Saving DarkNight LGBTQ Paranormal Romance/Fantasy Fiction/Swords and Sorcery
Rainbow Gate Books
December 27, 2020
131
Fate and a dragon unite two men in a battle for love, magic, the march of time, and holiday joy.
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In a time of tall-masted ships and hand-made lives, a Guardian and a sailor find true love and their fates in each other. But romance, and a future together must wait, for duty calls. In a battle against dragons, can they seize victory in time to rescue the magic of Darknight and deliver holiday joy to a world that can no longer find its own way?
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All Reo Faramund plans for the evening is to take his son Pariso to the Festival of Lights in Sailor’s Cove, their home when they’re not out to sea on the tall-masted merchant ship, Mighty Hawk. Then, in less than a blink, the festival, the town, and the life he knows all vanish. When they find themselves high on a wintry mountain, Reo fears for their lives until an extraordinary stranger comes out of the night to offer help.
First Guardian Jael Kohlinor patrols high up on Mount Lucia’s flank, his sole purpose to make sure no Flatlanders find out about Lucia, a tiny country hidden in a fold of time where a dragon named Nicholas presides over a bloom of dragon eggs that yields gems and riches every Darknight solstice. Without the Darknight cache, Nicholas can’t deliver holiday wonders across time, and time itself will suffer the consequences. When Jael finds Reo and Pariso shocked and shivering in the winter cold on the night before Darknight, he contemplates wiping their memories and getting them off the mountain, which is what the need for secrecy dictates. But invisible bonds pull Jael toward Reo like fate, and defying all rules he takes the strangers in out of the cold.
Unknown to anyone on Mount Lucia, strange and greedy dragons are already winging toward Lucia with plans to steal Nicholas’s wealth. Jael and Reo might have a future, a family, a fated love, but only if they can first save Darknight.
Reviewed by Linda Tonis
Member of the Paranormal Romance Guild Review Team
Jael Kohlinor is a guardian in fact the first guardian of the Guardian Agency whose job is looking for threats
Against Mount Lucia. In spite of the fact that reaching the mountain would be near impossible for flatlanders it is a job he and the others take very seriously.
Reo Faramund and his young son Pariso were attending the Sailor’s Cove Festival of Lights when he found himself on top of the mountain face to face with Jael who knows his duty is to remove them, but duty be damned because when he sees Reo and Pariso his first instinct is to protect them and get them somewhere warm. He knows that if Nicholas, a dragon discovers what he has done there will be hell to pay but Nicholas surprises him when he is not mad but confesses, he was responsible for their arriving on the mountain.
Reo is a sailor found and raised by a sailor just as he found Pariso when he was an infant and raised him like his own. Nicholas needs Reo to fly his new airship, a ship he will use on Christmas Eve to bring joy to all the children, and yes Nicholas is Santa Claus. The Shine is when dragon eggs filled with jewels hatch giving Nicholas the money, he needs to fulfill his mission only this time the Pale, rogue dragons are determined to steal the cache for themselves along with Pariso.
Jael and Reo recognize that they are soulmates and the mission in front of them, a fight with the Pale is dangerous. Reo discovers where he came from and secrets about his son which I will not share in this review.
I enjoyed this book, the magic, the dragons and the main characters but at times I found it slow moving. It was definitely a new take on the story we all grew up on, Santa Claus.