Mar 7, 2022

Silence Fallen by Patricia Briggs (2017) Ace

Mercy, a descendent of Coyote, a shapeshifter and wife of the Adam Hauptman, a werewolf and alpha of the Columbia Basin pack, is intentionally hit by a semi and kidnapped by the Lord of the Night, the master vampire of Milan, Italy.  This launches a panic search for Mercy by the pack.  When she comes-to in Italy, she escapes, is chased by a local werewolf who is in thrall to the vampire.  Mercy leads her into the path of a bus.  Riding in the luggage compartment of a bus, she makes her way to Prague.  There, she runs into the golem made by rabbi Loeb.  She asks for protection from the local wolfpack.  One of her ‘talents’ is being able to see ghosts and communicate with them.  She can also command them.  The golem is dead.  While under the protection of the second and third wolves in the Prague pack, she wanders into a second seethe of vampires and too late, realizes there are wards that prevent the wolves from seeing the building.  To them, she just disappeared.  She is captured and placed into a magical cage that she cannot get out of in a basement that is filled with ghosts.  The golem appears and gets her help to consume all but one of the ghosts.  This gives him the power break down the wards protecting the building.  It’s even more complicated than that.  In the end, of course, she is rescued.

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