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Black Dagger Brotherhood · Book 1

Darius

by J. R. Ward

Published
19 July 2022
Pages
1
ISBN-13
9780349438641
Type
novella

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About this book

Darius (2022) is a prequel novella about an original Black Dagger Brother, numbered 0.5 in the reading order even though it was written and released years after the main series was underway. J. R. Ward intended it to be read after readers already know the Brotherhood, not as a starting point, despite being chronologically the earliest story in Caldwell's shadow war against the Lessening Society.

Its place in Black Dagger Brotherhood

Darius is book 1 in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. It is followed by Dark Lover. See the full Black Dagger Brotherhood reading order.

In Caldwell, New York, a secret brotherhood of massive, tattooed vampire warriors wages a shadow war against the Lessening Society, a cult of soulless slayers bent on wiping out the vampire race. Each book pairs one Brother (or an ally drawn into their world) with his fated mate, unfolding a slow-burn, often filthy-hot romance against a backdrop of gothic violence, blood bonds, and vampire aristocracy. J. R. Ward built an entire mythology around this world: a formal vampire caste system, a private glyph-based…

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