Death's Mistress
core novel 2010 Cassandra Palmer
Record
| First published | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.20 (17,540 ratings, collected 2026-11-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780451412768 |
| Internal chronology | 2 |
Synopsis
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir, part human and part vampire. Dhampirs are prone to violent rages that usually cut their lives short, but Dory keeps her sanity by hunting demons and vampires who deserve it. Back in Brooklyn after the death of her unstable uncle Dracula, she hopes for some peace. Instead a friend asks for help finding a magical Fey relic, and the vampire Louis-Cesare comes looking for his former mistress, Christine. They learn that the master vampire Christine is bound to may also have the relic. When he turns up dead, someone is murdering members of the vampire Senate.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cassandra Palmer
- Series: Dorina Basarab core; position 2 of 7 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Karen Chance
Notes
- From the series record (Dorina Basarab): Dorina Basarab, a dhampir vampire hunter and daughter of Mircea Basarab, works with the vampire Louis-Cesare in the same world.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Dorina Basarab: position 2 of 7: previous Midnight's Daughter (2008) · next Fury's Kiss (2012)
- Internal chronology, within Cassandra Palmer: position 5 of 24: previous Claimed by Shadow (2007) · next Weird Magic (2026)
Sources
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