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Touch the Dark

Touch the Dark Mass market paperbound - 2006

by Karen Chance

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Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits--talents that make her attractive to the dead and undead. The ghosts of the dead aren't usually dangerous. The undead, however, are another matter in this new vampire series. Original.

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Photo front cover. Cassandra Palmer Series #1.
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  • Title Touch the Dark
  • Author Karen Chance
  • Binding Mass Market Paperbound
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Roc, New York
  • Date 2006
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2220
  • ISBN 9780451460936 / 0451460936
  • Weight 0.34 lbs (0.15 kg)
  • Dimensions 6.72 x 4.24 x 0.87 in (17.07 x 10.77 x 2.21 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Horror fiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits—talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren’t usually dangerous; they just like to talk…a lot.

The undead are another matter.

Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she’s forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection.

The undead senators won’t help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire—and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay....

From the publisher

Karen Chance has lived in France, the United Kingdom and Hong Kong, but always comes back to America. She currently lives in Central Florida, the home of make-believe, which may explain a lot.

First line

I knew I was in trouble as soon as I saw the obituary.

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Excerpt

“Cassie, look at me.”

I fought him, knowing from childhood that looking a vampire directly in the eyes made it easier for him to control you, but everyone ignored us, I guess under the assumption that I was just a lousy dancer.

Unlike the legends, his body felt warm against mine and as smooth as muscled satin, but he may as well have been carved of steel for all the hope I had of breaking his hold. My pulse sped up and I thought I would faint when he bent his head and I felt lips trailing over my neck. I think my heart actually stopped as he delicately kissed the skin as if tasting the pulse under the surface. I felt like my blood could sense him; that it moved slower and thicker in my veins, waiting for him to set it free. I broke into a sweat that had nothing to do with the heat of so many bodies crowded into a small place. Was he going to kill me right there, in front of a couple of hundred witnesses?

I should have known something like this was going to happen. Every time I trusted someone they betrayed me; every time I loved someone, they died. Since he was already dead, I guessed the pattern held true.

Media reviews

“A wonderfully entertaining romp with an engaging heroine. Here’s hoping there's a sequel in the works!”—Kelley Armstrong, USA Today Bestselling Author of Haunted



“A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book. A tough, smart heroine and sexy-scary vampires....I loved it.”—Patricia Briggs, National Bestselling Author of Moon Called



“Karen Chance will enthrall you with her world of vampires, mages, and a fair maiden tough enough to kick their butts.”—USA Today Bestselling Author Rebecca York

Citations

  • Booklist, 06/01/2006, Page 49

About the author

Karen Chance is the New York Times bestselling author of the popular Cassandra Palmer and Dorina Basarab urban fantasy series.

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