When photo-journalist Emily Winters gets a mysterious phone call, she agrees to meet a stranger in an isolated church on the outskirts of Sydney. The stranger tells her of a supernatural history that involves her family and passes a book onto her called a grimore. With the help of the grimore, the stranger called Jay and her grandmothers ring, Emily starts to uncover more and more about the women in her family. Women who have powers that are passed on to every generation, powers that an evil cabal will stop at nothing to take from them.

With the dark forces closing in and only a few days to learn what she needs to know, Emily has to come to terms with her magical inheritance and decide who she can trust. Using the strength from her ancestors, Emily fights to free not only herself from the enemy but also her family and friends. Blood will be spilled, magic will used and hopefully none of them will die.

A friend sent me The Darkness Within all the way from Australia and now all I can say to her is - Thank you so much! Because this was an amazing book that I definitely wouldn't have come across if she hadn't of sent it to me. Full of vampires, magic and powers unknown this was a brilliant read. The Darkness Within was so well written that I could actually imagine it as a film or TV series.

I loved the main character for her strength and the unusual vampire Jay for his mysterious ways. The plot was great, the whole story somehow unique and it had me hooked right until the end. I hope this author writes more paranormal stories (maybe even a follow up to this one) and also sets them in Australia as he did this one.

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