Summary

Showalter slowly made it to my favorite authors list. Since the first book in the Lords of the Underworld (Book 1 was not my favorite) series her writing has improved exponentially and Darkest Passion follows the pattern, bringing us a well written story with nicely constructed characters, as well as adding important facts to the big plot that threads through all books in the series. Aeron, host of the demon Wrath, was hardened by the life he's had to endure and uses distance as a shield, keeping people at arms length so he doesn't have to go through losses again. Inadvertently, while trying to help Legion, his surrogate daughter, he breaks heavenly law and is sentenced to death. Olivia, the angel who's been tasked to destroy Aeron, sees her target as a giving, caring and protective creature and is completely smitten by him, therefore unable to fulfill such task. For that, she falls from heaven and does everything she can to stay by his side for as long as possible before another is sent to take his head. Aeron is not very welcoming but, through her bizarre attempts (most funny passages come from her ideas), she grows on him until he realizes he can't live without her.