In the dark reaches of the east­ern con­ti­nent, Tris Vishal trav­els from vil­lage to vil­lage, using his power to put un­set­tled spir­its to rest. He works alone, hav­ing learned that let­ting peo­ple close only leads to more death. Still, he finds him­self ac­cept­ing the help of the Móndyalítko woman who saves his life—a woman whose gifts are as much a bur­den as his own.

Mari Kaleja thirsted for vengeance since the night her fam­ily was taken from her. She has searched far and wide for the one she thinks re­spon­si­ble, known only as “The Dead’s Man.” But be­fore she can kill him, she has to be sure. Mari hopes trav­el­ing with Tris will con­firm her sus­pi­cions. But as they em­bark on a hunt where the liv­ing are just as dan­ger­ous as the dead, she learns the risks of keep­ing your enemy close…

Be­cause it’s no longer clear who is preda­tor and who is prey.

With much re­lief, Magiere, Leesil, and Chap pre­pare to hide the last two of the pow­er­ful orbs. Once this last great task is com­pleted, Magiere can take Leesil home to a life of peace.

Then, ru­mors reach them that a horde of un­dead crea­tures, slaugh­ter­ing every­thing in their wake, are gath­er­ing in the far east re­gions of the Suman desert. This gath­er­ing could only be caused by the An­cient Enemy awak­en­ing.

With no other choice, Magiere tells Leesil they can­not go home yet. They must go to the desert and seek to learn if the ru­mors are true… and if so, face an awak­en­ing evil: The Night Voice.

“A mix of The Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer.”

—Kevin J. An­der­son, New York Times Best­selling Au­thor

“The Noble Dead Saga… is no sim­ple myth, but rather a true epic, which stands at the high­est lev­els of fan­tasy lore.”

—BSCReview

“The Hen­dees never fail to im­press and en­ter­tain.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

“[An] end­lessly in­trigu­ing hor­ror-fan­tasy mix.”

—Mon­sters and Crit­ics

Pow­er­ful prince Mal­colm is fac­ing ruin in the wake of a curse that has de­stroyed his har­vest. He blames the band no­madic Móndyalítko who sum­mer in the meadow below his cas­tle—and he is de­ter­mined to root out the peo­ple who caused the blight by any means nec­es­sary.

When Céline and Amelie Fawe, de­scended from the Móndyalítko, learn that their mother’s peo­ple are under sus­pi­cion of sab­o­tage and trea­son, they set out to use their mag­i­cal gifts to save their es­tranged rel­a­tives and learn about their own ori­gins.

Now it’s up to the sis­ters—along with their mot­ley es­cort, in­clud­ing a prince’s lieu­tenant, a shape-shifter, and an old woman with a murky past—to dis­cover the source of the curse to re­store life to the rav­aged land and pro­tect the in­no­cent from un­fair vengeance.

Praise for Barb Hendee

“Com­plex char­ac­ters, re­la­tion­ships, and in­ter­est­ing sto­ries… plenty of sus­pense, dan­ger, in­trigue, and a bit of ro­mance. Barb Hendee’s nov­els are not to be missed.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

“[The Mist-Torn Witches] will hold read­ers spell­bound.”

—RT (Ro­man­tic Times) Book Re­views

Magiere the dham­pir thinks that her nights of hunt­ing vam­pires are over. After set­tling down in her newly adopted vil­lage of Mi­iska — now vam­pire-free, thanks to her and her half-elf part­ner, Leesil — she looks for­ward to quiet days tend­ing to her tav­ern.

But far away in the cap­i­tal city of Bela, a promi­nent coun­cil­man's daugh­ter has been found dead on her own doorstep... and all signs point to a vam­pire. Know­ing that the bat­tered and burned vil­lage of Mi­iska could use an in­fu­sion of cash, Bela's town coun­cil of­fers a gen­er­ous bounty to the dham­pir if she will slay their vam­pire. Magiere re­sists, want­ing noth­ing more than to for­get her past and ig­nore her half-vam­pire na­ture. Only Leesil can per­suade Magiere to fol­low her des­tiny — be­fore more in­no­cent lives are claimed by dark­ness.

“Read­ers will turn the pages of this sat­is­fy­ing me­dieval thriller with gusto.”

—Kris­tine Hunt­ley, Book­list: re­view jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Li­brary As­so­ci­a­tion

“Noth­ing is sim­ply good ver­sus evil in this world, where the un­dead and the liv­ing alike are per­son­able, be­liev­able char­ac­ters…”

—Jen Tal­ley Exum, Ro­man­tic Times Book­club Mag­a­zine

“The mul­ti­fac­eted per­son­al­i­ties of [Magiere and Leesil] are what make this se­ries so en­joy­able.”

—Sandy Auden, SFX Mag­a­zine

“The story is com­plex and will keep you guess­ing until the end. Each char­ac­ter is finely crafted like the weapons they carry.”

—Alisa Mc­Cune, Sime~Gen Inc.

Where it all began…

Magiere has earned a rep­u­ta­tion as the most for­mi­da­ble vam­pire slayer in the land. Vil­lagers far and wide wel­come her with both awe and dis­dain, grate­ful to her for rid­ding their towns of the un­dead men­ace, but find­ing them­selves made poorer for their sal­va­tion. Magiere has al­ways known she's deal­ing with sim­ple folk who only wish to have their su­per­sti­tions si­lenced, and she's never seen any­thing wrong with ex­ploit­ing them for profit.

Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her part­ner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and set­tle down in a place they can fi­nally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the at­ten­tion of a trio of pow­er­ful and dan­ger­ous vam­pires who rec­og­nize her true iden­tity — even if she does not — and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at noth­ing to keep Magiere from ful­fill­ing her des­tiny.

“In DHAM­PIR, Barb and JC Hendee mix the Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer with a healthy dose of The Sting for an en­gag­ing ad­ven­ture that is both hu­mor­ous and ex­cit­ing.”

—Kevin J. An­der­son, Hid­den Em­pire, Dune: The But­ler­ian Jihad

“DHAM­PIR kept me turn­ing pages, from the eerie pro­logue to the final sat­is­fy­ing word. With its com­plex he­roes, re­fresh­ingly multi-faceted vil­lains, and care­fully chore­o­graphed fight scenes, this novel opened a broad new world. Well done!”

—Mindy L. Klasky, The Glass­wright's Ap­pren­tice

“DHAM­PIR is a fab­u­lous en­ter­tain­ment wrought with mys­tery, ad­ven­ture, and sharp-toothed wit. In this win­ning first fan­tasy novel, Barb and J.C. Hendee con­jure a misty world pop­u­lated with lively un­dead vil­lains and an ap­peal­ing pair of rogues-turned-he­roes you'll find your­self root­ing for from Page One. Fast-paced ac­tion and mount­ing sus­pense will keep you turn­ing the pages long after the sun's gone down. (Just be sure to hang the gar­lic by the win­dow.) DHAM­PIR ends with the promise of con­tin­u­ing ad­ven­tures. I'm look­ing for­ward to get­ting bit­ten again.”

