Night Falls on the Wicked
Sharie Kohler
Pocket, Aug 30 2011, $7.99
ISBN: 9781451611410
Darby the white witch can foresee the future, but any time she uses her gift the curse is demons arrive. For three years she fled from demons who want to use her skill for their malevolent master. Sadly Darby has become the wanderer who moves from town to town accepting low paying employment while residing preferably above the Arctic Circle. Currently she resides in Lancaster, Alaska working as a waitress at Sam’s Diner. However, she and the other seventeen hundred residents live in fear as they hear the howling of a nearby Lycan pack.
Niklas hunts the feral pack that murdered his beloved mother and changed him. He has killed some of these vicious werewolves, but the alpha has so far survived his hunting them. The Lycan slayer arrives in beleaguered Lancaster and to his shock is attracted to Darby who he knows instinctively is vulnerabile; she reciprocates as she feels his protectiveness and his bitter anger. As they fall in love, the Lycan want Darby.
The latest Moon Chasers romantic urban (tundra?) fantasy (see To Crave a Blood Moon and My Soul to Keep) is a superb thriller that makes Northern Exposure look like an equatorial location. The lead couple is a delightful pairing of two lost souls finding a second chance at life with one another though first they must deal with the savage pack. The townsfolk add eccentricity and fear to the tense story line as Sharie Kohler’s world is a dark terrible place to live but the light of love brings hope.
Harriet Klausner
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