Realm Walker
Realm Walker Series
Realm Walker Series
Book One
Kathleen Collins
Genre: Urban
Fantasy
Publisher: Carina
Press
Date of
Publication: October 28, 2013
ISBN: 9781426896545
ASIN: B00E1V5S3S
Word Count: 76,000
Book Description:
An estranged mate, a mangled body and a
powerful demon who calls her by name…
As a Realm
Walker for the Agency, Juliana Norris tracks deadly paranormal quarry using her
unique ability to see magical signatures. She excels at her job, but her
friends worry about her mysterious habit of dying in the line of duty without
staying dead. That's only the first of her secrets.
Most people
don't know Juliana became the mate of master vampire Thomas Kendrick before he
abandoned her seven years ago. Most people don't know the horrors she endured
at the hands of the vampire he left in command. Most people don't know her true
parentage, or why a demon on a world-threatening rampage has taken a personal
interest in her…
Even as
Juliana pursues the demon, it goes after all she holds dear—including Thomas,
who is back to claim her for his own. But if she can't reconcile her past and
learn to trust herself again, she will lose him forever.
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Realm Walker Series
Book 2
Kathleen Collins
Genre: urban fantasy, paranormal romance
Publisher: Carina press
ISBN: 9781426898112
ASIN: B00GKBIR80
Word Count: 68,000
Book Description:
Juliana Norris, Realm Walker with the Agency, is an Altered. A fact that she runs up against every time she’s forced to work with human police officers, and their species-ist commissioner, on cases they can’t solve themselves. Which happens more than they would like to admit.
Her gift—the quality that makes her the best Realm Walker in the business, without boast—is the ability to read magical signatures. Whether the gift came from her father, the dark fae god of death, or the mage mother she can’t remember, is anyone’s guess. And when Altered children start going missing with only wild magical signatures as clues, her heritage is the last thing on her mind.
She can’t afford such distractions, and she definitely can’t afford to worry about the fact that her mate, master vampire Thomas Kendrick, hasn’t spoken to her since she saved him from a demon—maybe it’s because she had to stab him to do so. Because whoever is kidnapping these children must be very powerful to wield wild magic. Very powerful, and very dangerous indeed.
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My Review
Such intrigue and suspense in this one. Make sure you read Realm Walker first, but once you do, you'll be read for this one :) It's a fast paced and a great read. Investigations make it mysterious, and vampers and magic make it paranormal so you get a little bit of everything.
Juliana runs the magical crime lab, and she senses traces of magic, she "sees" it. Then she gets stuck working a case of kidnapped and murder of children. She's upset and frustrated and having magical back lash. Though she is magical, she's also quite skilled as a normal person investigator. She just wants to save those kids.
I'm definitely gunna say that if you like a lot of police type investigation, and mystery, with supernatural elements in there, this one is for you. I am not really a fan of the romance part of the book. I actually don't really like Thomas, and I find him more annoying than I should LOL I loved that book and plot though, so it makes up for it. And there's a mix, a lot of people like Thomas, and I like him as a character, but I don't like him and Juliana together. Maybe their time apart has changed them too much, I don't know, but I guess we'll see in book three where we're gunna go from here.
The writing is well done, though I wished the POV changes were a little easier and flowed just a little bit better. Other than that, I look forward to reading book three. :) 4 PAWS!
The Making of Michael Bishop
A Realm Walker Short Story
Kathleen Collins
Genre: urban
fantasy, dark fantasy
Date of
Publication: August 30, 2014
ASIN: B00N5YWPCE
Number of pages: 20
Book Description:
Keep your distance. Don't look him in the eye. Feed him and leave.
Michael D'Augustino
is a priest in the time of the Inquisition. Marked as weak for his refusal to
torture those charged with sorcery, heresy, devil worship or worse, he's given
another task. Feed the prisoner in the cell in the darkest corner of the
dungeon. With the edict comes a set of instructions.
Ever obedient,
Michael does exactly as he is told. Until the night his charge doesn't eat and
Michael has to enter the cell to find out why. Instead of the beast he believes
to be imprisoned there, he finds a man. A broken, tormented man who asks for
help.
But all is not as
it seems and, before the night is through, Michael will be changed forever.
Excerpt:
Once again Juliana
found herself on the outskirts of the End. If there was anywhere a demon should
feel at home, she guessed it would be Devil’s End. She started walking the
streets, unsure of where she was heading, but too keyed up to sit around
waiting for a lead.
Briefly she thought about knocking on doors as she
passed, but it would be a waste of time. For one, the street patrols would have
already done it and for another, no one around here saw anything even if it
happened a foot from their face. That’s just the way things worked in the End.
The End was her territory. Whenever the Agency needed to
send a representative, they sent her. She wasn’t sure if it was because of her
proximity or because they thought she blended in with the locals.
Unfortunately, the second option seemed most likely. Even as familiar a face as
she was in the area, it was unlikely she would get any more information than
the patrols had. Especially when it became known a demon was involved. No one
wanted to cross a demon.
A couple of blocks down, at the end of a dark alley,
stood a nondescript door with a red rune of a double-armed cross blazing above
it. She smiled. That was Michael’s mark. He told her once he’d taken it from
the Holy Order of Inquisitioners. She didn’t ask why, there were some things
she didn’t want to know about her friends. At least she wouldn’t have any
trouble getting information from anyone here. If they knew, they’d tell her.
She knocked on the door. A Neanderthal-looking vampire
with one eyebrow answered the door, filling the opening entirely. She didn’t
recognize him.
He frowned down at her. “What do you want?”
“Here to see the boss,” she answered.
That one eyebrow rose and he looked her over. “Leave your
weapons or you stay here.”
“I stay here then. You go fetch.”
He growled and narrowed his eyes before stepping back and
slamming the door. She waited for a ten count and then followed after him.
“Someone’s here to see you, boss. Left her outside,” the
Neanderthal said as she crested the stairs. A tall, gaunt blond male with
waist-length hair drew two blades and pointed them at her throat. A petite
brunette pointed her gun at Juliana’s chest and the Neanderthal flexed his
hands into fists as he turned to face her.
At the desk beyond them sat a vampire with brown hair and
eyes so dark they were almost black even when he wasn’t in a rage. As usual, he
needed a shave. Michael.
“You never call, you never write,” she said, looking at
him, but watching the others from the corner of her eyes.
“Leave us.” His eyes never left hers.
About the Author:
Kathleen Collins has been
writing since Kindergarten. And while her ability has drastically improved, her
stories are still about monsters and the people who play with them.
The rare instances that she
actually finds some spare time, she spends it playing with her two boys. Three
if you count her husband.
She is currently hard at work
on her next book.
@kathy_collins
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