Carrie Vaughn, Kitty Takes a Holiday

Kitty Takes a Holiday

Carrie Vaughn

Warner, Mar 2007, $6.99

ISBN: 0446618748

Kitty Norville hosts a radio show that deals with the creatures of the night as she is an expert since she also happens to be a werewolf who was publicly outed when she changed in a visible place (KITTY AND THE MIDNIGHT HOUR). After the Senate Hearing Committee she testified at and the events in Washington DC (see KITTY GOES TO WASHINGTON), Kitty decides to lay low, taking time off to write a book. Her vacation abruptly ends when Cormac the bounty hunter arrives at her cottage with a friend.

Ben was bitten by a werewolf in New Mexico and wants to die. Something that looks like a werewolf is following Ben and Cormac. This creature has killed farm animals. Kitty has been magically attacked by locals who do not know what they have wrought as they have brought evil to the area. She and Cormac know they must stop the malevolence, if they fail they die (if fortunate that is) while if they succeed they will still have to pay an exorbitant price.

KITTY TAKES A HOLIDAY continues with the new twist of adding a humorous chick lit flavor to the werewolf mythos with another winning, paranormal, romantic suspense. When Ben turns, he becomes Kitty's pack of one and that adds a romantic element that rings true even in this supernatural setting. Kitty has become a modern-day alpha woman even though she feels otherwise as she helps Ben with his initial conversion, tries to save the townsfolk from what they did, and is determined to kill or be killed when she battles the malevolence. Carrie Vaughn writes another biting thriller.

Harriet Klausner