The Darkest Seduction (2012) (edit title/settings)

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• Paris: "Lord of Sex" - Keeper of Promiscuity; Is six-foot-eight with an all-muscle frame; Is gorgeous with vivid blue eyes and hair with differing shades of brown, from the darkest of midnight to the sweetest of honey; Has been addicted to ambrosia and fighting on a path of self destruction since losing Sienna; His life is dedicated to the quest of finding and saving her.
• Sienna Blackstone: "Enna" - New keeper of Wrath; Former Hunter; Only woman Paris has been able to sleep with more than once; Died in Paris' arms; Her spirit is being held by Cronus; Has long, wavy mahogany hair, big hazel eyes, freckles and plump red lips; Her obsidian butterfly tattoo is on her back, around her wings; Has midnight wings tipped in violet; Rumored to be the key to winning the war for almost every side
• Zacharel: "Zach" - Warrior Angel; Has dark hair, piercing jade eyes and an expressionless face; Is tall and muscular; Can create a sword of fire from nothing but air; Is being punished by the Deity who he has displeased; His majestic white-and-gold wings are a turbulent fall of winter clouds with streams of gold winding and curling throughout, snowflakes rain from the tips like glitter in a globe.
• Lysander: "Lysandy" - Leader of elite warrior angels; Bianka's consort; Has white and gold wings; Is tall, muscled and brawny with pale rosy skin, golden hair and navy eyes; Can create a sword of fire from nothing but air; Zacharel's superior
• Bianka Skyhawk: "Bee" - Harpy with a Phoenix-shifter father; Lysander's consort; Kaia's twin; Gwen & Taliyah's sister; Has luxurious black hair and shimmering amber eyes; Over 1,500 years old
• Amun: Keeper of Secrets; Haidee's mate; Cannot speak out loud for fear the Demon will spew everyone's darkest thoughts; Has mocha-colored skin, inky hair and black eyes
• Haidee Alexander: "Ex" short for "Demon Executioner" - "Hadiee" - "Hade-ay" - "Hay-dee" - Immortal; Amun's mate; Former Hunter who was used as Bait to trap & kill Baden; Has shoulder-length pale hair streaked with pink and gray eyes; Has a silver eyebrow ring and a full sleeve tattoo with faces, names & dates; For centuries was possessed by a small portion of the demon Hate
• Lucien: "The Grim Reaper" - "Flowers" - Keeper of Death; Anya's mate; Leader of the Budapest warriors; Has a severely scarred face, shaggy black hair and mismatched eyes (one blue & one brown)
• Anya: Minor Goddess of Anarchy; Lucien's mate; Can start fires with her mind (among other things); Tartarus' daughter; Has pale hair
• Strider: "Stridey-Man" - Keeper of Defeat; Kaia's consort & husband; Is six-foot-five and muscular with golden skin; Has blond hair and navy blue eyes; His sapphire butterfly tattoo is on his right hip
• Kaia Skyhawk: "Kye" - "Red" (by Strider) - "Kaia the Wing-Shredder" - Harpy with a Phoenix-shifter father; Strider's wife; Bianka's twin; Gwen & Taliyah's sister; Tabitha's daughter; A stunning, curvy redhead with gray-gold eyes; Over 1,500 years old; Can ignite herself and others on fire
• William: "William The Ever Randy" - "Liam" (ONLY by Gilly) - "Willy" - "William of the Dark" - "William the Naughty Boy Toy" - Sex-addicted immortal warrior; Anya's best friend; Lucifer's half-brother; Hades' son; Has jet-black hair and blue eyes; Is six-foot-eight and muscled with a treasure map tattoo leading to his man junk; Can see dead people; Used to rule purgatory until he escaped; Father of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Is in love with Gilly though he doesn't act on it
• Gillian Shaw: "Gilly" - "Little Gilly Gumdrop" (ONLY by William) - Seventeen-year-old human female; Danika's friend; Is in love with William; William's best friend; Has midnight hair, big wide chocolate eyes and a sun-kissed complexion; Is very curvy; Was abused by her family until she ran away
• Kane: Keeper of Disaster; Has brown, black and golden longish hair with hazel eyes; Is trapped in hell with demon minions loyal to his demon Disaster and wanting his "seed"
• Aeron: Immortal; Former keeper of Wrath; Olivia's consort; Has a closely cropped dark hair and beautiful violet eyes; His body was once covered in the tattooed images of the victims of his blood rages, but now he is slowly coveringng himself with tattoos of Olivia
• Olivia: Angel; Aeron's mate; Former demon assassin; Can see the dead; Has curly dark hair, an innocent face and pure white wings
• Sabin: "Sab" - Keeper of Doubt; Gwen's consort & husband; Leader of the Greek warriors; Has brown hair and ocher eyes; Is six-foot-seven and muscular
• Gwen Skyhawk: "Gwennie" - formerly "Gwendolyn the Timid" - Harpy; Sabin's wife; Kaia, Bianka & Taliyah's youngest sister; Galen's only daughter; Has a thick mass of blonde hair streaked with red and gray-gold eyes; 28 years old
• Gideon: Keeper of Lies; Scarlet's husband; Has blue hair, tattoos, an eyebrow ring and other piercings; Can cast his demon from his body and into his enemy's
• Scarlet: "Scar" - Keeper of Nightmares; Gideon's wife; Rhea's only daughter; A black-haired stunner; Is tall, slender and mean as hell
• Reyes: Keeper of Pain; Danika's man
• Danika Ford: Human; Reyes' woman; All-Seeing Eye; Can see the heavens, past, present and future; Has blonde hair
• Maddox: Keeper of Violence; Ashlyn's husband; Soon to become the father of twins; A black-haired giant with violet eyes; His crimson butterfly tattoo stretches across his shoulder blades
• Ashlyn Darrow: "Ash" - Human with supernatural abilities; Maddox's wife; Pregnant with twins; Can hear any past conversation in any given place except when around any of the Lords of the Underworld; Has golden hair and honey-colored eyes
