Darkest Need

A Dark Ones Novella (1001 Dark Nights)

By: Rachel Van Dyken

Narrated by: Aiden Snow, Tamika Katon-Donegal, Oliver Clarke

From #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken comes a new story in The Dark Ones Saga…

I see everything. I feel everything.
I watch people fall in love. I watch them burn with hate, anger, rage, and I see the cycle repeat over and over again. I take it on every night I work at Timber, aka Anubis’s bar in downtown Seattle, and then I help the rest of the immortals keep the very intense balance between Heaven and Earth.

I see everyone's future but mine, and when I try to look, all I see is darkness, despair, need…

Until she walks into my bar with bruises on her face, getting pulled by one of the lesser demons. I do what any good bartender would do… I beat him within an inch of his life and turn my eyes to her.
By then, it’s too late.
She already has me in her grasp.
A succubus that has no other plan than to suck me clean of every inch of power that’s been bestowed on me by the Heavens.

I never thought my future involved getting kidnapped and tied up or that I’d die by way of sex—then again, maybe that’s for the best. Dying at the hands of my enemy rather than being one more burden to my already mated friends.

After all, giving into one last need before death, while selfish, may be exactly what my darkness means.

My need is great.
And she’s about to find out just how much.

**Every 1001 Dark Nights novella is a standalone story. For new readers, it’s an introduction to an author’s world. And for fans, it’s a bonus book in the author’s series. We hope you'll enjoy each one as much as we do.**

©2023 Rachel Van Dyken. (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Foreword © 2014 by M. J. Rose.

Critic reviews

“Original, fascinating, riveting, and a distinct treat for fans of dark fantasy stories…brought vividly to life in a true theatre of the mind experience by the collaborative storytelling talents of co-narrators Aiden Snow, Tamika Katon-Donegal, and Oliver Clarke.”—Midwest Book Review

shout out

Thank you so much for these story it was beautiful and it went so well with the rest of the stories in the series You are the what are the best Thank you

Not like others in Dark Ones Saga...

I really wanted to enjoy this audiobook but the narration was horrible; couldn't even finish. I wish when it's part of a series, they would try to keep the same narrator's.
I love the author & series but was very disappointed.

this one IS a NO

I listen to the entire series but this one definitely different and you would think with narratives and still the worse one of them all wish they keep the previous narrator and I wish I read this one instead listen it's a disappointment to end it with this one