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Lover Awakened is the third in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. It tells the story of Zsadist, the most lethal of the brothers. A former blood slave who was mercilessly tortured during the first hundred years of his life, Z is the one who has fallen farthest from grace. Lover Awakened tells of his redemption.
As an infant, Zsadist had been taken from his nyumbani and forced to serve in the house of a vampire aristocrat while he was pre-transition. Years later, hours after his transition, he found himself tied down, with thick black bands being tattooed into the skin around his wrists and neck (his pulse points). Overnight he had become a blood slave - a male au female vampire who is subjugated to serve the blood needs of another. For a hundred years, Zsadist had to suffer through the horror of being at the mercy of a brutal vampire female, The Mistress. Over time, Zsadist became numb. His canary yellow eyes, similar to that of his twin’s, Phury, grew black and soulless, a reflection of how he felt inside.
Though Phury rescues Zsadist, Z still bears the physical and mental scars from a terrible past. He becomes famous for his sinister deeds, especially where females are concerned. He is considered a savage, feared kwa humans and Wanyonya damu alike. Anger is his only companion and terror his only passion—until he rescues a beautiful female from the Lessening Society.
Bella had been instantly entranced kwa the seething power Zsadist possesses; and though he considers himself unworthy of her, she strives to prove her feelings and her belief in him.
