Changeless (2010) (edit title/settings)

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• Lady Alexia Maccon: Lady Maccon, muhjah to Queen Victoria, Britain's preternatural weapon extraordinaire
• Lord Conall Maccon: Earl of Woolsey, husband to Alexia, and Alpha werewolf
• Formerly Merriway: a polite ghost, relatively young and well-preserved, and still entirely sane, a member of the Woolsey staff
• Ormond Tunstell: Conall's valet, who has a thing for Ivy
• Ivy Hisselpenny: Alexia's scandalized friend who is known for her ugly hats and insipid, if well-intentioned, conversation
• Angelique: The Maccon's French maid and former vampire drone now employed in a den of werewolves
• Floote: Butler to Alexia's father and currently Alexia's personal secretary
• Rumpet: Woolsey butler
• Major Channing Channing: Third in command of the Woolsey Pack Gamma
• Professor Randolph Lyall: Long suffering Beta of the Woolsey pack
• Biffy: Effeminate drone of the vampire, Lord Akeldama
• Lord Akeldama: Gay vampire and friend of Alexia. Knows a lot of things
• Madame Genevieve Lefoux: Owner of Chapeau de Poupe, which provides more than hats for Victorian ladies. Alexia describes her as "the most beautiful female she has ever seen" with "lovely small mouth, large green eyes, prominent cheekbones and dimples when she smiled..."
• Quesnel Lefoux: Madame Lefoux's son
• Formerly Beatrice Lefoux: Madam Lefoux's noncorporeal aunt
• Felicity Loontwill: Alexia's half-sister, spoiled and petty.
• Sidheag Maccon: Lord Maccon's great-great-great granddaughter, fully human, and Kingair Pack Alpha, which was once Lord Maccon's pack
• Dubh: Kingair Pack's Beta
• Mr. Lachlan: Kingair Pack's Gamma

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• “I love him so very much. As Romeo did Jugurtha, as Pyramid did Thirsty, as-”

  Ivy Hisselpenny

• “Only in Gothic novels are ghosts linked so, and we both know how utterly fanciful fiction has become recently. Authors never do get the supernatural correct.”

  Alexia Maccon

• “Some more daring scientific philosophers claimed that the manners of the modern age had partly developed in order to keep werewolves calm and well behaved in public. Essentially, the theory was that etiquette somehow turned high society into a kind of pack.”

• “Lady Maccon figures she would have to get used to sleeping in the altogether. Although there was that niggling worry that the house might catch fire and cause her to dash about starkers in full view of all. The worry was receding slowly, for she lived with a pack of werewolves and was acclimatizing to their constant nudity - by necessity if not preference. There was, currently, far more hairy masculinity in her life than any Englishwoman should really have to put with on a monthly basis.”

• “Alexia threw back her head and yelled, "Tunstell!" She had not quite the lung capacity to match that of her massive husband, but neither was she built on the delicate-flower end of the feminine spectrum. Alexia's father's ancestors had once conquered an empire, and it was when Lady Maccon yelled that people realized how that was accomplished.”

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• She boasted the general battle-ax demeanor of an especially strict governess. This was the kind of woman who took her tea black, smoked cigars after midnight, played a mean game of cribbage, and kept a bevy of repulsive little dogs. Alexia liked her immediately.

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• “But why Scotland? I should hate to have to go to Scotland. It is such a barbaric place. It is practically Ireland!”

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• “Alexia,” she hissed to her friend, “there are knees positively everywhere. What do I do?”

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• With Ivy walking backward before them and weaving side to side like an iced tea cake with delusions of shepherding,

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• theory was that etiquette somehow turned high society into a kind of pack.

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• Ivy waved the wet handkerchief, as much as to say, words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress. Then, because Ivy never settled for meaningful gestures when verbal embellishments could compound the effect, she said, “Words cannot possibly articulate my profound distress.”

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• She moved with such purpose it was as though she walked with exclamation marks.

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• Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had he always had it? For how many centuries had his poor abused upper lip labored under the burden of such vegetation?

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• There was, currently, far more hairy masculinity in her life than any Englishwoman should really have to put up with on a monthly basis.

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• It was a constant source of amazement to Alexia that the only thing she had ever done in her entire life that pleased her mama was marry a werewolf.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Woolsey Castle: Home of Lord Conall and Lady Alexia Maccon and the Woolsey clavigers
• London: Home of BUR and the Shadow Council
• Castle Kingair, Scotland: Home of Kingair Pack

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• Bureau of Unnatural Registry (BUR): Handles law enforcement regarding the supernatural
• Shadow Council: Consisting of a dewan (werewolf), potentate (vampire), and Alexia (muhjah), it administers supernatural interaction with the Crown.
• Order of the Brass Octopus (OBO): A secret society of scientists and inventors
• Hypocras: A militant branch of OBO, now disbanded.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Aethographor: Wireless communication apparatus which does not suffer from severe disruption to electromagnetic currents such as the telegraph.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Soulless , and followed by Blameless.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Gail Carriger (Author)

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 3143 vol. 19
• Dewey: 813.54

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Sexual content

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

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