Science tells us that if things can't be seen then they are not real.  Religion, no matter our faith, binds us all together for though our faiths differ they all lead to a higher purpose.  Yet often science questions the existence of 'faith' for you cannot see it with the naked eye.  As a society we share in various mythologies around the world.  Things that aren't real but yet science has found things that were once believed a fantasy to be in fact true.  Now what if everything you knew turned out be a fantasy and everything thought to be a fantasy was in fact reality?  What if the myths and legends that global societies have foretold in the past are in fact the real truth?  Tabitha Pike's "People of the Dark" brings forth to light an ancient society but it is not the society that the reader knows.  Ayala, the female protagonist in this story is camping out in the woods after losing a seven year old patient.  Her life is a mystery and not much of her past is known to her or the reader.  While camping out in the woods near her parents old home a shot is heard and she springs into action, being a heart surgeon.  Upon arriving she sees something that can't possibly be real, for how could something that is not known to exist be real?  On the ground lies a strange man named Kendrick.  But Kendrick is not like Ayala or any other human.  He is of a race, one that has existed since the dawn of time.  It is a race whose name has been tainted by the people of our world and one that hides in the shadows, for he is one of the Illuminati.  This race, the true Illuminati is not like the people who hide in the shadows and allegedly put governments into power in our world, they are an ancient, proud and peaceful race.  Their home is hidden to protect their people and they have laws and customs just like mortal men.  Yet the true Illuminati are different as is seen in Ayala's journey throughout the book.  She finds herself falling in love with this young Illuminati named Kendrick and is taken to his homeland under the guise of being his 'mate'.  As Ayala's and Kendrick's feelings for each other grow she goes through an initiation ceremony to become a "Watcher" a group of Illuminati who protect their homeland and watch for Rouges, bad people led by a former child born of an Illuminati male and a breeder female for there are no women among the Illuminati, who is cursed with darkness and hate. Ayala still is unaware of her past and yet when she finds a file of her parents things end up changing for the worse.  Ayala must face her destiny and uncover her past in order to defeat the darkness that threatens to destroy her new family once and for all for if she fails then all will be lost.