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Comic book shop owner Beth Roman discovers a real-life superman battling a werewolf. After she spirits the handsome hunk to safety, she discovers he has no memory of who he was or why the werewolf wants him dead. Beth takes him in – and promptly becomes a target of the werewolf hit team... read more

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  • Smoke: "David Feral" - "Cat" - "Fang" - "T'Challa" - "Uruvion" pronounced Oo-roo-vee-on (Sidhe name, means fiery) - A Demigod; Sidhe warrior; Able to call magic to him; Is six-five with a powerful broad-shouldered body, fangs and pointed ears; His long, blue-black hair has horizontal silver streaks and reaches halfway to his waist; His crystal blue eyes contract into vertical slits, like a cats; Shifts into a blue-black cat with silver stripes along his haunches and forelegs; Is thousands of years old
  • Eva Roman: "Eva Naomi Roman" - Dire Wolf; Was bitten by a werewolf 5 years prior and kept her change a secret; A partner in her father's comic book shop; Has long, straight dark chocolate hair and velvety brown eyes; Shifts into a seven-foot werewolf with sable fur, fangs and curving claws
  • Fluffy: Eva's wolf; A seven-foot werewolf with sable fur, fangs and curving claws
  • Bill Roman: Eva's father; Charlotte's husband; A comic book geek and shop owner; A bear of a man with a broad, handsome face and a gray-shot black beard that blends with the salt-and-pepper bristle of his hair and hazel eyes
  • Charlotte Roman: Eva's mother; Bill's wife; A slim, youthful woman; Has honey colored hair and brown eyes; Teaches English at Steve Ditko High; 55 years old
  • Joel Harmon: A tall, handsome blond; A comic book geek; Eva's ex-boyfriend; Is handsome, tall, blond and athletic; An assistant football coach at Ditko High
  • La Belle Coeur: "Belle" - "Lady La Belle Coeur" - Maja; Court seducer for the past 1,000 years; Has had to kill 16 Latent's after they went crazy once the Gift was triggered; Has golden curly hair
  • Arthur Pendragon: "King Arthur" - Vampire; Guinevere's husband; Logan's father; Leige of the Magi; Head of the Magus Council; Has dark eyes, dark hair that falls down to his brawny shoulders and a beard frames his handsome mouth and square chin in a dark goatee; Is not particularly tall, but he is as broad and powerfully built as a professional athlete; About 1,500 years old
  • Guinevere Pendragon: "Gwen" - Maja; Arthur's wife; Logan's mother; Council member; A slim, delicate blonde; About 1,500 years old
  • Lancelot du Lac: "Lance" - Vampire; Grace's husband; Former Magus court seducer; Council member
  • Morgana Le Fay: Maja; Arthur's half sister; Leige of the Majae Council; One of the Magekind's most powerful witches
  • Tristan: "Tris" - "Sir Tristan" - "Lord Tristan" - Vampire; A Knight of the Round Table; Has blond hair and green eyes; Has wide shoulders and tan skin; About 1,500 years old
  • Reece Champion: Vampire; Erin's husband; Magus; Ex-CIA; Champion of the United States; Over 200 years old
  • Erin Champion: "Erin Grayson" - Maja; Reece's wife; Former FBI agent
  • Logan MacRoy: Vampire; Giada's fiancé; Arthur & Guinevere's son; Ex-Cop; 31 years old; Is six-foot-four, 210 lbs.; Has brown hair and brown eyes
  • Giada Shepherd: Maja; Logan's fiancée; Has blonde hair and gray eyes
  • Merlin: An alien from an alternate universe
  • Nimue: An alien from an alternate universe
  • Davon Fredericks: Vampire; Surgical resident specializing in trauma at Chicago Mercy Hospital; Is very handsome with chocolate skin, high, stark cheekbones, a full mouth, broad, regal nose and big brown eyes; 33 years old
  • Richard Spotted Horse: Vampire; A tall Native American
  • Mohammad Hasan: Vampire; A broad-shouldered Iraqi
  • Delfina: Maja
  • Miranda Drake: "Randy" - Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; Can weild magic; 24 years old; A tall and slim redhead with bright amber eyes; Shifts into a seven foot red-furred werewolf
  • Joelle Drake: Dire Wolf; Miranda's mother; Gerald's wife; A lady of the Chosen; A too-thin, perpetually wary woman; Has pale skin, flaming red hair and emerald green eyes; Shifts into a red-furred werewolf just shy of seven feet tall
  • Mary Catherine: A baby girl
  • Diana Galatyn: "Queen Diana" - "Diana London" - Dire Wolf; King Llyr's wife
  • Llyr Galatyn: "King Llyr Aleyn Galatyn" - King of the Cachamwri Sidhe; Diana's husband
  • Kat Danilo: Maja; Ridge's fiancée; Lancelot's daughter
  • Ridge Champion: Vampire; Kat's fiancé; Has green eyes
  • Kel: Dragon; Nineva's mate; A Knight of the Round Table
  • Zephyr: A huge white stag with a magnificent rack of antlers; Is six feet at the shoulder with crystalline blue eyes; One of Smoke's fellow elementals
  • Cachamwri: God of the dragons; Friend to the Sidhe
  • Terry Gordon: Eva's neighbor; A small boy with white-blond hair and big blue eyes
  • Shelly Gordon: Eva's neighbor; Terry's mother; Ronnie's wife; A pretty woman with delicate features and bright blonde hair
  • Ronnie Gordon: Eva's neighbor; Terry's father; Shelly's husband; A wife and child beater; A massive man with a bearded face
  • Warlock: Dire Wolf & wizard; Shifts into a huge white wolf (almost as big as a polar bear) with glowing amber eyes
  • Harold Worthington: Dire Wolf; A handsome man in his 40's; Is big, tall and powerfully built, with silver threading his black hair; A bank CEO; A very big and very nasty werewolf
  • Gerald Drake: "Gerry" - Dire Wolf; Joelle's husband; Miranda's stepfather; Owns a very successful construction business
  • Tommy Danvers: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; The Skoll team leader; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf with honey brown fur
  • Steve Miller: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; Skoll team second-in-command; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf with ginger fur
  • Kevin Wheeler: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; The Fenir team leader
  • Scott Brown: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; The Geri team leader; Warlock's favorite; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf with gray fur
  • Frank: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; Member of Skoll team; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf
  • Jim: Dire Wolf; One of the Twelve Bastards; Member of Skoll team; Shifts into an eight-foot werewolf
  • Joe Byrnes: Dire Wolf; The Bastards' computer hacker
  • Joan Devon: Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; A slim, middle-aged woman; Is very pale with dark hair and big brown eyes; Just lost her husband, George and daughter, Amanda (killed by Logan & Giada after murdering a dozen Latents) after losing her son, Trey (a serial killer, killed by Kat & Ridge) at Christmas
  • Trey Devon: Dire Wolf; Joan & George's son; Amanda's brother; Had blond hair and a big, muscular body; A serial killer, killed by Kat Danilo & Ridge Champion
  • George Devon: Dire Wolf; Joan's husband; Trey & Amanda's father; Killed by Logan & Giada after murdering a dozen Latents
  • Amanda Devon: Dire Wolf; Joan & George's daughter; Trey's sister; A redhead; Killed by Logan & Giada after murdering a dozen Latents
  • Calista Norman: Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; A gray-haired woman who is thin to the point of desiccation, with a horsey face and an expression that suggests she's been sucking on a lemon.
  • Theresa Carington: Dire Wolf; A lady of the Chosen; A plump matron; Her blue eyes are hard and narrow in her soft, dimpled face
  • Isolde: Tristan's ex; Deceased
  • Ri'ae: Sidhe; Smoke's ex-lover; Smoke's priestess; Had blue eyes; Went insane and killed Smoke's entire tribe
  • Snowball: Eva's neighbor's cat
  • Anita Blake: Character from one of Miranda's favorite books
  • Jean Claude: Character from one of Miranda's favorite books
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  • “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”
    Eva Quoting Spiderman Comic
  • “If you kiss me covered in blood. I'm going to yark on your shoes.”
    Eva

