Karen Chance's second book in the Cassandra Palmer
series, CLAIMED BY SHADOW, pretty much starts off where the
previous entry, TOUCH THE DARK left off. Cassie Palmer is
still the world's chief clairvoyant, albeit mostly by
chance. She can claim neither superior knowledge nor
experience, but for better or worse, the job seems to be
hers.
The vampire senate still wants to control Cassie. Tony
lurks somewhere in the background and Cassie has recently
discovered that master vamp, Mircea, has put a geis
on her -- a spell that binds her to him and warns off anyone
else who might get too close to the protégé he's bent on
controlling. Battle mage, Pritkin, continues to be very
much a part of Cassie's story, helping and antagonizing her
in equal parts. Her time-traveling evil adversary is still
using the timeline to try and take out Cassie and anyone
else, past or present, who might be useful to her. Cassie's
spirit friends are all accounted for and in the mix, as
well as an assortment of incubi, satyrs, wizards, witches,
oracles, demons, the weird sisters and the list goes on!
Ms. Chance is a master at fleshing out her secondary
characters and keeping her storyline moving at a lighting
fast pace. Cassie remains the funny and smart heroine we
came to love in book one. She thinks fast, stays one step
ahead of trouble and has more on her mind than seduction,
although the geis does keep her focused on Mircea
whenever she's around him. Cassie solves her own problems
and trusts her intuition. All the mages and mentors in the
world can't shake her confidence in herself once she makes
up her mind. This is a series well-worth getting hooked on.
Clairvoyant Cassie Plamer has
inherited new magical powers-including the ability to
travel through time.
But it's a whole lot of responsibility she'd rather not
have. Now she's the
most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey,
and mages try to
convince, force, or seduce her-and her magic-over to their
side. But one
particular master vampire didn't ask what Cassie wanted
before putting a
claim on her. He had a spell cast that binds her to him,
and now she
doesn't know if what she feels for him is real-or imagined
