"supernatural fantasy"
The Pythia is the earth's most powerful clairvoyant, but
it is the power of the title that chooses the heir.
Although Cassandra Palmer's mentor was out of the running
for the position because she did something horrific, the
vampire Mercia believed Cassandra would be the one. Mercia
places a geas on his ward to drive men away so that the
young woman can be the Pythia since the ritual needs a
virgin when it starts and someone Mercia chooses to
complete the power by making love The Sylver Circle, a coven of mages, and the Senate, who
represent the vampires, want to control Cassandra who was
brought up in a vampiric court. Thus the vamps assume she
will turn to them to guide her, but Cassandra is her own
woman and plans to control her destiny especially if she
can find the one male who she can mate with so she can
complete the ritual and become the Pythia. Cassandra
follows Myra, the initiate who flunked out, back in time
to 1888 England and into the realm of Fairy as she knows
she will only be safe if her enemy dies though all she
wants to do is neutralize her jealous foe. Karen Chance is a great writer of supernatural fantasy
that is on a par with the works of Kim Harrison, Charlaine
Harris and Kelly Armstrong. Her heroine is one of the
most powerful women in the sub-genre as she makes her own
way with a deep desire to use her powers do it her way
guided by her ethics. There is so much action in CLAIMED
BY SHADOW that readers will never stop until finished as
we must know what happens next to Cassandra. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted April 5, 2007
SummaryA recent legacy made Cassandra Palmer heir to the title of
Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant. It's a position that
usually comes with years of training, but Cassie's
circumstances are a little...unusual. Now she's stuck with
a whopping amount of power that every vamp, fey, and mage in
town wants to either monopolize or eradicate—and that
she herself doesn't dare use.
What's more, she's just discovered that a certain arrogant
master vampire has a geis on her—a magical claim that
warns off any would-be suitors, and might also explain the
rather ... intense attraction between them. But Cassie's had
it with being jerked around, and anyone who tries it from
now on is going to find out that she makes a very bad enemy...
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