Dorina Basarab - La série

When Dorina Basarab, half human, half vampire, assassin-for-hire, hits New Orleans, she thinks it's for a typical job: take out a mad master vamp before he can wreak havoc on the city. But when the elusive master suddenly shows up at her hotel, things get complicated, especially when Dory realizes that the murder he has in mind is his own! And that the Big Easy is about to get a whole lot harder.

In Midnight's Daughter, New York Times bestselling author Karen Chance took us to a new corner of Cassie Palmers world and introduced us to the lives of the mysterious vampires who rule the night. Now, read the eSpecial, Buying Trouble, the companion novella to Midnight’s Daughter, and learn why vampires aren't the only creatures to fear. Claire just wants to keep out of trouble. But that isn't always easy when you’re a mage with the extremely unusual ability to block all magic around you. And when Claire’s sleazy boss decides Claire herself is the most valuable rarity to sell at a magical auction, trouble finds her. Now, her only hope for survival is to trust a mysterious and handsome stranger, a Fey Lord named Heidar. As their pursuers close in, there's one thing for sure, savior or threat, Heidar can show Claire things she never imagined in this world, and in herself. .

Dorina Basarb est un dhampir, mi- humaine, mi- vampire. Sujets à d’incontrôlables crises de rage, la plupart des dhampirs vivent de très courtes- et très violentes- vies. Jusqu’ici, Dory a réussi à rester saine en concentrant sa colère envers des vampires qui méritent de mourir. Maintenant le père de Dory, qui est un vampire, est revenu dans sa vie. Son oncle Dracula (oui LE Dracula) connu même parmi les vampires pour sa cruauté et ses manières meurtrières, c’est échappé de sa prison. Et son père veut que Dory travail avec le sublime maître vampire Louis-Cesare, pour ramener Dracula dans sa prison. Vampires et Dhampirs sont des ennemis mortels, et Dory préfère travailler seule. Mais Dracula est la seule chose qui effraie Dory sur terre, et quand elle doit se dresser contre lui, elle prend toute l’aide qu’elle peut avoir…

De retour chez elle à Brooklyn après la disparition de Dracula, son oncle fou, Dory espère que sa vie va se calmer. Mais elle reçoit de la visite. Une amie veut que Dory l'aide à trouver une relique Faë et le sublime vampire Louis-Cesare est pressé de retrouver son ancienne maitresse, Christine. Dory et Louis-Cesare découvre rapidement que le maitre-vampire chez qui est Christine est probablement aussi en possession de la relique mais quand celui-ci est retrouvé mort, ils réalisent qu'il y a plus en jeu qu'une maitresse disparue. Quelqu'un tue les membres du sénat vampirique et si Dory et Louis-Cesare ne réussissent pas à arrêter le meurtrier, ils seront les prochains sur la liste.

"In Vino Veritas" was Karen Chance's contribution to the Chicks Kick Butt anthology (June 2011). It is now available on her website as a free short as per the contract with the publisher. Contains spoilers for Midnight's Daughter, Dorina Basarab #1 and Death's Mistress, Dorina Basarab #2.

Dorina Basarb est un dhampir, mi- humaine, mi- vampire. Sujets à d’incontrôlables crises de rage, la plupart des dhampirs vivent de très courtes- et très violentes- vies. Jusqu’ici, Dory a réussi à rester saine en concentrant sa colère envers des vampires qui méritent de mourir. Dory est habituée à se battre fort et méchamment. Donc quand elle se réveille dans un étrange labo avec un homme étrange au-dessus d'elle, sa première réaction est de lui arracher la tête. Heureusement, l'homme est le maitre vampire Louis-Cesar, donc il n'est pas si facile à tuer. Il s'avère que Dory travaillait avec le Senat vampirique pour stopper le trafic d'armes et d'objet magique hors de Faerie, quand elle a été capturé et amené dans ce labo. Mais quand Louis-Cesar sauve Dory, elle n'a aucun souvenir de ce qui lui est arrivée. Pour savoir ce qu'on lui a fait- et qui est derrière tout ça- Dory devra faire face à des anges déchus, le plus fou des scientifiques fous, et un nouveau genre de vampires, bien pire que mort-vivant.

One of the most powerful vampires in existence has gone missing, which is fine with Dorina Basarab. As a dhampir, a half human, half vampire hybrid, her job is killing vampires, not saving them. But then the man sent to find the missing vampire also goes missing, and he happens to be her lover, Louis-Cesare. She therefore finds herself on a rescue mission with an old enemy, while a flood of long forgotten memories plays out in her head. What are they trying to tell her? And can she figure it out before it's too late?

Half-human, half-vampire Dorina Basarab is back-and facing her biggest challenge yet in the next urban fantasy in the New York Times bestselling series. Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate's newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory's fey friends goes missing. They fear he's been sold to a slaver who arranges fights-sometimes to the death-between different types of fey. As Dory investigates, she and her friends learn the slavers are into something much bigger than a fight club. With the Vampire Senate gearing up for war with Faerie, it'll take everything she has to defeat the slavers-and deal with the entirely too attractive master vampire Louis-Cesare . . .

Everyone knows that vampires are hard to kill. But when Dory Basarab is called to a crime scene in a smelly basement in Queens, she discovers that that may no longer be the case. Somebody has developed a new weapon, a vamp killer, and left her plenty of clues to follow. One of them leads her to the other side of the world, and to a city like no other, where the paranormal is normal and where death stalks the streets. Can she defeat a clever killer before he kills again, and on an unprecedented scale?

Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—the feared and hated cross between a vampire and a human—or so she has always believed. She spent most of her life on the fringes of her two worlds, yearning to belong to one or the other, but despised and distrusted by both. Recently, a war in the supernatural community allowed her to get a foothold into her vampire father’s world, one of danger, intrigue, glitz and glamour, where she found not only a home, but a lover, too. For the first time in centuries, life seemed to be going her way. But now, an incident with a dangerous magical device has left her two natures separated into duplicate bodies, both fighting to survive while they search for the truth about their past, and the key to their future.

Dory and Dorina Basarab were once one person, albeit an unusual one. They were a dhampir–the hated cross between a human and a vampire that is reviled and feared in both circles. But the human and vampire parts of their nature were recently torn apart by a fey weapon, and now, for the first time in five centuries, they are two separate people. And one of them is being hunted. Dory and her husband, the vampire senator Louis-Cesare, brave the strange and often deadly world of Faerie looking for her other half. But even finding her proves difficult, and despite their skill and abilities, they struggle to stay alive. And then struggle again with the secrets about their family that their search uncovers–secrets that may give them a fighting chance in the war they are waging against the ancient gods, or may end up destroying two worlds.