—Mark An­thony, Be­yond the Pale

Magiere is a dham­pir — half-human, half-vam­pire — sired for the pur­pose of slay­ing the un­dead. Out­side the vil­lage of Chemestúk, where she was born and raised, stands her fa­ther's keep. Within its walls, she hopes to dis­cover the se­crets of her past and fig­ure out why a vam­pire would wish to breed a crea­ture ca­pa­ble of slaugh­ter­ing his own kind…

But there are those who don't want Magiere to learn the truth — and when her half-elf part­ner, Leesil, makes a star­tling dis­cov­ery in the keep, he can un­der­stand why. Be­fore Leesil can re­veal the truth to Magiere, they must van­quish a crea­ture of unimag­in­able and un­lim­ited power who has damned a small vil­lage of peo­ple with a hor­ri­fy­ing curse…

“Fab­u­lous en­ter­tain­ment wrought with mys­tery, ad­ven­ture, and sharp-toothed wit.”

—Mark An­thony, Au­thor of Be­yond the Pale

“An­other sat­is­fy­ing entry in the Hen­dees' lively se­ries.”

—Kris­tine Hunt­ley, Book­list: Amer­i­can Li­brary As­so­ci­a­tion

“Sis­ter of the Dead and its pre­de­ces­sors in­volve read­ers on a vis­ceral, highly emo­tional level and ful­fill a crav­ing for nifty magic, ex­cit­ing ac­tion scenes, and a strong hero­ine who de­fies genre clichés.”

—Ro­man­tic Times Book­club Mag­a­zine

“The Hen­dees have cre­ated an in­trigu­ing se­ries char­ac­ter­ized by non­stop ad­ven­ture, mul­ti­lay­ered mys­ter­ies, and enough blood-suck­ing char­ac­ters to sat­isfy even the most hard-core vam­pire fan.”

—Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble Re­view

Born a half-breed to an elven mother and human fa­ther, Leesil was raised in the War­lands as as­sas­sin, spy, and slave to Lord Dar­mouth, ruler to one of its in­de­pen­dent provinces. But Leesil's mother trained him too well, and he used his skills to es­cape, leav­ing his par­ents to suf­fer Dar­mouth's wrath for all such trai­tors and their kin. Now, with new­found pur­pose in the com­pany of his beloved Magiere, Leesil re­turns to con­front the sins of his past and un­cover his par­ents' fate.

Un­able to turn him from this dan­ger­ous course, Magiere fol­lows Leesil into the dark­ness of his past in the War­lands. Know­ing what may hap­pen should Dar­mouth learn of Leesil's re­turn, she is pre­pared to slaugh­ter any who may try to take him from her. But Magiere's own past may well pose a more deadly threat. Two crea­tures of un­fath­omable power con­tinue to stalk her — one who be­lieves she's the key to his sal­va­tion, and one who seeks to de­stroy her... and all those she loves.

“This is one of those books for which the term dark fan­tasy was def­i­nitely in­tended.”

—Chron­i­cle

“…the Hen­dees' Saga of the Noble Dead fea­tures gen­er­ous help­ings of blood-suck­ing hor­ror and who­dunit mys­tery el­e­ments. Lit­er­ally over­flow­ing with non­stop ac­tion, this cool amal­gam of gen­res will ap­peal to read­ers—alive and un­dead—who enjoy tak­ing that oc­ca­sional lit­er­ary walk on the wild side.”

—Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble Re­view

“The Hen­dees' best­selling Noble Dead se­ries makes the leap from mass mar­ket to hard­cover with this win­ning fourth novel… Fans of the se­ries are sure to be pleased, while the novel stands well enough on its own to at­tract new read­ers.”

—Pub­lish­ers Weekly

“The per­sonal con­flicts of the he­roes mir­ror the larger strug­gles in their world and pro­vide a solid foun­da­tion for this tale of love and loy­alty in a world of be­trayal.”

—Jackie Cas­sada, “[SF/Fan­tasy col­umn]”, Li­brary Jour­nal

Des­per­ate to free his mother from a caste of ruth­less elven as­sas­sins, Leesil pushes on through the moun­tains at the height of a harsh win­ter. Ob­ses­sion blinds him to rea­son, and he and his com­pan­ions — his beloved Magiere, the sage Wynn, and their ca­nine pro­tec­tor, Chap — find their lives at stake under the hard­ships of the wilder­ness. Should they sur­vive, they still face the per­ils of the Elven Ter­ri­to­ries, a cul­ture of tran­quil beauty, sav­age cus­toms, and deep-rooted ha­tred and fear of all hu­mankind.

Magiere was cre­ated with strange pow­ers by a shad­owy, long-for­got­ten enemy of many names — an enemy whom Leesil was trained from child­hood to kill. Un­be­knownst to them, Chap brought them to­gether at the com­mand of his kin, the Fay, to forge an al­liance that might have the power to stand against the forces of dark mag­ics.

In the place of his birth, Chap must guard his com­pan­ions from en­e­mies and al­lies alike, though he is not al­ways cer­tain which is which. And as they un­cover the truth, they dis­cover just how close the enemy has al­ways been.

For many months, Magiere and Leesil have searched for a for­got­ten ar­ti­fact, even though its pur­pose has been shrouded in mys­tery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from falling into the hands of a mur­der­ing Noble Dead: her half brother, Wel­stiel. And now dreams of a cas­tle locked in ice lead her south, on a jour­ney that has be­come noth­ing less than an ob­ses­sion…

Ac­com­pa­ny­ing Magiere and Leesil are the sage Wynn; their ca­nine pro­tec­tor, Chap; and two elven as­sas­sins-turned-guardians who must fight their dis­trust of this sis­ter of the dead. For forces more pow­er­ful than they— some may even say fate — are ral­ly­ing around Magiere, arm­ing her for the con­flict to come, be­cause find­ing the orb may be just the be­gin­ning of the chal­lenges that await her.

“In­ter­species dis­trust, grand am­bi­tions, and the lure of dan­ger­ous se­crets pro­tected by the un­dead drive the ac­tion in this neat mix of hor­ror with more tra­di­tional fan­tasy el­e­ments.”

—Pub­lisher's Weekly

After es­cap­ing the cas­tle of an­cient vam­pires with Magiere and Leesil, Wynn Hy­ge­orht has re­turned to Calm Seatt, home of the Guild of Sage­craft, bear­ing texts sup­pos­edly penned by vam­pires from the time of the For­got­ten His­tory and the Great War. Her su­pe­ri­ors seize both the an­cient texts and her per­sonal jour­nals, dis­miss­ing her tales of the un­dead as delu­sional fan­cies.

