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Fresh Pick | MERCY BLADE by Faith Hunter
Fresh Pick / January 15, 2011

Jane Yellowrock #3 January 2011 On Sale: January 4, 2011 Featuring: Jane Yellowrock; Girrard 310 pages ISBN: 0451463722 EAN: 9780451463722 Mass Market Paperback $7.99 Add to Wish List Fantasy Urban Buy at Amazon.com Great Dark UF series, get caught reading! Mercy Blade by Faith Hunter It’s not a mercy killing if they fight back. Jane Yellowrock is a shape-shifting skinwalker – and a vampire killer for hire. But lately she’s found herself taking blood money from the very vampires she used to hunt… Things are heating up in the Big Easy. Weres have announced their existence to the world, and revived the bitter tensions that run between them and their old enemies: vampires. As a trusted employee of Leo Pellissier, Blood Master of the City, Jane finds herself caught in the cross fire. When Jane is attacked by a pack of marauding werewolves, she is thankful for the help of a mysterious stranger named Girrard. He explains that he used to be Leo’s “Mercy Blade,” a sacred position charged with killing vampires who have gone insane. What Jane doesn’t know is why this powerful assassin left New Orleans – or, more troubling, why he’s now returned. It’s definitely not to…

Meesha Mink | The Many Sides of Me
Author Guest / January 15, 2011

I’m a published author….who writes in four different genres…for three different publishers. Crazy? Maybe. Living life to the fullest while youth and energy are on my side? Definitely. Yes, just call me the Sybil of Writing because each of the genres represents a part of who I am. Various chips in the mosaic that makes up me. I am a hopeless romantic who believes in a soul mate and the one–and so I enjoy inspiring others through really sexy and funny romance stories. I am a teen at heart who is way too enraptured by all things celebrity and fashion–and I get to relive it all through my teen fiction series centered on celebrity. I graduated from college with a Social and Behavioral Science degree (and a Psych minor) and have always been intrigued by people and the motivation–conscious and unconscious–behind their actions particularly in relationships. And what better way to explore my fascination than through mainstream women’s fiction! And then there’s urban fiction–which for me is any story set in an urban environment similar to the one in which I grew up in Newark, New Jersey.  And I loved growing up in Newark–flaws and all: flirting with boys b-balling…