• Torin: "Tor" - Keeper of Disease; Has white hair, black brows and brilliant green eyes; Has a gorgeous face and a muscled body; Can't touch another living person without causing a plague, keeps to himself in the control room because of that fact; Had a thing with Cameo while never touching her; The resident computer guru
• Cameo: Keeper of Misery; People can't bear to be around her for long because her voice carries the misery of the entire world; Is very beautiful with long dark hair, liquid silver eyes and the slim body of a dancer; Had a thing with Torin while never touching him
• Legion: Demon minion of Strife; Aeron's surrogate daughter; Was a horrible looking little demon but was given the body of a porn-star by Lucifer so that she could be tortured better while in hell; Is now a tall, slender, buxom female with long blonde hair and dark brown eyes; Has become Galen's obsession after she seduced and tried to kill him
• Viola: Minor Goddess of the Afterlife; Keeper of Narcissism; Rumored to be able to teach anyone to see the dead; Can barely keep up with matters not pertaining to her; A luscious, five-foot woman with long blonde hair and eyes the color of cinnamon; Her butterfly tattoo is a full body tat in a glittery pink color
• Princess Fluffikans: Viola's pet; He is a Tasmanian devil and a vampire
• Skye: Sienna's sister; Was abducted as a child and Sienna joined the Hunters to search for her but never found her; Pseudodoctor; A blonde with delicate features and deep chocolate eyes under her wire rimmed glasses; Married to a Hunter; Saved Haidee's life once
• Arca: Messenger Goddess; Has long, braided white hair and wide blue eyes; A prisoner in Cronus' harem; Paris vowed to rescue her after ensuring Sienna's safety
• Cameron: Keeper of Obsession; Was trapped by Cronus in Titania; Is tall and muscular with bronzed skin; His hair is a richer, deeper shade of bronze and his eyes are lavender rimmed with silver
• Púkinn: "Irish" - Keeper of Indifference; Was trapped by Cronus in Titania; His Egyptian heritage shines through the sharpness of his bone structure and the sensuality of his dark eyes; His hair is long, black and straight as a pen; Has horns stretching from his scalp, his hands are permanently clawed, his legs muscled and furred; Speaks with an Irish accent
• Winter: Vampire; Keeper of Selfishness; Was trapped by Cronus in Titania; Has bronzed skin, bronzed hair and lavender eyes rimmed with silver; She has mile-long legs and dangerous curves
• Urban: "Murder" - "Pistol" - "Blood" - "Smith" - "Sh*ts" - "Fists" - "Hammer" - Maddox & Ashlyn's newborn son; Ever's twin brother; Has black hair and violet eyes; Has little horns peeking from his skull and black, smooth as glass scales on his hands
• Ever: "Mayhem" - "Shank" - "Gore" - "Wesson" - "Giggles" - "Kneecap" - "Nails" - Maddox & Ashlyn's newborn daughter; Urban's twin sister; Is gorgeous with honey-colored corkscrew curls and crackling orange-gold eyes; Has a mouth full of really sharp teeth and little fists with curling claws
• Rebecca Skye: Baby girl
• Tartarus: Greek god of Confinement; Anya's father
• Pandora: Immortal warrior to the Greek gods; Once guardian of dimOuniak; Had black hair and a leanly honed body; Deceased
• One, True Deity: Ruler of the angels
• Cronus: King of the Titans; Keeper of Greed; Rhea's estranged husband; Used to look like an old man with gray hair, wrinkled skin and stooped shoulders; Now looks GQ flawless and barbarian tough with dark chestnut hair hanging to his strong, wide shoulders and smooth tanned skin the perfect shade of bronze
• Rhea: Queen of the Titans; Keeper of Strife; Scarlet's mother; Estranged wife of Cronus; True leader of the Hunters; Has flawless creamy skin, dark hair and eyes a mix of crystal and crimson
• Galen: Keeper of Hope & Jealousy; Second-in-command of the Hunters; Gwen's father; Possibly Rhea's lover; Considers Legion to be his woman; Humans think he is an angel since he has white wings; A beautiful blond with sky-blue eyes; Was the last warrior created by Zeus; Has a butterfly tattoo over his left pectoral and one over his right
• Fox: Keeper of Distrust; Galen's first-in-command; A tall, slender woman with jet-black hair and blue-gold eyes
• Halo: Fallen angel; Is massive with scars on his back where his wings used to be; Has pink hair, a white halo tattoo around his neck, tears of blood inked at the corners of his eyes and a ring of steel protruding from the center of his lower lip; Is in love with Viola
• Hugh: Hunter; Sienna's college boyfriend; Convinced her to join the Hunters after he drugged her and she had a hallucination of demons
• Red: One of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Male with raven hair and cruel blue eyes
• Black: One of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Male with sandy hair and emerald eyes
• White: One of the four Horse(wo)men of the Apocalypse; Female with wavy, silver-blonde hair to her waist and pure lavender eyes
• Green: One of the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Male with a bald head
• Lucifer: "Prince of Darkness" - "Luci" - The devil; Ruler of hell; William's half brother; Hades' son
• Dean Stefano: Hunter; Galen's right-hand man
• Hades: High Lord of the Underworld; William & Lucifer's father; Has black wings with fire running through them, long jet-black hair and eyes of pure black with no pupils evident in a handsome face; Has huge muscles and what appears to be tiny stars tattooed all over his chest

