Neill, Chloe.
Summary: Sword-fighting, twenty-eight-year-old Chicago vampire, Merit, tackles her toughest fight yet as anti-vampire riots are erupting all over town and Merit and her allies have to figure out how to stop the wanton destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEINeill, Chloe.
Summary: "Clouds are brewing over Cadogan House, and recently turned vampire Merit can't tell if this is the darkness before the dawn or the calm before the storm. With the city in turmoil over paranormals and the state threatening to pass a paranormal registration act, times haven't been this precarious for vampires since they came out of the closet. If only they could lie low for a bit and let the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEINeill, Chloe.
Summary: As new vampire Merit pursues a rogue supernatural creature trying to steal an ancient, magical relic with the power to do unspeakable evil, she discovers she is being followed as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2012
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Summary: Chicago's newest vampire, Merit, is assigned to protect the shape-shifters Alpha, Gabriel, and Keene, as thousands of his brethren convene in the Windy City, but finds herself in an assassin's line of fire as tensions rise between the supernaturals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEINeill, Chloe.
Summary: "Since Merit was turned into a vampire and became the protector of Chicago's Cadogan House, it's been a wild ride. She and Master vampire Ethan Sullivan have helped make Cadogan's vampires the strongest in North America, and forged ties with paranormal folk of all breeds and creeds, living or dead--or both. But now those alliances are about to be tested. A strange and twisted magic has ripped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEINeill, Chloe.
Summary: "At the tender age of twenty-seven, Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then, she's become the protector of her House, watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground, and seen her Master fall and rise. Now she'll see her mettle--and her metal--testedlike never before. It starts when two Rogues vanish without a trace. Someone is targeting Chicago's vampires, and anyone could be next. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEIKava, Alex
Summary: "In Alabama: A deadly outbreak of tornadoes sends K9 handlers, Ryder Creed and Jason Seaver with their scent dogs, Grace and Scout to search for survivors. As storms intensify and Ryder and Jason race against time to save victims, they end up racing to save themselves. In Chicago: Francine "Frankie" Russo is irritated when her young co-worker calls at 5:00 am for a video-chat and catches her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prairie Wind Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KavFrank, Dorothea Benton
Summary: What happens when a young sophisticated Chicagoan falls for the owner of a farm on Johns Island, a lush Lowcountry paradise off the coast of South Carolina -- trading the bustle of a cosmopolitan city for the vagaries of a small southern town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FRAHunt, Angela Elwell
Summary: It seems like a hopeless open-and-shut case, but Briley Lester is becoming more and more convinced that her client truly is innocent of killing her abusive husband, the scion of one of the city's wealthiest, most powerful, most dangerous families. A tragic secret, almost too shocking to be believed, could be the key to proving it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HUNKlavan, Andrew
Summary: "Cameron Winter is known for having a sense about crime. His background as a spy trained his mind--and his body--for action, and his current role as an English professor gives him a sharp understanding of human nature. But beyond that, he was born with a "strange habit of mind"--the ability to recreate detailed crime scenes in his imagination and dissect the motives and encounters that produced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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Summary: The daughter of a prominent Chicago judge and his socialite wife, inner-city art teacher Mia Dennett is taken hostage by her one-night stand, Colin Thatcher, who, instead of delivering her to his employers, hides her in a secluded cabin in rural Minnesota to keep her safe from harm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira Books 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KUBAhmed, Samira
Summary: A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC AHMButcher, Jim
Summary: "Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of Vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders. But this time, it's different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennia is coming. And she's bringing an army. The Last Titan has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUT DF 17Dams, Jeanne M.
Summary: June, 1925. Elizabeth Fairchild lives a quiet life in genteel Oak Park Village, Illinois. There, she forms a close friendship with gentle Mr Anthony. But tragedy strikes when Mr Anthony is found stabbed to death in the alley behind his shop. Why would anyone murder a mild-mannered antiques dealer? Could it have something to do with the mysterious customer who bought a gold pocket watch from Mr...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2022