I stepped outside and went along the curving path toward the edge of the lawn, where six vampires waited. Sean followed me. The men at arms watched us. All above six feet, all with identical square bulges under their trench coats, that made them look like football players with their pads on. Syn-armor. They weren’t playing around.
No banners. Odd. Usually they had a banner.
“Armed protocol,” I murmured. “Maximum level threat.”
Behind me things slid as the house prepared for attack.
It’s been a long time since I’ve dealt with the Holy Cosmic Anocracy and back then I always had my parents to back me up. Now my back up was a possibly insane werewolf who was prone to making snap judgments and acting on them with maximum force.
The largest vampire stood in front of the others. big, with broad shoulders, a great wealth of brown and gray hair cascading down his back. A short beard traced his square jaw. Human males tended to bulk up with age. For vampires that process was even more pronounced: they grew more muscular and grizzled. The one looking at me now had to be close to sixty. And because he stood with his back to the street light, I couldn’t see him clearly.
I sent a pulse of magic into the broom. The top of the handle glowed a gentle blue. The vampire’s eyes caught the light and reflected it back, glowing pale red like the irises of a tiger. The blue light of the broom played on his syn-armor, molded to the lines of his powerful chest. I covertly looked for the glyphs glowing with dark red. His rank would roughly translate to Knight Sergeant. Bad news.
I stopped about six inches from the boundary of the inn.
Another vampire stepped forward and snapped a tube up, holding it horizontally in his hand about eye level. A dark red banner unfurled, almost touching the grass. Ah. Here was the banner.
A predator’s head with large fangs and vicious eyes was embroidered in gold on the red. It looked like a cross between a bear and a saber tooth.
“House of Krahr!” the vampire with the banner barked quietly.
“Krahr,” the other four vampire exhaled and glared at me.
Usually they roared their house name at the top of their lungs, trying to intimidate…. Oh. They were trying to be inconspicuous. I bit my lip to keep from laughing. I’ve never heard an attempt at intimidation whispered at me before.
“Gertrude Hunt greets the House of Krahr and offers her hospitality to its brave warriors,” I said. Protocol was important. It kept everyone civil and limited the disembowelment to a bare minimum.
“House of Krahr greets the innkeeper,” the older vampire said. “We wish you no ill will.”
“Would you like to come in?” I asked.
“We must regretfully decline,” the older vampire said. “I’m Lord Soren, son of Rok, son of Gartena, Baron of Nur Castle.”
“Dina Demille, daughter of Gerard and Helen. My lord, why are you wearing trench coats?”
“We must blend in,” he said. “This is a covert operation.”
Don’t laugh, don’t laugh, don’t laugh… “It’s very hot,” I said. “Trench coats are a cold-winter garment.”
Sean cleared his throat, “Half a dozen big guys in ill-fitting trench coats pouring out of black Hummers into the Texas heat? I don’t think covert means what you think it means.”
Lord Soren’s bushy eyebrows came together. “Is there a warm weather alternative?”
“Rain ponchos,” Sean said. “If it’s raining. Otherwise oversize football jerseys and helmets are your best bet.”
“Are you sure you wouldn’t like to come in?” I asked.
“No. I’ll come straight to the point: we’ve come for one of your guests.”
It’s like this then, huh. “My lord, if the House of Krahr feels entitled to threaten the safety of my guests, I’m afraid you simply haven’t brought enough.”
The vampires snapped up guns, swords, and axes. A quiet buzz announced blood blades being primed. When activated, a blood blade could chop down a wooden telephone pole. I’d seen it happen.
I plunged the broom into the lawn. Blast shutters clanged into place, guns swung into view, and magic churned around me, stirring my robe. Next to me Sean tensed, his eyes predatory, his face hard.
“Wait.” Lord Soren raised his arms. “Will you walk with me?”
“As you wish.” Walking away didn’t diminish my ability to target them.
We strolled along the boundary, he on his side, and I on mine.
“We seek the dahaka,” he said.
“Why?”
