Excerpt
I lifted one batch of pages and saw the photo of an old man,
maybe in
his seventies, with sun-lined skin, sun spots, raised and rough
age spots,
kinda brown and freckled all over. Faded blue eyes. He was mostly
bald. A
narrow-eyed, mean-looking man, the kind who was raised on
whuppin’s,
hardtack, and moonshine, and who hated the world. I flipped
through the
three attached pages. The info said his name was Colonel Ernest
Jackson,
but there was no mention of military service in the scant
record.
The second file showed a digital photo of the vamp in question,
Heyda
Cohen. She was tiny and very beautiful. Vamps offered people the
change
for lots of reasons, and personal beauty was high on the list.
But Heyda’s
intelligent, piercing eyes suggested that she was special in the
other ways
as well.
“Heyda was in charge of my personal security and she was
contacted
by that human man”— Ming pointed at his photo—“a communication
that carried a threat to me. She tracked him.” Ming’s speech,
accented by
her native Asian language, sped up and her syntax grew more
fractured.
“Then she met with that human and three of his followers. In a
park. In
the city. Then she went away with him. Without contacting us or
alerting
her support team, who were waiting in the park, watching. They
allowed
her to leave, as she did not appear distressed. We do not know
why she
left with him. She did not come home afterward.”
Suddenly Ming was all but wringing her hands, leaning toward me
in her chair,
shoulders tense. “The man refuses to see us. Refuses to allow us
to see her. He hides in his
compound and . . .” She glanced up at her primo, and her face
crumpled.
Her shoulders went up high, and Cai placed a hand on one in
tender
concern.
BLOOD
IN HER VEINS
Roc
Trade Paperback
$16.00
560
pages
Release:
February 2, 2016
ISBN:
978045147576
In the
brand-new “Cat Fight,” the witches and vampires of Bayou, Oiseau, are a war
over a magical talisman, and Jane must figure out how to keep the artifact out
of the hands of the Master of New Orleans. And in the never-before-published
“Bound No More,” Jane welcomes a visit from Molly and her daughter, Angie, who
is about to prove she’s the most powerful witch in Everhart history…
From the Big
Easy to the bad bayou, from the open road to a vampire’s lair — with Jane
Yellowrock, it’s always a given…have stakes, will travel.
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Faith
Hunter
Faith Hunter, fantasy writer,
was born in Louisiana and raised all over the south. She writes three Urban
Fantasy series: the Skinwalker series, featuring Jane Yellowrock, a
Cherokee skinwalker who hunts rogue vampires. The Soulwood series, featuring
earth magic user Nell Ingram. And the Rogue Mage novels, a dark, urban,
post-apocalyptic, fantasy series featuring Thorn St. Croix, a stone mage.
(There is a role playing game based on the series, ROGUE MAGE.)
Under the pen name Gwen Hunter,
she writes action-adventure, mysteries, and thrillers. As Faith and Gwen, she
has 30+ books in print in 29 countries.
Hunter writes full-time, tries
to keep house, and is a workaholic with a passion for travel, jewelry making,
white-water kayaking, and writing. She and her husband love to RV, traveling
with their rescued Pomeranians to whitewater rivers all over the Southeast.
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