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Jane Yellowrock: Book 3

Mercy Blade (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Faith Hunter (Author) (edit contributors)

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Jane, a shapeshifting vampire-hunter-for-hire, crosses paths with a stranger who has arrived in New Orleans, enlisted to hunt vampires who have gone insane-or so he says...

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Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker--and a rogue-vampire hunter for hire. But... read more

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Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker—and a rogue-vampire hunter for hire. But lately she’s found herself taking blood money from the very vamps she used to hunt.

Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world, and revived the bitter... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker—and a rogue-vampire hunter for hire. But lately she’s found herself taking blood money from the very vamps she used to hunt.

Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world, and revived the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies—vampires. As a trusted employee of Leo Pellissier, Blood Master of the City, Jane finds herself caught in the crossfire.

When Jane is attacked by a pack of marauding werewolves, she is thankful for the help of a mysterious stranger named Girrard. He explains that he used to be Leo’s ‘Mercy Blade,’ a sacred position charged with killing young vampires who have gone insane. What Jane doesn’t know is why this powerful assassin left New Orleans. And more troubling, why he’s now returned. It’s definitely not to make Jane’s life easier.

Jane Yellowrock, a shape-shifting rogue-vampire hunter-for-hire, is now taking blood money from the very vamps she used to hunt. But things start heating up in the Big Easy when weres announce their existence to the world, and revive the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies—vampires. Jane finds herself caught in the crossfire.

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  • “Katie ate dead meat. And : A fashionista’s closet full of falling stilettos”
    Jane Yellowrock
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  • “Long before the Greeks named her Artemis, was Lolandes, the woman. I have often thought that her legend became confused with, and merged into, the earth goddess, who was common to all ancient tribal peoples. But Lolandes, renamed the Artemis of Grecian lore, was no goddess, but a powerful, long-lived mortal, one sometimes called a witch, though different from today’s witches.
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  • She carried the cure to each of the were groups, all but the wolves. Them, she never forgave.”
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  • “Things went exceptionally well today. Yes, they did. They went well because George Dumas likes you.”
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  • “You are goddess born,” he whispered. “Ask one of the old ones what this means.”
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  • “I am Girrard DiMercy,” he shrugged, “once Leo’s misericorde, the blood-servant who brought peace to the clans’ long-chained scions when they did not wake from devoveo.”
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  • shredding four man-shaped targets before I quit, one target for each man I was mad at: Bruiser, Leo, Gee, and Rick. I put most of the bullets into the target called Rick, thinking, call me, call me, with every shot.
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  • There had to be another shoe to drop. After the last few days, I was likely to see a fashionista’s closet full of falling stilettos.
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  • “A persona non grata is encroaching upon my territory and it is likely that he had contact with the werewolves in the past. Meet with him, find out what he knows, and then send him packing.”
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  • “My magics, they are few in this world. And you are not fully human. Though I have protected you from contagion by the wolf-taint, I dare not try more.”
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  • “Kemnebi is Egyptian for black leopard. Safia means lion’s share.”
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First Sentence edit see section history

I rolled over, taking most of the covers with me as I stretched.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Chapter 1 - I Didn't Know You Had a Brain
Chapter 2 - A Fighting Ring
Chapter 3 - She Was Wearing a Red Thong
Chapter 4 - Yeah. Sure. Strip, Zorro.
Chapter 5 - You Can't Blame a Vamp-Killer for Trying
Chapter 6 - You Get To Dress Me
Chapter 7 - A Lot Of Hooey
Chapter 8 - Die Young Then, Sonny
Chapter 9 - He Got a Whiff of Me
Chapter 10 - You Want Me To Shoot Him, Boss?
Chapter 11 - Don't Beat Yourself up over It
Chapter 12 - Katie Ate Dead Meat
Chapter 13 - I Intend to Make You Regret That Decision
Chapter 14 - And He Ripped Off My Shirt
Chapter 15 - Good Nose on Ugly Dog
Chapter 16 - You Like the Boy Toy
Chapter 17 - You Belong to Me
Chapter 18 - Woad
Chapter 19 - A Fashionista's Closet Full of Falling Stilettos
Chapter 20 - Dang. Brass Knuckles Are Cool!
Chapter 21 - Killing Teeth Tore Through... and Took Me by the Throat
Chapter 22 - Dry Cleaning Bills Are Outrageous in My Line of Work
Chapter 23 - "Rock and Roll, Legs"
Chapter 24 - Pick a Target. Aim. Shoot.

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  • vamp-killer: A long steel blad with a deep blood groove and heavy silver plating for kiling vamps. If the steel doesn't behead them right away, the silver will give them blood poisoning.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 3 of 10 in Jane Yellowrock. (standard series)

Preceded by Blood Cross, and followed by Raven Cursed.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Faith Hunter (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Roc
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 2011
ISBN: 978-0451463722
Page Count: 320

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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Some sexual situations, nothing explicit, mild profanity and violence

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  • Skinwalker
  • Blood Cross

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