Beast of Fire from Lisa Renee Jones has a thick, rich plotline with good guys that audiences attach themselves to and demons who are omnipresent and seem undefeatable. As the fifth book in Jones’s Knights of White series, the knights of Archangel Raphael’s army return along with the Darkland Beasts of the Underworld, werewolves, witches, healers, seers, and Fae warriors, all mixing among humans in their cities, towns, businesses, government, and every other nook and cranny of society.

Some supernaturals strive to protect humanity and others like Adrian, the Darkland leader, wish to bring humans to their knees and any supernatural who stands in his way from seizing control of the human race. There is one woman whom he targets to use to achieve this end, the firestarter Kresley Ward, born of an Angelic bloodline, destined to be a Knight’s mate and pure by birthright. He conceives a scheme to manipulate Kresley by holding her mate Lucan captive. A Knight of White, Lucan refuses to give up his soul when he is taken by Adrian in a bargain to keep Kresley safe, but evil has no honor when it comes to holding up a contract. This draws images of Oscar Wide’s Portrait of Dorian Gray about a man who makes a deal with the Devil to keep his youth. Keeping in accord with Wilde, Jones shows that every deal made with evil has negative repercussions.

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