Breaking midnight

"Made vulnerable by his love for a human female, powerful vampire Edmund Fitz Clare has been kidnapped by a rival faction of shapechangers. For weeks now, he's been shackled in a dungeon far from his London home, a pawn in a deadly game to control the world. From the terrible hour Edmund disappeared, Estelle has welcomed him in her dreams--tantalizing visions of ecstasy and fear. Each dreamwalk brings her closer to finding him, but also puts her in the psychic sights of their enemy. She'll have to draw on every drop of courage she has: to save her lover, to help his family, to keep her very world from falling into dangerous hands"--Publisher's web site. When her lover, Edmund FitzClare, one of the upyr, a race of immortal shapeshifters, is kidnapped by a rival upyr faction, Estelle will stop at nothing to save him--and her world--from falling victim to an ancient evil.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.