Bloodfever (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• MacKayla (Mac) Lane: "MacKayla O'Connor" - "MacKayla Evelina Lane" - Sidhe-Seer, Null & OOP Detector; Former part-time student who was working as a bartender; 22 years old; Had curly, long blonde hair that's now shoulder-length and black; Has green eyes and a curvaceous body; Loves pink, reading and listening to music on her iPod; Is now working with Barrons to locate the Sinsar Dubh
• Jericho Barrons: "Jericho Z. Barrons" - "J.B." - Is wealthy, strong, brilliant and a walking enigma; 31 years old; Is extremely attractive with strong, chiseled features; Is six-three and powerfully built with black hair, brown eyes and golden skin; Is of Basque & Pict heritage; Owner of Barrons Books & Baubles
• Alina Lane: "Alina O'Connor" - "Alina MacKenna Lane" - Sidhe-Seer & Null; Mac's older sister & best friend; 24 years old; Had long blonde hair and green eyes; Was brutally murdered in Dublin; Reason for which Mac travels to Ireland -- to seek justice for her death
• Rainey Lane: "Rainey Frye" - Mac & Alina's adopted mother; Jack's wife for the past thirty years; Has ash-blonde hair and blue eyes; A southern bell
• Jack Lane: Mac & Alina's adopted father; Rainey's husband for the past thirty years; Has silver-tipped dark brown hair and brown eyes; Is six-two and strong looking; A corporate tax attorney in Georgia; Is smart, charming , well spoken and tough as a tiger when provoked
• V'lane: Prince of the Tuatha Dé Danaan; A "death by sex" Fae as Mac calls him; Is tall, powerful, frighteningly male and terrifyingly beautiful; Has cinnamon gilded by sunlight hair, skin of shimmering gold and eyes of liquid amber, kissed by molten gold; Member of the Seelie Queen's High Council; Is 142,000 years old in this incarnation; Aoibheal's sometimes consort; Rumored to be the founder of the Wild Hunt
• Ryodan: Barrons' friend; Is IYCGM on Mac's cell phone
• Christian MacKeltar: "Scotty" - A fourth-year student who works in the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College; Is six-two or three with long dark hair, a great Scottish accent, a ton of curiosity about Barrons, and dreamy eyes, an unusual shade of amber, like tiger eyes, framed by thick, black lashes; He knew Alina and he knows Mac is a Sidhe-seer; Maggie & Christopher's son; Colleen's twin; Cory & Cara's older brother; Has another set of younger twin siblings
• Danielle (Dani) O'Malley: Sidhe-Seer with inhuman speed; A lightly freckled redhead; Has green-gold eyes and a halo of curly auburn hair framing slight features; Is 14 or 15 years old
• Rowena: Grand mistress of Sidhe-seers; A tiny elegant old woman; Has blue eyes and wears her thick silvery-white hair pulled back in a long braid from a fine-boned face
• Patrona O'Connor: Sidhe-Seer; Woman that Mac & Alina might be related to
• Dreamy-Eyed Guy: A student who works in the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College; Is tall, dark and dreamy-eyed with a hard body
• Elle Masters: Works in the Ancient Languages Department at Trinity College; Has a 6 year old daughter
• Patrick O'Duffy: "Patty" - Dublin Garda Inspector assigned to Alina's murder investigation; An overweight, balding and red-faced British man; Is married with three children
• Inspector Jayne: Garda Inspector investigating a murder
• Fiona: "Fio" - Runs Barrons Books & Baubles; Is stunning and voluptuous with a timeless elegance and beauty; Is in her early 50's; Carries a major torch for Barrons and is insanely jealous over him
• Natalie: Mac's former co-worker at The Brickyard
• Rick: Mac's former co-worker at The Brickyard
• Val: Mac's former co-worker at The Brickyard
• Tommy: Mac had a crush on him for years but he was dating one of her best friends so she pretended she couldn't stand him.
• Aoibheal: (Ah-veel) The beautiful fairy Queen of the Tuatha Dé Danaan; High Queen of the Seelie, Court of the Light; Has silver hair, exotic almond-shaped eyes in a pale face and that are of no color known to man but conjure images of the iridescent hues of a mermaid's wet tail gleaming in the sun; Her skin is always dusted with gold; Is nearly 60,000 years old; The Unseelie King's long-ago consort; Is currently missing
• Lord Master: An evil being hunting for the Sinsar Dubh; Is not quite Fae & not quite human;Was Alina's lover and MacKayla suspects he murdered Alina; Has shimmering copper hair, streaked with gold that falls to his waist; Is tall and very muscular; Looks to be around 30 years old; His skin is tanned gold and smooth; Has strange copper eyes and a long scar running down his left cheek, from cheekbone to the corner of his mouth; He is the leader of the Unseelie army
• Unseelie King: "King of Darkness" - King of the Unseelie of the Tuatha Dé Danaan, Court of Darkness; Aoibheal's long-ago consort; Is many hundreds of thousands of years old
• Mallucé: "John Johnstone Jr." - Claims to be a vampire and has many followers; Born to old British money; His parents died in a suspicious car accident, leaving their 24 year old son sole heir to a several-hundred-million-dollar fortune; Is now 30 years old; Is muscular and graceful as a cat; Is as pale and smooth as a marble bust with dead citron eyes and long blond hair; He favors steampunk and Victorian Goth
• Rocky O'Bannion: "Roark O'Bannion" - A very wealthy mobster; Was born Irish Catholic and dirt-poor; A former champion boxer; Suddenly became rich after both the Halloran and O'Kierney, rival mob families were wiped out in one single night; Was a tall, powerfully built man with short, thick black hair and dark, heavy-lidded eyes; Was killed by the Shades after Mac and Barrons stole the spear from him and he came after them
• Derek O'Bannion: Rocky O'Bannion's brother; A good looking, nicely built man with dark hair; Is in his late 20's maybe early 30's
• Cruce: A Fae; unknown if Seelie or Unseelie. Many of his relics are floating around out there. He cursed the Sifting Silvers. Unknown what the curse was.
• McCabe: A rich Irishman with lots of power; A big-boned, hard bodied, auburn-haired man with ice-blue eyes

