Night Broken

This most recent installment in the "Mercy Thompson" series by Patricia Briggs continues to inspire my sneaking time to gulp down another few chapters. Blog posts on all her other books in this series are retrievable by searching on "Briggs." This time Mercy is facing one mortal threat, in the form of Adam's ex-wife Christy, and one immortal one, in the form of a volcano god from the Canary Islands. You might wonder how these get brought together?? Well, Christy, who could not handle the life of being married to an alpha werewolf and so left husband and daughter, has been having a high old time living on Adam's financial support--gambling, partying, picking up men. Only this time she has picked up an extraordinarily handsome, rich, obsessive, and dangerous one. So she comes to Adam for help, and because the pack is still not happy with Adam's bringing in a mere coyote as mate and pack member, many are ready and willing to help Christy, both to get away from the stalker and to worm her way back into Adam and Jesse's life.  Christy neglects to tell them that her stalker may not be an ordinary human being, but something supernatural. As it turns out, he is a god of sorts, looking for a lost love, who he thinks has come back as Christy. Not even the might of werewolves and the magic of the fae can defeat him. But maybe if everyone works together... Side plots include the shifting dynamics within the pack as Mercy continues to demonstrate her seemingly boundless capacity for both attracting and getting out of trouble; the efforts of half-faerie mechanic and friend Tad to intervene with the volcano god that get him sent to the fae reservation; and the desire of one of the fae Gray Lords to have the walking stick back at any cost.  Still one of my absolutely favorite fantasy series!!