From idyllic small-town Georgia to the mean streets of Dublin, Karen Marie Moning takes her readers for a walk on the wild side in DARKFEVER, a new spin-off series to her bestselling Highlander series.

MacKayla Lane, Mac, is just a Southern girl at heart, happy as a clam, safe and snug in rural Ashford, Georgia. Mac's world is shattered when she receives a phone call from Ireland and learns her sister, Alina, was found brutally murdered in a Dublin alley. When Mac feels the cops close her sister's case much too quickly, she hops a plane for Dublin hoping to convince the lead detective to continue the search for Alina's killer.

Mac has no luck with the Dublin police and starts talking to her sister's friends on her own. Puzzled at the portrait of an Alina who's a virtual stranger to her, Mac digs deeper. Her eyes are soon opened to the horrors of the Dublin otherworld -- the Fae who walk among us as humans, yet are anything but; the Seelie and Unseelie, with all their glittering fairy glamour, feeding off unwitting human hosts, leaving behind empty shells and sometimes not even that. Mac turns out to be immune to their fairy tricks and is able to spot the Fae in their true form. She's a Sidhe seer, as was her sister before her.

Reeling with the power of her newfound "gift," Mac continues her sister's search for one of the missing Dark Hallows, a powerful book known as the Sinsar Dubh. As it turns out, Mac isn't the only one after the book. A master vampire, who already holds the key to the dark book's translation, tries to kill her. The fanatical crime lord of the city, who possesses another of the hallows, comes after her with guns ablazin'.

Enter Jericho Barrons, a reclusive bookstore owner who seems to be human. Mac detects none of the Fae in him, but Jericho is somehow more than human. Jericho is after the tome for reasons he doesn't care to share with Mac. Initially, he threatens her and orders her out of the city, but when she proves useful to him, he changes his tune, and they team up to hunt for the book together. Mac has to rely on a man she knows is dangerous and isn't sure she trusts. But actions speak louder than words and Barrons soon proves to be worth his weight in dragon gold as the two risk life and limb to get to the Sinsar Dubh before the forces of darkness close in on the human race forever.

Always entertaining, Moning never disappoints her fans. DARKFEVER is no exception. With this first book in a new series, Moning sets up characters and their world with a sound hand. Fans will be rabid by the time the second book in the series, BLOODFEVER, is released.