Happy Release Day to:
Keri Arthur
Darkness Hunts (Dark Angels, Book 4)
Penguin Signet (US & CA: 6th November 2012); Hachette Little, Brown Piatkus (UK: 6th November 2012; AU: November 2012)
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Risa Jones, half-Aedh/half-werewolf, can enter the realm between life and death. She can speak to the dying and the dead, and she can see the reapers, collectors of souls. What she can not yet see is the identity of a stranger murdering women and draining their blood. Now Risa must summon her gifts to find him, even if it means putting her own life in danger. But Risa needn’t look far. The killer knows who she is. He tells her his victims are infected by darkness and he’s fated to destroy them. Fascinated by Risa, he engages her in a sinister game: the chance to save the life of his next victim by deciphering his series of clues. In a race against time, she enlists the help of the reaper Azriel. But as an attraction between them grows, so does the fear that the stranger’s motives are only part of a larger, more dangerous stratagem – one that that has lured Risa and Azriel into the dark.
Rachel Caine
Bitter Blood (Morganville Vampires, Book 13)
Penguin NAL (US: 6th November 2012); Allison & Busby (UK: 6th November 2012)
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Thanks to the eradication of the parasitic creatures known as the draug, the vampires of Morganville have been freed of their usual constraints. With the vampires indulging their every whim, the town’s human population is determined to hold on to their lives by taking up arms. But college student Claire Danvers isn’t about to take sides, considering she has ties to both the humans and the vampires. To make matters worse, a television show comes to Morganville looking for ghosts, just as vampire and human politics collide. Now, Claire and her friends have to figure out how to keep the peace without ending up on the nightly news…or worse.
Joan Frances Turner
Frail (Resurgam, Book 2)
Penguin (US & CA: 6th November 2012; AU: 21st November 2012)
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Since a devastating, morphing plague swept through human and zombie populations, almost everyone who survived is an “ex” these days. Ex-human. Ex-zombie. Both creatures crave flesh; have the strength and speed of predators – and what seems like immortality. Pierced skin and broken bones mend, but their all-consuming hunger never dies… Amy is the only purely human survivor from town – a frail. Her mother is gone, but she won’t believe that she’s dead. Feral dogs stalk her, in reality and in her imagination. Amy thinks she’s losing her mind. But when an ex-human named Lisa saves her life, a fragile friendship forms, a bond that will save Amy over and over again when she and Lisa are abducted into a makeshift community run by exes who use humans as their slaves. For a girl who is used to going it alone, trusting anyone isn’t easy, but Amy will have to. She has secrets from her past she can’t afford to face by herself, and secrets in her future that will cost her just about everything – including her humanity…
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