Deadly Descendant
Authors: Jenna Black
Tags: #Fiction, #General, #Fantasy, #Contemporary, #Urban
An ancient evil is unleashed in the modern world—unless one fearless P.I. can hunt it down.... Nikki Glass, Immortal Huntress, returns in this new novel in the acclaimed series by Jenna Black.
As a living descendant of Artemis the Huntress, private investigator Nikki Glass knows how to track someone down. But when an Oracle shows up, warning the Descendants about wild dog attacks in Washington, D.C., Nikki is afraid it might be a trap. The Olympians believe the “dogs” are really jackals, controlled by a blood-crazed descendant of the Egyptian death-god Anubis. Whatever. … If Nikki hopes to muzzle Dogboy, she’s got to catch him in the act. But when she stakes out a local cemetery, she ends up face-to-snout with a snarling pack of shadow-jackals whose bite is worse than their bark. These hellhounds are deadly—even for an immortal like Nikki. “Dog” spelled backward may be “god,” but that won’t stop Nikki from teaching these old gods some new tricks. Like playing dead.
“An exciting new series.”
—RT Book Reviews
“A dark, gritty tale that will leave you breathless.... All the pace, energy, and intensity of a lightning bolt thrown from the hand of Zeus himself!” —Kelly Gay, award-winning author of
The Hour of Dust and Ashes, on Dark Descendant
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DARK DESCENDANT
“Innovatively original in premise and characters.... A mesmerizing urban fantasy packed with emotional situations and countless suspenseful scenarios.”
—Single Titles
“Unique tone and powerful characters.”
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“Nikki Glass is an intelligent, resourceful firecracker! She has a sarcastic wit that is to die for and a keen insight that I couldn’t get enough of.... A great beginning to what promises to be a highly addictive and action-packed series.”
—Black Lagoon Reviews
“I was hooked from the first sentence to the last page.... Alpha males like you haven’t seen before.”
—Night Owl Paranormal
“An interesting world and a terrific character who is strong without being over-the-top.”
—Fantasy Literature
“A marvelously dense, utterly unique world, driven and well-defined characters, lots of action, and just plain fun.
—
New York Times
bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow
Enter the dark and seductive world of
JENNA BLACK
THE DESCENDANT SERIES
Dark Descendant
Deadly Descendant
THE MORGAN KINGSLEY SERIES
The Devil Inside
The Devil You Know
The Devil’s Due
Speak of the Devil
The Devil’s Playground
GUARDIANS OF THE NIGHT SERIES
Watchers in the Night
Secrets in the Shadows
Shadows on the Soul
Hungers of the Heart
THE FAERIEWALKER SERIES
Glimmerglass
Shadowspell
Sirensong
WRITING AS JENNIFER BARLOW
Hamlet Dreams
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ONTENTS
DEADLY
DESCENDANT
The
Liberi Deorum
A long time ago, when the ancient gods were still around, they had children with mortals. Before the gods left Earth, they gave each of their children a seed from the Tree of Life. This seed made them immortal, and the
Liberi
thought they were gods themselves as a result. The only limitation they had—as far as they knew—was that they couldn’t make their own children immortal, because the gods took the Tree of Life with them when they left. What the first
Liberi
didn’t know until too late was that anyone with even a drop of divine blood—in other words, all of their children and descendants—could steal their immortality by killing them.