Heart's Blood

Gail Dayton

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Master conjurer Grey Carteret regains consciousness in a London gutter next to a concerned street urchin and not far from the body of a man murdered by magic. Some fool is hoping to use murder to raise a demon. Arrested for the crime, Grey must rely on the street urchin for help. But the lad turns out to be a comely lass, and she wants something in exchange.

Pearl Parkin, a gently reared lady struggling to survive in London’s slums, sees magic as a way out of the life she finds herself trapped in. But blackmailing Grey into making her his apprentice has unexpected consequences. As they plunge into the hunt for the murderer, Pearl discovers that the things she once desperately wanted are not so important after all, and that she must risk her blood, her heart, and her very life to grasp the love she needs.

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GREY CARTERET WOKE in a foul mood.

One generally did when one woke lying face-down in a gutter reeking of things best left unmentioned, with no idea of how one arrived in said gutter. Particularly when one also woke feeling as if all the angels in heaven and the demons of hell had spent the entire previous night fighting across each of the 206 bones in one’s body. Even more particularly when such rude awakenings had been occurring with increasing frequency.

He groaned, which made the pain in his head crescendo with unfortunate familiarity, and he rolled over, which

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Rainbowjay2  rated it  
Jul 22, 2011
A Bodice ripper. That is the best description I can think of for this book. Gail Dayton's never leaves ANYTHING to the imagination in that department. I had never heard the term steampunk before I read the first book in this series. That means Magick in turn of the century England. Throw in mur ...more
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Mayakda  rated it  
Nov 12, 2010
4.5 stars. Stayed up way too late reading it. The romance was entertaining and warm and fuzzy. I didn't figure out the mystery until near the big reveal.
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Margaret  rated it  
Oct 3, 2010
An excellent sequel.Loved it.I really hope that a third book comes out.And soon.As with the 1st book,excellent characters,gripping storyline and a good mystery.Didnt pick the bad guy until the end.Really loved the hero and heroine in this one.And how characters from the previous book were the same.T ...more
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GAIL DAYTON wrote her first story at the tender age of nine, and she’s been writing ever since. A RITA finalist in 2002 for Best First Book, she won a Prism Award for Best Fantasy with The Barbed Rose in 2007. She lives with her husband on the Texas Gulf coast.

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Heart's Blood
Gail Dayton

Mass Market Paperbound

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Tom Doherty Associates
Tor Books
December 2009
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ISBN: 9780765362513
ISBN10: 0765362511
4 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches, 432 pages
$6.99

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