizzles each of the pages. While slow-burning in intensity at the beginning, Adrian really shows off her writing skill in a series of twists that will surely make reader’s head spin. . . . \u003ci\u003eCrave the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is stunning in its flawless execution. Lara Adrian has the rare ability to lure readers right into her books, taking them on a ride they will never forget.”\u003cb\u003e—Under the Covers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Impossible to put down.”\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e—Fresh Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Adrian’s steamy and intense twelfth Midnight Breed vampire romance adds new dimensions and new conflicts to her near-future world. . . . This installment is sure to delight established fans and will also be accessible to new readers.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Every time I open a new Midnight Breed book I am instantly sucked back in to this world and held captive until the last page. . . . \u003ci\u003eCrave the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is another action-packed, well-written love story from one of the leading authors of paranormal romance. This series shows no signs of slowing down and I think fans will be delighted with the newest addition.”\u003cb\u003e—Fiction Vixen\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eCrave the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is full of action, suspense and of course Lara Adrian’s signature sexual tension.”\u003cb\u003e—The Book Nympho\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLara Adrian\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the Midnight Breed series, including the novels \u003ci\u003eKiss of Midnight, Kiss of Crimson, Midnight Awakening, Midnight Rising, Veil of Midnight, Ashes of Midnight, Shades of Midnight, Taken by Midnight, Deeper than Midnight,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDarker After Midnight, Edge of Dawn\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrave the Night, \u003c\/i\u003eand the eBook novella \u003ci\u003eA Taste of Midnight\u003c\/i\u003e.1\u003cbr\u003e The undulating crowd packed onto the dance floor inside the throbbing Boston nightclub seemed to collectively sense that death had entered the building.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan took only the barest notice of the sudden change in atmosphere. As one of the Breed, he’d long grown used to the reaction he had on humans.\u003cbr\u003e As a warrior member of the Order and a first--generation Breed male—-the most powerful of his kind—-Nathan’s presence often put even other vampires on alert.\u003cbr\u003e But it was the other part of his nature, the fact that he was born and raised a Hunter, one of a dark legion bred for killing and stripped of all emotion or attachment, which broadcast an unspoken, visceral terror into the room. He saw it in every pair of eyes that furtively glanced his way now through the swirling dance lights in the darkened club.\u003cbr\u003e “They don’t look happy to see us,” quipped Rafe, one of three other Breed warriors who reported to Nathan as their squad captain.\u003cbr\u003e “I doubt Cassian Gray will welcome the Order with open arms either.” This from Nathan’s lieutenant, Elijah, in the slow, laid--back Texas drawl that belied the vampire’s quick skill with any one of the blades or firearms bristling from his weapons belt.\u003cbr\u003e From the other side of Eli, Jax, the third member of tonight’s patrol, quirked a slender black eyebrow over his almond--shaped eyes. “It’s not like we left on the best of terms last time.”\u003cbr\u003e No, they hadn’t. The last time Nathan and his crew had stepped inside the former church that was now one of the city’s most popular—-and least reputable—-hot spots, it ended with the club’s proprietor, Cassian Gray, calling in an armed unit of the Joint Urban Security Taskforce Initiative Squad. The Order didn’t have time to deal with any public or political fallout from JUSTIS tonight.\u003cbr\u003e And if Cass thought he could hide behind the palms he’d greased so well within that combined Breed and human police organization, he was wrong. Dead wrong, if that’s the way he wanted to play it.\u003cbr\u003e The Order had recently come across intel indicating Cass might have other, unknown allies in his pocket. Allies who would make his law enforcement and criminal underworld connections seem like worthless puppets.\u003cbr\u003e Tonight, Nathan and his squad had been tasked with bringing the mysterious club owner in to the Order’s Boston command center for questioning.\u003cbr\u003e “Come on. Let’s go find the bastard.” Ignoring the sharp spike of adrenaline and anxious perspiration injected into the general mélange of stale liquor, smoke, and perfume that hung like a fog in the club, Nathan gestured for his team to follow him deeper inside. “Eli, you and Jax search the public rooms. Rafe and I will take the offices in back.”\u003cbr\u003e With the two warriors heading off on his instructions, Rafe fell in alongside Nathan to cut a path through the crowds on their way to La Notte’s owner’s quarters. There was no security to stop them once they reached Cass’s office, suggesting the man was either working the floor of his club as he so enjoyed or not in the building at all.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan hoped it was the former. If not, this unannounced visit was sure to get back to Cass one way or another, and the Order didn’t want to give the son of a bitch any cause for alarm. They wanted nothing to send him to ground before they could interrogate him about who—-or, rather, what—-he truly was.