Here is the story. Aidan Savage, the twin of Julian Savage, swoops into a vampires lair to fight and defeat the vampire. He then notices the woman whom he incorrectly identifies as a vampress, and a little boy, her brother. He discovers she is his lifemate and brings them both home. From there they fight another vampire, and struggle with her change and the care of her brother.

The problem wasn't the story, it was the filler of her repeated feelings of not accepting her changes, not accepting her feeling towards Aidian, and, of course, the repeated sex scenes, they are ubiquitous and invariable.

I love this series and usually forgive the extra dose of repeated sex, but the story did not carry it in this one. Julian's story definitely makes up for it. Don't miss that one, Dark Challenge. For me the only novel that was worse than this one was Dark Melody, but I had to read it for the story. It really should have been a novella too. In Dark Melody there were actual repeats in the story like the editor hadn't look at it. Only problem is it has things you might want to know for the series. Dark Gold does not.

Knowing what I know, I would read just the beginning of this novel and quit after they are together once. You got the main story, and she comes around in the end to the accepting. Not a bad story but not worth a whole book.