One With the Darkness
by Susan Squires

Contessa Donnatella di Poliziano has power, beauty, and—as a vampire—eternal life. Her overwhelming regret is a mistake she made centuries ago when she chose not to transform her one true love, Jergan, into a vampire too. Donnatella's choice has deprived her of the only true love she's ever known. But just as all seems lost, the discovery of a 300-year-old note leads her to a gift left by her old friend, Leonardo da Vinci: a machine to take her back in time to rewrite the history of her heart...

Once back in time, Donnatella's memory of the intervening years is lost. Yet when she sees the breathtaking Jergan from afar, she feels like she has always known him. The instant attraction she feels draws them together. For Donnatella, the romance is tantalizing, awakening a passion that feels both old and new. But as the two fall in love again, a new danger threatens to tear them apart. Now Jergan's love for Donnatella will be tested in a most perilous way—and if he fails, the two lovers will be separated again...for eternity.

Susan Squires' Bio

Susan Squires is a New York Times bestselling author known for breaking the rules of romance writing. She's written in several different time periods. But some element of the paranormal always creeps in. She has won multiple contests for published novels including three PRISMS, the Holt Medallion, and Bookseller's Best award, as well as several reviewer's choice awards. Publisher's Weekly named Body Electric one of the most influential mass market books of 2003 and One with the Shadows, the fifth in her vampire Companion Series, a Best book of 2007. No More Lies was a Rita Finalist. Time for Eternity, the first in the DaVinci time travel series, received a starred review from Publisher's Weekly.

Susan has a Masters in English literature from UCLA and once toiled as an executive for a Fortune 500 company. Now she lives at the beach in Southern California with her husband, Harry, a writer of supernatural thrillers, and three very active Belgian Sheepdogs, who like to help her write by putting their chins on the keyboarddddddddddddddd.

PEARL AWARDS:

WINNER: 2002 Best Futuristic - BODY ELECTRIC
by Susan Squires
WINNER: 2003 Best Anthology - THE ONLY ONE
by Christine Feehan, Susan Grant, and Susan Squires 2004 RITA for Best Paranormal Romance Finalist