title: Dark Souls: Healing and Recovering from Toxic Relationships
author: Ms Sarah Strudwick
description: Dark Souls is a must-read if you've ever been involved with an exploitative personality, and a recommended read even if you haven't. It examines in great depth who these personalities are, what makes them tick, and why they are so dangerous. Most importantly, it addresses, very effectively, how to avoid these insidious individuals and, if this is too late, how to recover from them. A welcome, important addition to the literature on violating personalities. --Steve Becker, LCSW, CH.T Psychopathy Expert and LoveFraud.com columnist<br /><br />Dark Souls is, however, far more than the story of her experiences. It also provides powerful step-by-step guidelines for those who are ready to begin dealing with narcissists and particularly to those who want to escape from their clutches, or better still avoid getting caught in the first place. I can recommend it as essential reading and I will certainly be recommending it to my clients here in Australia. --John B Nutting Clinical Counsellor, BA (Psych)<br /><br />This book is a painstakingly well-researched tour of the netherlands of such relationships with narcissists and psychopaths: the ups and downs, the promise and inevitable disillusionment, the cruelty and mind games and the heartbreak that is the inescapable aftermath. The author's first-hand experience translates into helpful insight both passioned and, where appropriate, impassioned. It is a useful and liberating guide for the perplexed, the disoriented, the sufferer, and the victim. It should be read and studied by both them and mental health practitioners. --Sam Vaknin, Ph.D., author of Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited
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  **Summary**
  
  
  My mom is dead. She committed suicide.
  
  
  It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I was going to beat my bloodlust and go
  back to her.
  
  
  Now I have nothing except for an addiction to Kian’s blood and a twin I didn’t
  know about.
  
  
  My twin’s name is Archer, and our Colors are reactive. I’m dangerous enough on
  my own. With Archer, I’m worse.
  
  
  We drain the auras of living things.
  
  
  I don’t want to hurt anyone. I want to know if my feelings fo