Format: Kindle, 230 pages
Release Date: July 13th 2022
Publisher: NYLA
Source: Amazon
Genre: Urban Fantasy
For over a year, Darian has lived in the dark.
Between her
mysterious memory loss and the constant headaches that plague her,
Darian has had enough. And the million-dollar bounty on her head
certainly isn’t helping either. It’s tough to maintain her
under-the-radar status when every ambitious assassin in the Pacific
Northwest has eyes on that sweet payout!
Desperate to reclaim her
lost memories—there could be a light at the end of the tunnel in the
form of Camden Walsh. But as is custom in the supernatural world, his
help offers more questions than it does actual answers. The Alpha
Werewolf knows who’s placed the bounty on Darian—and it has to do with a
centuries-old secret society that’s determined to save humanity from
the greatest paranormal threats, which is supposedly Darian herself!
What’s
more, Camden knows about Darian’s memory loss and has been instructed
by a mysterious benefactor to help her. As anxious as she is to reclaim
her lost memories and rid herself of the debilitating headaches, she
fears that the truth might be the biggest threat to her life yet…
Secrets at Nightfall is the sixth installment in author Amanda Bonilla's Shade Assassin series. This is the first book in the series since 2015's Shadows at Midnight which left readers with a shocking and heartbreaking cliffhanger ending. So let's take a stroll down memory lane for those who have, and have not read this series. If you are a fan of Urban Fantasy and you have not tried the Shaede Assassin books, you are really missing out. Yes, I do recommend that you read these books in order as they were released.
Darian,
our protagonist, was once human before she was transformed into
something else entirely different after meeting the enigmatic and
charming Azriel. Darian
spent nearly a century alone in her thoughts and working as an assassin
ridding humanity of it's worse sort of scum. She truly believed that
she was the only one of her kind until she was given a job to eliminate Xander Peck.
Xander just happened to be the king of the Shaede's and has known about Darian for ages, yet for some reason or the other, never bothered to inform Darian that others existed. As the story opens, Xander, Raif, and Asher are dealing with his traitorous cousins attempt at a coup. (See why you need to read these books in order?) Darian is not only an assassin, but she is also the Guardian of the Faery Realm which you'll to go back a few books and figure out what happened.
Darian has huge holes in her memory. Every time she tries to remember, she gets painful headaches. Darian is currently working for Misha taking bounties to pay the bills while she looks for another apartment to call home, and not rely on Xander's good graces. Here we meet a new character named Camden Walsh, who just happens to be a high ranked Alpha werewolf. Camden, it appears, knows about Darian's memory issues.
He fills her in on the paranormal hate group known as Arx who puts a huge bounty on Darian's head. Arx's leader Mitchell Redmond is a human. So, while Darian is dealing with her memory issues, and the fact that she has assassins coming out of the woodwork to collect the bounty on her head, and the fact that a dangerous entity known as Delash is coming at her from all angles, and the return of Xander, and Raif, she also has to deal with the Synod, a group even more deadlier and dangerous than Arx.
The final pages of this book will explain a whole lot of missing information to readers who have stayed loyal from the beginning. There is a return of a certain character right when it matters most; when Darian takes a job to eliminate a man named Levi. Since someone from Darian's past is now back in her life, and the Synod, and Arx are still threats to Darian, there is feeling of joy within my bones knowing that the author will have to write another book in this series.