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Boom!

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapters 1 - 22
Epilogue

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  • Merlin's Gift: "Merlin's Curse"
  • Dire Wolf: Merlin selected some people to become Direkind and watch over Arthur to make sure he did not overstep his bounds. Most of the rest are Bitten—transformed by the magic of a werewolf’s bite.
  • Magus: "Vampire" - Are always male; Cannot work spells; Can shapeshift
  • Maja: "Majae" (plural) - "Witch" - Are always female; Can works spells
  • Sidhe: Fae
  • Elemental: An alien energy being
  • Dragonkind: Dragons; They can use magic and shift into a human form
  • Burning Moon: One month a year when female Dire Wolves go into heat.
  • Excalibur: Arthur's sword
  • Kingslayer: Warlock's massive battle-axe; Has a great red gem that tips the shaft between massive double blades; The gem can act as a focus for Warlock's power, amplifying it as a ruby intensifies light into a laser.
  • Ciardha: Something like a tiger, but a little bigger, black, with silver stripes on the haunches.
  • Truebond: A psychic link between mates
  • Merlin's Grail: Describe this term.
  • Latents
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Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 7 of 13 in Mageverse. (standard series)

Preceded by Master of Fire, and followed by Master of Shadows.

This is book 11 of 13 in Mageverse: Reading Order. (standard series)

Preceded by Master of Fire, and followed by Master of Shadows.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Angela Knight (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Berkley
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 4, 2011
ISBN: 978-0425239162
Page Count: 304

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Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history

   
  • Hot Blooded
  • Master of the Night
  • Bite
  • Master of the Moon
  • Master of Wolves
  • Over the Moon
  • Master of Dragons
  • Master of Swords
  • Hot for the Holidays
  • Master of Fire

Books Cited by This Book edit see section history

   
  • Guilty Pleasures

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