Jennifer Ashley

Cast of Characters

Place: Los Angeles, California
Time: September, Present Day

Tain: The youngest of the Immortal brothers, captured and tortured for 700 years by a powerful demon. He has red hair, twin swords, and a powerful but scarred body. He’s free of the demon now, but will he ever be free in his own mind? And why can’t he forget Samantha, a beautiful half-demon woman who once faced him down?

Samantha Taylor: Her last encounter with Tain both intrigued her and scared the hell out of her. She’s half-demon, half-human, and she knows she’s last person on earth Tain wants to see again.

Logan Wright: Samantha’s partner in the LAPD, paranormal division. A werewolf who walked away from his pack and isn’t saying why.

Merrick: A demon club owner in L.A.—he claims he abides by the laws, but he has fingers in many pies.

Nadia: A young demon woman who went through horror and lived to tell about it.

Septimus: A vampire lord who might or might not be on the side of good.

Kelly: The human actress, a rising star, who loves Septimus unconditionally.

The Matriarch: The leader of Samantha’s demon clan, a cold, powerful woman who holds many secrets.

Ariadne, the Matriarch’s Majordomo: Her first loyalty is to the clan and her matriarch, and she doesn’t like Samantha butting in.

Ms. Townsend: Prim leader of an anti-death magic cult. How far will she go to rid the world of demons?

Lieutenant McKay: A half-Sidhe, half-Black human woman, she didn’t inherit the Sidhe height, but her splash of magic makes her one hell of a detective.

Fulton: Samantha’s demon father. He’s trying to make up for the past.

Kehksut: One very powerful, but very dead demon. He tortured Tain and broke his mind, and the ordeal haunts Tain still.

Hunter: One of Tain’s Immortals brothers. Green-eyed and cocky, he has affinity with animals and a sword that flames. He’s worried about his baby brother.

Adrian: The oldest of the Immortal brothers. He has a sword that turns into a cobra, and he too worries that Tain will never be healed.

Leda Stowe: Hunter’s witchy wife, an air-magic witch who wants to see Tain happy at last.

Cerridwen: The Celtic goddess, Tain’s mother. She has reasons for what she did and didn’t do, and those reasons broke her heart.

Ferrin: A snarky cobra that turns into a sword.

Mukasa: A lion

Pickles: A cat not afraid of a lion.

Ed and Mike: An unlikely heroic duo.