This HaBO comes from K, who wants to find this paranormal romance:
I’m looking for a late 90s/early 00s book that was set in I think Denver (or Colorado at large?), and about a female mercenary/bodyguard, very good at her job, who lived in a large loft in a downtown space. There were big windows, two stories, and they could get to the roof. Pretty sure at one point some bad guys came through the window to get who she was protecting, as well. And she had tried to set up the loft to be defended. She also wears leather, and I have a vague memory of a book cover in dark grey and blues, a stormy sky at night, with the woman in leather and a loft-scape in the background.
She was protecting a shifter(?). I think she may have ended up bitten/inadvertently turned at the end of the novel, but I’m not sure–she was definitely hot’n’bothered by the dude, though, and this was the start to a series. Also, she was surprised to learn that things that go bump in the night exist…but then she went right back to being kickass and doing her job.
Definitely sounds like a book from the late 90s/early 00s PNR and urban fantasy boom!
interesting, but why does it tell me I can follow the thread without commenting and then insist I make a comment before it will save?
I know I have read this. And I know it is a series. But, of course, I can’t remember the title or the author and I apologize.
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following as well. This sounds interesting!
@Jan – if you click on the word subscribe, it takes you to a screen where you just type in your email. And then you get any updated comments.
Sounds a little like Shelly Laurenston’s Mane Event.
Hi, I’m K! Thanks for trying to help out; this has been bothering me since I went back into the PNR fold, and it bugs me to no end that I can’t remember enough to find the book/series, it heaven for I’d i forget an 80s song lyric!
Jenica—I just checked, and it’s definitely not Laurenston’s Mane Event, but I’m having half of my lower jaw rebuilt on Thursday and I enjoyed her Call of Crows series, so I think I’ll check those out anyway! Thanks!
I’m pretty sure that Heroine was helping a regular werewolf; I am also pretty sure there was a standard “she wants to leave the loft he tries to stop her then sniffs inappropriately” scene; a shootout scene where she’s trapped behind a nice island (part of her open plan loft living), which may or may not have been part of the people (other weres? Vampires?) crashing through the windows scene; and at least one scene in her separate bedroom where she’s thinking about her preferred clothing, which includes a tank top, jeans, and a leather jacket.
Thanks again for any help!
Sounds Maya Banks-ish
It sounds fun. I hope someone comes up with the name.
It sounded so familiar, I thought it was Touch of Evil (Thrall #1) by C.T. Adams & Cathy Clamp, which I read back in the day. I kinda remember she lived in an industrial appartment (loft like?) and the love interest is a softie werewolf crashing at her place. But I looked up the book description and the heroine already knows about the paranormal world.
I can’t remember enough to say for sure, but this does sound a lot like Bitten by Kelley Armstrong.
Nah, in Bitten the FMC is a werewolf at the start of the book, not human.
@kay you’re right, I did not remember that!
Is it the Kate Daniels Blood Magic books by Ilona Andrews?
Hmph. Why autocorrect does me dirty like that, I don’t even know. Seana – nope. I love the Kate Daniels books, tho, and it’s one of the series that made me wish I could re-read my mystery book.
Pumpkin: nope, definitely not Bitten.
Arijo: nope, not Touch of Evil. The air courier thing feels wrong, and the thrall/queen vampire thing is definitely not right. Book sounds interesting, though, so I’m gonna add it to the list.
Carol: I see that Maya Banks writes a lot about mercenaries, but I didn’t see any (in my scroll thru the Kindle store) that were also paranormals. Did I miss one?
Did you try Paige Tyler, Terry Spears, or Katie Reus? Not sure when they began writing.
I read the book but I forgot name as well.