The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

Come on, it's an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom's homemade chicken pie?' She chuckled in spite of herself, then winced. 'It's apple pie and Mom's homemade chicken soup. But you didn't do badly, for a start.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Right now everything looks so strange to me, as if I don't belong here. It's me that's out of place. And the worst thing is that I feel there's somewhere I do belong, but I just can't find it.

Yeah, tell me I'm a bottle of single malt scotch, she thought. That's the way to my heart.

Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

Evil will never find peace. It may triumph, but it will never find peace