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• “I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.”

  T. S. Eliot / The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

• “I get off on a man with strong moral fiber. The closest Barrons ever gets to fiber is walking down the cereal aisle at the grocery store.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “People treat you as badly as you let them treat you.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “One day you may kiss a man you can't breathe without, and find breath is of little consequence.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “If an illusion of control comforts you, Ms. Lane, by all means, cling to it.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “When you lose someone you love abruptly, without warning, you dream of getting the chance to see them, just one more time, please God, one more time again.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “Kahlil Gibran says, 'Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.' If you've never tasted bitterness, sweet is just another pleasant flavor on your tongue. One day I'm going to hold a lot of joy.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “There are really only two positions one can take toward anything in life: hope or fear. Hope strengthens, fear kills.”

  Jericho Barrons

• “Please tell me my mentor wasn't rubbing off on me. Please tell me we don't grow up and turn into the adults that drove us crazy.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “In the final analysis words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them. He thinks you have the heart of a warrior. He believes in you. Believe in him.”

  Ryodan

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• Kahlil Gibran says Your joy can fill you only as deeply your sorrow has carved you.

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• There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them.

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• “Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

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• Question: When you’re one of the few people who can do something to fix a problem, just how responsible does that make you for it? Answer: It’s how you choose to answer that question that defines you.

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• People treat you as badly as you let them treat you. Key word there: let.

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• You can’t go forward if you’re looking backward, Mac, Daddy always said. You run into walls that way.

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• When everything else is gone, balls are all any of us really have left. The question is: Are yours made of flesh and blood, or steel?

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• Dad says there are three kinds of people in the world: those who don’t know, and don’t know they don’t know; those who don’t know and do know they don’t know; and those who know and know how much they still don’t know.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Ashford, Georgia
• Dublin, Ireland
• Faery
• Barrons Books and Baubles: "BB&B" - in Dublin
• The Clarin House: An inn where Mac stayed shortly; Located in Dublin
• Galway, Ireland
• Scotland
• England
• Chester's
• The Brickyard: Bar where Mac worked in Ashford
• Temple Bar District: in Dublin
• Trinity College: in Dublin
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Cardiff, Wales
• Northern Ireland
• Rhoose, Wales
• The Burren
• County Clare, Ireland
• Cliffs of Moher

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• An Garda Síochána: "Guardians of the Peace" - Dublin Police
• Post Haste, Inc.: "PHI" - A courier service that serves as a cover for the sidhe-seers coalition. It appears Rowena is in charge.
• The Haven: High council of sidhe-seers. The shamrock (a slightly misshapen three-leaf clover) is the ancient symbol of the sidhe-seers, who are charged with the mission to See, Serve, and Protect mankind from the Fae.

