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Welcome back to the House of Night. We left off from Tempted when Zoey watched Kalona kill her human consort, Heath Luck. While sending the element spirit at Kalona, Zoey, herself shattered. I mean that literally, her spirit shattered and went to the Otherworld. Her body was still breathing and functioning, her mind was gone. Knowing that she had a limited time there and would die for sure if she stayed, the nerd herd, Aphrodite and her warrior, and Stark, Zoey’s warrior, were going to find anything they could to save her.

While Zoey’s spirit is shattered, she starts to loose some of herself. The only good thing about the otherworld is that Heath is with her. He refuses to forgive her since this wasn’t her fault and feels that they could stay there in this peaceful grove forever. He sees everything as perfect if she would just put her spirit back together and they could really be together even with him dead.

Kalona has been wounded enough by Zoey hurling spirit at him that Neferet takes her advantage and sends his spirit back to the Otherworld to make sure that Zoey never returns. Neferet vows to the Darkness that Kalona is not to come back until Zoey is gone and that he is held bound by Darkness until his task is complete.

Stevie Rae, Zoey’s BFF, has been trying to grasp all that has happened. She is juggling to keep her secret that she is imprinted with a Raven Mocker, the son of Kalona himself. He has saved Stevie Rae’s life more than once. He is starting to have feelings when around her such as humanity and compassion. He knows that being imprinted with The Red One is why he’s having these thoughts and feelings but he doesn’t want their bond to change. What will come of them when everyone learns about them? Her friends at the House of Night? His Father, Kalona?

Will all the secrets come back and bite Stevie Rae? Will Zoey be able to put herself back together to help save the world? Can she let go of her lifelong love and a peaceful place to go back to heartache and responsibility?

I was so grateful that this finally came out. I was left hanging from the last one and was chomping at the bit for something to ease my curiosity. I love this series. Of course, now I can’t wait for the following book, Awakened. I guess that’s how you always feel when you really get into a series. There are only a few books I enjoy more than this. I would recommend this to everyone and anyone. Superb! Kudos to the authors for again and again keeping me on the edge of my seat and panting for more.