Cheat the Grave (Signs of the Zodiac Series #5) »

After a decade dancing with the Tropicana's Folies Bergere, Las Vegas native Vicki Pettersson traded in her sequins for a laptop and became a writer. "Blending dark fantasy and hard-boiled mystery with elements of romance and apocalyptic thriller... [Pettersson's novels are] set amid the neon-lit glitziness of Sin City and feature Joanna Archer, one of the most intriguing and unfathomably deep heroines to grace the pages of a supernatural fantasy in ages," say our editors.

Las Vegas socialite and otherwordly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she embraced mortality—abandoning her powers and altering her destiny to save a child . . . and a city. Now her former allies are her enemies—and her enemies have nothing to fear.

Yet still she is bound to a prophecy that condemns her to roam a nightmare landscape that ordinary humans cannot see and dare not enter. And a beast is on her trail—an insane killer blinded by bloodlust, who's determined to rip much more from Joanna than merely her now-fragile life. Survival is no longer an option in this dark realm where good and evil have blurred into confusing shades of gray—unless she can gather together an army of onetime foes and destroy everything she once believed in.

Romantic Times BOOKclub

“This fourth book in Pettersson’s Sign of the Zodiac is a wild roller-coaster read. With a kick-ass heroine and characters who blur the line between good and evil, this book will have readers panting for more.”