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Description edit
The beginning of an exciting new urban fantasy series by Adrian Phoenix, about a fledgling voodoo priestess who gets caught up in murderous intrigue.
"There will be times, girl, when all your magic ain't going to be enough, times when it will seem to dry up like mud under the noonday... read more
Ridiculously Simplified Synopsis edit
Characters edit
- Kallie Rivière: Hoodoo root-worker in training. Has long dark hair and blue-violet eyes
- Belladonna Brown: Kallie's best friend and a Voodoo Priestess (mambo) in training. Tall and boyishly slim, her skin the color of dark chocolate, her hair a bushy natural ’fro haloing her head in black and midnight-blue curls
- Layne Valin: Nomad Fox clan member. Gage was his best friend. A medium or a vessel for the dead as Kallie called him. Has: thick honey-blond dreads that go nearly to his waist, bue-inked Celtic tattoos (including a black-inked fox tattoo beneath his right eye) and pine-green eyes.
- Gage Buckland: Nomad conjurer of the Fox clan Kallie hooks up with after the May pole dance. She finds him dead in her bed the next night. He was one part Gypsy-stlye outlaw biker, one part pagan conjurer, and one part hot-blooded explorer—all sexy nomad. Layne's brother-in-magic. He had black hair, espresso-brown skin and swirling blue-inked clan tattoos (including a small stylized fox black-inked beneath his right eye).
- McKenna Blue: Nomad Raven clan member. Layne's ex wife and friend. A shaman.
- Gabrielle LaRue: the woman under whom Kallie studied, her aunt (from her mother side)
- Lord Basil Augustine: British Master of the Hecatean Alliance. Smug and full of pride. Illusionist.
- Dallas Bruler: A friend of Kallie's, called Doctor Snake. A root doctor. He has a thing for Belladonna.
- Felicity Fields: Lord Augustine's assistant.
- Rosette St. Cyr: Doctor Heron's daugther, share her father's sense of revenge
- Jean-Julien St. Cyr: Doctor Heron. Rosette's father, Gabrielle's enemy.
- Jackson Bonaparte: Kallie's cousin.
- Poesy Valin: Layne's sister. She was murdered.
Quotes edit
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“Nothing, Basil. I’ll see you in a few,” “Fine, and it’s Lord Basil.” “Even in the bedroom?” “Especially in the bedroom.”
Kallie and Lord Augustine -
“Man-stupid." "That's right. And proud of it.”
McKenna Layne -
“You okay, Shug?" "Or am I looking at a soon-to-be-dead nomad?”
Belladonna and Kallie -
“What’s it gonna take to get it through your thick skull that I didn’t kil him?” “Mama generally recommended solid whacks with a two-by-four,” Belladonna said, walking over to the bed. “Great cure for thickskull itis.”
Kallie and Belladonna -
“Hello, I'm right here. I'm fine. Dandy, even. In all ways. So I've been told.”
Layne -
“You . . . what was the word you just used? Apologize? First 'please' and now 'apologize'? I think I need to sit down.”
Belladonna -
“Hey, he was the one who asked 'Or what?' All I did was answer his question.”
Kallie -
“An' there you go again, acting all knuckle-dragging man-stupid. I was yer teacher long before I married you and I am still yer teacher. It's yer best interests I have in mind.”
McKenna -
“A shock went through her as she met his pine-green gaze. For a second, everything quieted inside of her as though he’d pressed a soothing finger against her lips and whispered, “Shhh.””
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“I was starting to think you’d gone back to sleep.” “Like I could do that after you uttered that mythical word please. I was stunned you even knew it,” Bel adonna replied.”
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“No one should ever live for anyone else.”
Setting & Locations edit
- Bayou Cyprés Noir: Kallie's home.
First Sentence edit
"C'mon, scoot your gorgeous ass over, Gage," Kallie Riviere whispered, climbing onto the shadowed bed.
Table of Contents edit
One: Crossed Dead
Two: Bad Blood
Three: Venom
Four: Soul Eater
Five: Dead in All Ways Possible
Six: Root Doctor
Seven: Bondalicious
Eight: The Cold Altar of Revenge
Nine: Trapped Magic
Ten: With None to Give
Eleven: A Shower of White Sparks
Twelve: A Man Who Speaks His Mind
Thirteen: Shanghaied
Fourteen: Deadly to the Male of the Species
Fifteen: On the of the Past
Sixteen: In the Dreaming Deep
Seventeen: Something More Than a Death sentence
Eighteen: Summoning
Nineteen: Her Finer Qualities
Twenty: May Madness
Twenty-One: Doctor Heron
Twenty-Two: Leprechaun's Gold
Twenty-Three: Ugly Possibilities
Twenty-Four: Follow Me, Boy
Twenty-Five: Cold and Empty
Twenty-Six: Time of Reckoning
Twenty-Seven: Buckets of Warm Water
Twenty-Eight: Hidden in Plain Sight
Twenty-Nine: The Voice of Thy Brother
Thirty: Caught in Blood
Thirty-One: No Will of Her Own
Thirty-Two: Bayou Cypres Noir
Thirty-Three: Horse With No Name
Thirty-Four: Chains Made of Pale Bones
Thirty-Five: Gros Bon Ange
Glossary edit
- Mambo: term for a voodoo priestess
- Rootworker: term for hoodoos.
- draiochtbruthair: brother-in-magic
Authors & Contributors edit
- Adrian Phoenix (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Pocket
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 29, 2010
ISBN: 978-1439167878
Page Count: 384
Publisher: Pocket
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 29, 2010
ISBN: 978-1439167878
Page Count: 384
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 3153 vol. 13
- Dewey: 813.6
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