Crow's Curse

Garnet Conners has the blood of the legendary Morrigan, and there's no wrath like that of an angry goddess. Turned into a vampire against her will, Garnet takes sides with the witches in a war against the vampires...and there will be blood. Crow's Curse Collection contains the novellas Morrigan's Blood, Morrigan's Bite, and Morrigan's Bond. Morrigan's Blood As a trauma surgeon, Garnet Conners sees more than her fair share of blood during the day. At night, she's steeped in dreams of a mysterious goddess who stalks battlefields in the company of crows. When one of her patients climbs off the operating table and disappears into the night, she finds herself caught in a war between legions of vampires and witches in Riverpointe. Morrigan's Bite Garnet had a beautiful life…and it was stolen from her when she was turned into a vampire. She now finds herself hiding out in the basement of a coven house governed by hostile witches, dreaming of an existence as Erzebet Bathory. Struggling with her vampiric urges, she despairs of ever returning to her former life. When her sister and friend go missing, Garnet knows she's being hunted by vampires who will stop at nothing to bring her back into their fold. Morrigan's Bond Victims of vampires are piling up at Garnet's morgue…including the body of the vampire who turned her, Merrel. Merrel has faked his own death to set into motion a plot to wrest control of Riverpointe's vampires from their queen. Garnet's previous incarnation fought Varya in the skies above World War II and was destroyed. If Garnet helps Merrel, he promises to move the vampires away from Riverpointe entirely, leaving Garnet and her lover, the warlock Sorin, in peace. If she refuses, the city and all its supernatural inhabitants will be devoured in flames.

Garnet has the blood of the legendary Morrigan – and legions of vampires and witches will go to war to possess that power. As a trauma surgeon, Garnet Conners has seen more than her fair share of blood. But when one of her patients walks off the operating table and disappears into the night, she finds herself caught in a war between legions of vampires and witches in her city. Garnet has dreamed of bloody battlefields for years – and a mysterious lover who controls a kingdom. In her waking life, Garnet is shocked to meet that man in a club. Merrel knows her from another life, a life in which she was the legendary Morrigan, goddess of death and war. Garnet rejects the notion of magical incarnations altogether. But she falls in with Sorin, a handsome warlock who's determined to protect the former bootlegger city of Riverpointe from a secret society of vampires. Haunted by crows and faced with undeniable proof of magic, Garnet scrambles to protect her career and loved ones from magical violence. Abducted by vampires who seek to turn her into a vampire against her will, can Garnet seize the power of the legendary Morrigan to forge her own path in her embattled city? Or will she be forced to serve as a fearsome weapon in a deadly nocturnal war?

Becoming a vampire was the worst thing to ever happen to Garnet Conners. But does she have to become a monster, too?