Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
Chloe Neill
Language: English
Pages: 352
ISBN: 0451472209
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
“If you loved Nancy Drew but always wished she was an undead sword-wielding badass, Merit is your kind of girl.”—Geek Monthly
Times are hard for new vampire Merit. Since shapeshifters announced their presence to the world, humans have been rallying against supernaturals, and inside Cadogan House, things between Merit and her Master, Ethan Sullivan, are...tense. Worst of all, a violent vampire attack has left three women missing, and the mayor of Chicago has a simple demand for Merit and Ethan: Get your House in order. Or else.
Merit needs to get to the bottom of the crime, but, unable to tell who’s on her side, she calls in a dangerous favor from a member of an underground vamp group that may have intel on the attack. Merit soon finds herself in the dark heart of Chicago’s supernatural society—a world ready to fulfill the protesting humans’ worst fears, and a place where she’ll learn that being a vampire means getting a little blood on your hands....
Broken Homes (Rivers of London, Book 4)
Demon Day (Rae Wilder, Book 2)
Original Sin (Seven Deadly Sins, Book 1)
Steel's Edge (The Edge, Book 4)
Hellbent (Cheshire Red Reports, Book 2)
Too carefully. Of course, there was a warrant out for his arrest, so it made sense for him to avoid giving the cops any reason to pull him over. It took twenty minutes for him to reach the Loop, but he didn’t stop there. He kept moving south, and that was when I got nervous again. I dialed up the crew. “We’re here,” Luc said. “Send out some backup,” I said. “He’s heading for Creeley Creek.” I didn’t bother entering Creeley Creek through the front gate; I didn’t want to give the mayor and
whatever suspicions he might have had to himself. That’s when I saw him—only a shadow at the edge of my eyesight at first, but then a distinguishable man standing across the street, one of his soldiers behind him. It was McKetrick, dressed in black running pants and a black T-shirt. No obvious weapons, but with all the cops nearby, it was impossible to tell if he was carrying something concealed. He did have a small pair of binoculars in hand, and the man behind him scribbled in a small
drooped, and for the first time, he faced the possibility that his actions would have unalterable repercussions. “You don’t think I can change?” I softened my tone. “I don’t think a relationship is any good if I have to ask you to change. Do you?” He looked away, then sighed haggardly. “This feels like a battle I cannot win.” “Love shouldn’t be a battle.” “And yet, if it wasn’t worth the fight, what would be the point?” We were quiet long enough that crickets began to chirp in the garden
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SCHOOL T-shirts. Clever boy. I’d considered calling Jonah, but this was a public event. That risked outing his RG membership and putting him in the same position as me—bearing the wrath of Darius West. No, thank you. The cabdriver didn’t stop glancing back at me, his brown eyes popping up in the rearview mirror every few seconds as if he was waiting for me to breach the plastic wall between the seats and chomp on his neck. I’ll admit, the idea of taunting him occurred to me. But I wasn’t
