title: Mona Lisa Darkening (Monere: Children of the Moon, Book 4)
author:  Sunny 
description: "Deliciously fascinating." -- Lori Foster<br /><br />"Sure to appeal to fans of Anne Bishop or Laurell K. Hamilton." -- Patricia Briggs<br /><br />"A powerfully imaginative world." -- L.A. Banks
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  How could this be for anyone other than my mother,  
  Jeanne Miller-Mason?  
  It couldn’t. I love you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  > The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
  
  > —Napoléon I
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It’s funny what you remember about terrible things.
  
  
  The scattered shards were far more beautiful than the crystal lamp they’d been
  an hour before. The clearest night sky had nothing on the flicker and shine
  strewn across the black canvas bag that lay at the foot of the stairs. The
  industrious back-and-forth of the man’s shadow tricked the shimmer into 