Darkborn

Alison Sinclairs writing is addictive and elegant.-LANE ROBINS, Author of MALEDICTE For the Darkborn, sunlight kills. For the Lightborn, darkness is fatal. Living under a centuries-old curse, the Darkborn and the Lightborn share the city of Minhorne, coexisting in an uneasy equilibrium but never interacting. When Balthasar Hearne, Darkborn physician, -finds a pregnant fugitive on his doorstep just before sunrise, he has no choice but to take her in. -Tercelle Amberleys betrothed is a powerful Darkborn nobleman, but her illicit lover came to her through the daytime. -When she gives birth to twin boys, Balthasar realizes that they can see-something unheard of among the Darkborn. Two days after the birth, men arrive in search of the children.- Balthasar is saved only by the intervention of his Lightborn neighbour-and healed by the hands of his wife, Telmaine. -Soon Balthasar finds himself drawn deeper into a web of political intrigue and magical attacks as an ancient enemy of both Darkborn and Lightborn appears in a new guise, while Telmaine must confront a power she can no longer keep sheathed in gloves-a power she neither wants nor can control.