While external forces continue to threaten the Brotherhood and their mission, more than just Mary and Rhage fight internal battles, especially as surprises rock the group towards the novel’s end. And the Band of Brothers (in its somewhat disunified state) is still on the loose after their failed attempt to dethrone Wrath. Meanwhile, the Lessening society continues to amass force despite taking blows. “You are both my strength and my weakness, Mary mine.” With death at the door, however, truths sharpened into focus in a way that would change their future, for better or worse. Mary and Rhage had poured their hearts into their work, diverging attention from the chasm between them, hiding emotions in what they still couldn’t define. “Time was too finite no matter how much of it you had with someone you loved, when the end came, it wasn’t nearly enough.” But consequences indeed befall when he’s mortally wounded, forced to face the insecurities and unacknowledged truths thriving within. In The Beast, Mary and Rhage acknowledge the widening rift between them, especially after Rhage rushes straight into danger, consequences be damned. Ward stirs things up in this intimate, evocative next chapter in the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Life and death, marriage and love, sacrifices and surprises-J.R. But Mary is on a journey of her own, one that will either bring them closer together or cause a split that neither will recover from… After suffering mortal injury in battle, Rhage must reassess his priorities-and the answer, when it comes to him, rocks his world…and Mary’s. But Rhage can’t understand-or control-the panic and insecurity that plague him…Īnd that terrifies him-as well as distances him from his mate. Mary, his beloved shellan, is by his side and his King and his brothers are thriving. But as the Brotherhood readies for an all-out attack on them, one of their own fights a battle within himself…įor Rhage, the Brother with the biggest appetites, but also the biggest heart, life was supposed to be perfect-or at the very least, perfectly enjoyable. The slayers of the Lessening Society are stronger than ever, preying on human weakness to acquire more money, more weapons, more power. After avoiding war with the Shadows, alliances have shifted and lines have been drawn.

Nothing is as it used to be for the Black Dagger Brotherhood. Rhage and Mary return in a new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, a series “so popular, I don’t think there’s a reader today who hasn’t at least heard of ” ( USA Today).

The beast by jr ward