Wicked Hour

October 14, 2019
Generational clashes within a clan of shape-shifters dominate the lively second installment of the Heirs of Chicagoland series (following Wild Hunger). When shifter Connor Keene, prince of the North American Central Pack, hears there are problems in one of the pack’s clans in Minnesota, he invites his friend Elisa Sullivan, a bitingly snarky vampire, to go with him to intervene. He wants her opinion as an outsider, but also as someone he can see a potential future with. If he can get the archaic, patriarchal elders of the Minnesota clan to accept a vampire, maybe the rest of the pack will, too. When unknown creatures launch an attack on the clan and nearby townspeople, Elisa saves a life by turning someone into a vampire without first getting consent from either the victim or the clan elders, putting the alliance between shifters and vampires at risk. Connor and Elisa must find the attackers if they hope to save the clan, the alliance, and themselves. Elisa is a fierce and endearing heroine readers will root for. This urban fantasy is a treat. Agent: Lucienne Diver, The Knight Agency

December 1, 2019

Elisa Sullivan is the only vampire born instead of created. After trying to flee a legacy she never wanted, Elisa came back to Chicago to help defend her home and loved ones, including shifter Connor Keene. Invited by Connor to take a trip to a Pack initiation, Elisa is surprised and pleased to take this next step in their relationship. But trouble dogs them. A body is left in the midst of the Pack, tensions rise to the surface between generations, and Elisa makes a vampire in the Pack's territory, destroying an already strained alliance. Elisa may have made peace with the darkness inside herself, but the darkness outside could destroy her. VERDICT Fans introduced to the new generation of Chicagoland vampires will find even more excitement, supernatural politics, and colorful characters in the second in the series (after Wild Hunger).--Kristi Chadwick, Massachusetts Lib. Syst., Northampton

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November 1, 2019
In the second book of the Heirs of Chicagoland novel (after Wild Hunger, 2018) vampire anomaly Elisa Sullivan heads to the north woods in Minnesota with her shifter boyfriend, former cop Connor Keene, to meet his pack. As the heir apparent to the North American Central Pack Apex, Connor bringing home a date is kind of a big deal. But Elisa's introduction to Connor's family quickly becomes old news as a pack clan leader is found slaughtered near the resort that the pack calls home. Elisa and Connor, along with Ombudsman staffer Theo Martin, begin tracking the magical creature that tore the shifter apart. Yet the magic from the creature?or creatures?doesn't seem natural and points to a predator unlike any other. As the group continues to look for the murderer, Elisa struggles with her own monster?the very real and dangerous entity that lives within her. Readers of the original Chicagoland Vampires series will enjoy Elisa, and fans of Faith Hunter's Jane Yellowrock series will appreciate the struggle between Elisa and the monster hidden within her.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2019, American Library Association.)