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• “I speak, and the humans tremble in fear. I speak, and my people rush to obey-and yet still they seek to destroy me. My salvation rides the wings of midnight, and my burden she carries. My rage she unleashes, delivering damnation to all with a single swing of her sword. I speak.”

  Cronus

• “Speak all the hell you want. I'm taking what's mine.”

  Paris

• “Here you go. Take her. And you’re welcome. You won’t need to stab yourself to please your demon for at least a year Reyes.”

  Anya

• “What are you doing?" “I’m Screeching. That’s the Immortal version of twittering or tweeting or whatever you lower beings call it, I’ve got seven bazillion followers.” “What are you telling them?” “I might be sorta telling them all about you. ‘Lord of Sex is filthy and looking to score. I’m not interested but should I help him rack up the points with someone else?' Send.”

  Viola & Paris

• “Actually, you’re here because you owe Paris a favor. More than that you’re avoiding your girlfriend” “First, I don’t owe anyone a favor. Second, I don’t have a girlfriend, you pansy-assed winged piece of shit” “Don’t you? What is young Gilly to you then?” “You’re about to find out how your liver tastes my friend.” “I’ve tasted it already, it was a bit salty.”

  Zacharel & William

• “Where’s your dog?” “Princess Fluffikans is exploring these new surroundings without any hindrance from mommy.” “That explains the screaming downstairs.”

  Ashlyn, Viola & Maddox

• “Out. Paris wants to see Smith and Wesson.” “Don’t call them that.” “What do you want me to call them? Shits and Giggles? Fists and Kneecap? Nah, I don‘t like one. Hammer and Nails? Dude, these kids are hard-core gangster. They need kick-A names not that blah blah sh—crap you gave them.”

  William & Maddox

• “"William, my sweet William! I want him."”

  Promiscuity/Sex

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• Budapest, Hungary: "Buda" - One of the home fronts of the Lords of the Underworld
• Titania: The city of the gods; formerly known as Olympus
• Realm of Blood and Shadows: A sinister, hidden section of Titania
• Tartarus: Immortal prison on Mount Olympus
• West Godlywood: Titania's premier hotel
• Chamber of Futures
• River of Life: One drop could heal any wound or any sickness in any creature
• Hawaii

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• Lords of the Underworld: Exiled immortal warriors to the Greek gods who now house demons inside them; To be separated from their demons would be to die.
• Hunters: Mortal enemies of the Lords of the Underworld; Humans lead by Galen
• Titans: Current rulers of Olympus
• Unspoken Ones: Reviled gods; Prisoners of Cronus on a secluded island in Rome; There are five of them, one being a female

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• All-Key: A key that unlocks any door, any prison, any curse; Nothing can bind its holder; If anyone tries to take it by force they will die
• All-Seeing Eye: One of the four Godly Aftifacts with the power to see into heaven and hell, time and space, past, present and future
• Cage of Compulsion: One of the four Godly Aftifacts with the power to enslave anyone who's trapped inside
• Cloak of Invisibility: One of the four Godly Aftifacts with the power to shield it's wearer from prying eyes
• dimOuniak: "Pandora's Box" - Was guarded by Pandora; Housed the demons that even hell could not contain
• Gargl: Gargoyles
• Paring Rod: One of the four Godly Aftifacts; Container of souls and granter of abilities
• Warrior Angels: Heavenly demon assassins

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by The Darkest Surrender, and followed by The Darkest Craving.

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1. Gena Showalter (Author)

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• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexually Explicit Material, Violence

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy

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