Tempt the Stars Volume 6 - Cassie Palmer

Zusatztext “Karen Chance will enthrall you.”— USA Today bestselling author Rebecca York   “Chance is a genius.”—Ink and Paper   Praise for the Cassie Palmer Novels   “Ms. Chance is a master....A series well worth getting hooked on.”—Fresh Fiction   “Karen Chance takes her place along[side]...Laurell K. Hamilton! Charlaine Harris! MaryJanice Davidson! and J. D. Robb.”—SF Revu Informationen zum Autor Karen Chance has lived in France, the United Kingdom, and Hong Kong, but always comes back to America. She currently lives in central Florida, the home of make-believe, which may explain a lot.  Klappentext Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you're only a half goddess, and you only found out about it recently, and you still don't know what you're doing half the time. And when you've just used your not-so-reliable powers to burglarize the booby-trapped office of a vampire mob boss. Yeah, that part sucks. But that's just the tip of the iceberg for Cassandra Palmer, aka the Pythia, the freshly minted chief seer of the supernatural world. After all, Cassie still has to save a friend from a fate worse than death, deal with an increasingly possessive master vampire, and prevent a party of her own acolytes from unleashing a storm of fury upon the world. Totally just your average day at the office, right?“You gots big.” The small voice came from the even smaller girl in the doorway. She was hard to see, shimmering in the night like the moonbeams falling through her, and overwritten by the hazy, graffiti snarl of ghost trails weaving through the air. I felt some of the muscles in my neck unclench. And then tense back up when a too-loud voice called from a nearby room, “Cassie?” I refrained from jumping—just. Abrupt movements might scare her, and I couldn’t afford that now. “Be right there,” I said softly, smiling reassuringly at the ghost girl. “What?” the voice asked, louder this time. I looked behind me to see the wild white head of my partner in crime, Jonas Marsden, poking out of an office door. With the crazy hair and the pink cheeks and the Coke bottle glasses, he looked like Einstein on acid. But, despite appearances, he deserved his position as the de facto leader of the magical world. Jonas headed up the powerful Silver Circle, the largest organization of magic workers on earth. But great mages are still human, and Jonas’ ego wasn’t taking the aging thing well. Like when he refused to put a hearing spell on himself because the rest of us just talked too lowly. Unfortunately, the same couldn’t be said for him. “There’s no need to whisper,” he bellowed. “I assure you, the shield will hold.” “So you keep telling me.” He was talking about the sound-deadening spell he’d cast to keep any noise we made from filtering out into the rest of the house. That was kind of important, since we were hovering on train-wreck territory here. Of course, that pretty much described my life lately. My name is Cassie Palmer, and I’m the newly crowned Pythia, aka the world’s chief seer. That sounds a lot more impressive than it is, since so far it’s mostly involved giving taxi rides through time to strange people, in between almost getting killed. As I was currently a couple of decades back, trying to rob my old vampire master along with a guy who made eccentric look boring, today was pretty average. But my nerves didn’t think so. Maybe that’s why the spotted mirror over the fireplace showed me short blond curls that looked like I’d been running nervous fingers through them, a face pale enough to make my freckles stand out starkly, and wide, startled blue eyes. And a T-shirt that proclaimed Good girls just never get caught. Let’s hope so, I thought fervently. Fortunately, as vampire courts went, this one was pretty lax, being run by a guy who had been ...

Product details

• Authors: Karen Chance
• Publisher: Berkley Publishing Group
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.10.2013
• EAN: 9780451419057
• ISBN: 978-0-451-41905-7
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 170 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Signet; Cassie Palmer; Cassie Palmer; Cassie Palmer Novels
• Subject: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy