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The Dark Ones (Katie MacAlister): Book 1
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On a visit to the Czech Republic, Joy Randall (a skeptic of all things paranormal), is suddenly thrown into the dark, dangerous world where vampires known as Dark Ones stalk the night. Armed with nothing more than a wicked sense of humor and a bag of rune stones, Joy does her best to untangle... read more
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Characters edit
- Joy Martine Randall: Heroine; Librarian.
- Raphael Griffin St. John, "Bob": Head of Carnival Security; Hero.
- Roxanne: librarian.
- Miranda: psychic; witch.
- Arielle: Tanya's sister; reads tarot cards.
- Tanya: Self-Proclaimed Witch, Dominic's Girlfriend.
- Christian J.Dante: Writer.
- Dominic: Carnival Owner; Self-proclaimed Vampire
- Milos: Carnival Owner; Self-proclaimed Vampire.
- Bradley Barlow: Joy's ex boyfriend.
- Inspector Bartos: Add a description of this character.
- Roxy
- Henri
- Renee
- Davide
Quotes edit
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“I put my hand across his mouth. "Let me do this with style, will you? I really am sorry for what I said, Raphael. You're entitled to your privacy, and if you don't feel like you can trust me with something in your past, that's fine. It hurts me, but I'll live. I just want you to know that, despite the pain I feel because I know I'm not as important to you as you are to me, I will still be here for you. I love you and that means I'm stuck with you no matter how badly you treat me."”
Joy -
“"Ah. Perhaps it is the latest rage in apologies--one that backhands the person you're apologizing to."”
Raphael -
“A St. John man knows the woman he will marry the first time he meets her.”
Raphael -
“Still, Raphael is a cool name, so I guess your family traditions aren't all bad." "I, on the other hand, dislike the name intensely and would much prefer it if everyone just called me Bob." Bob? Why Bob?" "Why not Bob?" "But Raphael's a nice name. It's exotic. It's unusual. It-" "Sounds like it belongs to a male prostitute." "Well, I think it suits you." "You think I look like a man who takes money to pleasure women?”
Joy, Raphael -
“I promise you, I will fulfill all your darkest fantasies, no matter how extreme." "Oh, goody. It's been eons since I saw a really quality vampire-staking. So glad you've volunteered.”
Dominic, Joy -
“I think you're going to be more trouble than I first anticipated.”
Raphael -
“Do you both plan to make your arguments a regular part of the evening's entertainment? If so, I wish you'd tell me. I have a slot before the magic show and after the poetry reading that might suit. Perhaps we could even add wagering on the outcome.”
Raphael -
“Hey! I don't want to leave yet! Just because you've got a witch all mad at you and a weirdo claiming you for his consort, not to mention a vampire just waiting to sink his fangs into you, doesn't mean I have to go back to the hotel room and twiddle my thumbs.”
Roxy -
“I just want to open the blind. Is that OK?" "Please yourself." "Are you sure? It won't..uh..hurt you in any way?" "Hurt me? Woman, you are steadily going from confusing to incomprehensible. No, it won't hurt me." I yanked on the cord and let the pale sunlight wash into the tiny bedrrom, covering him in a golden haze. "Wahoo! You're not a vampire! You're a nice normal man with nice, normal eating habits and no ability to merge your mind with mine!" "I think, for my sanity's sake, I'm going to stop trying to understand you and just go with the flow.”
Joy, Raphael -
“I must be mad-that's the only explanation for it. I've gone mad and no one bothered to tell me, and now I'm living a madman's life where beautiful women think I'm a vampire and speak in riddles and try to seduce me at every turn." "Beautiful women? What women? I realize we just met and all, and it's not like I'm asking you to marry me or anything, but I must insist on exclusive rights. I never did learn to share my toys with others." "I was talking about you.”
Raphael, Joy -
“I bet everything I have on you, so unless you want me to lose my entire life's savings, you're going to have to answer Tanya's challenge." "You're a dead woman. I know, because I'm going to be the one to murder you!" "You think it's too late to change the bet to double or nothing? We could really clean up!" "Make your will now, you're going to need it.”
Roxy, Joy -
“You make it sound like Christian is interested in me in a romantic way, and he's not, he's just being polite. I've never understood why men get so territorial about a woman having a platonic relationship with another man." "You're series, aren't you?" "About what? About men acting like boobs around other men? Yes, I'm serious.”
Joy, Raphael -
“Do you have a question in mind?" "I do." "Good God, he's already saying his wedding vows and they haven't even been to bed together.”
Joy, Raphael, Roxy -
“I feel like I'm talking to my gynecologist with you down there face to face with all my feminine parts." "I've never before met a woman who had an inferiority complex about her genitals.”
Joy, Raphael -
“Woman, you are going to be the death of me." "Yeah, but what a way to die.”
Raphael -
“Don't you give me that look. Don't you give me that 'she's mad, I'll humor her because I'm a manly sort of man and she's my woman and thus I must put up with all of her foolishness and pretend it's not foolish at all even tough inside I'm laughing so hard I could break my spleen' look!”
Joy -
“You really do think you're the cat's pajamas, don't you?”
Joy -
“What we have here is a rampant case of alpha male-itis. Well, guess what? I've suddenly become an alpha female, and that means I don't have to take any crap from either of you. Gentlemen, Elvis has left the building." "You do an alpha female quite well. I expect our children will give us nightmares.”
Joy, Raphael -
“Well, you could help!" "I thought you wanted to be the one to help me." "That was then. This is now. I'd appreciate it if you did something." "Like what?" "Save us!" "Ah. How?" "You're the one who has the gun!" "I don't have it on me. I Seldom carry weapons." "Even Dominic has a knife, Bob!" "Do no start with me now, woman.”
Joy, Raphael -
“I love you, Bob." "Love you, baby.”
Joy, Raphael
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The cheerleaders in my groin were setting up fundraising car washes to finance a field trip to his groin.
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“‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy’,”
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“He will send shivers of delight down my spine with the dark cloak of intrigue wrapped around him. He will captivate me, fascinate me, fold me into the air of mystery and adventure that surrounds him, making my blood sing with desire. He will need me, depend on me, trust me where he has trusted no other. He will light my dark hours, and his love will shine as a beacon that will guide me through the most twisted of paths. He is my strength, my faith, and I will not really begin to live until I know his heart is mine.”
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“No, Joy, you just think gin makes you brilliant. Gin makes you sotted. Chocolate makes you brilliant.”
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when you cast your rune stones you have the dangerous and uncontrolled ability to call down cataclysmic disasters.”
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“The one filled with despair is part of it, but he is separate, holding himself aside. There is a second man, a shadow, who stands behind the child of darkness.”
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Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
"Gin makes me brilliant!"
Table of Contents edit
Chapters 1-19
Epilogue
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 16 in The Dark Ones (Katie MacAlister). (standard series)
Followed by Sex and the Single Vampire.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Katie MacAlister (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co, Inc.
Country: NY, USA
Publication Date: November 2003
ISBN: 0-505-52530-5
Page Count: 374
Publisher: Dorchester Publishing Co, Inc.
Country: NY, USA
Publication Date: November 2003
ISBN: 0-505-52530-5
Page Count: 374
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2162 vol. 2
- Dewey: 813.54
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