“It’s a private House matter. A matter of honor. We owe him a bloody debt and we always settle our accounts.”
The dahaka had killed someone. Someone important. “Is this a mission of revenge?”
“It is a private matter,” Lord Soren repeated. “He is a monstrous creature. Produce him and this is over.”
“I can’t do that.” Come on, tell me why you want him.
“I do not wish to resort to violence.”
“Lord Soren, you come from a predatory species that brings down its victim by biting through its neck. At any given times there are at least five ongoing military conflicts between the Houses of the Holy Anocracy. You come to me wearing syn-armor and I’ve heard you prime your axe. I would argue that you do not have to consciously resort to violence. It’s your default response.”
Lord Soren stopped and stared at me. “I have five men-at-arms. All seasoned veterans.”
“I have my broom and the alpha strain werewolf.”
Lord Soren glanced at Sean, who blocked the five vampires with his arms on his chest. “Really?”
“Yes.”
Sean made a bigger impression than my broom. Obviously they knew more about alpha strain werewolves than I did.
“If we start something, it will be loud and bloody. We wish to avoid detection, but this isn’t our planet. We will crush you and leave.”
“You will try.”
“Even if you succeed, you will be left to deal with consequences.” He was right. It would be very messy.
“Earth is a neutral ground,” I told him. “If you attack me without provocation, the Innkeepers will revoke your House’s access our services. I’m sure that House Krahr is a powerful House that has enemies who would take full advantage of your travel delays.”
He loomed over me. Didn’t like that, did he?
“Nobody has to know that you surrendered the dahaka.”
I raised my eyebrows. “Are you suggesting I compromise my honor?”
Lord Soren paused. I’d backed him into a corner. Honor wasn’t a concept a vampire was comfortable compromising. Especially a knight.
“If you were to revoke his welcome, he would no longer be your guest.”
“We do not surrender our guests to the first armed person who comes to the door.”
Lord Soren chewed on that for a long minute. “Then we shall set up camp and watch the inn until he leaves.”
He wouldn’t give me any information. Time to end this. “That would be quite useless, my lord, because he isn’t a guest.”
“Do not toy with me. We are locked onto his trackers’ signal.”
“These trackers?”
I pulled the two trackers out of my pocket.
“Explain,” Lord Soren growled.
“Don’t give orders to her,” Sean called.
Werewolf hearing. Much more sensitive than anticipated.
“Explain please.” Lord Soren said.
“He’s killing Earth’s citizens, livestock, and hounds. He killed my neighbors’ dogs, so I killed his stalkers in retaliation.”
Lord Soren pondered the situation. “You activated the trackers. Why?”
“To draw him near.”
“That isn’t your way. You are neutral.”
“Lord Soren, I run a specialized type of inn, catering to a very specific clientele. I don’t handle things the way other innkeepers do. You and your men are welcome to join us and wait until he shows up.”
Lord Soren looked at his men, looked at Sean, and back at me. “No. As I said, the House’s honor is involved. We will handle it alone.”
Anything I would say would be perceived as impugning his honor, and his House’s honor, and his men’s honor, and the honor of their parents… “That’s your prerogative, my lord.”
Lord Soren studied the trackers in my hand. “House of Krahr desires to purchase the trackers from you.”
“I would be willing to part with one.”
“It will do,” he said. “Name your price?”
I held my hand over the boundary and dropped one tracker into his palm. “A gesture of good faith, my lord. Perhaps next time we meet, we will not open our discussion with threats. I ask only that you do not involve my neighbors in your battle.”
He blinked and bowed. “It will be so.” Lord Soren raised his hand with a tracker in it and bared his teeth. Inch-long fangs glistened in the street lamp’s light.. The vampire weapons vanished as if by magic and they grinned at him, their sickle teeth on display.
He turned to Sean. “This is our hunt. Stay out of it.”
“Knock yourselves out,” Sean said.
I walked over to him and we watched them pile into their Hummers and speed north, up the street.
“Thank you for watching my back,” I said.
“No problem. Vampires, huh?”
“Mhm.”
