title: Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood
author:  J.R. Ward 
description: New or casual readers of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series will be lost in its eighth installment (after 2009's <I>Lover Avenged</I>), but Ward's fans love her soap opera storytelling and are happy to forgive unpronounceable names and occasionally overeager tough talk (at a solemn wedding, [the bridegroom] was smiling like a motherfucker). Newly made vampire John Matthew vows to free his mate, the symphath Xhexania, from Lash, a paranoid coke addict who's transmuting into a nontemporal entity like his vampire-killer father, the Omega. Once freed, Xhexania joins the Brothers in battling the Omega, but refuses to acknowledge her emotional connection to John. Meanwhile, sexually promiscuous Qhuinn, shockingly jealous of his cousin Saxton's new lover, wonders whether he should have seduced Saxton when he had the chance. Complicated subplots and tortured heroes abound, but attentive readers will love putting it all together. <I>(May)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: # [ACKNOWLEDGMENTS](toc.html#toc-acknowledgements)
  
  
  With immense gratitude to the readers of the Black Dagger Brotherhood!
  
  
  Thank you so very much for all the support and guidance: Steven Axelrod and
  Kara Welsh. Thank you also to everyone at Ballantine—these books are truly a
  team effort.
  
  
  With love to Team Waud—you know who you are. This simply could not happen
  without you.
  
  
  None of this would be possible without: my loving husband, who is my adviser
  and caretaker and visionary; my wonderful mother, who has given me so much
  love I couldn’t possibly ever repay her; my family (both those of blood and
  those by adoption); and my dearest friends.
  
  
  Oh, and my WriterAssistant, Naamah.
  
  
  
  
  
  # _[By J. R. Ward](toc.html#toc-ad-card)_
  
  
  _The Black Dagger Brotherhood series_ : Dark Lover
  
  
  Lover Eternal
  
  
  Lover Revealed
  
  
  Lover Awakened
  
  
  Lover Unbound
  
  
  Lover Enshrined
  
  
  Lover Avenged
  
  
  Lover Mine
  
  
  Lover Unleashed
  
  
  Lover Reborn
  
  
  Lover at Last
  
  
  The King
  
  
  The Shadows
  
  
  The Beast
  
  
  The Ch