The Dead Girls' Dance by Rachel Caine
an audiobook review by Gil T. Wilson
Morganville, Texas is home to Texas Prairie University and vampires. The university attracts new, young "blood" and
the vampires rule the town. The locals are all under protection from a vampire patron, with the families entering
a contract giving them protection. It's very much like life insurance, but instead of a payout when you pass on,
you simply don't pass on at the hands of a vampire.
Glass Houses by Rachel Caine
an audiobook review by Gil T. Wilson
The story in this first book of the series introduces listeners to the town of Morganville, Texas, home of Texas
Prairie University. The town is populated by some strange people and even stranger yet, it is run by vampires. Each
person has a sort of insurance policy that protects them from the vampires, but when children reach the age of 18,
they must find some vampire family to "insure" them or risk becoming food for the vamps.
Gale Force by Rachel Caine
reviewed by Michael M Jones
When most people get married, all they have to worry about are lost caterers, college buddies who get drunk and embarrass themselves,
and relatives lost at the airport. However, when Joanne Baldwin and her lover David decide to get married, it opens up several
cans of unpleasantness. You thought your family was bad? David may be the leader of the pro-human faction of the immensely
powerful djinn, but there's an anti-human faction that objects to him tying himself to a human. You thought your co-workers
were horrible? Joanne's just discovered the existence of a rogue group of Weather Wardens.
Chill Factor by Rachel Caine
reviewed by Michael M Jones
Joanne Baldwin, ex-Weather Warden and ex-Djinn, just can't seem to catch a break, or her breath. In less than a month,
she has died and been reborn twice, saved the world, and seen her entire life thrown into absolute chaos. She has found love
and lost it, been betrayed by those closest to her, and been forced to betray in turn. And just when things should be
settling down, it turns out she's in the eye of a very nasty world-threatening storm.
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Heat Stroke by Rachel Caine
reviewed by Michael M Jones
When we last left our heroine, she had sacrificed herself to save the world. But that wasn't the end of her story. Her new found
traveling companion brought her back from the dead as a Djinn. In a very short time, Joanne Baldwin went from phenomenally
powerful Weather Warden, capable of manipulating the natural forces of air and water to create or control storms, to Djinn,
capable of manipulating the very fabric of reality. Mind you, it hasn't affected
her fashion sense, or need for speed on the highway.
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
reviewed by Michael M Jones
Joanne Baldwin, Weather Warden, can control air and water and manipulate the weather to her own ends, so long as those ends are for
the greater good of an unknowing public and a strictly hierarchical Wardens Association.
Normally, this wouldn't be a problem. Except that she's on the run from her friends and co-workers, accused of murder and tainted by an unholy force.
Should she be caught, she'll be depowered, or killed, regardless of her innocence. Her only hope lies in finding Lewis Orwell.
Ill Wind by Rachel Caine
reviewed by Victoria Strauss
Mother Nature is out to get us. If she isn't attempting to
blow us all away with hurricanes or drown us with monsoons, she's tossing us around with earthquakes and trying to burn us to a
crisp with forest fires. The only force capable of opposing this awesome angry power is the Wardens Association, a shadowy
organization whose operatives, capable of commanding fire, earth, water, and wind, keep nature just barely under control, and
the human race a hairs-breadth from destruction.
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