Darkfever (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• MacKayla (Mac) Lane: "Mac" - Sidhe-Seer; A part-time student working as a bartender; 22 years old; Has long blonde hair, green eyes and a curvaceous body; Loves pink, reading and listening to music on her iPod and goes to Ireland to seek justice for her sister's murder.
• Jericho Barrons: "J.B." - A rich, secretive & mysterious man; About 30 years old; Is extremely attractive with strong, chiseled features; Is six-two or three with dark hair, dark eyes and golden skin; Is of Basque & Pict heritage also helps Mac with living in Ireland.
• Alina Lane: Mac's older sister & best friend; 24 years old; Had blonde hair and green eyes; Is brutally murdered; Reason for which Mac travels to Ireland -- to seek justice for her death to find out who killed her.
• Rainey Lane: "Rainey Frye" - Mac & Alina's mother; Jack's wife for the past thirty years; Has ash-blonde hair and blue eyes; A southern belle who lives in Georgia
• Jack Lane: Mac & Alina's father; Rainey's husband for the past thirty years; Has brown hair and brown eyes; Is six-two and strong looking; A tax attorney
• Sue: Mac's aunt
• 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
• 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 tawny velvet and eyes of liquid amber, kissed by molten gold; Has the ability to sift
• Fiona: "Fio" - Barrons' assistant at the store; A 50 something woman with timeless elegance and beauty, but a bottomless pit full of jealousy of Mac's relationship with Barrons.
• Old Woman: Sidhe-Seer; A tiny old woman; 80 years old; Has blue eyes and wears her thick silvery-white hair pulled back in a long braid from a fine-boned face
• Patrona O'Connor: Add a description of this character.
• Dreamy-Eyed Guy: A cute guy from the museum; Is tall, dark and dreamy-eyed with a hard body
• McCabe: A rich Irishman with lots of power; A big-boned, hard bodied, auburn-haired man with ice-blue eyes
• 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 yellow eyes and long blond hair
• 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; A tall, powerfully built man with short, thick black hair and dark, heavy-lidded eyes
• Patrick O'Duffy: Dublin Police Inspector assigned to Alina's case; An overweight, balding and red-faced British man
• S. S. Ahearn: One of Alina's professors in Dublin; Is tall and thin as a rail
• Marilyn: A stunning raven-haired woman; One of Jericho's lovers
• Ellis: A tall, anorexically thin man with a shock of white hair
• Lucan Trevayne: A wealthy recluse from London who disappeared
• Bonita: The morning desk clerk at The Clarin House; Is in her 20's
• Seamus: A cute Irish guy; Works at an internet cafe
• Eugenia Patsy Bell: Chandra's aunt; Woman in charge of the Records Department at Christ Hospital
• Chandra Bell: Eugenia's niece; Went to high school with Mac
• Myrna Taylor-Hollingsworth: One of Jack Lane's clients
• Ob: Rhino-Boy; One of McCabe's new bodyguards; McCabe has no idea Ob is Unseelie
• Yrg: Rhino-Boy; One of McCabe's new bodyguards; McCabe has no idea Yrg is Unseelie
• Lord Master: An Unseelie hunting for the Sinsar Dubh a book of evil.
• 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 seeks his mate

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• “I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.”

  MacKayla Lane

• “"Okay, Barrons, it's time." "I am not helping you shave your legs," he said instantly. "Oh please. As if I'd let you. I meant for questions." "Oh."”

  Mac and Barrons

• “A large bull of a man with a shaved head stepped into our path, blocking our way. The safety pins in his ears didn't bother me. The ones in his eyelids did.”

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• 2The Tuatha Dé Danaan were said to possess eight ancient relics of immense power: four Light and four Dark. The Light Hallows were the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark were the mirror, the box, the amulet, and the book (Sinsar Dubh).

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• Distinguish yourself, my mom had told Alina and me, in an age where girls often make themselves too available to boys, by making him work a little for your attention. He’ll think he’s won a prize when he gets it, and he’ll work that much harder to keep it. Boys turn into men and men put a premium on what’s hardest to get.

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• if you’re making sense, you’ve just unmade confusion.”

