En route, Charles Cornick meets Anna Latham, a woman the Chicago pack abused into submission. Then, starting with Cry Wolf, which is set right after the events of Moon Called, the series run parallel.Īs his father's enforcer, Charles Cornick is sent to Chicago to investigate and deal with a problematic pack alpha. Alpha and Omega begins while Mercy's story in Moon Called occurs. This stand-alone series is woven throughout the Mercyverse, following Anna Latham, a fierce and empathetic werewolf, and Charles Cornick, the enforcer of the North American werewolves. With her sharp mind, and equally sharp wit, Mercy battles injustice and her own insecurities about her past, in this refreshingly fun and creative series. Mercy is tough as nails, with a heart of gold, often finding herself entangled in one complicated problem after another in her desire to help the underdog. The series follows Mercy through her relationship with the local Alpha werewolf, who lives across her back fence, on a series of misadventures with all manner of magical and otherworldly creatures from the land of the Fae.

She was raised by werewolves, is a pretty good mechanic, and lives in the Tri-Cities Area of Washington. Mercedes Thompson is part Native American and a Coyote Walker. Wolfsbane (2010) also in Shifter's Wolfįor the complete Timeline for the 'Mercyverse' Mercy Thompson series.The third book, Iron Kissed, was a number one New York Times bestseller and subsequent novels have continued to perform similarly in sales. The second book in the series, Blood Bound, hit The New York Times Best Seller list.

Briggs wrote Moon Called, which was published in 2006 and made it to the USA Today bestseller lists.

She wrote primarily in the fantasy genre until her editor asked her to write an urban fantasy, since the genre was showing promising growth. She now resides in Benton City, WA īriggs began writing in 1990 and published her first novel Masques in 1993. Patricia Briggs was born in 1965 in Butte, Montana, United States. Patricia Briggs (born 1965) is an American writer of fantasy since 1993, and author of the Mercy Thompson urban fantasy series.

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