Seeker of Shadows

Gideon delivers a rich and complex romantic urban fantasy romance to follow Hunter of Shadows. Shifter club owner Jacques LaRoche is pretty sure that beautiful, intriguing Susanna Duchamps, one of the Chosen, is bad news; his past experience with Chosen got him dumped in the Big Easy with his memory blanked. She sees her visit to New Orleans as an opportunity to advance her research into Shifter genetics and a chance to remake lives, including her own. Susanna, who was involved in Jacques’s earlier experience with the Chosen, never expected to see him again. Now the big question is whether she’ll be strong enough to leave him a second time. Series fans are rewarded with critical developments layered on previous books, while enticing new dimensions to the Shifter world keep things fresh. Susanna is slow to develop as sympathetic, and earlier series characters are thinly sketched, but newcomers can still enjoy the well-crafted prose and page-turning tension. Agent: Karen Solem, Spencerhill Associates. (June)