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The last city on Earth is contaminated. Now blood is the only thing that can wash it clean.Julia is trapped inside the Blue as the Nobles fight over the few humans who are still alive. When the dust settles and she finds herself shackled to a new master, she knows she must escape or die.Meanwhile, Cam has gathered a handful of comrades and is on his way into the Red to rescue his queen. But not all of his friends can be trusted, and not all of them will make it back alive.The Silver Queen is the second book in Josie Jaffrey's Sovereign trilogy, set in a dystopian Europe where vampiric Nobles control the last remnants of the human race.

The price of freedom is always paid in blood.The sovereigns of the Silver have awakened, but the Queen is a fractured shell of the woman Cam remembers. He hopes to put her back together by finding her son, the missing prince. At least, that's what he tells his friends when he leaves for the Red.Back in the Blue, Julia's old tormentor Rufus is hounding her at every turn. She's sick of feeling powerless, but she has a plan that will bring the Nobles to their knees.All she needs is blood.The Blood Prince is the final book in Josie Jaffrey's Sovereign trilogy, set in a dystopian Europe where vampiric Nobles control the last remnants of the human race.

In the Blue, the world's last city, all is not well.Julia is stuck within its walls. She serves the nobility from a distance until she meets Lucas, a boy who believes in fairytales that Julia's world can't accommodate. The Blue is her prison, not her castle, and she'd escape into the trees if she didn't know that contamination and death awaited humanity outside.But not everyone in the Blue is human, and not everyone can be contained.Beyond the city's boundaries, in the wild forests of the Red, Cameron has precious little humanity left to lose. As he searches for a lost queen, he finds an enemy rising that he thought long dead. An enemy that the humans have forgotten how to fight.One way or another, the walls of the Blue are going to come down. The only question is what side you'll be on when they do.

In the straits of necessity, sometimes there isn't room for freedom.Emmy is fenced in by the city, the walls marking the edge of safety closing in around her and sealing her in with one vampire who loves her and another who wants her dead. As she struggles to keep herself and the people she cares about alive, her fellow humans chafe against their enforced submission, and it becomes clear that there are bigger schemes and greater deceptions in play than she had ever imagined.All the while, the monsters wait outside the barricades for their moment. Of one thing she is certain: without the help of the Silver, the humans won't be safe for long.The Price of Silver is the second book in Josie Jaffrey's Solis Invicti paranormal romance series, set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic London where a deadly infection threatens to wipe out humanity. The only people who can stem its advance are the Silver, a vampiric race who offer a simple exchange: protection in return for blood and subservience.

"e;To think of death as a thing of beauty: that's a threshold you can't cross twice."e;The truth is out, and Emmy is faced with a choice she dreads: surrender her mortality, or allow her frailty to threaten the nascent society the Silver are building. With exile the only reasonable alternative, she struggles with feelings she can't define and a duty she's reluctant to accept.While the Silver city hangs in the balance, Emmy must remake herself to redeem it and save her friends. Her reinvention forces her to choose sides, threaten alliances and risk becoming like those she fears: inhuman.The Silver Bullet is the final book in Josie Jaffrey's Solis Invicti paranormal romance quadrilogy, set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic London where a deadly infection threatens to wipe out humanity. The only people who can stem its advance are the Silver, a vampiric race who offer a simple exchange: protection in return for blood and subservience.

If you're living against the clock, try not to do it in a cage.Exiled from the city and from the affections of the vampire who had loved her, Emmy finds herself pushed into a captivity she never expected to experience. With the bond to her former protector broken, she knows that the chance to turn Silver is now a monstrous obligation rather than a glittering opportunity.In an unfamiliar place among unfamiliar people, Emmy feels deserted by those Silver she had thought of as friends, out of sight and out of mind. If only her enemies were equally forgetful.Bound in Silver is the penultimate book in Josie Jaffrey's Solis Invicti paranormal romance quadrilogy, set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic London where a deadly infection threatens to wipe out humanity. The only people who can stem its advance are the Silver, a vampiric race who offer a simple exchange: protection in return for blood and subservience.

