Somehow I couldn't really get both protagonist this time. For demon/vampire Malkolm Carrow is his fated female and his bride so he must want her and unltimately love her. Even when he thinks she betrayed him ( a story-line which seemed to me totally forced...just so the story had THE BIG MISUNDERSTANDING). Carrow was even more puzzling. First she hates him, the she fears him, and then...yeah, it seemes like she got her brain amputated at some point because suddenly she can't stop thinking about how georgeus and big and strong and really BIG he is. So in the latest of the Immortals after dark books, we can watch the mating of the two dumbest protagonist I have encountered in a really long time. Fans like me who got hooked on Kresley Coles witty humor and the steamy foreplay will really be disappointed. I really hope that the next book (Regin and her Berserker) are gonna be what we are used to...