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• The Amulet: Unseelie or Dark hallow created by the Unseelie King for his concubine. Fashioned of gold, silver, sapphires and onyx, the gilt "cage" of the amulet houses an enormous clear stone of unknown compostion. A person of epic will can use it to impact and reshape reality. The list of past owners is legendary, including Merlin, Boudica, Joan of Arc, Charlemagne, and Napoleon. Last purchased by a Welshman for 8 figures, at an illegal auction, it was all too briefly in my hands and is currently in the possession of the Lord Master. It requires some kind of tithe or binding to use it. I had the will: I couldn't figure out the way.
• The Cauldron: Seelie or Light Hallow from which all Seelie eventually drink to divest memory that has become burdensome. According to Barrons immortality has a price: eventual madness. When the Fae feel it approaching, they drink from The Cauldron and are "reborn" with no mmemory of a prior existence. The Fae have a record keeper that documents each Fae's many incarnations, but the exact location of this scribe is known to a seliect few and the whereabouts of the records to none but him. Is that what's wrong with the Unseelie they don't have a cauldron to drink from?
• Cruce: A Fae; unknown if Seelie or Unseelie. Many of the relics that are floating around out there. He cursed the Sifting Silvers. Unknown what the curse was.
• Cuff of Cruce: A gold and silver arm cuff set with blood red stones; an ancient Fae relic that supposedly permits the human wearing it "a shield of sorts against many Unseelie and other ... unsavory things" (this according to a death by sex Fae—like you can actually trust one).
• Dark Zone: An area that has been taken over by the Shades. During the day it looks like your everyday abandoned, run down neighborhood, its a death trap. (definition Mac)
• Death-by-Sex-Fae: (eg. V'lane) A fae that is so sexually "potent" a human dies from intercourse with it unless the fae protects the human from the full impact of its deadly eroticism. (Definition ongoing) --- Addendum to original entry: V’lane made himself feel like nothing more than an incredibly sexy man when he touched me. They can mute their lethality if they so choose.
• Dolmen: A single-chamber megalithic tomb constructed of two or more upright stones supporting a large, flat, horizontal capstone. Dolmens are common in Ireland, especially around the Burren and Connemara. The Lord Master used a dolmen in a ritual of dark magic to open a doorway between realms and bring Unseelie through.
• Druid: In pre-Christian Celtic society, a Druid presided over divine worship, legislative and judicial matters, philosophy, and education of elite youth to their order. Druids were believed to be privy to the secrets of the gods, including issues pertaining to the manipulation of physical matter, space, and even time. The old Irish "Drui" means magician, wizard, diviner. (Irish Myths and Legends) --- Addendum to original entry: I saw both Jericho Barrons and the Lord Master use the Druid power of Voice, a way of speaking with many voices that cannot be disobeyed. Significance?
• Fae: (fay) See also Tuatha Dé Danaan. Divided into two courts, the Seelie or Light Court, and the Unseelie or Dark Court. Both courts have different castes of Fae, with the four Royal Houses occupying the highest caste of each. The Seelie Queen and her chosen consort rule the Light Court. The Unseelie King and his current concubine govern the Dark. (Definition J.B.)
• The Four Stones: Translucent blue-black stones covered with raised runelike lettering. The key to deciphering the ancient language and breaking the code of the Sinsar Dubh is hidden in these four mystical stones. An individual stone can be used to shed light on a small portion of the text, but only if the four are reassembled into one will the true text in its entirety be revealed. (Irish Myths and Legends)
• Glamour: Illusion cast by the Fae to camouflage their true appearance. The more powerful the Fae, the more difficult it is to penetrate its disguise. The average human sees only what the Fae wants them to see, and is subtly repelled from bumping into or brushing against it by a small perimeter of spatial distortion that is part of the Fae glamour. (Definition J.B.)
• The Gray Man: Monstrously ugly, leprous Unseelie that feeds by stealing beauty from human women. Threat assessment: can kill, but prefers to leave its victim hideously disfigured, and alive to suffer. (Personal experience) --- Addendum to original entry: Allegedly the only one of its kind, Barrons and I killed it.