But the guild's schol­ars have not dis­missed the texts. With­out Wynn's con­sent, they begin send­ing the texts out to scrip­to­ri­ums for copy­ing. Then one night sev­eral pages dis­ap­pear—and the two sages charged with con­vey­ing these pages are mur­dered. Sus­pi­cious of the Guild, sep­a­rated from the only friends she fully trusts, and con­vinced the Noble Dead are re­spon­si­ble for the killings, Wynn em­barks on a quest to un­cover the se­crets of the texts, un­aware of her al­lies from un­ex­pected quar­ters…

After es­cap­ing the cas­tle of an­cient vam­pires with Magiere and Leesil, Wynn Hy­ge­orht has re­turned to Calm Seatt, home of the Guild of Sage­craft, bear­ing texts sup­pos­edly penned by vam­pires from the time of the For­got­ten His­tory and the Great War. Her su­pe­ri­ors seize both the an­cient texts and her per­sonal jour­nals, dis­miss­ing her tales of the un­dead as delu­sional fan­cies.

But the guild's schol­ars have not dis­missed the texts. With­out Wynn's con­sent, they begin send­ing the texts out to scrip­to­ri­ums for copy­ing. Then one night sev­eral pages dis­ap­pear—and the two sages charged with con­vey­ing these pages are mur­dered. Sus­pi­cious of the Guild, sep­a­rated from the only friends she fully trusts, and con­vinced the Noble Dead are re­spon­si­ble for the killings, Wynn em­barks on a quest to un­cover the se­crets of the texts, un­aware of her al­lies from un­ex­pected quar­ters…

Wynn has re­turned safely to the Guild of Sage­craft with her com­pan­ions, the vam­pire Chane An­draso and Shade, an elven wolf. Though Wynn man­aged to re­gain her seized jour­nals, she re­ceived only a glimpse of the an­cient texts penned by for­got­ten vam­pires, and once again, the vol­umes have slipped from her grasp. The price for her brief suc­cess may prove costly.

For the an­i­mos­ity of her guild su­pe­ri­ors has grown even fiercer. This time, in­stead of clois­ter­ing her, they pur­posely give her a mis­sion so te­dious, it will keep her out of the way for as long as pos­si­ble. But Wynn has her own plans.

She sets out in search of an­other dwar­ven strong­hold: a place few have ever heard of called Bäalâle Seatt. It may well be the last rest­ing place of an orb—one of five such mys­te­ri­ous de­vices used by the An­cient Enemy in the myth­i­cal war of the For­got­ten His­tory. What­ever caused Bäalâle to fall to the enemy, she knows that one myth­i­cal fig­ure was some­how in­volved: the in­fa­mous Lord of Slaugh­ter. And that dwar­ven mass mur­derer's di­rect de­scen­dant, an er­rant stonewalker, will never let Wynn out of his sight.

If only that were all she had to worry about.

Wynn Hy­ge­orht re­ceives un­ex­pected vis­i­tors at the Guild of Sage­craft. Magiere and Leesil, along with the elven wolf Chap, have come for her, but Wynn can't af­ford to leave. She needs ac­cess to the texts within the guild's archives, which may help her de­ci­pher the lo­ca­tions of the last two orbs sought by the An­cient Enemy.

There are five orbs in total. Magiere and Leesil have two of them in safe-keep­ing. Chane An­draso, the vam­pire who loves Wynn, has hid­den the Orb of Earth on her or­ders. To com­plete her task—and pro­tect the orbs—Wynn must re­main se­questered from her friends

But she's es­sen­tially a pris­oner. One of the guild's su­pe­ri­ors is just as eager for Wynn to trans­late the an­cient texts, but she knows the oth­ers will not per­mit her to share that knowl­edge—knowl­edge Magiere and Leesil des­per­ately need if they're going to stop the An­cient Enemy from un­leash­ing war on the land.

Barely es­cap­ing the city of Calm Seatt—and the elven as­sas­sins hunt­ing them—Magiere, Leesil, and the elven dog Chap sail south in their quest to find the pow­er­ful orb of Air be­fore their en­e­mies do. But they are not alone, much to their frus­tra­tion.

The aging elven as­sas­sin, Brot’an, has forced him­self on them by of­fer­ing his pro­tec­tion for Magiere from en­e­mies among his own caste. Chap doesn’t be­lieve this ruse and seeks to un­cover the as­sas­sin’s true agenda—as well as the cause of the se­cret civil war that has erupted into the open among Brot'an's peo­ple.

Mean­while Magiere is strug­gling with her own dark na­ture, using Leesil’s love as an an­chor to keep her grounded. For the per­sonal price she paid to pro­cure the orb of Fire up in the north­ern “Wastes” was more than she thought—and more than she wants to re­veal to any­one else.

But that is ex­actly what the cun­ning Brot’an wants to know. And he is will­ing to do what­ever it takes—even if he must re­veal his own dreaded se­crets that may cost the en­tire party their lives.

In her quest to find the Orb of Spirit, Wynn Hy­ge­orht is torn be­tween two men who hate each other—her vam­pire pro­tec­tor, Chane An­draso, and the elf Osha, who has ten­der feel­ings for her. Now a strange se­ries of clues leads them to a re­mote keep built on the dark cliffs of the coast of Witeny. The young duke there has been un­der­go­ing some dis­turb­ing changes—and so have the peo­ple and live­stock in the out­ly­ing vil­lages. Wynn has no idea what awaits her at this keep—an old enemy who wants noth­ing more than to see her dead.

At the same time, Dham­pir Magiere, Leesil, and Chap con­tinue their des­per­ate search for the Orb of Air, still bur­dened with the mas­ter as­sas­sin, Brot’an, and the elven out­cast girl, Way­farer. Still hunted by a team of as­sas­sins, they es­cape on the first avail­able ship only to find them­selves under the power of a sadis­tic cap­tain. Even if they man­age to sur­vive this voy­age, there is a trap wait­ing for them at the jour­ney’s end that is be­yond any­thing they can imag­ine…

Way­laid in their quest for the orb of the Air, Magiere, Leesil, Chap, and Way­farer have all been wrongly im­pris­oned. But it is Magiere, the dham­pir, who suf­fers the most as a cloaked in­ter­roga­tor em­ploys tele­pathic tor­ture.

Ar­riv­ing at the Suman port city in search of Magiere, Wynn Hy­ge­orht and her com­pan­ions—in­clud­ing vam­pire Chane An­draso—seek out Domin Ghas­san il’Sänke for as­sis­tance, which proves no easy task. The domin is em­broiled in a se­cret hunt for a spec­tral un­dead with the power to in­vade any­one liv­ing and take the body as its host.

Even if Wynn can man­age to free her friends from prison, bat­tling this en­tirely new kind of un­dead hid­den in­side host bod­ies may be a chal­lenge none of them can sur­vive…

“A mix of The Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer.”

