Beloved author Christina Dodd gives you a series to rival her own brilliant Darkness Chosen in this intoxicating new novel of the Chosen, where an ancient rivalry threatens the balance of the modern world. When the world was young, twins were born. One brought light to a dark world. The other, darkness and danger. They gathered others around them, men and women destined to use their powerful gifts for good or evil. Today, their descendents walk the earth as the Chosen, and the ultimate battle has begun...   Brilliant but predictable and proper Rosamund Hall has lived her life buried in universities and libraries, discounting the legend of the Chosen as a myth. Until Aaron Eagle shows up at her door. Aaron both unsettles and enthralls her, but she can't resist his irresistible offers of clandestine visits to private museums, the hunt for a mysterious prophecy, or a makeover that unleashes her untamed soul. With the promise of a love that will defy fate itself, Rosamund is forced to confront the truth about the Chosen...and the man who sweeps her into a dangerous world of dark secrets. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved."Hello?" Aaron called into the depths of the library basement. "Dr. Hall? It's Aaron Eagle."   "Back here!" A voice floated over and through the shelves. A woman's voice.   They must have finally dug up the funding to get Dr. Hall an assistant. Good thing. The old guy could croak down here and no one would notice for days. Aaron walked back to the work area where manuscripts, scrolls and a stone tablet covered the tables.   A girl leaned over the tablet, brush in hand, studying it. "Put it on the table over there." She waved vaguely toward the corner.   Aaron glanced over at the table piled with Styrofoam containers and fast food bags. He looked back at the girl.   Her skin was creamy and fine-grained, a good thing, since she did not wear a single drop of make-up. She was perhaps a little skinny, but with what she was wearing, who could tell? Her dress drooped where it should fit and hung unevenly at the hem. She had latex gloves over her hands -- nothing killed a man's interest like latex gloves -- and she wore brown leather clogs. Birkenstocks. As the crowning touch, she wore plastic rimmed tortoise shell glasses that looked like an extension of the frizzy carrot red hair trapped at the back of her neck.   Yet for all that she was not in any way attractive, she paid him no heed. "Who do you think I am?" he asked.   "Lunch. Or" -- her glasses had slid down her nose -- "did I miss lunch? Is it time for dinner already? What time is it?"   "It's three."   "Rats. I did miss lunch." Lifting her head, she looked at him.   He did a double take violent enough to give him whiplash.   Beneath the glasses, dense, dark lashes surrounded the biggest, most emphatically violet eyes he'd ever seen.   Like a newly wakened owl, she blinked at him. "Who are you?"   "I'm. Aaron. Eagle." He emphasized each word. "Who are you?"   "I'm Dr. Rosamund Hall."   Read more about the Chosen Ones and join her mailing list on Christina's website christinadodd.com More ways to connect with Christina Dodd: Goodreads  -  Christina Dodd Amazon -  amazon.com/Christina-Dodd/e/B001H6TZG6/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_ebooks_1  New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd builds worlds filled with romance and adventure and creates the most distinctive characters in fiction today. Her forty-six novels -- paranormals, historicals and romantic suspense -- have been translated into eighteen languages, featured by Doubleday Book Club, recorded on Books on Tape for the Blind, won Romance Writers of America's prestigious Golden Heart and RITA Awards and been called the year's best by Library Journal. Dodd herself has been a clue in the Los Angeles Times crossword puzzle (11/18/05, # 13 Down:  Romance Novelist named Christina.) Publishers Weekly praises her style that "showcases Dodd's easy, addictive charm and steamy storytelling," and her legions of fans always know that when they pick up a Christina Dodd book, they know they've found a story "For the wild at heart!"Enter Christina's worlds and join her mailing list at christinadodd.com