If the murderer you're tracking is a vampire, then you want a vampire detective. Just maybe not this one.It's not that Jack Valentine is bad at her job. The youngest member of Oxford's Seekers has an impressive track record, but she also has an impressive grudge against the local baron, Killian Drake.When a human turns up dead on May Morning, she's determined to pin the murder on Drake. The problem is that none of the evidence points to him. Instead, it leads Jack into a web of conspiracy involving the most powerful people in the country, people to whom Jack has no access. But she knows someone who does.To get to the truth, Jack will have to partner up with her worst enemy. As long as she can keep her cool, Drake will point her to the ringleaders, she'll find the murderer and no one else will have to die.Body bags on standby.May Day is the first book in Josie Jaffrey's Seekers series, an urban fantasy series set in Oxford, England.

Some secrets are worth killing for.The ancient city of Kepos sits in an isolated valley, cut off from the outside world by a towering wall. Behind it, the souls of the dead clamour for release. Or so the priesthood says.Kala has never had any reason to doubt their word – until her father dies in suspicious circumstances that implicate the city's high priest. She's determined to investigate, but she has a more immediate problem: the laws of the city require her mother to remarry straight away.Kala's new stepfather is a monster, but his son Leon is something altogether more dangerous: kind.With her family fractured and the investigation putting her life in danger, the last thing Kala needs is romance. She would rather ignore Leon entirely, however difficult he makes it. But when she learns the truth of what really clamours behind the wall at the end of the valley, she faces a choice: share what she knows and jeopardise her escape, or abandon him to his fate along with the rest of the city.If she doesn't move fast, then no one will make it out of the valley alive.

Vampires don't get happily ever afters.Jack Valentine finally has her shit together. She has a great job, great friends (well, one at least) and a girlfriend whom she loves, even if she can't work up the courage to tell her that yet. Unfortunately, she also has an archnemesis who's about to punish her crimes in the worst possible way: by making her spend time with him.Which she could cope with, maybe, if she didn't have problems at work as well. When the body of a human judge is found in a locked library, there's no denying that she was murdered by one of the Silver – by a vampire – and the evidence points worryingly close to home. If that wasn't bad enough, some of Jack's least favourite people are opening a new blood bar in Oxford with questionable motives. For Jack and her team, it's becoming increasingly hard to separate allies from enemies.With conspiracies on every side, the simmering tensions in Silver society are about to come to a head. As usual, Jack intends to be right in the middle of it. She does like it when things get messy.Judgement Day is the second book in Josie Jaffrey's Seekers series, an urban fantasy series set in Oxford, England.

Vampires are hardwired to kill. Is it any wonder that some become experts?Jack Valentine is in trouble. The Seekers are living on borrowed time, her ex-girlfriend has gone missing in suspicious circumstances, and someone's sent her a seriously twisted love letter attached to a hanged man. It's not that she doesn't appreciate the sentiment, and sure, the guy deserved everything he got, but even Jack knows that expressions of affection don't usually involve murder.It's not the first time Jack's questionable romantic choices have caused problems. Her latest disaster ended with her nemesis, Drake, buggering off to Europe on an extended sexcation, leaving her to face the consequences of the worst walk-of-shame of her life alone. Dealing with that was bad enough, but now her fellow Seekers are poking their noses into Jack's love life in a case that threatens to be their last.Jack has two options: toe the line or go rogue. And with her team falling apart around her, rebellion's starting to sound pretty sweet.Winta's Day is the third book in Josie Jaffrey's Seekers series, an urban fantasy series set in Oxford, England.