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• Ashford, Georgia: Where MacKayla and Alina were raised. The story begins here.
• Dublin, Ireland
• Faery
• Barrons Books and Baubles: in Dublin
• Maui, Hawaii
• Miami, Florida
• Trinity College: in Dublin
• Atlanta, Georgia
• The Brickyard: Bar where Mac works in Ashford
• The Clarin House: A bed-and-breakfast in Dublin
• Temple Bar District: in Dublin
• The Book Nook: Ashford's only used-book store
• Boston, Massachusetts
• Pearse Street Garda Station: in Dublin
• The River Liffey: in Ireland
• Casa Blanc: McCabe's house outside of Dublin
• London, England
• Huddle House: in Ashford
• O'Bannion's Pub & Restaurant: A posh bar in downtown Dublin; It's Old World with wealthy clientele.
• The River Poddle: Runs under Dublin
• National Museum of Ireland: in Dublin
• Christ Hospital: in Ashford

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• An Garda Síochána: "Guardians of the Peace" - Dublin Police
• Georgia Power: Add a description of this organization.

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• Dark Zone: an area that has been taken over by the Shades. During the day it looks like your everyday abandoned, rundown neighborhood. Once night falls, it's a death-trap. (Definition Mac)
• Death-By-Sex-Fae: (e.g. 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)
• Druid: In pre-Christian Celtic society, a Druid presided over divine worship, legislative and judicial matters, philosophy, and the 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 physicl matter, space, and even time. The old Irish "Drui" means magician, wizard, diviner. (Irish Myths and Legends)
• 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 rune-like 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 the 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: Approximately 9 foot tall, 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)
• Hallows: eight ancient relics of immense power: four light and four dark. The Light Hallows are the stone, the spear, the sword, and the cauldron. The Dark are the mirror, the box, the amulet, and the book (Sinsar Dubh or Dark Book). (A Definitive Guide to Artifacts; Authentic and Legendary)
• The Many-Mouthed Thing: repulsive Unseelie with myriad leechlike mouths, dozen 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 rather not think about. (Personal experience)
• Null: a sidhe-seer with the power to freeze a Fae with the touch of his or her hands. The higher and more powerful the caste of Fae, the shorter the length of time it stays frozen. (Def. J.B.)
• OOP: acronym for Object of Power, a Fae relic imbued with mystical properties. (Definition Mac)
• Pri-Ya: a human addicted to Fae sex. (I think. Definition ongoing)
• 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. (Def. J.B.)
• Rhino-Boys: lower mid-level caste Unseelie thugs dispatch primarily as watchdogs for high-ranking Fae. (Personal experience)
• Seelie: the "light" or "fairer" court of the Tuatha Dé Danaan governed by the Seelie Queen, Aoibheal. (Def. J.B.)
• Shades: one of the lowest caste of the Unseelie. Sentient but barely. They hunger--the 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)
• 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 sidh-seer is different, with varying degrees of resistance to the Fae. Some are limited, some are advanced with multiple "special powers". (Def.J.B.)
• Sifting: Fae method of locomtion, occurs at speed of thought. (Seen this!)
• Sifting Silvers or Silvers: an elaborate maze of mirrors 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. (Def. J.B.)
• Sinsar Dubh: (she-shu-DOO) a Dark Hallow belonging to the Tuatha Dé Danaan. Written in a language known only to the most ancient of theirkind, 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 Gabhala, 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)
• Spear of Luisne: (a.k.a. Spear of Luin, Holy Lance, Spear of Longinus, Spear of Destiny, the 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 the few items capable of killing a Fae—regardless of rank or power. (Def. J.B.)
• Tabh'rs: (TAH-vr) Fae doorways or portals between realms, often hidden in everyday human objects. (Def. J.B.)
• Tuatha Dé Danaan: or Tuatha Dé (TUA day dhanna or Tua DAY) (See Fae above). A highly advanced race that came to Earth from another world. (Definition ongoing)
• Unseelie: the "dark" 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.
• Cuff of Cruce: A gold arm cuff; It was made long ago for one of his prized human concubines. It permits a shield of sorts against many Unseelie and… other unsavory things.
• 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.

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page 128 2nd Paragraph.
where Mac begins to talk and also on down where Barrons answers, there are no quotation marks where there should be several.

page 49 top of the page: Mac says she falls into a deep dreamless sleep and then in the next paragraph is awoke from a dream about herself playing tennis with Alina by Jericho knocking on the door.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Bloodfever.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Karen Marie Moning (Author)

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• Library of Congress: PS3613.O527 D36 2006
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Some sexual situations and profanity

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Horror › Occult
• Books › Literature & Fiction › World Literature › United States
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Genre Fiction › Action & Adventure
• Books › Romance › Gothic
• Books › Romance › Vampires
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost

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• Karen Marie Moning: Official Site
• Karen Marie Moning: Fever Series Page

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