Torin, the hero, is trapped in a prison next to the heroine, Keeleycael – later called Keeley, then Keys, known as the Red Queen for the amount of bloodshed and violence in her past. The reader is dropped into the middle of the plot. Maybe I got my hopes too high but it didn’t knock me out of the park. I’d heard good reviews for her earlier books in this series so I was eager to read one and I’m sad to say that I was underwhelmed. This is the 11th book in Gena Showalter’s Lords of the Underworld series but the first that I’ve read. His touch could mean her end, but resisting her is the hardest battle he’s ever fought-and the only battle he fears he can’t win. When the powerful beauty with shocking vulnerabilities escapes from a centuries-long imprisonment, the desire that simmers between her and Torin is scorching. Carnal pleasure is utterly forbidden, and though he has always overcome temptation with an iron will, his control is about to shatter. Torin’s every touch causes sickness and death-and a worldwide plague.
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