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Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she’s only imagined in her worst nightmares.
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Summary edit
An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness…and now one woman has stumbled into the shadows.
Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Mencheres: Birth name "Menkaure" Four-and a half-thousand-year-old master vampire. His story dates back to the times of the Pyramids.
- Kira Graceling: Chicago private investigator
- Bones: "Crispin Phillip Arthur Russell III" - Mencheres' co-ruler married to Cat.
- Catherine Crawfield: "Cat", known as "the Reaper", Bones' wife
- Vlad Tepesh: "Dracula"
- Tina Graceling: Kira's sister
- Gorgon: Mencheres' underling
- Rick Graceling: Kira's brother
- Radjedef: Mencheres' uncle and arch-nemesis; Law Guardian
- Patra: Mencheres' dead wife
- Apollyon: Ghoul
- Veritas: Law Guardian vampire, nearly as old as Mencheres
- Tenoch: Mencheres' sire.
- Selene: Human "blood donor" to Mencheres
- Jennifer: A teenage girl captured by bad vampires and now held as a slave
- Frank: Kira's penny pinching boss at the P.I. firm
- Pete: Kira's cop-gone-bad abusive husband, Died in prison after Kira turned him in to protect her younger sister and herself
- Mack: Internal affairs cop that helped her with Pete, and got her into the PI business
- Aken: Egyptian ferryman of souls to the gods for judgement After death
- Kurt: Mencheres human blood donor
- Cain: After Cain killed Abel, he was turned vampire as punishment, the world's first vampire and Mencheres grandsire
- Sam: Mencheres' human blood donor
- Lewis: One of Vlad's human blood donors
- Flare: A bad vampire who enslaved jennifer and used her at his strip club
- Patches: A bad vampire cohort of Flare
- Wraith: Another bad vampire and cohort of Flare
Quotes edit
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“No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind-and if you drop that towel again, I'm going to need a cold shower.”
Kira to -
“After last night, Kira knew that his tongue felt like a vibrator set to the speed of Oh HELL Yeah."”
Kira about Mereches -
“It was ironic; he held her captive, yet she’d captivated him.”
Mencheres -
“Her arms curled around his neck as she savored the tremors that still shook him. A profound sense of belonging filled her, as if something long restless inside her had found its home. For several extended moments, she didn’t even want to speak, lest words break the rightness she felt. Then she looked past Mencheres’s face to see the pile of their clothes directly under them. Several feet under them, in fact.“What?” she gasped. A glance around confirmed what her eyes first told her. That wasn’t the wall brushing against her back anymore. It was the ceiling”
Kira and Mencheres -
“Why did you close yourself off from me so I couldn’t feel you?” she asked, resting her elbows on his shoulders.His gaze slid over her breasts, compressed now against the wall of his chest. “It is a poor lover who ensures his lady’s pleasure merely by letting her feed off his own,” he replied with the hint of a grin. Kira chuckled. "I don't think you have to worry about that. Ever.”
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“See, that’s the real scary thing right there.” Cat leaned forward, her voice lower but more intense. “Mencheres clearly has a thing for you. That tape and seeing firsthand how he acts around you proves it. Normally, I’d say live and let love, but the last woman Mencheres fell for was an evil, murdering bitch. He couldn’t bring himself to take her out until she almost destroyed everyone—and I mean everyone—close to him, me and Bones especially. So you’ll understand if the sight of Mencheres making goo-goo eyes at you strikes fear in the hearts of me and anyone else who lived through what happened the last time that man had it bad for a woman.”
Cat to Kira -
“Menkaure had many names depending on the translation. Mycerinus, Mykerinus, and Mencheres, among others. I received this tattoo on the first day of my appointed reign when I was twenty-two years old, just six months before I became a vampire. I am not one of that Pharaoh’s descendents you read about. I am that Pharaoh. I merely used the name Mencheres after I left Egypt.”Kira’s mouth opened and closed, as if she had suddenly forgotten how to speak. He waited. After everything else she’d been through, he did not fear this revelation would prove too much for her.“But that Pharaoh was from way, way, way back in ancient times. He has a pyramid in the Giza Plateau. That can’t be you! You said you were older than dirt, but—”
Mencheres and Kira -
“Older than dirt,” she muttered. “Who knew you were underexaggerating?”
