Praise for Written in Red Winner of the RT Book Reviews Reviewers' Choice for Best Urban Fantasy Novel "Amazing.A compelling story set in a seamlessly crafted universe."-Fresh Fiction "Near perfect. And when he learns the truth about Meg and that she's wanted by the government, he'll have to decide if she's worth the fight between humans and the Others that will surely follow. Yet a stronger instinct propels him to give Meg the job.
First, he senses she's keeping a secret, and second, she doesn't smell like human prey.
Shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is reluctant to hire the stranger who inquires about the Human Liaison job. But when she escapes, the only safe place Meg can hide is at the Lakeside Courtyard-a business district operated by the Others. Meg's Controller keeps her enslaved so he can have full access to her visions. As a cassandra sangue, or blood prophet, Meg Corbyn can see the future when her skin is cut-a gift that feels more like a curse. It will be a fight not just with the humans but with the rest of the Others - as well as a fight with his own confusing feelings towards Meg.įor Police Office Montgomery, Meg is the property he's supposed to recover - and the spark that could start a fight with the Others that would wipe out the human city of Lakeside.Īnd for Meg, who has seen her own future, living in the Courtyard is a chance to have a life - for what little time she has left.Enter the world of the Others in the first novel in New York Times bestselling author Anne Bishop's thrilling fantasy series: a place where unearthly entities-vampires and shape-shifters among them-rule the Earth and prey on the human race. Meg knows entering a courtyard is a dangerous risk - most people who tangle with the Others end up dead - but it's the only place she'll be safe from the people chasing her.įor Simon Wolfgard, leader of the Others residing in Lakeside, Meg is a puzzle until he discovers she's a valuable blood prophet and can see the future.Then he has to decide if she is worth the potential fight to keep her in the Courtyard. Alone and desperate, and ill-equipped to deal with the real world after a lifetime of imprisonment, Meg stumbles into Lakeside Courtyard, where the Others reside.
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