Synopses & Reviews
LATE NIGHT RADIO YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTO
Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, '60s psychedelia, '80s goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers just how the DJs maintain their cred: they're vampires, stuck forever in the eras in which they were turned.
Ciara's first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But communications giant Skywave wants to buy WVMP and turn it into just another hit-playing clone. Without the station -- and the link it provides to their original Life Times -- the vampires would "fade," becoming little more than mindless ghosts of the past. Suddenly a routine corporate takeover is a matter of life and undeath.
To boost ratings and save the lives of her strange new friends, Ciara rebrands the station as "WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock 'n' Roll." In the ultimate con, she hides the DJs' vampire nature in plain sight, disguising the bloody truth as a marketing gimmick. WVMP becomes the hottest thing around -- next to Ciara's complicated affair with grunge vamp Shane McAllister. But the "gimmick" enrages a posse of ancient and powerful vampires who aren't so eager to be brought into the light. Soon the stakes are higher -- and the perils graver -- than any con game Ciara's ever played....
Review
"Sharp and smart and definitely not flavor of the month, Wicked Game is wicked good." -- Laura Anne Gilman, bestselling author of Free Fall
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"Jeri Smith-Ready blends fantasy and romance in an organic, unpredictable way, deftly weaving stories to enhance the power of her take-no-prisoners style." -- C. E. Murphy, bestselling author of Urban Shaman
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"An addictive page-turner revving with red-hot sex, truly cool vampires, and rock 'n' roll soul. " -- Kresley Cole, New York Times bestselling author of Dark Needs at Night's Edge
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"Smith-Ready's musical references are spot-on, as is her take on corporate radio's creeping hegemony. Add in the irrepressible Ciara, who grew up in a family of grifters, and the results rock." -- Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, and soon realizes that the whole place is populated by vampires.
Synopsis
Jeri Smith-Ready has been writing fiction since the night she had her
first double espresso. A constant stream of caffeine has resulted in
six published novels, including Wicked Game and Eyes of Crow, which
have each won multiple awards in the fields of fantasy and romance.
Jeri will have her teen fiction debut in May 2010 with the Simon Pulse
release of Shade, a paranormal love story featuring a world of spirits
only the young can see. The sequel, Shift, will follow in 2011.
The next two years will also see the continuation of Jeri's fun and
sexy WVMP RADIO urban fantasy series from Pocket Books.
Jeri holds a master's in environmental policy and currently lives in
Maryland with her husband, cat, and the world's goofiest greyhound.
When not writing, she can usually be found--well, thinking about writing.
Find her at www.jerismithready.com or at ttp: //twitter.com/jsmithready.
About the Author
Jeri Smith-Ready holds a master’s degree in environmental policy and lives in Maryland with her husband, two cats, and a retired racing greyhound. She and her husband foster shelter dogs with Tails of Hope Sanctuary. Her first novel, Requiem for the Devil, was a semi-finalist in the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest and won first place in the National Writers Association Novel Contest.