Hunt the Moon

A wonderfully entertaining romp with an engaging heroine

The urban fantasy equivalent of a summer blockbuster

Karen Chance is the New York Times bestselling author of two urban fantasy series. Her previous novels Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night, Midnight's Daughter, Curse the Dawn and Death's Mistress are all published by Penguin. Karen lives in Florida.

Cassandra Palmer recently defeated a god, which you'd think would buy a girl a little time off. 
 
But when your job is being Pythia - the world's chief clairvoyant - you don't get a lot of R&amp;R. Cassie is busier than ever, discovering her power, figuring out her complicated relationship with enigmatic and sexy vampire Mircea, and preparing for her upcoming coronation. 
 
But someone is dead set against Cassie being Pythia, and will go to any lengths to stop the coronation ceremony from happening - including making sure that Cassie is never born. 
 
Now, Cassie has to save herself - and the world, if she can find the time ...

Cassie Palmer Series

Karen Chance is the New York Times bestselling author of two urban fantasy series. Her novels Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night, Midnight's Daughter, Curse the Dawn and Death's Mistress are all published by Penguin. Karen lives in Florida.

Clairvoyant Cassandra Palmer's magical powers are a mixed blessing-she may be able to contact spirits but sometimes this can be a whole lot more trouble than it's worth. Battling with vampires, feys and mages who all seek supremacy, Cassie must use her powers wisely in order to save herself - and the world. The Cassie Palmer Series includes Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night and Curse the Dawn.

Midnight's Daughter

The first novel in a gripping new urban fantasy series, featuring a beautiful and powerful half-vampire

A GRIPPING AND ENTERTAINING URBAN FANTASY FOR FANS OF ANNE RICE, DEBORAH HARKNESS AND THE QUICK 
 
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - the daughter of a vampire and a human woman. 
 
Subject to uncontrollable rage and madness, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. 
 
But for five hundred years, Dory has been fighting to maintain her sanity by unleashing her homicidal tendencies on only those demons and vampires who deserve killing. 
 
 But now Dory's vampire father has come back into her life. 
 
Because her uncle Dracula, notorious even among vampires for his cruelty and murderous ways, has escaped from prison, and her father wants Dory to work with the gorgeous vampire dueling champion Louis-Cesare to put him back there. 
 
Vampires and dhampirs are mortal enemies, and Dory prefers to work alone. 
 
But Dracula is the only thing on earth that truly scares her, and when Dory has to go up against him, she'll take all the help she can get . . . 
 
 What readers are saying... 
 
'Action packed' 5***** 
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Karen Chance takes her place along with Laurell K. Hamilton, Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davidson, and J.D. Robb

Karen Chance has lived in France, the UK and Hong Kong, and now lives in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of three novels in the Cassandra Palmer series, Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow and Embrace the Night.

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir, the daughter of a vampire and a human woman. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs are born barking mad and live very short, very violent lives. So for five hundred years, Dory has been fighting to maintain her sanity by unleashing her homicidal tendencies on those demons and vampires who deserve killing. 
 
But now Dory's vampire father has come back into her life. Her uncle Dracula, notorious even among vampires for his cruelty and murderous ways, has escaped from prison, and her father wants Dory to work with the gorgeous vampire dueling champion Louis-Cesare to put him back there. 
 
Vampires and dhampirs are mortal enemies, and Dory prefers to work alone. But Dracula is the only thing on earth that truly scares her, and when Dory has to go up against him, she'll take all the help she can get...

Death's Mistress

Karen Chance is the New York Times bestselling author of two urban fantasy series. Her previous novels Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night, Midnight's Daughter and Curse the Dawn are all published by Penguin. Karen lives in Florida.

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - half-human, half-vampire - and the only way she can stay sane is by unleashing her sometimes uncontrollable rage on demons and vampires that deserve killing. 
 
After the fortunate demise of her insane uncle Dracula, Dory is back home in Brooklyn, hoping that life will calm down for a while. But then two visitors arrive: her friend Claire, asking for Dory's help in finding a magical Fey relic, and the gorgeous master vampire Louis-Cesare, desperate to find his former mistress, a vampire named Christine. 
 