—Kevin J. An­der­son, New York Times Best­selling Au­thor

“The Noble Dead Saga… is no sim­ple myth, but rather a true epic, which stands at the high­est lev­els of fan­tasy lore.”

—BSCReview

“The Hen­dees never fail to im­press and en­ter­tain.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

“[An] end­lessly in­trigu­ing hor­ror-fan­tasy mix.”

—Mon­sters and Crit­ics

In a small vil­lage in the na­tion of Droevinka, or­phaned sis­ters Céline and Amelie Fawe scrape out a liv­ing sell­ing herbal med­i­cines in their apothe­cary shop. Céline earns ad­di­tional money by pos­ing as a seer and pre­tend­ing to read peo­ple’s fu­tures.

But they exist in a land of great noble houses, all vying for power, and when the sis­ters refuse the or­ders of a war­lord prince, they must flee and are forced to de­pend on the war­lord prince’s brother, Anton, for a tem­po­rary haven.

A se­ries of bizarre deaths of pretty young girls are plagu­ing the vil­lage sur­round­ing Prince Anton’s cas­tle. He of­fers Céline and Amelie per­ma­nent pro­tec­tion if they can use their “skills” to find the killer.

With lit­tle choice, the sis­ters enter a world un­known to them—of fine gowns and ban­quets and ad­vances from pow­er­ful men. Their sur­vival de­pends on catch­ing a mur­derer who ap­pears to walk through walls and van­ish with­out a trace—and the dan­ger around them seems to grow with each pass­ing night.

Praise for The Mist-Torn Witches

“Clues as to the sis­ters’ mag­i­cal her­itage, hints of ro­mance, threats both su­per­nat­ural and human, and courtly in­trigue com­bine for a fun fan­tasy mys­tery.”

—Locus

“…a must-read, full of sus­pense, drama, and magic. I didn’t want this one to end.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

Praise for Barb Hendee

“Hendee has a gift for in­tri­cate psy­cho­log­i­cal plots, and her char­ac­ters are some of the best in cur­rent fan­tasy.”

—Book­list

“Those look­ing for an al­ter­na­tive to Pa­tri­cia Briggs or Ilona An­drews won’t be dis­ap­pointed.”

—Mon­sters and Crit­ics

Far to the north, the men of an iso­lated sil­ver min­ing com­mu­nity are turn­ing into vi­cious “beasts” that slaugh­ter any­one in sight. The mines be­long to the noble fam­ily of Prince Anton—ruler of Cas­tle Sèone and Céline and Amelie’s pa­tron—and Anton’s tyran­ni­cal fa­ther has or­dered his son to solve the mys­tery as a test of his lead­er­ship. He has no choice but to send the witches into the per­ilous north, to use their abil­i­ties to dis­cover the cause of the trans­for­ma­tions. Given how much they owe the prince, the sis­ters have no choice but to ac­cept.

To­gether with the over-pro­tec­tive Lieu­tenant Jaromir, Céline and Amelie enter the dark world of a far off min­ing camp tainted by fear, mis­trust, and en­slave­ment—and haunted by men turn­ing into mas­sive, mad wolves with­out warn­ing. Now, the two must draw upon strength and cun­ning they never thought they pos­sessed not only to solve the mys­tery, but to sur­vive…

Praise for Barb Hendee

“In­cred­i­bly vivid.”
—Sci­FiChick.com

“Hendee knows how to hook her read­ers.”
—See­ing Night Book Re­views

When seers Céline and Amelie Fawe fled Shetâna under threat of death, they vowed never to re­turn. Yet, less than a year later, they are sum­moned back—to aid the man who once tried to kill them…

The cruel prince Damek is on the verge of clos­ing mar­riage ne­go­ti­a­tions with the pow­er­ful fam­ily of a young no­ble­woman when his in­tended’s sis­ter is mur­dered. To keep the en­gage­ment from falling through, Damek must ex­pose the killer quickly—and he needs the seers’ pow­ers to do so. Though the Fawes’ pa­tron, Prince Anton, fears that bring­ing Céline and Amelie to Shetâna places them in grave dan­ger, he is honor-bound to help his brother Damek.

Only none of them is pre­pared for the peril that awaits them at Cas­tle Ki­movesk&mdas;for some­one in the court is de­ter­mined to pre­vent the mar­riage from hap­pen­ing, no mat­ter how deadly the cost…

Praise for Barb Hendee

“[An] en­gag­ing fan­tasy novel… Clues as to the sis­ters’ mag­i­cal her­itage, hints of ro­mance, threats both su­per­nat­ural and human, and courtly in­trigue com­bine for a fun fan­tasy mys­tery.”

—Locus

“Com­plex char­ac­ters, re­la­tion­ships, and in­ter­est­ing sto­ries… plenty of sus­pense, dan­ger, in­trigue, and a bit of ro­mance. Barb Hendee’s nov­els are not to be missed.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

“[The Mist-Torn Witches] will hold read­ers spell­bound.”

—RT (Ro­man­tic Times) Book Re­views

“A great page-turner.”

—Open Book So­ci­ety

“Ter­rific!”

—Bit­ten by Books

Magiere the dham­pir thinks that her nights of hunt­ing vam­pires are over. After set­tling down in her newly adopted vil­lage of Mi­iska — now vam­pire-free, thanks to her and her half-elf part­ner, Leesil — she looks for­ward to quiet days tend­ing to her tav­ern.

But far away in the cap­i­tal city of Bela, a promi­nent coun­cil­man's daugh­ter has been found dead on her own doorstep... and all signs point to a vam­pire. Know­ing that the bat­tered and burned vil­lage of Mi­iska could use an in­fu­sion of cash, Bela's town coun­cil of­fers a gen­er­ous bounty to the dham­pir if she will slay their vam­pire. Magiere re­sists, want­ing noth­ing more than to for­get her past and ig­nore her half-vam­pire na­ture. Only Leesil can per­suade Magiere to fol­low her des­tiny — be­fore more in­no­cent lives are claimed by dark­ness.

“Read­ers will turn the pages of this sat­is­fy­ing me­dieval thriller with gusto.”

—Kris­tine Hunt­ley, Book­list: re­view jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Li­brary As­so­ci­a­tion

“Noth­ing is sim­ply good ver­sus evil in this world, where the un­dead and the liv­ing alike are per­son­able, be­liev­able char­ac­ters…”

—Jen Tal­ley Exum, Ro­man­tic Times Book­club Mag­a­zine

“The mul­ti­fac­eted per­son­al­i­ties of [Magiere and Leesil] are what make this se­ries so en­joy­able.”

—Sandy Auden, SFX Mag­a­zine

“The story is com­plex and will keep you guess­ing until the end. Each char­ac­ter is finely crafted like the weapons they carry.”

—Alisa Mc­Cune, Sime~Gen Inc.

