Kitty and the Silver Bullet: Carrie Vaughn

Who says you can’t go home again?

Kitty’s radio show is as popular as ever, and she has a boyfriend who actually seems to understand her. Can she finally settle down to a normal life?

Not if this is just the calm before the storm.

When her mother finds a lump, Kitty and her family instinctively rush back to Denver to be right by mom and dad’s side as she goes into surgery, just like families do – and Kitty finds herself right back within the reach of the abusive pack of werewolves she escaped a year ago, violating the exile she had so carefully negotiated with Carl and Meg.

But fuck it – this is mom, right? They’ll understand, right? This is her family, this is different, this is separate, right?

Wrong.

To make matters worse, a war is brewing between the city’s two oldest vampires, threatening the whole supernatural community.

Though she wants to stay neutral, Kitty is again drawn into a world of politics and violence. To protect her family, her lover, and herself, she’ll have to choose sides. And possibly become what she hates – a killer.

Then mom gets her diagnosis, and things really start to go to shit.

To have to decide between voluntarily contracting one disease or possibly dying ‘untainted’ from another … what a position to be put in! Kitty may have scared her parents by offering the possibility, but she’s earned my respect by not inflicting a choice of her own upon them caused by a fear of losing a parent. Anyone who lets someone consciously and intelligently chose the method of living, or losing, their own life, is deserving of respect in my book.

I find it interesting that Arturo could ‘tap into’ the disease in the blood though – the ability to tell whether or not the ‘blood was sick’ would be something that I could easily see hospitals prizing vampires for. For such an undead twit, at the end of his span he did do the most honorable thing, in his mind. I’m hoping Rick turns out well.

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ISBN 10: 0-446-61875-6
Publication date January 2008, through Grand Central Publishing