Fire isn't the only thing that can make a vampire burn.Jack Valentine is no stranger to a manhunt, but usually she's the one doing the hunting. In retrospect, maybe her assassination attempt on the Primus – the most powerful Silver in existence – was a mistake. She probably shouldn't have murdered her ex-girlfriend either, however necessary it seemed at the time. But if Jack could take back only one thing from that awful night, it would be telling Killian Drake that she... sort of likes him.On the run from the Primus's guards and fearing retribution from at least three different directions, Jack has no option but to lie low. For a disaster-magnet like her, that's one hell of an ask, but she'd stay in hiding forever if it meant she could avoid Drake.Unfortunately, she didn't walk away from her murderous endeavours unscathed. With poison in her veins, Jack is now very literally hot-blooded, and getting hotter all the time. She needs Drake's healing kisses to keep herself from going up in flames, which forces them into just the kind of proximity she's trying to avoid.One way or another, someone's about to get burned.Valentine's Day is the fourth book in Josie Jaffrey's Seekers series, an urban fantasy series set in Oxford, England.

In the airless crypts beneath the sinking city of Evesend, a treasure hunt has been playing out for three centuries.In the middle of the forest at the end of the world, there's a boneyard where old things go to die.In the future city of Legacy A, sunlight is a privilege.This collection of dark stories contains fifteen of Josie Jaffrey's most fantastical, horrific and inventive tales, including two that are exclusive to this volume (Peyton's End and SnapShot).Pass through a portal into a world where a single word can kill you. Feed yourself to the spirit of the forest piece by frozen piece.Or fall into the arms of your reflection in the water and never surface again.Whichever path you choose through these stories, you'll find forgotten places and hard shadows that will linger long after the reading is done.

The pirates of Charleston's Golden Age aren't as dead as you might think.In her centuries-long life, Kulika Yadav has chalked up more than her fair share of regrets. Deserting the crew of former pirate king Bartholomew Roberts is not one of them. She vowed she would never return to his Charleston mansion, knowing that doing so would mean captivity or death. Now, two hundred years after she left, she has no other option: her new master is dying, and the person who holds the key to his cure has disappeared on Bartholomew's turf.But Kulika isn't the only woman on a mission in South Carolina. Patience Quick has been searching for her best friend for six months now, along with enough other missing people to fill a whole deck of cards. She's willing to do just about anything to find her friend, even if it means following a midnight lead to a colonial-era mansion, where a never-ending pool party is about to turn sinister.As Bartholomew's great revelation approaches, his mansion is a powder keg of untrained vampires, and what little control he holds over them is beginning to disintegrate. While Kulika knowingly confronts the man who gave her immortality, Quick is left scrambling to understand the nature of the creatures whose nest she has unwittingly disturbed.When the two women's paths cross, blood will fly.The QuickSilver Omnibus edition is a complete collection, containing all three books (Kill Me Quick; A Quick Study; Quick and the Dead) and all six short stories (A Shanty in the Key of F You; Dolce Evita; Ex Marks the Spot; Cara Mia; Bella Donna; Ciao Bella) in Josie Jaffrey's QuickSilver series, a sapphic dark fantasy series set in Charleston, South Carolina.

The pirates of Charleston's Golden Age aren't as dead as you might think.In her centuries-long life, Kulika Yadav has chalked up more than her fair share of regrets. Deserting the crew of former pirate king Bartholomew Roberts is not one of them. She vowed she would never return to his Charleston mansion, knowing that doing so would mean captivity or death. Now, two hundred years after she left, she has no other option: her new master is dying, and the person who holds the key to his cure has disappeared on Bartholomew's turf.But Kulika isn't the only woman on a mission in South Carolina. Patience Quick has been searching for her best friend for six months now, along with enough other missing people to fill a whole deck of cards. She's willing to do just about anything to find her friend, even if it means following a midnight lead to a colonial-era mansion, where a never-ending pool party is about to turn sinister.While Kulika knowingly confronts the man who gave her immortality, Quick is left scrambling to understand the nature of the creatures whose nest she has unwittingly disturbed. When the two women's paths cross, blood will fly.Kill Me Quick is the first book in Josie Jaffrey's QuickSilver series, a sapphic dark fantasy series set in Charleston, South Carolina.