Where it all began…

Magiere has earned a rep­u­ta­tion as the most for­mi­da­ble vam­pire slayer in the land. Vil­lagers far and wide wel­come her with both awe and dis­dain, grate­ful to her for rid­ding their towns of the un­dead men­ace, but find­ing them­selves made poorer for their sal­va­tion. Magiere has al­ways known she's deal­ing with sim­ple folk who only wish to have their su­per­sti­tions si­lenced, and she's never seen any­thing wrong with ex­ploit­ing them for profit.

Now, tired of the game, Magiere and her part­ner, the half-elf Leesil, are ready to hang up their weapons and set­tle down in a place they can fi­nally call home. But their new found peace will not last. For Magiere has come to the at­ten­tion of a trio of pow­er­ful and dan­ger­ous vam­pires who rec­og­nize her true iden­tity — even if she does not — and who fear the birthright that flows through her veins. And they will stop at noth­ing to keep Magiere from ful­fill­ing her des­tiny.

“In DHAM­PIR, Barb and JC Hendee mix the Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer with a healthy dose of The Sting for an en­gag­ing ad­ven­ture that is both hu­mor­ous and ex­cit­ing.”

—Kevin J. An­der­son, Hid­den Em­pire, Dune: The But­ler­ian Jihad

“DHAM­PIR kept me turn­ing pages, from the eerie pro­logue to the final sat­is­fy­ing word. With its com­plex he­roes, re­fresh­ingly multi-faceted vil­lains, and care­fully chore­o­graphed fight scenes, this novel opened a broad new world. Well done!”

—Mindy L. Klasky, The Glass­wright's Ap­pren­tice

“DHAM­PIR is a fab­u­lous en­ter­tain­ment wrought with mys­tery, ad­ven­ture, and sharp-toothed wit. In this win­ning first fan­tasy novel, Barb and J.C. Hendee con­jure a misty world pop­u­lated with lively un­dead vil­lains and an ap­peal­ing pair of rogues-turned-he­roes you'll find your­self root­ing for from Page One. Fast-paced ac­tion and mount­ing sus­pense will keep you turn­ing the pages long after the sun's gone down. (Just be sure to hang the gar­lic by the win­dow.) DHAM­PIR ends with the promise of con­tin­u­ing ad­ven­tures. I'm look­ing for­ward to get­ting bit­ten again.”

—Mark An­thony, Be­yond the Pale

Magiere is a dham­pir — half-human, half-vam­pire — sired for the pur­pose of slay­ing the un­dead. Out­side the vil­lage of Chemestúk, where she was born and raised, stands her fa­ther's keep. Within its walls, she hopes to dis­cover the se­crets of her past and fig­ure out why a vam­pire would wish to breed a crea­ture ca­pa­ble of slaugh­ter­ing his own kind....

But there are those who don't want Magiere to learn the truth — and when her half-elf part­ner, Leesil, makes a star­tling dis­cov­ery in the keep, he can un­der­stand why. Be­fore Leesil can re­veal the truth to Magiere, they must van­quish a crea­ture of unimag­in­able and un­lim­ited power who has damned a small vil­lage of peo­ple with a hor­ri­fy­ing curse...

“Fab­u­lous en­ter­tain­ment wrought with mys­tery, ad­ven­ture, and sharp-toothed wit.”

—Mark An­thony, Au­thor of Be­yond the Pale

“An­other sat­is­fy­ing entry in the Hen­dees' lively se­ries.”

—Kris­tine Hunt­ley, Book­list: Amer­i­can Li­brary As­so­ci­a­tion

“Sis­ter of the Dead and its pre­de­ces­sors in­volve read­ers on a vis­ceral, highly emo­tional level and ful­fill a crav­ing for nifty magic, ex­cit­ing ac­tion scenes, and a strong hero­ine who de­fies genre clichés.”

—Ro­man­tic Times Book­club Mag­a­zine

“The Hen­dees have cre­ated an in­trigu­ing se­ries char­ac­ter­ized by non­stop ad­ven­ture, mul­ti­lay­ered mys­ter­ies, and enough blood-suck­ing char­ac­ters to sat­isfy even the most hard-core vam­pire fan.”

—Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble Re­view

Born a half-breed to an elven mother and human fa­ther, Leesil was raised in the War­lands as as­sas­sin, spy, and slave to Lord Dar­mouth, ruler to one of its in­de­pen­dent provinces. But Leesil's mother trained him too well, and he used his skills to es­cape, leav­ing his par­ents to suf­fer Dar­mouth's wrath for all such trai­tors and their kin. Now, with new­found pur­pose in the com­pany of his beloved Magiere, Leesil re­turns to con­front the sins of his past and un­cover his par­ents' fate.

Un­able to turn him from this dan­ger­ous course, Magiere fol­lows Leesil into the dark­ness of his past in the War­lands. Know­ing what may hap­pen should Dar­mouth learn of Leesil's re­turn, she is pre­pared to slaugh­ter any who may try to take him from her. But Magiere's own past may well pose a more deadly threat. Two crea­tures of un­fath­omable power con­tinue to stalk her — one who be­lieves she's the key to his sal­va­tion, and one who seeks to de­stroy her... and all those she loves.

“This is one of those books for which the term dark fan­tasy was def­i­nitely in­tended.”

—Chron­i­cle

“…the Hen­dees' Saga of the Noble Dead fea­tures gen­er­ous help­ings of blood-suck­ing hor­ror and who­dunit mys­tery el­e­ments. Lit­er­ally over­flow­ing with non­stop ac­tion, this cool amal­gam of gen­res will ap­peal to read­ers—alive and un­dead—who enjoy tak­ing that oc­ca­sional lit­er­ary walk on the wild side.”

—Paul Goat Allen, Barnes & Noble Re­view

“The Hen­dees' best­selling Noble Dead se­ries makes the leap from mass mar­ket to hard­cover with this win­ning fourth novel… Fans of the se­ries are sure to be pleased, while the novel stands well enough on its own to at­tract new read­ers.”

—Pub­lish­ers Weekly

“The per­sonal con­flicts of the he­roes mir­ror the larger strug­gles in their world and pro­vide a solid foun­da­tion for this tale of love and loy­alty in a world of be­trayal.”

—Jackie Cas­sada, “[SF/Fan­tasy col­umn]”, Li­brary Jour­nal

Des­per­ate to free his mother from a caste of ruth­less elven as­sas­sins, Leesil pushes on through the moun­tains at the height of a harsh win­ter. Ob­ses­sion blinds him to rea­son, and he and his com­pan­ions — his beloved Magiere, the sage Wynn, and their ca­nine pro­tec­tor, Chap — find their lives at stake under the hard­ships of the wilder­ness. Should they sur­vive, they still face the per­ils of the Elven Ter­ri­to­ries, a cul­ture of tran­quil beauty, sav­age cus­toms, and deep-rooted ha­tred and fear of all hu­mankind.

