Even though it took a while to get to the meat of the overall mystery, the time spent developing character was a huge highlight of the book for me. Werewolf pack dynamics continue to be one of my favorite elements to this series, and the beginning of the book focused on some changes brewing within it. It started out a bit slow, but I love spending time with these characters so much that they could be doing anything and I’d probably want to read about it. Goodreadsīriggs delivers yet another solid installment in the Mercy/A&O series. I need to figure out what’s going on before the next body on the ground is mine.

Has the Harvester returned to the Tri-Cities, reaping souls with his cursed sickle? Or is he just a character from a B horror movie and our enemy is someone else? The farther I follow Wulfe’s trail, the more twisted-and darker-the path becomes. But Wulfe isn’t the only one who has disappeared. But, warned that his disappearance might bring down the carefully constructed alliances that keep our pack safe, my mate and I must find Wulfe-and hope he’s still alive. Since he’s deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of “fun” is stalking me, some may see it as no great loss. The Overview: The vampire Wulfe is missing. Who is taking them? As Mercy investigates, she learns of the legend of the Harvester, who travels by less-trodden paths and reaps the souls that are ripe with a great black scythe. Until Wulfe vanished, all of them were powerless loners, many of whom quietly moved to the Tri-Cities in the hope that the safety promised by Mercy and Adam’s pack would extend to them as well. And these are not just ordinary people but supernatural beings. Someone is taking people from locked rooms, from the aisles of stores and even from crowded parties. So Mercy goes out to find her stalker – and discovers more than just Wulfe have disappeared. The mistress of the vampire seethe informs Mercy that the pack must produce Wulfe to prove their innocence, or the loose alliance between the local vampires and werewolves is over. But when he disappears, the Tri-Cities pack is blamed. Since he’s deadly, possibly insane, and his current idea of ‘fun’ is stalking Mercy, some may see it as no great loss. Mercy Thompson, car mechanic and shapeshifter, must face her greatest fears in this chilling entry in the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of the Royals series. ‘Patricia Briggs never fails to deliver an exciting, magic and fable-filled suspense story’ Erin Watt, No.

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