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From New York Times best-selling author, Kim Harrison, comes the first book in her brilliant Hollows series; packed with the perfect balance of wry humour and thrilling action, which will delight fans of thrillers and fantasy alike. Rachel Morgan lives in a world where a bioengineered virus wiped out most of the world's human population – exposing the existence of supernatural communities that had long lived alongside humanity. It’s her job as a white witch working for Inderland Security to protect the humans from things that go bump in the night. For the last five years Rachel has been tracking down lawbreaking Inderlanders in modern-day Cincinnati, but now she wants to leave and start her own agency. Her only problem: no one quits the I.S. Marked for death, Rachel will have to fend off fairy assassins and homicidal werewolves armed to the teeth with deadly curses. Unless she can appease her former employers by exposing the city's most prominent citizen as a drug lord, she might just be a dead witch walking.

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The spellbinding first installment in Kim Harrison’s #1 New York Times bestselling Hollows series featuring bounty hunter and witch Rachel Morgan, now in trade paperback for the first time with a brand-new look!In the Hollows, it’s always witching hour.The Hollows of Cincinnati is a playground for the creatures of the night, and vampires rule the darkness in a world rife with dangers beyond imagining. Rachel Morgan, bounty hunter and witch, helps keep that world civilized. And she’s damn good at her job.But the tables turn when Rachel makes a wish for independence and finds herself with a target on her back, a bounty on her head, and a shortage of allies to turn to. Reluctantly, she teams up with Ivy, another hunter who just happens to be a living vampire, and someone Rachel isn’t sure she can trust.Rachel is desperate to find a way clear her name, one way or another. Bu

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Kim Harrison returns to her beloved Hollows series with the official prequel. This will introduce fans and readers to a whole new side of Rachel Morgan's world as they've never seen it before!Can science save us when all else fails?Trisk and her hated rival, Kalamack, have the same goal: save their species from extinction.Death comes in the guise of hope when a genetically modified tomato created to feed the world combines with the government's new tactical virus, giving it an unexpected host and a mode of transport. Plague takes the world, giving the paranormal species an uncomfortable choice to stay hidden and allow humanity to die, or to show themselves in a bid to save them.Under accusations of scientific misconduct, Trisk and Kal flee across a plague torn United States to convince leaders of the major paranormal species to save their supposedly weaker kin, but not everyone thinks humanity should be saved.Kal surreptitiously works against her as Trisk fights the prejudices of two societies to prove that not only does humanity have something to offer, but that long-accepted beliefs against women, dark magic, and humanity itself can turn to understanding; that when people are at their worst that the best show their true strength, and that love can hold the world together as a new balance is found.An unmissable story for fans of the Hollows series - discover Rachel Morgan's world as you've never seen it before . . .

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Rachel Morgan, witch-born demon, suspected that protecting the paranormal citizens of Cincinnati as the demon subrosa would be trouble. But it''s rapidly becoming way more trouble than even she could have imagined. While Rachel and her friends may have vanquished the trickster demon Hodin, his mysterious associate known only as ''The Mage'' is eager to finish what Hodin started, beginning with taking down Rachel''s power structure piece by piece. With her world falling apart, Rachel desperately needs help. But with all of her supporters under attack, her only hope is to make a deal with the unlikeliest of allies...

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