Cover of Blood Bound

Blood Bound

Patricia Briggs

Mercy Thompson #2

urban fantasy romance(137k)

Shapeshifter mechanic Mercy Thompson goes vampire-wrangling and uncovers a demon far worse than expected.

Content Warnings
violence/gore

Description

Under the rule of science, there are no witch burnings allowed, no water trials or public lynchings. In return, the average law-abiding, solid citizen has little to worry about from the things that go bump in the night. Sometimes I wish I was an average citizen...Mechanic Mercy Thompson has friends in low places-and in dark ones. And now she owes one of them a favor. Since she can shapeshift at will, she agrees to act as some extra muscle when her vampire friend Stefan goes to deliver a message to another of his kind.But this new vampire is hardly ordinary-and neither is the demon inside of him.

Mercy Thompson series

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