“I heard a heart beat and I saw one of them sweat. They’re not undead.”
“No, they’re a predatory strain of humans. We are situational predators and omnivores. They’re carnivores.”
“How do they get mistaken for corpses?”
“They have thick skin. They don’t blush, their core body temperature is lower than ours, and you saw how their lips are pale. They also tend to put themselves into stasis in coffin-like modules when they know they’re stuck on our planet and they have to wait for a long time to be picked up. Sometimes they bury these modules, because they don’t want to be accidentally found.”
We started back toward the house.
“That’s a long way from a walking corpse,” Sean said.
“Myths tend to spiral out of control. Do you howl at the full moon and steal maidens to devour?”
“Depends on the maiden,” he said.
Was he flirting with me? Devouring didn’t really go with flirting, but his tone of voice did. Was this how werewolves flirted? Hey, baby, if I had to kill any girl and eat her flesh, it would be you…
“They look human.” Sean shook his head.
“They are. There have been vampire/human hybrids.”
He turned and looked at me.
“There are werewolf/human hybrids.” I shrugged. “The basic set of genes is the same…”
A howl of pain cut through the night. It came from the north.
Sean spun toward the sound. He blurred and suddenly a monster rose in his place. Tall, muscular, with enormous shoulders, he was covered with dense, dark grey fur. His big squarish head, more wolf than human and equipped with colossal jaws, rested on a thick muscular neck. His hands, armed with two inch long claws, could enclose my head. He was huge. The werewolves from my memories would be like kids next to him.
Fear gripped me, born from pure instinct. My knees shook.
He snarled, his eyes bright amber. A deep voice came forth. “Stay here.”
“Sean!”
“Stay here!”
He dashed across the lawn, impossibly fast, clearing the hedge in a single leap.
All I can say is thank you, thank you, thank you!
oh wow – what a perfect way to start the weekend. This is getting better and better…
Despite all you have going on you still think of us. Thank You!
YEA!!!!!!!! This made my day. Thank you. Hope your day is going better then it was earlier.
Thank you!
TYPO: “Sometimes they burry these modules” bury
LOVE this! Thank you so much for continuing this story!
I love this series!! And my favorite lines of this one, “Was he flirting with me? Devouring didn’t really go with flirting, but his tone of voice did. Was this how werewolves flirted? Hey, baby, if I had to kill any girl and eat her flesh, it would be you…”
Thank you so much!
Great start to the chapter! I’m having a lot of fun reading this and am looking forward to reading more.
TYPO: sorry! It’s in the first sentence “curving path to the edge of the law”. (Sorry if this isn’t the form you wanted this in, but I couldn’t remember if it was to be in the comments or an email.)
Thank you very much for this!
You certainly know how to leave them wanting more.
Continuing to LOVE your story!
Thank You! This made me smile after a very long week.
I think it’s interesting how you can change “worlds” like you do. Your vampires & werewolves in this one are completely different than the vampires & werewolves in either the Edge series or the Kate Daniels series. I think that’s cool. I once tried to explain to my husband how different writers have different lexicons for their characters. Sometimes vampires can go in the light, sometimes it kills them, sometimes they sparkle. But it’s unusual for one author to create different boundries for the same thing in different story lines. I really like it. Thanks.
But it’s a different world. Why would it have the same werewolves?
Oh. I know. I just can’t think of another writer that does that. If they veer away from their main story line, they either stay in the same “world” with different characters, or they go a completely different route – they do fairies instead of vampires or something like that. It’s fun.
Sometimes when you’re reading several series at once, you have to take a step back and think of what the rules are for the book you’re reading, and if it’s been a while, it might take a little bit to remember what certain creatures can and can’t do. I just really like that you let yourself be totally free to change the rules on yourself and I’m amazed you can keep it straight. Love it.
That’s right. Atlanta is worlds away from Texas.
Great addition – Thanks so much for the weekend read!
Awesome! Please keep it coming.
Best birthday present ever… thank you very much.. Need it after the past couple of days….<3
Happy Birthday!
Thank you, thank you, thank you – love it.