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan stalked up to the black--painted steel door with the word PRIVATE scratched into it from the tip of a serrated blade. The dead bolt and secondary lock were no trouble at all for the power of his Breed mind. Nathan freed the bolt and the other tumbled open with little more than a second’s concentration.\u003cbr\u003e He pushed the door wide and Rafe followed him into the darkened office. Neither of them needed artificial light; Breed eyesight was flawless, all the more so in the dark.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan made a quick visual scan of the empty room and cursed. “He’s already gone.”\u003cbr\u003e No sign of Cassian Gray at all. The desk was cleared of all papers and personal effects. No computer tablet lying conveniently in the open for them to confiscate. Nothing but a carefully vacated office.\u003cbr\u003e If Nathan had to guess, he figured Cass had been gone for several hours at least. Maybe a full day or more.\u003cbr\u003e “Dammit,” he gritted through clenched teeth.\u003cbr\u003e Rafe meanwhile had broken into a cabinet of paper files and ledgers on the other side of the room. “Just a bunch of accounting records and supply receipts in here. Bar equipment, liquor invoices, band contracts for the club.” The blond vampire shot Nathan a wry look. “Where do you suppose Cass keeps the books for the real moneymaking parts of this operation? Nothing in here at all that mentions the fight arena downstairs or the gambling, pimping, and blood trading. Nothing in here about the other pursuits La Notte caters to either.”\u003cbr\u003e Nathan grunted. Cass’s illegal and other unconventional activities provided in the restricted--access lower level of his club were no secret, but criminal or not, he was careful to protect the interests of himself and his clientele. The records for those parts of his business were surely kept somewhere far more secure than his office at the club.\u003cbr\u003e No, Cassian Gray was a man who knew when and how to keep his secrets.\u003cbr\u003e Rafe had now abandoned the file cabinets to move farther into the gloomy office space. “Hey, check it out,” he called over his shoulder to Nathan. “There’s another door over here.”\u003cbr\u003e The warrior opened it and blew out a whistle. “You gotta see this, man.”\u003cbr\u003e Nathan walked over to find a bedroom on the other side of the door. A king--size four--poster bed draped in black satin sheets dominated the room. The rails between the posters dripped with leather straps and an assortment of manacles and buckled restraints, a few bearing sharp metal spikes.\u003cbr\u003e Rafe barked out a laugh. “Whoever Cassian Gray is, he’s one twisted fuck.”\u003cbr\u003e Nathan stared at the accoutrements of sexual deviance and torture while his friend and comrade stepped inside to jingle one of the studded harnesses. “Leave it alone, Rafe. We’re wasting time. Cass isn’t here, obviously. Let’s go find the others and get out of here.”\u003cbr\u003e As Rafe dropped the leather strap and they prepared to leave, Jax rushed in to meet them. His face was drawn and grave. “We’ve got a problem.”\u003cbr\u003e “You find Cass?” Nathan asked.\u003cbr\u003e Jax shook his head. “Apparently, we just missed him, if you can believe any of the club staff. The problem is Aric Chase. He’s downstairs at the cages. With Rune.”\u003cbr\u003e “Jesus Christ,” Rafe hissed, coming up beside Nathan.\u003cbr\u003e “Eli’s trying to break it up,” Jax said. “But Aric won’t stand down. Shit’s about to get ugly.”\u003cbr\u003e Nathan growled a curse. “Is Carys here too?”\u003cbr\u003e “Not tonight,” Rafe said. “She’s at the art museum with Jordana Gates. The two of them are hosting a patrons’ reception. They’ve been planning it for months.”\u003cbr\u003e Nathan gave a tight nod, grateful for that small mercy. The last thing Carys Chase needed was to see her twin brother take a beating from the cage--fighting killer who’d recently begun sharing her bed.\u003cbr\u003e If the Breed fighter and the daywalking female had shared anything else—-namely a blood bond—-Aric wouldn’t be the only member of the Chase family determined to kick Rune’s swarthy ass. Hell, Nathan would likely be willing to join that fight himself too.\u003cbr\u003e He took off at a dead run, heading with Rafe and Jax for the cage arena in the lower level of La Notte. Shouts and roars and bloodthirsty applause thundered from the bowels of the former church.\u003cbr\u003e And no sooner had he descended into the illegal sporting den than Nathan spotted Aric and Rune. They stood in front of the cages, Eli positioned in between them, mostly holding Aric back. Both Breed males were flashing fangs, eyes glowing bright amber in the dim light of the arena.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan scowled at Jax. “What the fuck’s going on?”\u003cbr\u003e “I’m not sure. It was already getting heated when Eli and I got down here.”\u003cbr\u003e Another of La Notte’s fighters, a blond, long--haired Breed male named Syn, met Nathan’s hot glare from nearby as the din ratcheted up even higher among the spectators gathered in the arena. “Better rein in your baby warrior before Rune leaves him in bloodied shreds.”\u003cbr\u003e “What’s Rune’s problem with Aric tonight?”\u003cbr\u003e Syn smirked. “Rune’s problem?” He shook his head. “Rune was minding his own business, just taking a breather and enjoying some refreshment before tonight’s first match.”