For those who prefer text:
Gillian Urswick and
Kit Marlowe (short stories): The Kit Marlowe shorts fill in some background on
the Silver Circle, the main magical organization mentioned in the two series, and
provide information on a cross-over character, Elizabethan bad boy Christopher (Kit) Marlowe. They
can be read at any time, before, during or after the main series. So far they
include "The Gauntlet" and "The Queen's Witch," both
available for free on this website or at Smashwords.com. Extra free stories for
the Cassie Palmer series: These are available on the web site and (most) can also be found at Smashwords.com. If
you want them in paperback or in one collection, they are also sold in
that form on Amazon. "Updating Pritkin" is a tongue in cheek glimpse
into life around Dante's casino and can be read at any time. "Shitty Beer" is a John Pritkin short set during Claimed by Shadow. "A Family Affair" and "Shadowland," are Pritkin shorts set between Curse the Dawn and Hunt the
Moon. "The
House at Cobb End," deals with Pritkin's life before the beginning of
the Cassie series, but to avoid spoilers, it should also be read after Curse the
Dawn. The Day of the Dead,"
features Tomas from Touch the Dark and Claimed by Shadow, and should be read
after those books. The Dorina Basarab
books (main series): There are currently four, and soon to be five, books that tell the story of the dhampir daughter of Mircea Basarab,
a major figure in the Cassie Palmer series. A number of
crossover characters and plotlines connect the two series, which I have always
viewed as one. The current books are: Midnight’s Daughter, Death’s Mistress,
Fury’s Kiss and Shadow's Bane. Queen's Gambit,
the fifth Dorina Basarab novel, will be out in the spring of 2020. The
reading order of the books is as follows: the first Dorina (Midnight's Daughter) can be read after
the
second Cassie (Claimed by Shadow) because it concludes the storyline
begun in
that book. Or, if you wish to read chronologically, it can be read
after
Embrace the Night, the third Cassie, which it overlaps. The novella,
"Buying Trouble," (available in the On the Prowl anthology or by
itself as an ebook) should be read before the start of the Dorina
series, as it
sets up some of the conflicts of Midnight's Daughter. It is not necessary to
understand
or enjoy the novel, however. Extra free stories for
the Dorina Basarab series: The short story "In Vino Veritas" from the Chicks Kick Butt anthology (follows Death's Mistress) , the novella "Zombie's Bite" (a prequel to the Dorina series), and the novella "Lover's Knot" (follows Fury's Kiss) can be found for free on this web site and at Smashwords.com. The novella "Dragon's Claw" (also follows Fury's Kiss) is available for purchase.
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