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Zusatztext Hard Bitten is... “A fast and exciting read.”— Fresh Fiction “Enough action! plot twists! and fights to satisfy the most jaded urban fantasy reader.”— Monsters and Critics “Roughly fantastic from beginning to end! with one of the best endings in urban fantasy history.”— RT Book Reviews Praise for Chloe Neill’s Chicagoland Vampires Novels “The pages turn fast enough to satisfy vampire and romance fans alike.”— Booklist “Neill creates a strong-minded! sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake.”— Library Journal “With her wonderfully compelling reluctant vampire heroine! and her careful world building! I was drawn into Some Girls Bite from page one and kept reading far into the night.”— USA Today bestselling author Julie Kenner “Smart! sexy! and delightful. A must read.”—Candace Havens! author of Dragons Prefer Blondes “A fun cast of quirky characters and smoking-hot sexual tension...a stunning combination.”—Tate Hallaway! author of Precinct 13 Informationen zum Autor Chloe Neill is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Captain Kit Brightling, Heirs of Chicagoland, Chicagoland Vampires, Devil’s Isle, and Dark Elite novels. She was born and raised in the South, but now makes her home in the Midwest, where she lives with her gamer husband and their bosses/dogs, Baxter and Scout. Chloe is a voracious reader and obsessive Maker of Things; the crafting rotation currently involves baking and quilting. She believes she is exceedingly witty; her husband has been known to disagree. Learn more about Chloe and her books at: chloeneill.com Klappentext Meet Merit, a "wonderfully compelling vampire heroine" ( USA Today bestselling author Julie Kenner). Chicago is beset by supernatural tensions, and Merit-vampire protector of a safe haven called Cadogan house-is worried that the humans will be reaching for their pitchforks any minute. It doesn't help that yet another vampire rave is broken up by the mayor, and a new inhibition- reducing drug is circulating through the community. It's up to Merit to put her house in order-literally. And if that takes getting a little blood on her hands, so be it. Chapter One MAGIC IS AS MAGIC DOES Late August Chicago, Illinois We worked beneath the shine of floodlights that punched holes in the darkness of Hyde Park—nearly one hundred vampires airing rugs, painting cabinet doors, and sanding trim. A handful of severe-looking men in black—extra mercenary fairies we'd hired for protection—stood outside the fence that formed a barrier between the blocks-wide grounds of Cadogan House and the rest of the city. In part, they were protecting us from a second attack by shape-shifters. That seemed unlikely, but so had the first onslaught, led by the youngest brother of the leader of the North American Central Pack. Unfortunately, that hadn't stopped Adam Keene. They were also protecting us from a new threat. Humans. I glanced up from the elegant curve of wooden trim I was swabbing with stain. It was nearly midnight, but the golden glow of the protesters' candles was visible through the gap in the fence. Their flames flickered in the sticky summer breeze, three or four dozen humans making known their quiet objections to the vampires in their city. Popularity was a fickle thing. Chicagoans had rioted when we'd come out of the closet nearly a year ago. Fear had eventually given way to awe, complete with paparazzi and glossy magazine spreads, but the violence of the attack on the House—and the fact that we'd fought back and in doing so had thrown shifters out into the open—had turned the tides again. ...
