Nightshine — Lynn Viehl

New York Times bestselling author Lynn Viehl has enthralled readers with her novels of the immortal Darkyn. Now she continues the story of the secret progeny of the Darkyn: the Kyndred, ordinary people unaware they have been altered by vampire DNA but destined to become the next generation of heroes.

When San Francisco paramedic Charlotte "Charlie" Marena sto to help at the scene of an accident, she never imagines shel wind up trapped on a Mexican island, with orders to procreate with powerful Takyn Samuel Taske. In her mind, he's got two strikes against him: He knows about her secret nighttime telepathic ability and he's too wealthy to be trusted.

Samuel is psychic, but he's never foreseen that he'll fall for the woman he has been charged with protecting. GenHance -- the biotech company willing to do anything to acquire superhuman DNA -- is after them, and when Samuel discovers that his Takyn powers have abandoned him, Charlie's gift is their only hope for survival....