As if Katrina wasn't enough, the multitude of industrial
poisons that have seeped into the water table has finally
pushed the swampy southern ecosystem over the edge. The
fairies preciously glimpsed out of the corner of your eyes
have mutated beyond their shy ancestors and are ravenous for
the blood of humans. A single bite from a fairy causes
anything from death within seconds to a slow lingering
descent into madness. For most humans, that is. The few who
are immune from fairies are in high demand in the iron-
ringed cities below the freezing zone. The north is safe
enough, but anywhere hot enough for the fairies to survive
has adapted or been abandoned. Those rich enough to move
have left, those too poor or too stubborn are doing the best
they can with a shattered infrastructure to see that life
goes on.
Annabelle Lee is one of the lucky ones whose immunity has
her taking on such glamorous tasks as sampling swamp water
and fairy poo to keep the research facilities working on the
problem. She is also on call to local law enforcement to do
the preliminary tests and samples whenever a body is found
outside the iron fence guarding Donaldsonville, Louisiana
from the fairies. It's not a part of her job she ever looks
forward to but this time is harder than the rest. No one can
work on a murdered little girl and not have it haunt them.
Still, being able to go outside the fence means she is able
to watch the back of Cane Cooper, her lover, a D'Ville city
cop and a decent man who loves her more than he should.
Horrible as little Grace's death is, it is connected to a
bigger issue that has the FBI in town. One of the agents
happens to be a man from her past. A man she has tried to
forget and who obviously has moved on with his life since
she broke his heart.
DEAD ON THE DELTA is a fascinating start to a new urban
fantasy series. The seedy setting and hard-drinking heroine
are written with skill and humor and enough quirks to enmesh
you in the story within a few moments time. Add the twisted
mystery and drug tie in (fairy poop is the new cocaine) and
you are drawn further into a world just the other side of
reality. Although the core questions of book one are fully
answered, the final pages consist of one of the most
intriguing endings I've encountered, setting readers up for
a hell of a second book. Stacey Jay is has been writing
full time since 2005 and has a number of young adult novels
under her belt. DEAD ON THE DELTA is her adult urban fantasy
debut.
Once upon a time, fairies were the stuff of bedtime
stories and sweet dreams. Then came the mutations, and the
dreams became nightmares. Mosquito-size fairies now
indulge their taste for human blood—and for most humans, a
fairy bite means insanity or death. Luckily, Annabelle Lee
isn’t most humans. The hard-drinking, smart-mouthed,
bicycle-riding redhead is immune to fairy venom, and able
to do the dirty work most humans can’t. Including helping
law enforcement— and Cane Cooper, the bayou’s sexiest
detective—collect evidence when a body is discovered
outside the fairy-proof barricades of her Louisiana
town.
But Annabelle isn’t equipped to
deal with the murder of a sixyear- old girl or a former
lover-turned-FBI snob taking an interest in the case.
Suddenly her already bumpy relationship with Cane turns
even rockier, and even the most trust-worthy friends
become suspects. Annabelle’s life is imploding: between
relationship drama, a heartbreaking murder investigation,
Breeze-crazed drug runners, and a few too many rum and
Cokes, Annabelle is a woman on the run—from her past,
toward her future, and into the arms of a darkness waiting
just for her. . . .
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