This is killing me, you know? I am not good at WAITING! But, hey, what a way to practice my patience.
I’m totally with you here. When I start a book and like it I want to read it NOW. Then go out and buy the rest (if a series) lol
Oh, and, I don’t care about the typos. Hehehe
WOW! I didn’t think it could get better, but you just proved me wrong. Loved how Sean shifted forms.
this story just keeps getting better
love it!
thank you so much for doing this with everything else you have going on
we had a fridge water leak that ruined our wood floor, so I totally feel for you!
This story is taking such surprising turns
Thanks
You are AWESOME! Thank you
I really am enjoying this story…every week is like opening up a new fun toy!
wheeeeee! Love it.
*happy sigh*
I swear…I’d read a cereal box if you guys wrote it. Thank you!
shopping list, honey-do list–OMG OMG …I would love to see Gordon’s chore list!! Better yet even, school excuse for a designated daughter….
THANK YOU THANK YOU for the excerpt! Still better than anything else I am currently reading right now!
That would be a dangerous cereal box. You take a bite of food while reading the box and end up either choking on the mouthful or shooting it out your nose when a laugh takes you by surprise.
Love it!
Thank you so much! This has made a sucky week better….
Thank you, as always I love it.
intrigue – love it – thank you and here’s to a much better wkend for your family!
Wow. Each installment always has a neat new twist. Thanks so much for a great start to the weekend!
This is sooooo good. I am really enjoying Clean Sweep. Thank you.
I hope the dishwasher and car issues are the last problems for the Andrews family in 2013. Failing that, you should have only minor, inexpensive, and easy to handle problems!
Dude! You guys rock! clean Sweep segments keep the inner beast happy until next delicious book comes out. Thank you!
This is really an interesting story never know what to expect
I’m hooked. I can’t get enough!
Thank you so much. I love how you post small parts at a time because I have a 4 month old and that is really all I have time to read right now.
Awesome installment. Thank you Ilona!
Werewolf way of flirting- priceless!
Interesting take on vampires…
Just like with Edge books, Innkeepers Chronicles is really hard to put in any specific category…
Thank you for this treat!
As all have said, this story continues to capture my interest. I like the characters and am very invested in the story. Found the following typo(s):
“The largest vampire stood in front of the others. big ” – New sentence should be capitalized, i.e. “Big”
“Trench coats are a cold-winter garment.” – did you mean “cold-weather”?
Well it is Texas — so it’s all relative.
I suppose they consider +10 C to be freezing? Although there are light canvas trenches & thick wool ones so I suppose it depends on what Ilona intended. 
Whoops — I self auto-corrected the typo! Sorry thought you were questioning the garment — not the description!
Where I live in Texas, 50-60F is the border area of cold. A little below that or with wind and people pull out the jackets. Although Sean is SO right in saying football jerseys would be less inconspicuous! No matter what the temperature is
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Squee!
So happy to see a new installment! Thank you! I’m completely addicted…
As with all your stories, I’m having a hard time waiting between installments! Write faster!
By the way, do many people compliment you on your rather unique sense of humor? Just wondering!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! Loved it… looking forward to the next installment. Hope y’all have a great weekend!
Must… Read… More…!
I wonder, in general, are the vampires going to be good guys or bad guys?
oh wow, what fun. I eagerly await the next installment
thanks
Thank you very much! Happy Birthday and Happy New Year. Off to re-read.
Fabulous! Don’t leave us hanging on the cliff too long!
Thanks for posting this!
Fantastic. I love this story. Thanks so much.
Thank you for this installment. This is a wonderful series. I really hope that you folks decide to expand and publish this work after your current obligations are finished.
I just got done grading high school science semester exams. I really needed this. Thanks
Susan
Ovation! Firecrackers! Hurra! Ole!!! Go team!!!
Wow! I think this chapter’s my favorite.
I really love your original take on “creatures”, and above all the way you introduce them in the plot and worldbuilding. Can’t wait for next installment! Thank you!
I agree!
That’s what I admire, too!