Magiere was cre­ated with strange pow­ers by a shad­owy, long-for­got­ten enemy of many names — an enemy whom Leesil was trained from child­hood to kill. Un­be­knownst to them, Chap brought them to­gether at the com­mand of his kin, the Fay, to forge an al­liance that might have the power to stand against the forces of dark mag­ics.

In the place of his birth, Chap must guard his com­pan­ions from en­e­mies and al­lies alike, though he is not al­ways cer­tain which is which. And as they un­cover the truth, they dis­cover just how close the enemy has al­ways been.

For many months, Magiere and Leesil have searched for a for­got­ten ar­ti­fact, even though its pur­pose has been shrouded in mys­tery. All Magiere knows is that she must keep the orb from falling into the hands of a mur­der­ing Noble Dead: her half brother, Wel­stiel. And now dreams of a cas­tle locked in ice lead her south, on a jour­ney that has be­come noth­ing less than an ob­ses­sion…

Ac­com­pa­ny­ing Magiere and Leesil are the sage Wynn; their ca­nine pro­tec­tor, Chap; and two elven as­sas­sins-turned-guardians who must fight their dis­trust of this sis­ter of the dead. For forces more pow­er­ful than they— some may even say fate — are ral­ly­ing around Magiere, arm­ing her for the con­flict to come, be­cause find­ing the orb may be just the be­gin­ning of the chal­lenges that await her.

“In­ter­species dis­trust, grand am­bi­tions, and the lure of dan­ger­ous se­crets pro­tected by the un­dead drive the ac­tion in this neat mix of hor­ror with more tra­di­tional fan­tasy el­e­ments.”

—Pub­lisher's Weekly

After es­cap­ing the cas­tle of an­cient vam­pires with Magiere and Leesil, Wynn Hy­ge­orht has re­turned to Calm Seatt, home of the Guild of Sage­craft, bear­ing texts sup­pos­edly penned by vam­pires from the time of the For­got­ten His­tory and the Great War. Her su­pe­ri­ors seize both the an­cient texts and her per­sonal jour­nals, dis­miss­ing her tales of the un­dead as delu­sional fan­cies.

But the guild's schol­ars have not dis­missed the texts. With­out Wynn's con­sent, they begin send­ing the texts out to scrip­to­ri­ums for copy­ing. Then one night sev­eral pages dis­ap­pear—and the two sages charged with con­vey­ing these pages are mur­dered. Sus­pi­cious of the Guild, sep­a­rated from the only friends she fully trusts, and con­vinced the Noble Dead are re­spon­si­ble for the killings, Wynn em­barks on a quest to un­cover the se­crets of the texts, un­aware of her al­lies from un­ex­pected quar­ters…

After es­cap­ing the cas­tle of an­cient vam­pires with Magiere and Leesil, Wynn Hy­ge­orht has re­turned to Calm Seatt, home of the Guild of Sage­craft, bear­ing texts sup­pos­edly penned by vam­pires from the time of the For­got­ten His­tory and the Great War. Her su­pe­ri­ors seize both the an­cient texts and her per­sonal jour­nals, dis­miss­ing her tales of the un­dead as delu­sional fan­cies.

But the guild's schol­ars have not dis­missed the texts. With­out Wynn's con­sent, they begin send­ing the texts out to scrip­to­ri­ums for copy­ing. Then one night sev­eral pages dis­ap­pear—and the two sages charged with con­vey­ing these pages are mur­dered. Sus­pi­cious of the Guild, sep­a­rated from the only friends she fully trusts, and con­vinced the Noble Dead are re­spon­si­ble for the killings, Wynn em­barks on a quest to un­cover the se­crets of the texts, un­aware of her al­lies from un­ex­pected quar­ters…

Wynn has re­turned safely to the Guild of Sage­craft with her com­pan­ions, the vam­pire Chane An­draso and Shade, an elven wolf. Though Wynn man­aged to re­gain her seized jour­nals, she re­ceived only a glimpse of the an­cient texts penned by for­got­ten vam­pires, and once again, the vol­umes have slipped from her grasp. The price for her brief suc­cess may prove costly.

For the an­i­mos­ity of her guild su­pe­ri­ors has grown even fiercer. This time, in­stead of clois­ter­ing her, they pur­posely give her a mis­sion so te­dious, it will keep her out of the way for as long as pos­si­ble. But Wynn has her own plans.

She sets out in search of an­other dwar­ven strong­hold: a place few have ever heard of called Bäalâle Seatt. It may well be the last rest­ing place of an orb—one of five such mys­te­ri­ous de­vices used by the An­cient Enemy in the myth­i­cal war of the For­got­ten His­tory. What­ever caused Bäalâle to fall to the enemy, she knows that one myth­i­cal fig­ure was some­how in­volved: the in­fa­mous Lord of Slaugh­ter. And that dwar­ven mass mur­derer's di­rect de­scen­dant, an er­rant stonewalker, will never let Wynn out of his sight.

If only that were all she had to worry about.

Wynn Hy­ge­orht re­ceives un­ex­pected vis­i­tors at the Guild of Sage­craft. Magiere and Leesil, along with the elven wolf Chap, have come for her, but Wynn can't af­ford to leave. She needs ac­cess to the texts within the guild's archives, which may help her de­ci­pher the lo­ca­tions of the last two orbs sought by the An­cient Enemy.

There are five orbs in total. Magiere and Leesil have two of them in safe-keep­ing. Chane An­draso, the vam­pire who loves Wynn, has hid­den the Orb of Earth on her or­ders. To com­plete her task—and pro­tect the orbs—Wynn must re­main se­questered from her friends

But she's es­sen­tially a pris­oner. One of the guild's su­pe­ri­ors is just as eager for Wynn to trans­late the an­cient texts, but she knows the oth­ers will not per­mit her to share that knowl­edge—knowl­edge Magiere and Leesil des­per­ately need if they're going to stop the An­cient Enemy from un­leash­ing war on the land.

Barely es­cap­ing the city of Calm Seatt—and the elven as­sas­sins hunt­ing them—Magiere, Leesil, and the elven dog Chap sail south in their quest to find the pow­er­ful orb of Air be­fore their en­e­mies do. But they are not alone, much to their frus­tra­tion.

The aging elven as­sas­sin, Brot’an, has forced him­self on them by of­fer­ing his pro­tec­tion for Magiere from en­e­mies among his own caste. Chap doesn’t be­lieve this ruse and seeks to un­cover the as­sas­sin’s true agenda—as well as the cause of the se­cret civil war that has erupted into the open among Brot'an's peo­ple.

Mean­while Magiere is strug­gling with her own dark na­ture, using Leesil’s love as an an­chor to keep her grounded. For the per­sonal price she paid to pro­cure the orb of Fire up in the north­ern “Wastes” was more than she thought—and more than she wants to re­veal to any­one else.