Dory and Louis-Cesare soon discover their problems may be connected: the same master vampire Christine is bound to is also rumored to be in possession of the relic. But they soon realize there's more at stake when Christine's master turns up dead. Someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if Dory and Louis-Cesare can't stop the murderer, they may be next . . .

Curse The Dawn

Karen Chance is the bestselling author of two urban fantasy series. Her previous novels Touch the Dark, Claimed by Shadow, Embrace the Night and Midnight's Daughter are all published by Penguin. Karen lives in Florida.

Cassie Palmer, the world's chief clairvoyant, just can't seem to stay away from trouble. After trying to come to an agreement with the Silver Circle - the magical organisation that's been trying to kill her for years - she finds herself kidnapped by one of its members and swept away in the ley line system, a series of magical currents that occupies the space between worlds. Cassie manages to escape but, fearing for her safety, she decides to invest in a magical device for protection. However, all she can afford is a statue that grants wishes . . . 
 
But what Cassie doesn't realize is that the statue doesn't always grant wishes the way the wisher would like. And when she wishes for the strength to shift herself and companion Pritkin away from a dangerous fight, the statue grants the wish by switching her into Pritkin's body and him into hers. And that's when the real trouble starts . . .

Embrace The Night

A thrilling urban fantasy novel which will appeal to fans of Laurell K Hamilton and Anne Rice

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and sexy-scary vampires

Karen Chance has lived in France, the UK and Hong Kong, and currently lives in Orlando, Florida. She is the author of two previous novels in the Cassandra Palmer series, Touch the Dark and Claimed by Shadow.

Recently named the world&rsquo;s chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire - the sizzling-hot Mircea - are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own &hellip; 
 
The spell that binds them can only be broken with an incantation found in the Codex Merlini, an ancient grimoire. The Codex&rsquo;s location has been lost in the present day, so Cassie will have to seek it out in the only place it can still be found - the past. 
 
But Cassie soon realizes the Codex has been lost for a reason. The book is rumored to contain dangerous spells, and retrieving it may help Cassie to deal with Mircea, but it could also endanger the world&hellip;

Touch The Dark

Can you ever really trust a vampire?

Karen Chance is from Orlando Florida, Touch the Dark is her first novel.

Can you ever really trust a vampire? 
 
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 .....

Claimed By Shadow

Urban fantasy from this bestselling US author

Karen Chance grew up in Orlando Florida, this is her second novel.

Clairvoyant Cassie Palmer has inherited new magical powers - including the ability to travel through time.  But it's a whole lot of responsbility she'd rather not have.  Now she's the most popular girl in town, as an assortment of vamps, fey, and mages try to convince, force, or seduce her - and her magic - over to their side.  But one particular master vampire didn't ask what Cassie wanted before putting a claim on her.  He had a spell cast that binds her to him, and now she doesn't know if what she feels for him is real or imagined .....

Karen Chance

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and 
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - half-human, half-vampire. Subject to uncontrollable rages, most dhampirs live very short, very violent lives. But so far, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity by unleashing her anger on those demons and vampires who deserve killing . . . 
 
Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty. So when she wakes up in a strange scientific lab with a strange man standing over her, her first instinct is to take his head off. Luckily, the man is actually the master vampire Louis-Cesare, so he's not an easy kill. 
 
It turns out that Dory had been working with a Vampire Senate task force on the smuggling of magical items and weaponry out of Faerie when she was captured and brought to the lab. But when Louis-Cesare rescues her, she has no memory of what happened to her. 
 
To find out what was done to her - and who is behind it - Dory will have to face off with fallen angels, the maddest of mad scientists, and a new breed of vampires that are far worse than undead . . .

Karen Chance

Praise for Fury's Kiss

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

Books by Karen Chance

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Praise for Fury's Kiss

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

Karen Chance doesn't disappoint, once again we have an action packed adventure with a strong female character that, while tough as nails, and a dhampir - is also very human

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A really exciting book with great pace and a huge cast of vivid characters. This is one of my favourite reads of the year

Books by Karen Chance

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A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it

A grab-you-by-the-throat-and-suck-you-in sort of book with a tough, smart heroine and
sexy-scary vampires. Just what I like to curl up with. I loved it