Wow. I loved the vampire knights. Epic!
Yay! ;]]] thank you^^
You seriously need a donate button/kickstarter or something for this.
I’m hooked, and would be willing to part with extraordinary sums of money for a continuation of this story.
LOVE. Thank you!
Man…that was epic!! I can’t wait for the rest!!!
Werewolves and vampires and dahakas, oh my!
Your killing me with the suspense!
True story! So happy I can just reread Kate Daniels and On The Edge while waiting^^
Cool….Thanks so much! Linda
It’s so good! Thank you so much. I love the way you get Princess Bride references into everything you write (it’s my favourite film, and one of my favourite books). Can’t wait for the next installment. This and the Lizzie Bennet Diaries is what brings joy to my life at the moment.
Fantabulously awesomerrifically wondermously brilliant!!!
Wow, do you guys know how to write or what?
Thank you !
Want more, just more
Loved it! Thanks so much
Thank you for starting my weekend off on the right foot! I hope your weekend gets better.
Oh WOW!!!!
I love this!!!
More!!! Put this in a book.
I will be snapped up! Fantastic
Awesome treat for the weekend thank you!
Eep! More Innkeeper in a hurry please, this cliff I’m hanging from is eroding.
Waaaaaaaaaa………… I want more, this is killing me. Love it!!!! Thank you.
I don’t want to wait!!! argh. (Yes I will wait patiently, I’m a nice person really).
I just discovered the Innkeeper’s story a little while ago and have enjoyed it immensely. Thank you for writing this and your other books. I have been very charmed by the ideas you have and the resulting sparks they give. I will be coming back to read more and will purchase this story upon book or ebook or audiobook release.
Thank you!!!! Can you make this a new series? pretty please?
Yay! Interesting vampire varient. Wonder what other interesting people are out in the Innkeeper’s World?
Please Ma’am, may we have some more?
Thank you, thank you, thank you for this series, you are very generous to share this great story with your fans. The vampires are different and I like that they are the opposite of the vampires in the Magic series.
This series is total goodness for me!
Wow! Vampires & giant werewolves & mysterious screamers — oh my!
Thank you so much for fitting this story into your crazy life — it is awesome!
Wow. Fantastic, you made my day yet again!
OMG that installment was totally worth the wait.
Thanks for the latest installment! It’s like a continuation of Christmas!
Most awesomeness as always Many thanks
LOVE this story. I hope when its complete we will be able to purchase it for our e-readers.
I wish this is a book I can happily purchase =)
Oh, WOW! Thanks so much, but cliffhanger? Noooooo can’t wait!
I feel your pain. I came home from working OT tonight to a bathroom sink that had leaked all over. This was the best reward after fixing it up. I am really enjoying this storyline and I love the serial format! I adore the Kate Daniels series so much that I didn’t want to like this and have to share my zeal with another set of characters. You have me hooked. It’s not love yet, but I am totally intrigued by the Innkeeper world. The format is a godsend! I have a very bad habit of picking up a good book and not putting it down until it is complete. I then drag my butt through work the next day. This keeps me from staying up until 5 am reading, Thank You! Keep up the great work.
Yay for the Princess Bride reference, “I don’t think covert means what you think it means.”
Thank you – I love it!
Thank you! Just yesterday I wondered what vampires would be in this world – I love how you’re always doing them differently
Can’t wait for the next part
I’m very much enjoying how this story has a fresh and original take on vampires, as well as werewolves and everything else. Thanks for the new installment!
TYPO:
“your House’s access our services” S/B “your House’s access to our services”
(That’s the only one I caught.)
I am really enjoying this
Redundant, I know, but I LOVE THIS SERIES! Bravo!
Thank you! As always, can’t wait for the next installment.
Thank you.
Thank you!!! What a great chapter. I loved the snarky dialogue with the vampires
Thank you. Thank you.
I love how you sneak Princess Bride quotes in anywhere possible….INCONCEIVABLE!