But that is ex­actly what the cun­ning Brot’an wants to know. And he is will­ing to do what­ever it takes—even if he must re­veal his own dreaded se­crets that may cost the en­tire party their lives.

In her quest to find the Orb of Spirit, Wynn Hy­ge­orht is torn be­tween two men who hate each other—her vam­pire pro­tec­tor, Chane An­draso, and the elf Osha, who has ten­der feel­ings for her. Now a strange se­ries of clues leads them to a re­mote keep built on the dark cliffs of the coast of Witeny. The young duke there has been un­der­go­ing some dis­turb­ing changes—and so have the peo­ple and live­stock in the out­ly­ing vil­lages. Wynn has no idea what awaits her at this keep—an old enemy who wants noth­ing more than to see her dead.

At the same time, Dham­pir Magiere, Leesil, and Chap con­tinue their des­per­ate search for the Orb of Air, still bur­dened with the mas­ter as­sas­sin, Brot’an, and the elven out­cast girl, Way­farer. Still hunted by a team of as­sas­sins, they es­cape on the first avail­able ship only to find them­selves under the power of a sadis­tic cap­tain. Even if they man­age to sur­vive this voy­age, there is a trap wait­ing for them at the jour­ney’s end that is be­yond any­thing they can imag­ine…

Way­laid in their quest for the orb of the Air, Magiere, Leesil, Chap, and Way­farer have all been wrongly im­pris­oned. But it is Magiere, the dham­pir, who suf­fers the most as a cloaked in­ter­roga­tor em­ploys tele­pathic tor­ture.

Ar­riv­ing at the Suman port city in search of Magiere, Wynn Hy­ge­orht and her com­pan­ions—in­clud­ing vam­pire Chane An­draso—seek out Domin Ghas­san il’Sänke for as­sis­tance, which proves no easy task. The domin is em­broiled in a se­cret hunt for a spec­tral un­dead with the power to in­vade any­one liv­ing and take the body as its host.

Even if Wynn can man­age to free her friends from prison, bat­tling this en­tirely new kind of un­dead hid­den in­side host bod­ies may be a chal­lenge none of them can sur­vive…

“A mix of The Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer.”

—Kevin J. An­der­son, New York Times Best­selling Au­thor

“The Noble Dead Saga… is no sim­ple myth, but rather a true epic, which stands at the high­est lev­els of fan­tasy lore.”

—BSCReview

“The Hen­dees never fail to im­press and en­ter­tain.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

“[An] end­lessly in­trigu­ing hor­ror-fan­tasy mix.”

—Mon­sters and Crit­ics

With much re­lief, Magiere, Leesil, and Chap pre­pare to hide the last two of the pow­er­ful orbs. Once this last great task is com­pleted, Magiere can take Leesil home to a life of peace.

Then, ru­mors reach them that a horde of un­dead crea­tures, slaugh­ter­ing every­thing in their wake, are gath­er­ing in the far east re­gions of the Suman desert. This gath­er­ing could only be caused by the An­cient Enemy awak­en­ing.

With no other choice, Magiere tells Leesil they can­not go home yet. They must go to the desert and seek to learn if the ru­mors are true… and if so, face an awak­en­ing evil: The Night Voice.

“A mix of The Lord of the Rings and Buffy the Vam­pire Slayer.”

—Kevin J. An­der­son, New York Times Best­selling Au­thor

“The Noble Dead Saga… is no sim­ple myth, but rather a true epic, which stands at the high­est lev­els of fan­tasy lore.”

—BSCReview

“The Hen­dees never fail to im­press and en­ter­tain.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

“[An] end­lessly in­trigu­ing hor­ror-fan­tasy mix.”

—Mon­sters and Crit­ics

In a small vil­lage in the na­tion of Droevinka, or­phaned sis­ters Céline and Amelie Fawe scrape out a liv­ing sell­ing herbal med­i­cines in their apothe­cary shop. Céline earns ad­di­tional money by pos­ing as a seer and pre­tend­ing to read peo­ple’s fu­tures.

But they exist in a land of great noble houses, all vying for power, and when the sis­ters refuse the or­ders of a war­lord prince, they must flee and are forced to de­pend on the war­lord prince’s brother, Anton, for a tem­po­rary haven.

A se­ries of bizarre deaths of pretty young girls are plagu­ing the vil­lage sur­round­ing Prince Anton’s cas­tle. He of­fers Céline and Amelie per­ma­nent pro­tec­tion if they can use their “skills” to find the killer.

With lit­tle choice, the sis­ters enter a world un­known to them—of fine gowns and ban­quets and ad­vances from pow­er­ful men. Their sur­vival de­pends on catch­ing a mur­derer who ap­pears to walk through walls and van­ish with­out a trace—and the dan­ger around them seems to grow with each pass­ing night.

Praise for The Mist-Torn Witches

“Clues as to the sis­ters’ mag­i­cal her­itage, hints of ro­mance, threats both su­per­nat­ural and human, and courtly in­trigue com­bine for a fun fan­tasy mys­tery.”

—Locus

“…a must-read, full of sus­pense, drama, and magic. I didn’t want this one to end.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

Praise for Barb Hendee

“Hendee has a gift for in­tri­cate psy­cho­log­i­cal plots, and her char­ac­ters are some of the best in cur­rent fan­tasy.”

—Book­list

“Those look­ing for an al­ter­na­tive to Pa­tri­cia Briggs or Ilona An­drews won’t be dis­ap­pointed.”

—Mon­sters and Crit­ics

Far to the north, the men of an iso­lated sil­ver min­ing com­mu­nity are turn­ing into vi­cious “beasts” that slaugh­ter any­one in sight. The mines be­long to the noble fam­ily of Prince Anton—ruler of Cas­tle Sèone and Céline and Amelie’s pa­tron—and Anton’s tyran­ni­cal fa­ther has or­dered his son to solve the mys­tery as a test of his lead­er­ship. He has no choice but to send the witches into the per­ilous north, to use their abil­i­ties to dis­cover the cause of the trans­for­ma­tions. Given how much they owe the prince, the sis­ters have no choice but to ac­cept.

To­gether with the over-pro­tec­tive Lieu­tenant Jaromir, Céline and Amelie enter the dark world of a far off min­ing camp tainted by fear, mis­trust, and en­slave­ment—and haunted by men turn­ing into mas­sive, mad wolves with­out warn­ing. Now, the two must draw upon strength and cun­ning they never thought they pos­sessed not only to solve the mys­tery, but to sur­vive…

Praise for Barb Hendee

“In­cred­i­bly vivid.”
—Sci­FiChick.com

“Hendee knows how to hook her read­ers.”
—See­ing Night Book Re­views

When seers Céline and Amelie Fawe fled Shetâna under threat of death, they vowed never to re­turn. Yet, less than a year later, they are sum­moned back—to aid the man who once tried to kill them…

The cruel prince Damek is on the verge of clos­ing mar­riage ne­go­ti­a­tions with the pow­er­ful fam­ily of a young no­ble­woman when his in­tended’s sis­ter is mur­dered. To keep the en­gage­ment from falling through, Damek must ex­pose the killer quickly—and he needs the seers’ pow­ers to do so. Though the Fawes’ pa­tron, Prince Anton, fears that bring­ing Céline and Amelie to Shetâna places them in grave dan­ger, he is honor-bound to help his brother Damek.

