Dark Gold
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| Author | Christine Feehan |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dark series |
| Genre(s) | Romance, Paranormal, Fantasy novel |
| Publisher | Dorchester Publishing |
| Publication date | 2000 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 320 pp (US paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-505-52375-2 |
| Preceded by | Dark Desire |
| Followed by | Dark Magic |
Dark Gold is the third novel in Christine Feehan’s Dark Series. It takes place roughly 23 years after the events in Dark Desire. [1]
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[edit] Background
The character Aidan Savage is first introduced in Dark Prince. He helps to rescue Raven Dubrinsky from a vampire who had kidnapped her. Afterwards he is selected to go to the United States to hunt vampires because many are choosing to leave the Carpathian Mountains to prey upon humans. He settles in San Francisco, California, and with him is his human family. For generations, they have served him, mother to daughter, father to son. He is the only Carpathian who is known to have such an arrangement. Aidan is also different in appearance from most other Carpathians, who are mostly slim, dark-haired and dark-eyed. The text describes him as “heavily muscled” with hair that is “long and blond” and eyes of “molten gold”.
[edit] Plot summary
Alexandria Houton and her younger brother, Joshua have been orphaned for four years. She gets the opportunity to have an interview with Thomas Ivan, a famous video game designer. If she gets this job, she’ll be able to move her brother from the rough neighborhood where they currently live. After she leaves him with a friend outside the restaurant, she meets with Ivan. Just as she is showing him her preliminary sketches for his next game, she suddenly feels the presence of evil, thick and revolting. Then she hears a rough voice which causes pain like shards of glass to her skull, demand that someone come to him. Several women actually respond to the voice. Alarmed, she hurriedly leaves the restaurant to check on her brother. She discovers her friend Henry’s battered and broken body, but there is no sign of Joshua.
Then through the fog, she sees a gaunt man and the three women from the restaurant. They are gazing rapturously him, seemingly unaware of the evil in him. She spots her brother, and he too, appears to be hypnotized by the man, fighting her when she tries to drag him away. She alone seems immune; she watches in horror as the man throws one of the women over the cliff and drinks the blood of another. She realizes this is no ordinary man, but something inhuman and supremely evil. Then he shocks her by saying that he has been looking for her a long time. As a psychic female, she is one of the few human women who can be converted into a Carpathian. Vampires often believe that if they take the lifemate of another or find an unmated human female and convert her, she will save his soul and return emotions to him. [2]She refuses, then her brother breaks away from her and runs to the vampire. Once he has Joshua, he forces her to go with him. For two days, he holds her captive, twice forcing her to drink his blood.
Meanwhile, Aidan has been tracking the vampire and arrives on the third day and kills the vampire. At first, he thinks Alexandria is a deranged vampiress; then suddenly he realizes that he is seeing in color. She is his lifemate. He gives her his blood; only then does he realize that the vampire has twice exchanged blood with her. The third exchange will trigger her conversion. After removing the memory of the vampire from Joshua, he takes them to his home. When Alexandria regains consciousness, Aidan tells her what is about to happen to her. She asks that he allow her to die because she has no wish to become what he is. Of course he refuses, informing her that she is his lifemate and he would never harm her. He asks if she would like to put her in a trance so that she doesn’t suffer the awful pain of conversion. After her experience with the other vampire, she isn’t very trusting; however, after the pain become overwhelming, she relents.
When she awakens, she is fully Carpathian. Alexandria now must terms with her new life and what Aidan expects and needs from her.
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[edit] References
- Sheridan, Barbara. The Return of Mr. Tall, Dark, and Dangerous!. PRN: Paranormal Romance. Retrieved on 2007-04-30.
- Feehan, Christine (1999). Dark Prince. Love Spell, 295 - 296.