Wonderful. Love it, love it, love it. The vampire world-building is different and great. Thanks, you’ve lightened up a very dark weekend.
it’s here….. thank you so much…. every week i look forward to reading the next events… you authors have fantastic awe-inspiring minds that keeps me gloriously addictive to your stories… thanks for this chapter…. i’m eagerly waiting for the next one
Yay! im so glad these are back, i just love them. Thanks!
Thank you so much!!!
LOVE it. Thank you.
Amazing!
Well worth waiting for, thank you so much.
Love it. I have to say getting tidbits at a time is frustrating – I tend to devour the books I read – usually buying a lot in a series at a time and not sleeping for days. They say “Patience is a virtue” – I’m just not aiming to be that virtuous.
Hi, my name is Laura and I’m an Ilona Andrews addict…
I really love the Men in black meet Fairytales atmosphere of this new book. Thank you so much for this treat. I’m looking forward the next chapter.
Thank you so much for this latest installment! You guys rock
Thank you for making the time for this intriguing and most enjoyable story. I second the suggestion of a donate button. Hope things settle down for y’all.
Oh how I love this. I do hope it’s published in its entirety somewhere, somehow.
OMG
My heart is pumping! or is that just the coffee??!!
Awesome.
Groan.
The waiting is torture.
Yippee! It was worth going to work today, to be able to read this for dessert! All this fighting a busted dishwasher and ‘fix-it’ bureauracy too–Awesome!
Love it!! Thanks!
I am loving this story! I’m ready for the next part!
I am loving this story,,,,,ready for the next part!
As always you ‘over’ deliver- this is just so darn good, yum yum.
As for your other issue, that is why I shop at Lowes. Better prices, better service, although none of them are perfect. Home Despot needs to replace your floor and your dishwasher and pay you lots of money to keep this quiet…….
sure hope the dishwasher can be resolved without tons of additional frustration ! terrible to have to replace the floor too : (
feel your pain, bought a wine fridge from Lowes, it quit before 1 year, had bought the store warranty, took it back and 1 year latter it pooped out too. now they no longer carry it and i’m screwed- grrrrr
love the Inkeeper, Thanks for this fun.
the Vamp knights in Hummers and the trench coats had me lmaof !
Awesome new installment — loving this story and now I’m really waiting with baited breath!
TYPO:
“in the street lamp’s light.. The vampire”
Double period.
That was so much fun to read! Thank you!
I am really enjoying this world. Since you have ended the Edge series, (bummer) maybe this could become your secondary series. That would be great.
This is sheer delight. Thank you, thank you, thank you for this series, these characters, and their chemistry! Caldenia and the inn, contrasted with a suburban neighborhood, just makes my day! Love it!
Thank you again.
You never disappoint! Sean was definetly worth the wait.
Nice!!
Thanks — this is fun!
Bad day with 14 year old teen screaming at the top of her lungs “I hate you soooo much!”
Now I feel slightly healed…thanks!
My 14 year old has written a screenplay of 2,000 words for advanced theater class cinematography project. It’s post-apocalyptic and tackles violence and discrimination. The teacher is “disturbed” by it and waffles on the edge of cancelling it, so we had a week of inconsolable crying and “I hate her so much!” and “I will tell her exactly what I think!” I’m right there with you.
PS. When my 14 year old pointed out to the teacher that her English AP reading list includes Hunger Games, the Pearl, and Lord of the Flies, the teacher said, “I saw Hunger Games and didn’t like it. I don’t know what Lord of the Flies is, but I will look it up.” ::headdesk::
Are you kidding me?? An AP English teacher who doesn’t know Lord of the Flies?? Where on earth did she get her degree? At least she’ll know The Great Gatsby, since Leo’s starring in a new version this year. Sheesh…
Theater teacher.
Does she knows that in Shakspeare works everybody dies?
The theater teacher must have gone to school out of country. Otherwise, she’s too young to have had to read The Lord of the Flies. Still, she seems out of touch with pop culture to be so clueless about the current trend in post-apocalyptic literary fiction.
Shakespeare has some of the bloodiest stories ever!
By the way thanks for a great Birthday present.