• Hallows: Eight ancient relics of immense power fashioned by the Fae: four light and four dark. The Light or Seelie Hallows are the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark or Unseelie Hallows are the amulet, the box, the mirror, and the book (Sinsar Dubh or Dark Book). (A Definitive Guide to Artifacts, Authentic and Legendary) --- Addendum to original entry: I still don’t know anything about the stone or the box. Do they confer powers that could help me? Where are they? Correction to above definition—the mirror is actually the Silvers. See Sifting Silvers or Silvers. The Unseelie King made all the Dark Hallows. Who made the Light ones?
• The Many-Mouthed Thing: Repulsive Unseelie with myriad leech-like mouths, dozens of eyes, and overdeveloped sex organs. Caste of Unseelie: unknown at this time. Threat assessment: unknown at this time but suspect kills in a manner I’d rather not think about. (Personal experience) --- Addendum to original entry: Is still out there. I want this one dead.
• Null: A sidhe-seer with the power to freeze a Fae with the touch of his or her hands (e.g., me). While frozen, it is completely powerless. The higher and more powerful the caste of Fae, the shorter the length of time it stays frozen. (Definition J.B.)
• OOP: Acronym for Object of Power, a Fae relic imbued with mystical properties. (Definition Mac)
• OOP Detector: Me. A sidhe-seer with the special ability to sense OOPs. Alina was one, too, which is why the Lord Master used her.
• Orb of D'Jai: No clue, but Barrons has it. He says it's an OOP. I couldn't sense it when I held it, but I couldn't sense anything at that particular moment. Where did he get it and where did he put it? Is it in his mysterious vault? What does it do? How does he get into his vault, anyway? Where is the access to the three floors beneath his garage? Is there a tunnel that connects buildings? Must search.
• Pri-Ya: A human addicted to Fae sex. (I think. Definition ongoing)
• Rhino-Boys: Ugly, gray-skinned Fae who resemble rhinoceroses with bumpy, protruding foreheads, barrel-like bodies, stumpy arms and legs, lipless gashes of mouths, and jutting underbites. They are lower mid-level caste Unseelie thugs dispatched primarily as watchdogs for high-ranking Fae. (Personal experience) --- Addendum to original entry: They taste horrible.
• Royal Hunters: A mid-level caste of Unseelie. Militantly sentient, they resemble the classic depiction of the devil, with cloven hooves, horns, long satyr-like faces, leathery wings, fiery orange eyes, and tails. Seven to ten feet tall, they are capable of extraordinary speed on both hoof and wing. Primary function: sidhe-seer exterminators. Threat assessment: kills. (Definition J.B.) --- Addendum to original entry: Encountered one. Barrons doesn't know everything. It was considerably larger than he’d led me to expect, with a thirty to forty-foot wingspan and a degree of telepathic abilities. They are mercenary to the core and serve a master only so long as it benefits them. I’m not sure I believe they’re mid-level, and in fact, I’m not sure they’re entirely Fae. They fear my spear and I suspect are unwilling to die for any cause, which gives me a tactical edge.
• Seelie: The "light" or "fairer" court of the Tuatha Dé Danaan governed by the Seelie Queen, Aoibheal. (Definition J.B.)
• Shades: One of the lowest castes of Unseelie. Sentient, but barely. They hunger—they feed. They cannot bear direct light and hunt only at night. They steal life in the manner the Gray Man steals beauty, draining their victims with vampiric swiftness, leaving behind a pile of clothing and a husk of dehydrated human matter. Threat assessment: kills. (Personal experience) --- Addendum to original entry: I think they’re changing, evolving, learning.
• Shamrock: This slightly misshapen three-leaf clover is the ancient symbol of the sidhe-seers, who are charged with the mission to See, Serve, and Protect mankind from the Fae.
• Sidhe-Seer: (SHE-seer) A person Fae magic doesn't work on, capable of seeing past the illusions or "glamour" cast by the Fae to the true nature that lies beneath. Some can also see Tabh'rs, hidden portals between realms. Others can sense Seelie and Unseelie objects of power. Each sidhe-seer is different, with varying degrees of resistance to the Fae. Some are limited, some are advanced with multiple "special powers." (Definition J.B.) --- Addendum to original entry: Some, like Dani, are superfast. There's a place inside my head that isn't…like the rest of me. Do we all have it? What is it? How did we get this way? Where do the bits of inexplicable knowledge that feel like memories come from? Is there such a thing as a genetic collective unconsciousness?