Only none of them is pre­pared for the peril that awaits them at Cas­tle Ki­movesk&mdas;for some­one in the court is de­ter­mined to pre­vent the mar­riage from hap­pen­ing, no mat­ter how deadly the cost…

Praise for Barb Hendee

“[An] en­gag­ing fan­tasy novel… Clues as to the sis­ters’ mag­i­cal her­itage, hints of ro­mance, threats both su­per­nat­ural and human, and courtly in­trigue com­bine for a fun fan­tasy mys­tery.”

—Locus

“Com­plex char­ac­ters, re­la­tion­ships, and in­ter­est­ing sto­ries… plenty of sus­pense, dan­ger, in­trigue, and a bit of ro­mance. Barb Hendee’s nov­els are not to be missed.”

—Sci­FiChick.com

“[The Mist-Torn Witches] will hold read­ers spell­bound.”

—RT (Ro­man­tic Times) Book Re­views

“A great page-turner.”

—Open Book So­ci­ety

“Ter­rific!”

—Bit­ten by Books

Eleisha Clevon is no angel, al­though she has the face of one. A vam­pire, she's far older than she looks—and she makes men yearn to care for her. A few even sur­vive the ex­pe­ri­ence. Eleisha might not like to kill, but she knows self-preser­va­tion must come first.

So when an old vam­pire friend kills him­self, Eleisha is shocked. What she finds af­ter­ward shows how world-weary he had be­come—hoard­ing drained corpses and keep­ing records of vam­pires' ac­tual names and ad­dresses. Now the po­lice know who Eleish is and, more alarm­ingly, what she is. But she soon re­al­izes that being known may have its pros—even if it puts her and her kind at risk.

“A mix­ture of solid ac­tion, high-qual­ity char­ac­ters, and plau­si­ble set­tings.”

—Book­list

“Filled with ac­tion, but also con­tains a strong cast… The hero­ine es­pe­cially is an in­trigu­ing per­son.”

—Mid­west Book Re­view

When she reads those words, Eleisha Clevon knows she has to re­spond to the vam­pire Rose de Spenser's let­ter. Both re­luc­tant preda­tors, they ven­ture out­side only when the hunger be­comes un­bear­able—and feel guilty when end­ing human lives.

But Eleisha has learned a way to draw blood from her vic­tims with­out killing them. She wants to share this knowl­edge with like-minded vam­pires and forge a united front against Ju­lian Ash­ton, a vam­pire who preys on his own kind.

To win Rose to her cause, Eleisha must risk meet­ing her face-to-face, know­ing full well she might be an agent of Ju­lian's—but never ex­pect­ing the rev­e­la­tions Rose has to share about Eleisha's own vam­pire ori­gins.

“[A] mix­ture of solid ac­tion, high-qual­ity char­ac­ters, and plau­si­ble set­tings.”

—Book­list: re­view jour­nal of the Amer­i­can Li­brary As­so­ci­a­tion

“Fans of Car­rie Vaughn, L.A. Banks, and Pa­tri­cia Briggs should check this out.”

—Mon­sters and Crit­ics

A re­luc­tant vam­pire, Eleisha Clevon has made a home for her­self and other vam­pires in Port­land, Ore­gon. De­spite the risks, she is de­ter­mined to lo­cate all vam­pires who still re­side in iso­la­tion so she can offer them sanc­turary and, more im­por­tant, so she can teach them to feed with­out killing. She is shocked when she learns that a lost vam­pire may be liv­ing as close as Den­ver—and she has to han­dle this one more care­fully than any she has ever ap­proached.

Si­mone Straford is a beau­ti­ful, del­i­cate-look­ing crea­ture from the roar­ing twen­ties who en­joys play­ing elab­o­rate games with mor­tals, stok­ing their pas­sion for her be­fore fi­nally drain­ing them of their blood.

When Eleisha and her pro­tec­tor, Philip Branté, go to Den­ver to search for Si­mone, what they find is far worse—and more se­duc­tive—than ei­ther one bar­gained for.

Praise for Hunting Memories

“One of the year's bet­ter vam­pire nov­els…”

—Book­list: Amer­i­can Li­brary As­so­ci­a­tion

“Grip­ping.”

—Dar­que Re­views

“En­joy­able and cre­ative… a thriller of a vam­pire tale.”

—Mid­west Book Re­view

Eleisha Clevon lives a quiet life in Port­land, Ore­gon—for a vam­pire. She has learned to feed with­out killing hu­mans and to train oth­ers of her kind. Along with her pro­tec­tor, Philip Branté, and their human com­pan­ion, Wade Sheffield, she seeks out other vam­pires to offer them a com­mu­nity and to show them they do not have to exist alone.

Now, a se­ries of killings in Eng­land point to a new—and feral—vam­pire. Eleisha, Philip, and Wade travel to Lon­don to make con­tact with the ter­ri­fied crea­ture, to offer him sanc­tu­ary and stop the blood­shed. But the vam­pire they find is not what they ex­pected. Maxim is cen­turies old, with no mem­ory of liv­ing any­where be­sides the for­est and feed­ing on an­i­mals. Now, he’s gained a taste for human blood. Philip thinks he’s too dan­ger­ous to save, but Eleisha won’t give up… even at the cost of Philip’s love and her own life.

“Dra­matic… part soap opera, part su­per­nat­ural thriller.”

—Pub­lisher's Weekly

With her vam­pire pro­tec­tor Philip Branté and their human com­pan­ion Wade Sheffield, a for­mer po­lice psy­chol­o­gist, Eleisha Clevon searches the world for iso­lated vam­pires—and of­fers them sanc­tu­ary. She wants to pro­vide a home where she can teach them to fol­low the Four Laws that will pro­tect them and their kind.

But not all vam­pires want to live by any­one’s rules but their own. Chris­t­ian Lefevre has been pos­ing a psy­chic, cater­ing to the upper crust of Seat­tle so­ci­ety by mak­ing con­tact with their dead loved ones—and leav­ing his clients faint and weak after each en­counter. Now Eleisha must con­front the most deadly preda­tor she has ever faced—or lose every­thing she has fought to pro­tect…

Praise for the Vampire Memories Novels

“Grip­ping.”
—Dar­que Re­views

“En­joy­able and cre­ative.”
—Mid­west Book Re­view

“Dra­matic…
Part soap opera, part su­per­nat­ural thriller.”
—Pub­lish­ers Weekly