A Fire in the Shadows
About
No one is lonelier than a vampire who loves.
Lydia is an exceptional vampire—not only as an urban scout and skilled fighter, but because she's regained her ability to love others. While her family teases her for having crushes, traditionalist vampires would kill Lydia if they knew about her forbidden feelings.
But when an investigation takes her to Bolingbrook, she falls for the editor of paranormal tabloid the Babbler. Sara is one of the few humans who believes in the vampires she reports on— and, freshly heartbroken and devastatingly lonely, Lydia finds herself imagining things she shouldn't.
Then, enforcers from one of Chicago's vampire kingdoms upend the supernatural community and threaten Sara's life. Lydia leaps to her defense, but while skill and passion win fights, can they save a vampire from the greatest weakness of all—love?
This novelette is part of the Bolingbrook Babbler Stories and takes place during the events of The Rift. An Urban Fantasy Series set in suburban Chicago land for fans of the Dresden Files and Let the Right One In.
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Praise for this book
A thrilling ´vampire´ fantasy packed full of twists, turns – and danger!
I could not put this down. It is a part of a series but can be read as a standalone. I loved the dynamic between Lydia and Aurora and will read the first and third books immediately.
Action-packed, entertaining, and haunting in its delivery, author William Brinkman’s “A Fire in the Shadows” is a great entry into the Bolingbrook Babbler Story series and a phenomenal YA Paranormal Fantasy. The quick pace of the plot and the rich world-building that helped cement this town and the supernatural hierarchy of things into the narrative helped the reader really build a rapport with the main cast of characters, and the unique foes that the protagonist faces made this a must-read novel.