Curse the Dawn: A Cassie Palmer Novel

Authors: Chance, Karen
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC009060, FIC027320, FIC031070
ISBN: 9781101032541, Related ISBNs: 0451412702, 1101032545, 9780451412706, 9781101032541
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 400,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: “Karen Chance takes her place along with Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, and J.D. Robb.”—SF Revu

View our feature on Karen Chance’s Curse the Dawn.

Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don’t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant—and they’ll stop at nothing to see her six feet under.

The Vampire Senate does support Cassie in her position, but their protection comes with a price: an alliance with the sexy master vampire Mircea, who has claimed Cassie as his own.

But even the vampires will have trouble keeping Cassie alive now that the self-styled god Apollo, the source of the Pythia’s power, has it in for her in a big way. To save her life—and the world—Cassie’s going to have to face down her creator…

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