Synopses & Reviews
Fay Harper looks like any other teenage girl--any other Queen Bee, that is. She's blond, and beautiful, and very, very popular--the kind of popular that attracts boys like honey. Fay and her gang take a lot of risks, but so far they've managed to get away with everything. It's as if they are magically protected. Summoned to Tulsa by an old friend whose son has fallen in with Fay's crowd, Diana Tregarde, practicing witch and successful romance novelist, quickly finds herself in hot water. The new girl at school, Monica Carlin, has come under sorcerous attack, but Diana cannot identify, or stop, the power-wielder. To make matters worse, there is an ancient being sleeping under Tulsa, a being who might be woken by the magic battles taking place in the city. What will happen then, even Diana cannot predict.
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"A refreshing blend of contemporary fantasy and horror."
Science Fiction Chronicle
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"Quite good fun."
Interzone
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"An occult fantasy/mystery sure to grab the teenage crowd! The teenage characters, love triangles, and action will hook the reader immediately."
Booklist
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Praise for
Jinx High: "An occult fantasy/mystery sure to grab the teenage crowd! The teenage characters, love triangles, and action will hook the reader immediately."--
Booklist
"A refreshing blend of contemporary fantasy and horror."--Science Fiction Chronicle
"Quite good fun."--Interzone
"Lackey injects a shot of terror into every scene."--VOYA Praise for the Diana Tregarde Investigations:
"Mercedes Lackey's work is as sharp--and as scary--as the suddenly revealed fang of a vampire. She'll keep you up long past your bedtime." --Stephen King "Diana Tregarde is intelligent and resourceful--with a most charming and unusual associate."--C. J. Cherryh on Children of the Night
"A very enjoyable thriller with a sense of humor."--Locus on Children of the Night
"Diana has a wry, practical sense of humor. Anyone who likes their supernatural yarns laced with intelligence will find this novel more than satisfying."--Dragon magazine on Burning Water
"I loved Children of the Night. It's a delight to know that a writer whose work I've loved all along has written something so fresh and original."--Marion Zimmer Bradley
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"A refreshing blend of contemporary fantasy and horror."
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"Lackey injects a shot of terror into every scene."
VOYA
Synopsis
While enjoying a visit with an old friend in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Diana Tregarde discovers that a malevolent combination of sex and blood magic is behind relatively normal teenage jealousies and infatuations at the local high school, one ruled by Fay Harper, a powerful sorceress hundreds of years old who takes over the bodies of her own daughters to remain eternally young. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
About the Author
Mercedes Lackey began writing fiction while working for American Airlines. In addition to her many novels, she has written lyrics for and recorded several albums of fiction folk songs, which have been distributed through Firebird Arts & Music. Lackey's longest-running series, beginning with A
rrows of the Queen, details the adventures of the Heralds of Valdemar. Lackey's other series include
Bardic Voices; the Elementals; the Halfblood Chronicles (first volume:
The Elvenbane);
Elves on the Road, which includes Tor's
Burning Water and its sequels; and the
Obsidian Trilogy, also published by Tor, which begins with T
he Outstretched Shadow.Lackey often teams up with both her fellow masters of fantasy, such as Andre Norton and Anne McCaffrey, and talented newer writers Rosemary Edghill. Married to artist and sometime co-author Larry Dixon, Lackey, who was born in Chicago, lives near Tulsa, Oklahoma.