\u003cbr\u003e The way Syn leaned on the word refreshment told Nathan that when Aric found him, Rune was likely feeding from one of the paid human blood Hosts employed by Cass to serve his fighters and VIP clientele.\u003cbr\u003e “Your boy started talking shit,” Syn went on. “Started telling Rune the Order had its eye on him. That he’d better watch his step or he was gonna get ashed.”\u003cbr\u003e Holy hell. Nathan acknowledged that this confrontation probably shouldn’t surprise him, but Aric’s personal dislike of the brutal cage fighter had nothing to do with Order business.\u003cbr\u003e Not yet, anyway. If Aric and Carys’s father, Sterling Chase, ever found out his daughter had taken up with an unapologetic underworld player like Rune, Nathan had no doubt the Order as a whole would definitely have something to say about it.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan, Rafe, and Jax pushed through the jeering crowd just in time to see Aric lunge past Elijah to grab hold of Rune. Aric body--slammed the big fighter into the nearby cage, fangs bared and eyes aglow with fury. He threw a couple of wild punches, each deftly avoided by Rune. Aric’s anger opened him wide for a punishing blow.\u003cbr\u003e Rune didn’t hit back. He was glaring lethally, his savage face twisted in rage. But under his shaggy mane of dark brown hair, the undefeated fighter with more kills to his name than any other before him stayed his hand.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan shoved past the onlookers so he and Rafe could peel Aric off Rune. No easy feat, that. Although just twenty years old, Aric was Gen One like Nathan. He was strong as hell and deadly powerful, especially now, when his whole body was electric with animosity toward his sister’s unsavory lover.\u003cbr\u003e “What the fuck, man?” Rafe shouted at his friend. “You lost your mind, Aric? What are you doing down here?”\u003cbr\u003e Aric continued to glower at Rune. He jabbed his finger at the deceptively cool fighter. “You keep to your own. Stay away from her. She’s better than this, better than you.”\u003cbr\u003e Now Rune’s lips twisted slowly, into an ironic smile. “I tell her that all the time. She seems to think otherwise.”\u003cbr\u003e As Rune spoke, one of La Notte’s blood Hosts sauntered over to drape her nearly naked body around him. She took Rune’s earlobe between her teeth, whispering something against his dark, stubble--shadowed cheek. Rune gave her thong--strung behind a meaningful swat and told her to wait for him in one of the nearby booths.\u003cbr\u003e Aric went apeshit. Snarling and seething, he struggled to break loose of his comrade’s hold.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan shot a hard look at Rafe. “Let’s get him out of here.”\u003cbr\u003e “A wise move,” Syn agreed, as Nathan and his crew wrestled Aric away from the cages and out of Rune’s reach.\u003cbr\u003e They hustled the furious vampire out of the club and back onto the street outside. He tried to lunge for the door, but Nathan and Rafe blocked him. He shook them off and rocked back on his bootheels.\u003cbr\u003e “She has to know this can’t go on. Carys has to understand that asshole is beneath her. I can’t stand by and let her get hurt by gutter filth like Rune.” Aric cursed, low and savage. “Goddamn it, I won’t stand \u003cbr\u003e by.”\u003cbr\u003e Then he bolted. Not for the club again, but out into the street.\u003cbr\u003e “Shit,” Rafe muttered, raking a hand over his head. He glanced over at Nathan. “You know where he’s going.”\u003cbr\u003e The museum reception. Nathan didn’t have to guess. But he hated like hell to acknowledge it. No more than he hated to acknowledge that he and his patrol squad were going to have to abandon tonight’s search for Cassian Gray and instead go after one of their own.\u003cbr\u003e One of their own who was about to earn the wrath of his beloved sister, if Aric followed through on his threat to see Carys and Rune separated.\u003cbr\u003e And going after Aric meant coming face-to-face with something else Nathan would rather avoid, especially under these circumstances.\u003cbr\u003e Jordana Gates.\u003cbr\u003e The beautiful, Darkhaven--raised female he’d been trying to bar from his thoughts for the past week—-ever since she’d pressed her mouth against his in an entirely unexpected, totally unforgettable kiss. A kiss that had unsettled him and, yes, enraged him.\u003cbr\u003e Disturbed him on a level he was still struggling to comprehend.\u003cbr\u003e “The art museum’s on Huntington Avenue,” Rafe said beside him.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan’s reply was short, almost a growl. “I know where it is.”\u003cbr\u003e He knew more than he had a right to about lovely Jordana Gates and the places she frequented. Primarily so he could take steps to avoid them.\u003cbr\u003e But there could be no avoiding her now. Not with Aric charging off to defend his sister’s virtue.\u003cbr\u003e Nathan rubbed his palm across his clenched jaw. “Fuck it. Let’s go.”\u003cbr\u003e As reluctant as he was to follow the path where this night was heading, Nathan was the first to step off the curb and race for their destination.New York Times bestselling author of Edge of Dawn","brand":"Dell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304294600933,"sku":"NP9780345532657","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780345532657.jpg?v=1767724208","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/crave-the-night-isbn-9780345532657","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}