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Also by S. M. Stirling:

A Taint In The Blood, May 2010
Hardcover
The Sword Of The Lady, September 2009
Hardcover
Dies The Fire, September 2005
Hardcover
The Protector's War, September 2005
Hardcover
Conquistador, February 2003
Hardcover
The Peshawar Lancers, January 2003
Paperback (reprint)
On the Oceans of Eternity, April 2001
Paperback (reprint)
More than Honor, January 1998
Paperback (reprint)

A TAINT IN THE BLOOD
By: S. M. Stirling

Shadowspawn
Roc
May 2010
On Sale: May 4, 2010
Featuring: Adrian Breze; Ellen
432 pages
ISBN: 0451463412
EAN: 9780451463418
Hardcover
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Science Fiction

Aeons ago, Homo lupens ruled the Earth. Possessing extraordinary powers, they were the source of all myths and legends of the uncanny. And though their numbers have been greatly reduced, they exist still--though not a purebreds.

Adrian Breze is one such being. Wealthy and reclusive, he is more Shadowspawn than human. But he rebelled against his own kind, choosing to live as an ordinary m an, fighting constantly against his danker nature.

Until now.

For Adrian has a sister, whose devotion to the cause of bringing back the reign of the Shadowspawn is equaled only by her hatred of him. She has struck him at his weakest pint by kidnapping his human lover, Ellen.

To save Ellen--perhaps all of humanity--Adrian must rejoin a battle he swore he would never fight again.