Dorina Basarab

"In Vino Veritas," is a short story connected to the New York Times bestselling Dorina Basarab series of novels. It features Dorina, a dhampir mercenary, trying to help Ray, a somewhat mentally-challenged vampire, out of a sticky situation. To save his life, and possibly her own, Dory will have to prove that she can kick butt in a totally new way--while drunk off her ass.

Dorina Basarab is a dhampirthe feared and hated cross between a vampire and a humanor so she has always believed. She spent most of her life on the fringes of her two worlds, yearning to belong to one or the other, but despised and distrusted by both. Recently, a war in the supernatural community allowed her to gain a foothold in her vampire father's world, one of danger, intrigue, glitz and glamour, where she found not only a home, but a lover, too. For the first time in centuries, life seemed to be going her way. But now, an incident with a dangerous magical device has left her two natures separated into duplicate bodies, both fighting to survive while they search for the truth about their past, and the key to their future.

When Dorina Basarab, half human, half vampire, assassin-for-hire, hits New Orleans, she thinks it's for a typical job: take out a mad master vampire before he can wreak havoc on the city. But when the elusive master suddenly shows up at her hotel room, things get complicated, especially when Dorina realizes that the murder he has in mind is his own! Now she has a dead master on her hands, a vampire family looking for revenge, and a limited amount of time to figure out what's going on before a shadowy killer kills again. Looks like the Big Easy is about to get a whole lot harder.

Dory and Dorina Basarab were once one person, albeit an unusual one. They were a dhampirthe hated cross between a human and a vampire that is reviled and feared in both circles. But the human and vampire parts of their nature were recently torn apart by a fey weapon, and now, for the first time in five centuries, they are two separate people.And one of them is being hunted.Dory and her husband, the vampire senator Louis-Cesare, brave the strange and often deadly world of Faerie looking for her other half. But even finding her proves difficult, and despite their skill and abilities, they struggle to stay alive. And then struggle again with the secrets about their family that their search uncoverssecrets that may give them a fighting chance in the war they are waging against the ancient gods, or may end up destroying two worlds.

One of the most powerful vampires in existence has gone missing, which is fine with Dorina Basarab. As a dhampir, a half human, half vampire hybrid, her job is killing vampires, not saving them. But then the man sent to find the missing vampire also goes missing, and he happens to be her lover, Louis-Cesare. She therefore finds herself on a rescue mission with an old enemy, while a flood of long forgotten memories plays out in her head. What are they trying to tell her? And can she figure it out before it's too late?

A new novella in the New York Times bestselling Midnight's Daughter series!Everyone knows that vampires are hard to kill. But when Dory Basarab is called to a crime scene in a smelly basement in Queens, she discovers that that may no longer be the case. Somebody has developed a new weapon, a vamp killer, and left her plenty of clues to follow. One of them leads her to the other side of the world, and to a city like no other, where the paranormal is normal and where death stalks the streets. Can she defeat a clever killer before he kills again, and on an unprecedented scale?