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• Atticus O’Sullivan: Last of the Druids, now living in Tempe, Arizona
• The Morrigan: Goddess of war. Chooser of the slain. Takes the form of a battle crow or beautiful (often naked) woman. Pale-complected with dark hair.
• Flidais: Goddess of the hunt. Has utter command over all beasts. Red, disheveled hair.
• Aenghus Og: God of love, brother of Brighid
• Oberon: Atticus's Irish wolfhound
• Hallbjorn Hauk: Atticus' lawyer; werewolf - second of the pack
• Emily: Youngest witch in the Tempe Coven
• Granuaile: Pronounced "Gran-u-wale," Bartender at Rúla Búla pub.
• Perry Thomas: Atticus' employee
• Mrs. MacDonagh: Widow who likes to sit on her front porch drinking Tullamore Dew. Speaks Irish with Atticus. Atticus does yard work for her once a week. Hates the British.
• Leif Helgarson: An Icelandic vampire; Atticus' lawyer.
• Laksha Kalasekaran: Witch
• Brighid: Goddess of poetry, fire, and the forge. Wife of Bres, sister of Aenghus Og.
• Malina Sokolowski: Tempe Coven witch. Polish. Appears to be in early thirties.
• Gunnar Magnusson: Werewolf, alpha male of the Tempe Pack.
• Carlos Jimenez: Police detective from Phoenix.
• Conn: Previous owner of the Fragarach, from whom Atticus stole the legendary sword
• Bres: God of agriculture, husband to Brighid, former High King of Ireland
• Mr. Semerdjian: Atticus's nosy neighbor
• Dr. Snorri Jodursson: Werewolf, part of the Pack. Surgeon for Pack and other non-humans in Tempe.
• Radomila: Witch, Leader of the Tempe Coven

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• “Thank the Gods Below for paranoia. I classified it as a survival skill rather than a neurotic condition.”

  Atticus O'Sullivan

• “<When did she drop the first shoe? I missed it.>”

  Oberon

• “I tend to take the long view on dealing with irritating people—as in, I’m going to outlive whoever irritates  me, so the problem will eventually go away. I had privately changed “This, too, shall  pass” into “You, too, shall die,” and it helped me avoid all sorts of conflict.”

  Atticus O'Sullivan

• “The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of  infinite possibility.”

  Atticus O'Sullivan

• “Druids log, October 11: "Never make Laksha mad.”

  Atticus

• “Who is Coyote?" "He's a trickster god of the natives. There are several versions of him running around all over the continent. He's a nice lad; just don't make any wagers with him." "Isn't the Christian god prominent here?" "The Christians have such muddled ideas of him that he usually can't take shape beyond the crucifix form, and that isn't much fun, so he rarely bothers. Mary will appear more often, though, and she can do some pretty awesome stuff if she feels like it. Mostly she sits around looking beatific and full of grace."”

  Flidais & Atticus

• “Sundays at the shop were usually decent business, as if all the non-Christians wanted to make a point of buying something pagan while everyone else was in church. You could always tell the ones who had been raised in a strict Christian environment: They'd put their books on Wicca or Aleister Crowley down on the counter and grin nervously, amazed at themselves for having the stones to buy something their elders told them not to buy. And their auras almost always churned with arousal, which I did not understand when I first opened the shop, but eventually it made sense: For the first time in their lives, they were going to read about a belief system where it was okay to have sex, and they couldn't wait for the validation.”

• “You think you are a match for Aenghus Og?" I shrugged. "That remains to be seen. He has not exerted himself overmuch to fight me. Perhaps he thinks I am." Malina looked incredulous. "Are you anything more than a Druid?" "Of course I am. I own this shop and I play a mean game of chess, and I've been told that I'm a frakkin' Cylon." "What's a frakkin' Cylon?" "I don't know, but it sounds really scary when you say it with a Polish accent."”

