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• Murdoch Wroth: {Untouchable} - Vampire, one of the four famous Wroth brothers, known for being a womanizer, part of the Forbearer Army. Daniela's mate
• Daniela the Ice Maiden: {Untouchable} - "Danii" - Part Icere, part Valkrie, the true Queen of the Icere, can't be touched by any but the Icere. Murdoch's mate
• Nïx the Ever-Knowing: {Untouchable} - Valkyrie, Seer
• Kristoff the Gravewalker: {Untouchable} - The Forbearer King, a born vampire
• Nikolai Wroth: {Untouchable} - One of Murdoch's brothers
• Conrad Wroth: {Untouchable} - One of Murdoch's brothers. A fallen vamp
• Myst the Coveted: {Untouchable} - Nikolai's Valkyrie Bride
• Sebastian Wroth: {Untouchable} - One of Murdoch's brothers. Kaderin's mate
• Ivo the Cruel: {Untouchable} - Demestriu the Horde king's right hand man; He's determined to capture Myst
• Kaderin the Cold Hearted: {Untouchable} - Valkyrie, vampire assassin, Sebastian Wroth's Bride
• Emmaline Troy: {Untouchable} - Half valkyrie & half vampire; Daughter of Demestriu the Horde king; Bride to Lachlain MacRieve
• Néomi Laress: {Untouchable}
• Breean: {Tempt Me Eternally} - Rakan warrior who was a farmer; His home planet was destroyed, had sisters and a mother who died
• Aleaha Love: {Tempt Me Eternally} - "Lolli" - Able to change forms, works for AIR under the name Macy Briggs
• Macy Briggs: {Tempt Me Eternally} - "Aleaha Love" - Worked for A.I.R.
• Devyn Targon: {Tempt Me Eternally} - "Devyn de bon ci Laci" - Prince of the Targonia Royal House
• Jaxon Tremain: {Tempt Me Eternally} - A.I.R. agent
• Marleon: {Tempt Me Eternally} - Rakan soldier executed for killing AIR agents
• Mia Snow: {Tempt Me Eternally} - A.I.R. agent
• Dallas Gutierrez: {Tempt Me Eternally} - A.I.R. agent
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• Hector Dean
• Deshazior
• Lykae Bowen
• Valkyrie
• Blue Eyes
• Queen Svana
• Rurik
• Sigmund
• Mishka
• Jádian
• Freya
• Lothaire
• Lukyan
• Emma
• Loa
• Cain
• Talon
• Mariketa
• Syler

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• “They say I'm as fickle as winter, as shy as frost, and as indifferent as a blizzard. It's rumored my body is pure as driven snow. Nobody imagines that I might be full of fire.”

  Daniela

• “Women are like bottles of liquor. They should be sampled, savored, then discarded. Matrimony is for men who can't handle their liquor.”

  Murdoch

• “I'm afraid she isn't on the table" "Of course she isn't on the table. She's right in front of you." "Was I ever that clueless?”

  Dallas, Breean, and Devyn

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• What the fuck was fifty years if they were together? She’s my life now.

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• Then Murdoch and Nikolai had turned him into his starkest nightmare. No wonder he still struggled.

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• A state called New Orleans, where females with pointed ears and unnatural strength reside alongside men who suck the blood from your body. The females called themselves the Nïxies. Nïxies house of pain. Nïxies house of pleasure, Nïxies house of crazy—something like that. Cain was confused, and could have gotten some of the details wrong.”

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• CONTENTS Untouchable by Kresley Cole Tempt

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• She’s blooded me, this odd little creature whose skin can’t be touched.

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• ONE The French Quarter, New Orleans Present day “SHE’S . . . near.” At his brother’s weak and broken words, Murdoch Wroth’s eyes

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• Val Hall Manor: {Untouchable} - Home of the Valkyrie coven based in New Orleans, Louisiana
• Mount Oblak Castle: {Untouchable}
• Icergard: {Untouchable} - Home of the Icere race
• Blachmount Manor: {Untouchable} - The Wroth family manor
• Siberia: {Untouchable} - Where Murdoch owns a hunting lodge
• New Chicago: {Tempt Me Eternally} - Home to Aleaha and the base of AIR operations
• Rakan: {Tempt Me Eternally} - Home planet of Breean and his soldiers, destroyed the Schon

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• Alien Investigation and Removal Agency: {Tempt Me Eternally} - A.I.R.

