Why we’re excited
Charles and Anna Cornick are hiding a baby who is clearly part fae and part werewolf, and the child needs an origin story that leads nowhere near the family. Their trip to the Olympic Peninsula rainforest puts them in the path of the Wild Hunt. To get out, Anna has to bargain with elemental powers.
Patricia Briggs writes the Mercy Thompson books, and this is the seventh Alpha & Omega novel set in the same world. The series has a lot of backstory, so newcomers should begin with Cry Wolf. Urban fantasy readers who like a married couple at the centre will want it.
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What to know about Steel Rain
Steel Rain is Book 7 in the Alpha & Omega series. New readers should begin with Book 1, Cry Wolf. The book just before this one is Wild Sign.
Patricia Briggs is new to The Bookish Elf: none of their books has a review here yet.
From the publisher
Mated werewolves Charles and Anna Cornick must withstand the deadly magic of the Wild Hunt in this haunting entry in #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs’s Alpha and Omega series.
Something dangerous has been stirring in the Olympic Peninsula, but that’s not unusual. The rainforest has been attracting the attention of the supernatural denizens of the Pacific Northwest since before the first Western settlers appeared on the shores of North America.
But this time, that stirring is . . . convenient.
Charles and Anna Cornick have been tasked with keeping Charles’s brother’s child safe and hidden. But keeping a baby who is obviously of fae and werewolf descent secret is no easy charge. They need to give the infant an origin story that doesn’t involve family.
While Charles’s father, the Marrok, and his mate protect the baby, Charles and Anna travel to the Washington coastline. But the forest is old, and its shadows are deep. To survive, Anna must bargain with elemental powers, and Charles must dig deep into the treacherous heritage he has long suppressed.
For ancient magic is rising, and the woods ring out with the call of the Horn of the Wild Hunt.
Description supplied by the publisher.
We haven’t read Steel Rain yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
