Shadowfae Series by Erica Hayes – a Synopsis
Shadowfae Chronicles
Imagine a secret world veiled in fairy glamour and brimming with unearthly delights. A city swarming with half-mad fairies, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerise you with their songs, and big green trolls bust heads at nightclubs. And once you're in, there's no escape...
Hellcursed (short story) – free online
http://www.shadowfae.net/hellcursed.html
Tricked. Cursed. Damned.
It’s 1863, and headstrong ex-convent girl Jade has renounced the church that tried to curb her independence. Now, she travels the world seeking adventure and the pleasures of forbidden ritual.
But she's tricked by a treacherous sorcerer, and forced into a darker kind of slavery. She's a succubus, with a powerful demon lord her master for a thousand years.
At least, that's what he thinks. Jade accepts no man's domination, least of all a demon's. She's determined to thwart her fate.
But she's yet to discover the true meaning of demon thrall...
1. Shadowfae (Jade & Rajahni) – October, 2009
Enslaved by a demon lord, Jade is forced to spend her nights seducing vampire gangsters and shapeshifting thugs. After two hundred years as a succubus, she burns for freedom and longs to escape her brutal life as a trophy girl for hell’s minions. Then she meets Rajah, an incubus who touches her heart and intoxicates her senses. Rajah shares the same bleak fate as she, and yearns just as desperately for freedom. But the only way for Jade to break her bonds is to betray Rajah—and doom the only man she’s ever loved to a lifetime in hell.
2. Shadowglass (Ice & Indigo) – March, 2010
Welcome to secret world hidden behind shadowy fairy glamour, where thieving spriggans rob you blind, beautiful banshees mesmerize you with their song, big green trolls kick heads at nightclubs and vampire Mafiosi rule the streets. Here a seductive magic mirror lies hidden deep in a demon’s lair, with a simple warning: don’t stare at the glass…
Ice is a light-fingered fairy who can’t resist a look at the powerful mirror. She and her fairy friends run confidence games, pretending to be fortune tellers and bedazzling customers with their glamour. But Ice longs for more—she wants a real life, a respectable job and something to strive for. The mirror offers her a chance to achieve everything she’s ever dreamed of. But when she pilfers it, she discovers that its power comes with a price: the mirror is a gateway to obsession and madness… and it will take every trick in her arsenal just to survive.
3. Poison Kissed (Mina &Joey) – September, 2010
Mina is a banshee whose greatest power lies in her siren song. She’s beholden to her boss Joey, a snake-shifter who once saved her life and now employs her as a gang enforcer. She refuses to upset the fragile balance between them by admitting that she longs for him, that his embrace is the only thing she craves more than revenge for her mother’s death…
When Mina learns that Joey may have been involved in her mother’s murder, fury threatens to spill out of her note by vicious note. She and Joey have always trusted each other to stay alive, but now she’s not sure what to believe. The evidence stacked against him—or the one man who haunts her dreams and burns her blood…
4. Blood Cursed (Ember & Diamond) – August, 2011
To a vampire, nothing is sweeter than bloodfairy essence—and Ember is the most sought-after fairy on the underworld circuit. Selling her blood to the highest bidder—and robbing her clients in the process—Ember has unwittingly become a target of dark and dangerous forces. Her enemies are everywhere. And if she hopes to survive, she needs protection…
Diamond is a glassfairy who, for better or worse, knows his way around the vampire underworld. Smooth as silk and tougher than trolls, Diamond is Ember’s only chance to keep her magical blood inside her body, where it belongs. But he also poses a threat to Ember, a strange kind of danger she’s never experienced before: She’s falling in love with him…
4.5. Cherry Kisses – (Hex Appeal Anthology) – June, 2012
Synopsis by Barb
Very interesting Barb… there is a lot of reading in that post 😀 Dangerous information for a person trying to avoid making her tbr pile bigger than it already is.
I haven’t read Erica yet…..but I do know that CRAIG WHITE did the illustrations for the covers…lol
Those covers are cool, Sandy. Craig does a good job. I really loved his video showing us how he does it.
Great post Barb! Unfortunately for me, most things involving fae and glamour cause me to glaze over. There is one series that I read along the lines of this series, so at some point, I may check into these.
I refuse to take the bait offered Barb. LOL It sounds a lot like a succubus series I have read. Who knows may have yo pick it up.
This is an very good series, if any of you want an opinion. 🙂
I really like the covers and the variety of species in this PNR. My TBR list is getting longer and longer. lol