  Atticus and Malina

• “<She's kind of like a Mary Poppins just before she turns to the dark side of the Force,> Oberon said. He was still behind the counter, but he had had a good look at her as she exited. <Let go of your anger, Malina! There's still good in you! The Emperor hasn't driven it from you fully!>”

  Oberon

• “It had been a long time since I'd felt any desire to truly inflict pain upon another person. I tend to take the long view on dealing with irritating people - as in, I'm going to outlive whoever irritates me, so the problem will eventually go away. I had privately changed "this, too, shall pass" to "You, too, shall die," and it helped me avoid all sorts of conflict.”

  Atticus

• “The widow's eyebrows raised. "Ye've got all these nasty pooches ro run around with and ye still might die?" "I'm going to go fight with a god, some demons, and a coven of witches who all want to kill me," I said, "so it's a distinct possibility." "Are y'goin' t'kill 'em back?" "I'd certainly like to." "Attaboy," the widow chuckled. "Off y'go, then. Kill every last on o' the bastards and call me in the mornin'.”

  Widow Macdonagh & Atticus

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• <She’s kind of like a Mary Poppins just before she turns to the dark side of the Force,>

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• Cooperation makes fighting unnecessary—or, as Abraham Lincoln once said, “I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.”

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• “Yer a good lad, Atticus, mowin’ me lawn and killin’ what Brits come around.”

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• I thought Sundays were supposed to be relaxing. As a male citizen of America, I’m entitled on Sundays to watch athletic men in tight uniforms ritualistically invade one another’s territory, and while they’re resting I get to be bombarded with commercials about trucks, pizza, beer, and financial services. That’s how it’s supposed to be; that’s the American dream.

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• “Quite right. So after I killed him and stowed his body next to the doe, I sampled his smoothie concoction in the parking lot and found it to be quite delicious.”

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• “You are telling me that your lawyer is a bloodsucking vampire?”

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• <Yes, I can. This is America. You said Americans assert their own opinions as if they were facts and dismiss inconvenient facts as mere opinions.>

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Tempe Arizona
• Ireland

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• Sisters of the Three Auroras: Coven of witches

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• Esurient: Hungry, greedy
• Aenghus Og: Angus OHG (long o, as in doe, not short o, as in log)
• Airmid: AIR mit
• Bres: Bress
• Brighid: BRI yit (or close to BREE yit) in Old Irish. Modern Irish has changed it this Brid (pronounced like Breed).
• Cairbre: CAR bre, where you kind of roll the r and the e is pronounced as in egg.
• Conaire: KON uh ra
• Cuchulainn: Koo HOO lin (the Irish ch is pronounced like an h low in the throat, like a Spanich j, never with a hard k sound or as in the English chew).
• Dian Cecht: DEE an KAY
• Fianna: Fee AH na
• Finn Mac Cumhaill: FIN mac COO will
• Flidais: FLIH dish
• Fragarach: FRAG ah rah
• Granuaile: GRAWN ya WALE
• Lugh Lamhfhada: Loo LAW wah duh
• Manannan Mac Lir: MAH nah NON mac LEER
• Miach: ME ah
• Mogh Nuadhat: Moh NU ah dah
• Moralltach: MOR ul TAH
• O Suileabhain: Oh SULL uh ven
• Siodhachan: SHE ya han (remember the gutteral sound h for the Irish ch; don't go near a hard k sound)
• Tuatha De' Danann: Too AH ha day DAN an
• Gabhra: GO rah
• Mag Mell: Mah MEL
• Magh Lena: Moy LAY na
• Tir na nOg: TEER na NOHG (long o)
• Coinnigh: con NEE (to hold, keep)
• Doigh: doy (to burn)
• Dun: doon (to close or seal)
• Oscail: OS kill (to open)
• Fearn: fairn
• Idho: EE yo
• Ngetal: NYET ul
• Tinne: CHIN neh
• Ura: OO ra (make sure you're not turning this into a military cheer. Both syllables are very clipped and you roll the r a wee bit).

Series & Lists edit see section history

Followed by Hexed.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kevin Hearne (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Luke Daniels (Narrator)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Urban
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Fairies & Elves

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• Amazon
• Audible
• Number One Novels: An interview with debut author Kevin Hearne about Hounded and Hearne's path to publication.
• Kevin Hearne: Author's website

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