Like sneaking the last chocolate, Night Falls Darkly will leave you devilishly satisfied!

Archer, like all good Dukes, is no match for his clever staff and the witty and charming enigma that is Elena Whitney.

This is a wonderful Historical paranormal romance, written with a great plot, and filled with some delightful turns of phrase.  Every now and then one will just leap up, and you have to read it twice.

“Archer couldn’t claim to know what might please a mortal woman. Although necessity required him to move amongst them at times, he took care to keep himself distinctly apart. The few he had passed time with had seemed to enjoy sex an inordinate amount”

The story twists around the time of Jack the Ripper.  Anyone familiar with any of the theories of his identity will be delighted with the combination of in-depth research and incredible imagination used to recreate this story.  I do particularly love how Queen Victoria keeps popping up as a peripheral character, and is given a distinct personality and opinion!

Personally, I thought it was a pretty enjoyable story – and I will certainly be rounding up the second book. It did get a little slow in places, but that is also due to the nature of historical romance, they do tend to have more plot than action (it would be written VERY differently if it was an Urban Fantasy!). But it certainly falls into the ‘read in the tub with a glass of wine’ category.

However, the ending may drive many balmy! It’s a perfectly happy ending, but it’s almost like the Kim Lenox was walking out the door at the end of the story, turns slowly to the camera, looking just over her shoulder and throws out a cliff hanger of a question... you can feel the words ‘too be continued’ etched into your soul.