Kitty and The Midnight Hour by Carrie Vaughn
Sure, Kitty has a glamorous job - night shift DJ at a Denver radio station. And sure, when she accidentally starts "The Midnight Hour," a call-in advice show for her late-night listeners, she’s got a hit on her hands. But she’s got problems, too: not just the usual looking-for-love-in-all-the-wrong-places, but a really big problem. Kitty is a werewolf, and she’s trying to keep her nocturnal identity a secret, a matter all the more urgent when she finds out there’s a sexy werewolf hunter on her trail!
Readers on amazon.com gave this novel four stars! One reader on amazon.com wrote:
"Kitty is a nice character. Brave, smart - maybe a little bit too nice and philosophical and
able to instantly deliver wise advice on the radio, but then, this is a fantasy - our characters
don’t have to be completely realistic. Certainly, a werewolf who discusses the love lives of the
supernatural is less of a blowhard, and probably a lot more fun to listen to, that the talk radio hosts that really are out there."
Kitty and The Midnight Hour was the first novel in Carrie Vaughn’s popular Kitty Norville series. Subsequent titles include:
Other titles in the series are:
Kitty Goes to Washington
Kitty Takes a Holiday
Kitty and the Silver Bullet
Two new titles are expected in 2009:
- Kitty and the Dead Man’s Hand
- Kitty Raises Hell
Check out Carrie Vaughn’s web site at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/CLVaughn.
Bitten to Death by Jennifer Rardin
Bitten to Death is the fourth book in the urban fantasy, "spy-fi" Jaz Parks series. Jasmine Parks is a vampire hunter with an espionage agenda: she’s an operative for the Central Intelligence Agency, a trained assassin, with something extra: an ability to sense the presence of vampires! Vayl, a Romanian vampire born in 1744, is another CIA operative, Jaz’s direct superior, funny but reserved with a traumatic past that comes out slowly as the characters’ relationship develops.
In this volume, Jaz and Vayl continue their quest to apprehend the criminal Edward ‘the Raptor’ Samos. Jaz is distracted by personal issues, her concern for the health of her brother and father.
One reader described the series as "the adventures of a sassy young woman with issues who is the bodyguard of the CIA’s top vampire assassin and she happens to be in love with him and .. you get the picture."
Other books in the series are:
Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Another One Bites the Dust
Biting the Bullet
Titles anticipated in 2009 are: One More Bite, and Bite Marks.
Author Jennifer Rardin lives here in Illinois. You can find out more about her at her web site: http://www.jenniferrardin.com/
You might also want to check out the Wikipedia page on the Jaz Parks series, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaz_Parks_series.
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