From the award-winning author of
Silk and
Threshold . . .
To find the solace she seeks, Niki Ky must return to the house on the side of Red Mountain in Birmingham, Alabama, to finish what her lover Spyder Baxter started. Her odyssey will take her places no human was meant to travel, and she will face creatures no human should ever have to face . . .
Industry Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
?Returning from "Touch the Dark" and "Claimed by Shadow," Cassie Palmer has finally become Pythia, the supernatural community's all-knowing oracle. She's struggling with her new powers (such as shifting back and forth through time) and is stuck between good and evil factions of the paranormal community. Her main concern, though, is to figure out how to reverse a pesky spell that threatens her independence: the geis, once placed on her for protection, is now trying to bind her to the handsome master vampire, Mircea, with results detrimental to them both. The only solution is to find the fabled book that has the counterspell?find it in space and time. Cassie?in her struggles between her passionate need for independence, her burgeoning feelings for Mircea and her conflicts with her new role as Pythia?is a well-rounded character, and the intensity and complexity of the plot puts her through her paces physically, emotionally and psychically.?
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From Publishers Weekly
aReturning from "Touch the Dark" and "Claimed by Shadow," Cassie Palmer has finally become Pythia, the supernatural communityas all-knowing oracle. Sheas struggling with her new powers (such as shifting back and forth through time) and is stuck between good and evil factions of the paranormal community. Her main concern, though, is to figure out how to reverse a pesky spell that threatens her independence: the geis, once placed on her for protection, is now trying to bind her to the handsome master vampire, Mircea, with results detrimental to them both. The only solution is to find the fabled book that has the counterspellafind it in space and time. Cassieain her struggles between her passionate need for independence, her burgeoning feelings for Mircea and her conflicts with her new role as Pythiaais a well-rounded character, and the intensity and complexity of the plot puts her through her paces physically, emotionally and psychically.a
"[Kiernan's] punk rock prose...makes "Angels" fly." -"Entertainment Weekly" "Lyrical and earthy, "Murder of Angels" is that rare book that gets everything right." -Charles de Lint "Kiernan's best book to date, joining her always prodigious gift for language with a wrenching, compelling story." -"Locus"