Welcome to Patricia Briggsโs world, a place where โwitches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary peopleโ (Booklist). It takes a very unusual woman to call it homeโand thereโs no one quite like Mercy Thompson.
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By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercyโs found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so-human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.
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Marsilia, the local vampire queen, has learned that Mercy crossed her by slaying a member of her clanโand sheโs out for blood. But since Mercy is protected from direct reprisal by the werewolf pack (and her close relationship with its sexy Alpha), it wonโt be Mercyโs blood Marsilia is after.
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Itโll be her friendsโ.