Black Sun Rising, When True Night Falls, Crown of Shadows all by C. S. Friedman.

Read them.

Gerald Terrant... *swoon*

Quote Time! This should make you read the book. It's often found on the first page of the book, before the title. Don't let the first sentence decieve you into not reading it! Just READ it! You'll understand. This is no love story.

Quote:
"I love you," he told her. " More than anything, save life itself. And I would have surrendered that for you, in it's proper time. But not now. Not when they've opened hell beneath me...

He raised a long knife into her field of vision, even as his slender hand stroked the hair gently out of her eyes. " You go to a far gentler afterlife than I will ever know," he said softly. " I apologise for the pain that I must use to send you there. That's a necessary part of the process."
The hand dropped back from her forehead, and the glittering blade was before her eyes.
"The sacrifice is not of your body," he explained. His voice was cold in the darkness. " It is... of my humanity."

Then the knife lowered, and she found her voice. And screamed- his name, protests of her love, a hundred supplications... but it was too late, by that point. Had been too late since true night fell.

There was no one listening.


I should make a little wav file of me reading it, cause I do it so well... (I did this for a short prose thing once, and I sent chills up my teacher's spine. 3nodding )