Kitt Jordan has left her job as Chief Medical Examiner to
take a position at the New York Academy attended by both
human and parahuman students, teaching Parahuman Forensic
Pathology. She is sick of death and of grieving. Her
brother's murder is still a wound too fresh.
But a serial killer is ripping the still-beating hearts out
of teen shape shifters, and Oberon, an old friend and now
head of Security for the school, has formed a task force that
badly needs her expertise. If only the man who affects her
most was not also on the team, Raven, the father of her
children.
Kitt has braced herself for the contact with the twins, not
knowing if the young women would welcome or shun her. The
twins were due to begin their studies at the New York
Academy so their meeting was inevitable. Having Raven there
as well was almost too much to bear.
The Academy's security forces are made up of old friends
from the Violent Crimes Unit of the Department for Parahuman
security, but more than the security for the school, they
have taken on the task of running the serial killer down and
getting him behind bars. The evil bastard has been tied to
more crimes than those currently making headlines, including
the murder of her brother. But worse than that, the murders
point to signs that the Dark Brethren may be stirring again.
With the ousting of Oberon, the Violent Crimes Unit is led
by a politically motivated and otherwise incompetent prick
which means the only beings standing between the world and
disaster could be the group Oberon has put together.
Hampered by the need to work under the radar, they
still are some of best investigators alive and the best
chance to stop this killer before he goes one murder too
far.
Tracey O'Hara has put together the perfect blend of Urban
Fantasy and crime thriller. The romantic situation created
between Kitt and Raven only deepens the tension without
detracting from the main plot of solving the mystery.
DEATH'S SWEET EMBRACE is the second in the Dark Brethren
series. Book one was Night's Cold Kiss and there is
also a prequel, Dante Rising available on the
author's site as a free download.
(http://www.traceyohara.com/dante.html)
After centuries of secret conflict, humans and parahumans
have reached an uneasy truce. But unspeakable evil now
threatens the tenuous peace.
Teenaged shapeshifters are being slaughtered by a sadistic
serial killer who rips their still-beating hearts from
their paralyzed bodies. A task force forms to halt the
madness, including the vampiric Aeternus Antoinette
Petrescu, as well as Kitt Jordan and Raven Matokwe,
members of enemy Animalian tribes . . . and forbidden
lovers.
A centuries-old blood feud has divided their shapeshifting
peoples, and if their passion is discovered it will doom
them both. But past hostilities must be put aside, for the
killer they seek is but the first sign of the all-
consuming nightmare of The Dark Brethren.
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