Broken by night
An ex-wife and a monster in a human body. This time, Mercy Thompson is up against two ruthless opponents!
Mercy Thompson, currently perhaps the most popular urban fantasy series written by a female author, has grown with another instalment, the eighth in the series, featuring a traditionally stunning cover by Daniel Dos Santos. This time Mercy will be Night Broken, which promises a lot... And yet, it was a close call, and the American Patricia Briggs, the literary mother of this tough coyote skinwalker, might never have ascended to the pedestal of one of the most popular contemporary fantasy writers. From time to time, it simply pays to listen to the whisper of readers' wishes and abandon what the author considered the only possible path (in this case, the realm of classic fantasy).
The eighth Mercy Thompson story might seem more intimate than is usual for this series: the reader enters the story via a phone call from Mercy's partner Adam's ex-wife, who is being stalked by her current boyfriend. And because men in such moments love to don their knightly armour, even when the lady in question is no longer the lady of their heart, serious trouble is brewing...
If it were just that Adam's ex-wife, Christy, had nominated herself into Mercy's territory, and if she were only trying to win the werewolf alpha back—the wild skinwalker could handle that with the same bravura as fixing the engine of a battered Mustang. However, the abuser that Christy has brought to the doorstep of Mercy's caravan is no ordinary stalker.
Hidden in a human body is a creature that has set its sights on destroying everything Mercy Thompson cares about. In the novel Night Broken, legions of loyal readers will find exactly what they have been looking forward to since the previous, seventh book in the series: beloved heroes, their ever-more-tangled relationships, tough action, and equally wild eroticism. Patricia Briggs has simply created a recipe where the individual ingredients are mixed in just the right proportions—and that is precisely why she remains at the very top of genre literature to this day.
Patricia Briggs
Patricia Briggs' first novel, Masques, was published in 1993. The book was not a success, and the author's career almost ended before it began. Fortunately, her second novel, Steal the Dragon (1995), sold much better, and her writing career slowly took off. The growing popularity of her books, combined with her ability to create vivid, compelling characters, inspired her publisher to ask if she would try writing a modern urban fantasy. Briggs accepted the challenge and signed a contract for a series of novels whose main character would become Mercy Thompson. Smoke Bitten (2020) is the latest, twelfth instalment in the successful series and universe. The first book in the Mercy Thompson series (Moon Called) made it onto the USA Today bestseller list. The second instalment, Blood Bound, in turn, appeared on the New York Times bestseller list. Iron Kissed, the third book, even took the number one spot on this prestigious list. The success was so enormous that further instalments of this as-yet-unfinished series are being created. The author also came up with a spin-off series, Alpha & Omega, which is also published by Fantom Print alongside the main Mercedes Thompson series.
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