Are you ready to visit New Orleans and discover a world you never knew existed? Join Jude Magdalyne Henries as she is catapulted into a world of vampires and magic...
Shades of Gray
Book One
By L.M. Pruitt
Jude Magdalyn Henries lives what many would call an unconventional life.
Orphaned at birth, raised by nuns, a teenage runaway living on the streets... she now earns a living at odd jobs, including one as a fake tarot card reader. Very little about Jude's life appears normal, by any scale.
When she accepts a gig to do a private reading, unconventional takes on an entirely new meaning. Life as she knows it ends when she's thrust into a world she never knew existed-one filled with magic, vampires, and her beloved New Orleans on the verge of an underground war.
To make matters worse, she's got two men in her life vying for attention, Williams and Theo. Both call to a different part of her, but one scares her just a little bit.
Can she step up to the challenges set before her and make the right choices for the greatergreater good?
Shades of Desire
By L.M. Pruitt
Blurb
All I wanted was a little peace and quiet.
Instead, I've got dead Covenant members and a steady stream of letters from the new guy in town. His beverage of choice? A 2002 Merlot, with a shot or two of powerful virgin blood.
On top of that, I'm breaking in a new police liaison, failing at playing matchmaker, and fighting nausea like it's a full time job. All I wanted was a little peace and quiet.
Instead, I've got dead Covenant members and a steady stream of letters from the new guy in town. His beverage of choice? A 2002 Merlot, with a shot or two of powerful virgin blood.
On top of that, I'm breaking in a new police liaison, failing at playing matchmaker, and fighting nausea like it's a full time job.
Did I forget to mention that I've also got enough girls living at the Crossroads to start my own boarding school?
Peace and quiet? Out the window.
Shades of Blood
Book 3
If it's not one thing, it's another.
Felipe, one of New Orleans's most infamous—and crazy--vampires is back in town. And to say he's unhappy is an understatement.
Duprees and Williams have to track down Felipe, fast, before he claims any more victims. If that means making a deal with the Devil--otherwise known as St. Germaine--and using an untrained dhampir, so be it.
If that wasn't enough, I've also got rebellious teenagers, feuding couples, and a suddenly full social calendar.
The more things change....
Excerpt
“I’m going to kill her.” I didn’t throw the
phone across the room like I wanted to, but instead, set it down gently on the
coffee table. I took a deep breath and held it for a long moment before
releasing it. “I’ll just have to owe Williams another favor.”
“That would put you at
owing him three times, which is three times too many.” Theo slid the phone out
of my reach. I’d already thrown two phones this month, so I didn’t begrudge him
the action. “What exactly did Danie do this time?”
It’d been almost a month
since Williams had shown up in the foyer and left his niece—Hart’s daughter—in
my care. Not that I really wanted her here or that she wanted to be here.
Things were just getting back to normal after the terror of Halloween, after
darting around the city trying to find Hart’s other psychopathic
brother. Having Hart’s daughter under my roof made me more than a little
uneasy, even though he was still at the bottom of the Mississippi.
I’d argued with
Williams. Danie had argued with Williams. Even Mickeal, Williams’s
second-in-command and currently stationed at the Crossroads, had argued with
Williams. He refused to budge. And my conscience wouldn’t let me throw her out
without a definite place to go.
So Danie stayed. And did
her best to make all our lives a living hell.
“Shoplifting. Again.” I
drummed my fingers over my stomach, then stopped when one of the bumps kicked a
little. Theo and I still called them the bumps, even though it was starting to
look like I’d swallowed a small beach ball. At the rate I was going, I’d be as
big as a cow by the time I delivered in May. “Down at that tourist shop.”
“Which one? There’s only
half a million or so.” Theo made a little circle motion with his finger and I
gave him my back. I always seemed to have a knot between my shoulder blades
these days. Whether it was from Danie or from the bumps, I couldn’t begin to
guess.
“Voodoo Blues. The owner
recognized her, so instead of calling the police, he let her go and called me.
I’ll send Elizabeth down tomorrow to take care of it.”
“Have you ever thought
about letting her get picked up by the police? Seeing if having the law come
down on her would actually make her see how stupid she’s being?” Theo pressed a
kiss against my bare shoulder. I shrugged half-heartedly, tapping my fingers on
my knee.
“Maybe it would work. Or
maybe she’d go nuts on them and then we’d have a serious problem.” Restless
now, I stood up to pace in front of the fireplace. It was just now ten p.m. and
most of the house had been up long enough to start getting into trouble. Any
minute now, someone was going to knock on the parlor door and tell me they
needed help with something.
I wasn’t psychic. It had
happened often enough that it was a given.
Overall:
This series was a wild romp through the shady streets of New Orleans. Vampires, myth and magic reign in this page turner of a series. If you love a good vampire story with some bite, check out these books. The dialogue is spot on with all the sarcasm and wit that I love to see in a heroine. She doesn't take anything from anyone. The character development was great and the first book lead right into the second. No nasty cliffhangers here!
With the second book, Jude is hunting a killer of young women. The two male lead characters are hunky and full of sensual promise it gave me shivers. This one was even better than the first one, and that is saying something. The increasing conflict between the Covenant and the evil that challenges it is growing and it will be up to Jude to stamp it out. In the third book we again see an old face and more drama ensues.
The only thing that bothered me at all about the book was Jude's reaction to her friend's death. I wanted to see more from her than I did, but other than that, it was a great series and I am looking forward to the fourth book.
4/5
About the Author:
L.M. Pruitt has been reading and writing for as long as she can remember. A native of Florida with a love of New Orleans, she has the uncanny ability to find humor in most things and would probably kill a plastic plant. She is the author of the best-selling Jude Magdalyn series, the Moon Rising series, and the Frankie Post series. She is currently at work on the next Jude Magdalyn book, Shades of Blood. She makes her home in Florida with one two cats—one smart, the other an idiot.
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