The Danger That Is Damion

Lisa Renee Jones writes across several romance subgenres but readers know her best for the high heat contemporary work she launched into the mainstream with the Inside Out series, and for the paranormal romance novels and novellas that have been a steady part of her catalogue for years. The Danger That Is Damion fits into the latter category, a paranormal romance with a dangerous male lead and a heroine who is going to find herself in over her head before she figures out how she feels about him.

Jones has a particular skill for writing male leads who are dangerous in believable ways. They are not just powerful and brooding. They have specific reasons for the lives they have built, specific enemies who want them dead, and specific limits that the relationship is going to have to navigate. The romance in her paranormal work tends to grow out of shared danger rather than just shared chemistry, which gives the heat scenes more weight when they arrive.

The paranormal element in Jones’s catalogue varies. Some of her books feature vampires, some demons, some psychics, and her wider world building draws on multiple supernatural traditions. The good news for new readers is that most of her paranormal titles can be picked up as standalones. The wider continuity is loose enough that you do not need to start at any particular point.

Readers who enjoy J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood, Larissa Ione’s Demonica series, or Kresley Cole’s Immortals After Dark will find familiar territory in Jones’s paranormal work. The Danger That Is Damion is a comfortable, well crafted entry into her catalogue that delivers what her audience expects from a Lisa Renee Jones novel.