Kirjahaku

Seven months ago, Josephine Berendt was a woman with a promising career, an inert social life, and no idea the vampires she wrote about were real. Now she's a rich and influential vampire who's reluctant to let go of her former life. However, consorting with the likes of Grant Black and thwarting her enemies' well-laid plans won't give her the life she desires, either. While the ruling class tries to shore up its crumbling empire, Josephine must appease the grumbling masses and pay for the sins of her sire. And if that weren't enough, she soon realizes that her foes have not yet fully played their hand. Amid worry for Max Spencer, fighting her love for Grant Black, and the pomp and circumstance of an Imperial covenmistress ceremony, Josephine has to unravel the opposition's plans and keep her coven safe - all while watching her own back and working to discover the limits of her power. In RED, the stakes are higher, the games more dangerous, and Josephine's position ever more precarious. Will she unravel the twisted web before it's too late? Or will she fail her coven, her lover - and herself?

Even vampires have bogeymen. Genevi ve Lacroix wasn't really made to be a leader. Perhaps that's why she chose to form a council instead of an empire; she wouldn't have to bear the burden of responsibility alone. While the Council of the Undead was a success, her inability to face challenges head-on would affect vampires all over the world. When Coventry Payne informed Genevi ve of her intent to betray her sire, Grant Black, Gen did nothing. When Coventry succeeded, Gen ignored her own laws and Coventry went unpunished. When Coventry showed up asking for her own House, Gen gave her New York. When Coventry began weaving myths of Grant's excessive violence and ruthlessness to keep fledglings in line, Gen remained silent. When Genevi ve feared Coventry would make a play for the Paris Council House, she gutted it instead of fortifying it. As Coventry continued to grow her power and influence, Grant lay bound in a box, alone in the dark, starved of blood, slowly going mad. Only Coventry hadn't counted on the ever-increasing population of humans, the "shrinking" of the world, the eventuality that someone would stumble upon his prison and release him. One hundred and fifty years has seen that eventuality come to pass, and now he will have his revenge. Coventry will get the bogeyman she created - although the monster she claimed he was is nothing compared to the monster he's become.