Sister of the Dead (Noble Dead Series #3) »

Barb & JC Hendee live just outside of Boulder, Colorado, close to the Rocky Mountains. Both are online college instructors in English; JC teaches for Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Barb teaches for the University of Colorado at Denver. Barb's short fiction has appeared in numerous genre magazines and anthologies. She is the author of the novel Blood Memories. JC's poetry, non-fiction, and short fiction have also appeared in many genre magazines. Although they have worked together as a writing team before, DHAMPIR(ROC Fantasy) and its sequels (THIEF OF LIVES, 1/2004; SISTER OF THE DEAD, 1/2005; TRAITOR TO THE BLOOD, 1/2006; Untitled, 1/2007) are their first novel-length collaborations.

THE NOBLE DEAD SAGA CONTINUES AS MAGIERE AND LEESIL, THE SLAYERS OF THE UNDEAD FROM *DHAMPIR* AND *THIEF OF LIVES*, EMBARK ON A QUEST TO UNCOVER THE SECRETS OF THEIR MYSTERIOUS ORIGINS - AND THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR ORCHESTRATING THE EVENTS THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER....

Publishers Weekly

In the Hendees' complex and bloody third Noble Dead novel (after 2006's Traitor to the Blood), powerful and ambitious Noble Dead vampire Welstiel is in a desperate race with his dhampir half-sister Magiere to find a mysterious orb. As he builds a force of vampire minions to assist in his journey, Magiere travels though elven lands, where she is hated and feared for her semivampiric nature, determined to find and protect the artifact. The elven patriarch called Most Ancient Father offers resources to aid her on the quest while planning to steal the orb from her later. Magiere's friends and allies have a long and dangerous journey ahead of them. Interspecies distrust, grand ambitions and the lure of dangerous secrets protected by the undead drive the action in this neat mix of horror with more traditional fantasy elements. (Jan.)