I'm really enjoying this series. Keri Arthur does a great job of making the series stand on it's own away from the Riley Jensen series, but still has some familiar aspects to Riley Jensen that makes it fun to read such as the fact that Riley, Quinn, Rhoan, and Liander all make appearances in the books, just aren't featured as main characters. 
 This book starts about two months after the end of Darkness Unbound. Risa is still dealing with the death of her mother and is still determined to find the person responsible, but unfortunately she's also got the vampire council to deal with and they don't know what to do with Risa. Plus, she's still trying to find the keys. This series works a lot better with th multiple storylines than Keri Arthur's attempt at the same thing with the Riley Jensen series. I think she's finally gotten down how to write a story that has multiple things going on and keep it neat and understandable. Too many times in the later Riley Jensen books I would get confused with so much information thrown at me all at once. This may have just been my problem, but Keri Arthur does a great job with it in this book. 
 Searching for Dia's murderer takes a backseat to finding out more about the keys and resolving a problem for the Vampire Council. She needs to find whoever has been killing council member vampires otherwise she will be killed. The vampires figure it might be better to kill her where the keys are concerned instead of let her find them. 
 It's a fast paced book, and once started I didn't want to put it down. There was a lot of doubt cast upon certain character's trustworthyness and I have to say I was waiting the whole book for it to turn out badly, but we still don't know if Risa can trust everyone or not. I'm thinking not and I also believe this will be a matter that's explored more in Darkness Devours which comes out in June. This is definitely a good series and I can't wait to see where Keri Arthur takes us. Until Then!