Taken by Midnight (Midnight Breed, #8) by Lara Adrian

Taken by Midnight (Lara Adrian)

SUMMARY

In the frozen Alaskan wilderness, former state trooper Jenna Darrow survives an unspeakable breach of body and soul. But with her narrow escape comes an even greater challenge. For strange changes are taking place within her, as she struggles to understand—and control—a new hunger. To do so, she will seek shelter in the Boston compound of the Order, an ancient race of vampire warriors whose very existence is shrouded in mystery. Perhaps the most mysterious of them all is Brock, a brooding, dark-eyed alpha male whose hands hold the power to comfort, heal . . . and arouse.

As she recovers under Brock’s care, Jenna finds herself drawn to the Order’s mission: to stop a ruthless enemy and its army of assassins from subjecting Earth to a reign of terror. Yet in spite of their resolve, a purely physical relationship without strings soon binds Brock and Jenna together with a desire fiercer than life and stronger than death itself—until a secret from Brock’s past and Jenna’s own mortality challenges their forbidden love to the ultimate trial by fire.

MY REVIEW

Breed warrior Brock
Special ability: Absorbing the pain and suffering of the others by touching
Age: Around 110 years old

(Breed) mate Jenna
Special ability: Great physical strength, advanced senses, phychic abilities, speaks Ancient language
Occupation: Former state trooper
Mark place: None. She has dermaglyphs which have started to form at the back of her neck.

Settings: Boston, New York, Gloucester, Newport, Harmony in Alaska

This is a great book. I loved that it is focused mainly in the action and less in the love story between Brock and Jenna.
In this book the woman is actually more interesting that the breedwarrior. Jenna is Alex's friend from Alaska. She is not a breed mate and she is definetely not very lucky with her life so far and her family. She basically has no family left. Her brother Zack was a crooked Sheriff who got killed, her husband and daughter were killed in a car accident and Jenna cannot have any more children.
She was about to kill herself when Ancient appeared and did strange things to her in the previous book. In a storyline which reminded me the one Scully had in X-files, Ancient put an inplant in Jenna's neck. Jenna stayed in coma for a month and when she wakes up, nobody knows what she is exactly.
Brock is the one who helped her to overcome her pain. They fall madly in love - although none of them thought it was a good idea and they form a great team.
The book is not lacking in action. There is the storyline about saving the lost breedmates and the storyline about the saving of young Kellan.
On top of these, new characters are introduced: Kellan and Lazaro Archer and Corrine.