The Forests of the Night the war as it really was, as James Kirkup observed, an "acid portrait of those who played at being members of the [French] Resistance". The novel's theme and title come from the opening lines to William Blake's poem "The Tyger": "Tiger, tiger, burning bright - in the forests of the night." "The Forests of the Night" was translated in 1951 into English by Nora Wydenbruck; it has not been re-printed since. Francis is the son of the Comte de Balansun, whose family resides in the French town of Saint-Clar, near the Pyrenees. Francis, in the beginning of the novel, skips
In the Forests of the Night on May 11, 1999, about a month after she signed her contract. It was later released in paperback on May 8, 2000. After the release of her Kiesha'ra Series, Atwater-Rhodes revealed that the first four novels she wrote, "In the Forests of the Night", "Demon in My View", "Shattered Mirror" and "Midnight Predator", were part of the Den of Shadows and "In the Forests of the Night" was republished in paperback with a new cover to mark the series in July 2009, while all four books were released in an omnibus called "The Den of Shadows Quartet" on August 11,