This is the book that I thought started to show some interconnectivity to the characters. This book is dark; it shows gives a lot of the back story of Zsadist's life as a blood slave. His past haunts him throughout the book and it so amazing to see how his fondness for Bella starts to shatter some of his walls. Ward does a great job in this book, she makes you see that the front of, I am an evil bxxxxxd, is not all that Zsadist can be.