Kira to Mencheres -
“Do I feel too ancient to you now?” he murmured. “Too different from the person you loved before you knew this?”Her eyes were already glowing green, and her full lips parted. “No, you don’t feel too ancient.” Her voice was husky. “Or too different. You feel like mine. Whoever you were, whoever you are . . . you're mine.”
Kira and Mencheres
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Perhaps the moths knew what he didn’t, that the joy of the flame was worth the price of destruction.
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Kira knew that his tongue felt like a vibrator set to the speed of Oh Hell Yeah.
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“Bath toys are reserved only for the oldest, most lethal vampires. I have a full century to age and another thousand men to kill before I reach that hallowed landmark.”
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“Bubbles. On a scale of one to ten, a bubble bath has to rank a zero as far as things I’d expect an older-than-dirt, bad-ass vampire to indulge in. The only thing that would surprise me more was if you pulled out a rubber ducky.”
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Ever had a mob of villagers armed with torches and pitchforks burn your house down while screaming ‘death to the wampyre!’? I have, and it’s irritating beyond belief.”
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You feel like mine. Whoever you were, whoever you are . . . you’re mine.” Mencheres smiled, his fangs stretching to their full length. “So you have spoken, so it shall be decreed. For all eternity.”
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“Because sometimes I enjoy things regardless if they are beneficial to me or not.”
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“Don’t worry. I think Mount Everest is gorgeous, too, but that doesn’t mean I have any intention of trying to climb it.”
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“First bubble baths. Now Disney parks. You’re shattering every creepy vampire myth I’ve ever heard.”
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“Dead or not, you must be bored with women telling you how you look like the hottest, most exotic wet dream they’ve ever had. No wonder the thought of you, grapes, and some scented massage oils crossed my mind—and if you drop that towel again, I’m going to need a cold shower.”
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Setting & Locations edit
United States to the Mayan ruins in Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
- Chicago: Kira and her brother and sister live here
- Jackson Hole, Wyoming: Menchere takes Kira to an isolated ranch to hide
- Disneyland: The site of a secret meeting with Bones, and confrontation with the vampire law guardians
- Yuctan, Mexico: Location of Chichen Itza pyramid
- Chichén Itzá: Ancient mayan pyramid and temple ruins
Organizations edit
- Law Guardians: Powerful group of vampires who enforce vampire rules and laws
First Sentence edit
Mencheres smelled blood even before he caught the earthy scent of ghouls clustered on the ground floor of the decrepit warehouse.
Table of Contents edit
Chapters 1 - 35
Series & Lists edit
This is book 2 of 2 in Night Huntress World. (standard series)
Preceded by First Drop of Crimson.
This is book 6 of 11 in Night Huntress - Reading Order. (standard series)
Preceded by First Drop of Crimson, and followed by This Side of the Grave.
This is book 10 of 16 in Night Huntress Universe: Reading Order. (universe)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Jeaniene Frost (Author) - Jeaniene Frost lives with her husband and their very spoiled dog in Florida. Although not a vampire herself, she confesses to having pale skin, wearing a lot of black, and sleeping in late whenever possible. And while she can't see ghosts, she loves to walk through old cemeteries. Jeaniene also loves poetry and animals, but fears children and hates to cook. She is currently at work on the next novel in her bestselling Night Huntress series.
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Avon Books
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: July 27, 2010
ISBN: 978-0061783166
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Avon Books
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: July 27, 2010
ISBN: 978-0061783166
Page Count: 384
Awards edit
- Romantic Times Reviewer's Choice Award (2010: Best Vampire Romance, Winner)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813
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Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Jeaniene Frost: Author's website
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