I love your voice in this series-such sly humor.
Thank you. You always make my days better.
No way! She hadn’t heard about Lord of the Flies? That’s insane That was part of the curriculum when I was in junior high oh so many years ago.
I also wanted to chime in and say “thank you.” I have only been a fan for about a year now and it’s been such a great year. I’ve been able to read almost everything without waiting, and anything I have had to wait for has been so worth it. Clean Sweep is such a treat; I am enjoying it so much.
I dont understand reading lord of the flies st that age. In NC they mad
I think I took Lord of the Flies in grade 9 or 10. It’s such a huge cultural reference I find it amazing that an educator hasn’t heard of it…boggled.
Awesome! Thank youuu!!!
thank u thank u thank u(on my knees arms raised)
Thanks!!!
Thank you I am loving this new book/series/ instalment hope it does develop into another book so I can add it to my collection. Every time I get sick of everything I’m reading I can pick up any of your books and feel refreshed all over again. Haven’t yet written anything to the two of you but just wanted to get on here and add my thanks to the growing pile here’s hoping more people get on the bandwagon and read Kate Daniels instead of other series which whilst more currently popular are not as well written. Good luck to both of you and I will continue to tell everyone I know to read your books! Thanks again
By other series I mean ones not written by the two of you. Just reread that and wanted to clarify! Cheers again
I only recently discovered your books. When I went online to see what else you had written I was delighted to see online pieces to read as well. I’m hooked.
Awesome, thank you so much!!!! I’ve been waiting very impatiently for the next installment and to get two at once was way more than I could have asked for. XXXX
Thank you – that was so lovely.
Hope the car and the dishwasher and the floor are okay. There must be something about the general December/January time frame. We had the heat pump break (1000), a light short out in the kitchen (still waiting for the electrician), new glasses for three people, dishwasher broke but still usable, brakes job for a car, and a new set of tires showing dangerous wear.
Long weekend. Did not get to any email. This was a great way to start a long week. Thanks!
I really like The Innkeeper, and i hope ist gets picked up by a Publisher.
it’s killing me – total cliffhanger!!!
As soon as I got home and saw this, I left my bags of groceries melting on the kitchen counters, poured myself a cup of tea and devoured it! Fabulous. Now to put the groceries away!
This is awesome. I just read all chapters in one go and can’t wait for the next installment!
Just when I think I know where you are going with the story line – Bang! I love it! I’ll buy it as soon as you publish it, too. It’s too much fun not to reward you! PLEASE keep writing!!
Dang, that was great, but I do so hate being left hanging like that. Ah well, hope I survive until the next chapter. PLEASE. PLEASE don’t keep me waiting too long or I won’t have any finger nails left. Just kidding about the nails. Can’t wait to see what happens nexts. You guys are just full of surprises.
Swoon. Dont usually like “intergalactic conflict” novels, bexause you usually cant put stuff that epic on paper and get it just so. You guys however, do it SO well. Eagerly awaiting the next installment, hoping for more action sequence! *Squeal*!
Just found it. Thank you for taking the time to write this regularly. I really enjoy this
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So this was the cream of my Tuesday evening (it’s 6.30 p.m. in Germany)!
Yeah oh yeah
So I read my first Ilona Andrews book and thought, “Wow, this is good.” Then I read my second, then my third, then I devoured them all. Much like your books, every Clean Sweep chapter I read is awesome, and I just know the next one could not possibly be more awesome, but then it is!
Thank you for teh Awesomeness.
This is great! I can’t wait to read more of the story.
I would like to thank you. I am really enjoying reading Clean Sweep. It is awesome but then I have come to expect nothing less than awesomeness from you.. I can not imagine how you find time do all you do . You have so much going on and yet you somehow find time to interact with all of us ( your adoring fans). So, once again thank you very much.
*sigh of happiness*
I got my fix…thanks for the update
*gentle nudge for more*
Yay more innkeeper! I will read the whole thing over again while waiting for the ice storm to come.
that was awesome
sweet!!
Thank you.