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Dark Needs at Night's Edge
by Kresley Cole
About this book
The “devilishly passionate” (RT Book Reviews) Immortals After Dark series continues with this tale of a vampire shunned by his own kind and a beautiful phantom, bound together by a passion they cannot resist from New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Kresley Cole.
Néomi Laress, a famous ballerina from a past century, became a phantom the night she was murdered. Imbued with otherworldly powers but invisible to the living, she haunts her beloved home, scaring away trespassers—until she encounters a ruthless immortal even more terrifying than Néomi herself.
To prevent him from harming others, vampire warrior Conrad Wroth’s brothers imprison him in an abandoned manor. But there, a female only he can see seems determined to drive him further into madness. The exquisite creature torments him with desire, leaving his body racked with lust and his soul torn as he finds himself coveting her for his own.
Yet even if Conrad can win Néomi, evil still surrounds her. Once he returns to the brutality of his past to protect her, will he succumb to the dark needs seething inside him?
- Publication Date
- May 25, 2026
- ASIN
- B009WTU398
Reader Reviews
March 21, 2026
Not sure what derailed me from a few years ago, but I’m glad to be back. Great characters, steamy love scenes, cool world-building, hard to put down (have found them all to have this). Here, mighty warrior Conrad struggles with his sanity for much of the book, while Néomi is lovely, lonely ghost. Watching them fall is love was beautiful, and seeing them overcome their (many!) obstacles (separately and together) made it feel real and healthy. Great and interesting characters from the past were...
July 2, 2016
I have always loved Kresley Coles Immortal After Dark Series, Ive read a few though not in order mores the pity. (smiles) I love the characters in this full novel, some parts dragged a bit but then other flowed smoothly and kept you wanting to read. We meet Conrad a touch more than a mad vampire, his older brothers are trying to help gain a bit or normalcy. His brothers still see the potential good in Conrad. But when Conrad starts talking to himself they think he has a set back. A dancer, a...
May 17, 2026
I enjoyed this read. I'd been wanting a break from my current read and this certainly helped to stop a gap. It was exactly what I needed. I enjoyed most of the writing, only small sections when switching POV felt repetitive. But overall I had a good time. I liked that Neomi set boundaries where she could. Left to his own devices Conrad would be overbearing. Sometimes I found him a little too intense, but for his character that made sense. Neomi deserves anything good that comes into her life...
May 3, 2025
When I reread IAD last year, I actually started with Kiss of the Demon King, skipping the Wroth brothers. I recalled feeling inundated by Wroth brothers in the early parts of the series (there *are* 4 of them, after all) because you get them all so early on, and you get parts of the same story from different perspectives in each book. I'm glad this time when I picked up Dark Needs at Nights Edge (thanks @hsumanityreads) it was to start here. I found myself significantly more comfortable with...
August 28, 2025
Dark Needs at Nights Edge is a multi POV forced proximity paranormal romance. Conrad Wroth is a Vampire driven mad by the memories of those he’s drained, imprisoned by his brothers in an attempt to bring him back from the brink. They trap him in Elancourt Manor, home to the ghost of Néomi, a ballet dancer brutally murdered in the 1920’s. Conrad is the first person to see and speak to Néomi in 80 years and their forced proximity brings them closer. This one was so fun! I had no idea how the...