• Sifting: Fae method of locomotion, occurs at speed of thought. (Seen this!) --- Addendum to original entry: Somehow V’lane sifted me without my awareness that he was even there. I don’t know if he was able to approach me "cloaked" somehow, then touched me at the last minute and I just didn’t realize it because it happened so fast, or if perhaps instead of moving me, he moved the realms around me. Can he do that? How powerful is V'lane? Could another Fae sift me without my having any advance warning? Unacceptably dangerous! Require more information.
• Sifting Silvers or Silvers: Unseelie or Dark Hallow, an elaborate maze of mirrors created by the Unseelie King once used as the primary method of Fae travel between realms, until Cruce cast the forbidden curse into the silvered corridors. Now no Fae dares enter the Silvers. (Definition J.B.) --- Addendum to original entry: The Lord Master had many of these in his house in the Dark Zone and was using them to move in and out of Faery. If you destroy a Silver does it destroy what was in it? Does it leave an open entry/exit into a Fae realm like a wound in the fabric of our world? What exactly was the curse and who was Cruce?
• Sinsar Dubh: (She-suh-DOO) Unseelie or Dark Hallow belonging to the Tuatha Dé Danaan. Written in a language known only to the most ancient of their kind, it is said to hold the deadliest of all magic within its encrypted pages. Brought to Ireland by the Tuatha Dé during the invasions written of in the pseudo history Leabhar Gabhåla, it was stolen along with the other Dark Hallows, and rumored to have found its way into the world of Man. Allegedly authored over a million years ago by the Dark King of the Unseelie. (A Definitive Guide to Artifacts, Authentic and Legendary) --- Addendum to original note: I’ve seen it now. Words cannot contain a description of it. It is a book but it lives. It is aware.
• Spear of Luisne: Seelie or Light Hallow (a.k.a. Spear of Luin, Spear of Longinus, Spear of Destiny, Flaming Spear): The spear used to pierce Jesus Christ's side at his crucifixion. Not of human origin; it is a Tuatha Dé Danaan Light Hallow, and one of few items capable of killing a Fae—regardless of rank or power. (Definition J.B.) --- Addendum to original note: It kills anything Fae and if something is only part Fae, it kills part of it, horribly.
• Sword of Lugh: Seelie or Light Hallow, also known as the Sword of Light, a Seelie Hallow capable of killing Fae, both Seelie and Unseelie. Currently, Rowena has it, and dispatches it to her sidhe-seers at PHI as she deems fit. Dani usually gets it.
• Tabh'rs: (TAH-vr) Fae doorways or portals between realms, often hidden in everyday human objects. (Definition J.B.)
• Tuatha Dé Danaan: or Tuatha Dé (TUA day dhanna or Tua DAY) (See Fae): A highly advanced race that came to Earth from another world. (Definition ongoing)
• Unseelie: The "dark" or "fouler" court of the Tuatha Dé Danaan. According to Tuatha Dé Danaan legend, the Unseelie have been confined for hundreds of thousands of years in an inescapable prison. Inescapable, my ass.
• The Compact: The treaty governing cohabitation of the races (Fae & Man). The terms of The Compact are secret from all mortals but the MacKeltar, a Highland clan of ancient bloodline descended from the Druids, and sole keepers of Man's end of the treaty.
• Sidhba-jai: The power the "death-by-sex" Fae Royalty have over humans, causing them to be sexually aroused to the point that they cannot do anything else, including defend themselves.
• IYCGM: "If you can't get me."
• IYD: "If you're dying."

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Darkfever, and followed by Faefever.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3613.O527 B58 2007
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Some sexual situations and profanity

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Contemporary
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Literature & Fiction

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Karen Marie Moning: Official Site
• Karen Marie Moning: Fever Series Page
• Sidhe-Seers, Inc.: For additional information about the Fever series and the world of the Fae.

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