Kim Harrison’s Dead Witch Walking was one of the stories that got me into urban fantasy. Rachel Morgan is a witch and a runner for the IS, – supernatural police. When she decides to quit her job and start out on her own, a bounty is put on her head and from there things become interesting. She teams up in her venture with Ivy, a vampire who avoids blood and Jenks, a pixy with too many children and a fowl mouth.
This story doesn’t have a focus on romance, but throughout the series there are intrigues and love interests. I enjoy that part being an addition rather than the main point of the story – I adore spicy romance but can also appreciate other styles and genres when I know what to expect. Nothing worse than spicy expectations and you get fade to black.
A virus got out, in tomatoes. Like a plague it started wiping out humans, Inlanders however (people and beings with mystical abilities, witches, weres, pixies etc.) were immune. Well except for the Elves. They went completely extinct. It hit them worse than humans. By the time the thing was under control the population of regular humans and Inlanders was roughly the same. No longer feeling the need to hide, being as they were no longer the minority to be prosecuted, the Inlanders became open about who they were. Therefore regular humans and Inlanders live openly together.
All the creatures of the night gather in “the Hollows” of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party … and to feed.
Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining – and it’s Rachel Morgan’s job to keep that world civilized.
A bounty hunter and witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she’ll bring ’em back alive, dead … or undead.
The story is full of thrilling action, magic, and enough questions left open that make me want to read the further books of the adventures of Rachel Morgan.
You can check out the reading order of the series on her website https://www.kimharrison.net/SecondaryPages/BookOrder.html
Catherine Croft 