Queen's Gambit
core novel 2020 Cassandra Palmer
Record
| First published | 2020 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.30 (1,544 ratings, collected 2026-11-05) |
| First-edition ISBN | 9781734534245 |
| Internal chronology | 5 |
Synopsis
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir, a hybrid of vampire and human, and she has long felt she belongs nowhere. Rejected by both halves of her heritage, she spent years on the margins. A supernatural war gave her a way into her vampire father's world of danger, politics and luxury, where she found a home and a lover. Then a dangerous magical device splits her two natures into separate bodies. Both versions of her must stay alive while they search for the truth about their past and the key to their future.
Where it sits
- Universe: Cassandra Palmer
- Series: Dorina Basarab core; position 5 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 5 of 7: previous Shadow's Bane (2018) · next Time's Fool (2023)
- Internal chronology, within Cassandra Palmer: position 12 of 24: previous Hunt the Moon (2011) · next Tempt the Stars (2013)
Sources
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