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• The Accession: {Untouchable} - "And a time shall pass that all immortal beings in the Lore, from the strongest Valkyrie, vampire, and Lykae factions, to the phantoms, shifters, fairies, sirens … must fight and destroy each other." * A kind of mystical checks-and-balances system for an ever-growing population of immortals. * Occurs every five hundred years. Or right now …
• The Talisman's Hie: {Untouchable} - "A treacherous and grueling scavenger’s hunt for magickal talismans, amulets, and other mystical riches over the entire world." * Held every two hundred fifty years. * Hosted by Riora, the goddess of impossibility. * Won the last five times by the Valkyrie Kaderin the Cold Hearted.
• The Turning: {Untouchable} - "Only through death can one become an ‘other.’" * Some beings, like the Lykae, vampires, and ghouls, can turn a human or even other Lore creatures into their kind through differing means, but the catalyst for change is always death, and success is not guaranteed.
• The Ghouls: {Untouchable} - "Even immortals beware its bite …" * Humans turned savage monsters, with glowing green skin, yellow eyes, and contagious bites and scratches. * Their imperative is to increase their number by contagion. * They’re said to travel in troops.
• The Valkyrie: {Untouchable} - "When a maiden warrior screams for courage as she dies in battle, Wóden and Freya heed her call. The two gods give up lightning to strike her, rescuing her to their hall, and preserving her courage forever in the form of the maiden’s immortal Valkyrie daughter." * Take sustenance from the electrical energy of the earth, sharing it in one collective power, and give it back with their emotions in the form of lightning. * Possess preternatural strength and speed. * Without training, they can be mesmerized by shining objects and jewels.
• The Lykae Clan: {Untouchable} - "A proud, strapping warrior of the Keltoi People (or Hidden People, later known as Celts) was taken in his prime by a maddened wolf. The warrior rose from the dead, now an immortal, with the spirit of the beast latent within him. He displayed the wolf’s traits: the need for touch, an intense loyalty to its kind, an animal craving for the delights of the flesh. Sometimes the beast rises …" * Also called werewolves, war-wolds. * Enemies of the Horde.
• The Vampires: {Untouchable} - * Two warring factions, the Vampire Horde and the Forbearer Army. * Each vampire seeks his Bride, his eternal wife, and walks as the living dead until he finds her. * A Bride will render his body fully alive, giving him breath and making his heart beat, a process known as blooding. * Tracing is teleporting, the vampire’s means of travel. A vampire can only trace to destinations he’s previously been. * The Fallen are vampires who have killed by drinking a victim to death. Distinguished by their red eyes.
• The Horde: {Untouchable} - In the first chaos of the Lore, a brotherhood of vampires dominated, by relying on their cold nature, worship of logic, and absence of mercy. They sprang from the harsh steppes of Dacia and migrated to Russia, though some say a secret enclave, the Daci, live in Dacia still." * Their ranks are comprised of the Fallen. * Enemies of most factions in the Lore.
• The Forbearers: {Untouchable} - " … his crown stolen, Kristoff, the rightful Horde king, stalked the battlefields of antiquity seeking the strongest, most valiant human warriors as they died, earning him the name of Gravewalker. He offered eternal life in exchange for eternal fealty to him and his growing army." * An army of vampires consisting of turned humans, who do not drink blood directly from the flesh. * Kristoff was raised as a human and then lived among them. He and his army know little of the Lore. * Enemies of the Horde.
• The Demonarchies: {Untouchable} - "The demons are as varied as the bands of man …" * A collection of demon dynasties. * Most demon breeds can trace like vampires. Some breeds are bound to obey summons. * Those that can emit poison from their fangs, horns, or claws are more vulnerable to others’ poison. * Many demon breeds must have intercourse with a potential mate to ascertain if she’s truly his—a process known as attempting.
• The House of Witches: {Untouchable} - "… immortal possessors of magickal talents, practitioners of good and evil." * Mystical mercenaries who sell their spells. * Strictly forbidden to create personal wealth or grant immortality. * Separated into five castes: warrior, healer, enchantress, conjurer, and seeress. * The only witch known to possess the powers of all five castes is Mariketa the Awaited.
• The Sept of Sorceri: {Untouchable} - "The Sept forever seek and covet others’ powers, challenging and dueling to seize more—or more darkly, stealing another’s sorcery…" * A breed-line broken from the enchantment caste of the House of Witches. * Born with one innate power, their root power. If they lose it, they become slaves to their own kind called Inferi. They can trade and steal secondary powers. * One of the physically weaker species in the Lore, they used elaborate armors to protect their bodies. Eventually they held metals—and especially gold—sacred.
• The Furiae: {Untouchable} - "If you do evil, beg for punishment—before they come… " * Ruthless she-warriors bent on delivering justice to evil men when they escape it elsewhere. * Led by Alecta the Unyielding One.
• The Berserkers: "A berserker's lonely life is filled with naught but battle rage and bloodlust… " * A cadre of human warriors, known for their merciless brutality, who {Untouchable} - Swear allegiance to Wóden. * Stronger and faster than mere mortals, they carry within them the spirit of the bear and can channel its ferocity into a berserkrage, temporarily becoming as powerful as an immortal. * When a berserker wins his two hundredth battle in Wóden's name, the god will grant him ohalla—immortality with untold strength.
• The Sirenae: {Untouchable} - "Near the sea’s edge, beware the siren’s song…" * A female species of immortals, they can permanently mesmerize and enslave males who hear their singing. * Derive power from the sea and can’t be away from it for more than one cycle of the moon.
• Wendigo: {Untouchable} - "Corpse-eaters insatiable for flesh, ravenous for blood. They feed and feed, but can never be sated." * Found in the boreal forests of cold and northern lands. * Distinguishable by their long, knifelike claws, and bodies that are forever emaciated. * Will dig up graves for flesh.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

• Love stories, American: Describe this theme.
• Paranormal fiction, American
• Christmas stories

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Kiss of a Demon King, and followed by Pleasure of a Dark Prince.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Kresley Cole (Author) - Untouchable
2. Gena Showalter (Author) - Tempt Me Eternally

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS648.L6 D44 2009
• Dewey: 813.08508

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexually explicit material

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Cole, Kresley
• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary
• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy

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