Cynthia Eden’s knack for writing dark heroes who straddle the line of good guy/bad guy really shines through here.
It’s Christmas Eve, and Ben is out hunting. he’s a vampire with a vigilante streak. But he’s no hero, in fact someone pulled some major strings to give him one last chance to change. If he kills this night, his soul will be lost.
Embarking on a Dickensonian journey of redemption, we see Ben from both before and after he was turned. And we see that maybe the darkness was inside him before he was turned.
Only one person ever saw the real Ben, and she’s dead.
Or is she?
At one point Simone tells him, “You’re so busy punishing the world,” she told him, her heart aching, “that you forget you can save it.”
And when she reminds him of just who he can be, you’d think he’d see the light and change, but not every story has a happy ending. It takes a huge sacrifice, and a tragic ending for Ben to change. The big question is, will it be too late?
With a dark, gritty world, and an anti-hero to die for, Cynthia Eden uses her talent to the fullest. Sometimes the best endings aren’t always perfect.