Biting Cold
Authors: Chloe Neill
Tags: #Romance Speculative Fiction, #C429, #Extratorrents, #Kat
“THERE’S A FRESH NEW VOICE IN PARANORMAL AND
THAT VOICE BELONGS TO AUTHOR CHLOE NEILL.”
—Romance Novel TV
Praise for Chloe Neill’s
Chicagoland Vampires Novels
Hard Bitten
“Delivers enough action, plot twists, and fights to satisfy the most jaded urban fantasy reader.”
—Monsters and Critics
“A fast and exciting read.”
—Fresh Fiction
“A descriptive, imaginative, and striking world…rich with real-world problems as well as otherworldly creatures…roughly fantastic from beginning to end, with one of the best endings in urban fantasy history.”
—
Romantic Times
Twice Bitten
“The pages turn fast enough to satisfy vampire and romance fans alike.”
—
Booklist
“Neill continues to hit the sweet spot with her blend of high-stakes drama, romantic entanglements, and a touch of humor…certain to whet readers’ appetites for more in this entertaining series!”
—
Romantic Times
(4½ stars)
Friday Night Bites
“Wonderfully entertaining and impossible to set down.”
—Darque Reviews
“First-rate fun!”
—
Romantic Times
“A REFRESHING TAKE ON URBAN FANTASY.”
—
Publishers Weekly
Some Girls Bite
“Neill creates a strong-minded, sharp-witted heroine who will appeal to fans of Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series and Laurell K. Hamilton’s Anita Blake.”
—
Library Journal
“Chloe Neill owes me a good night’s sleep. With her wonderfully compelling reluctant vampire heroine and her careful world building, I was drawn into
Some Girls Bite
from page one and kept reading far into the night.”
—
USA Today
bestselling author Julie Kenner
“Smart, sexy, and delightful. A must read.”
—Candace Havens, author of
Dragons Prefer Blondes
“A fun cast of quirky characters and smoking-hot sexual tension…a stunning combination.”
—Tate Hallaway, author of
Honeymoon of the Dead
“Packed with complex subplots, embittered family members, and politics, this is an excellent first installment to what should be an outstanding series in a crowded field.”
—Monsters and Critics
“There’s a new talent in town, and…she’s here to stay.…An indomitable and funny heroine…truly excellent.”
—
Romantic Times
“Engaging, well executed, and populated with characters you can’t help but love.”
—Darque Reviews
“IF YOU LOVED NANCY DREW BUT ALWAYS WISHED
SHE WAS AN UNDEAD SWORD-WIELDING BADASS,
MERIT IS YOUR KIND OF GIRL.”
—
Geek Monthly
“I can just about guarantee that readers will want to read more of this series.…Vampire fiction fans should be well served by this vamp-centric story too.”
—LoveVampires
“GO BUY IT NOW! It’s a great urban fantasy that reads a little like Charlaine Harris’s Southern Vampire series.”
—Literary Escapism
“Chloe Neill…has created an interesting vampire mythology and a heroine who has spunk and daring; she’s kick-ass without the hard edges.”
—Romance Novel TV
“[Neill has] created a unique vampire tale in a genre that’s flush with look-alikes.”
—Undercover Book Lover (Not Really)
“Not only action-packed—it’s hilarious. I couldn’t put it down.…[Merit is] extremely charming…a great read.”
—Wicked Little Pixie
“I didn’t want to put it down…excellently written.…[
Some Girls Bite
] brings a fresh perspective on the vampire craze that is going around these days. The book has a little bit of Harry Potter in it, a little bit of the Southern Vampire Mysteries in it, but with a voice and perspective all its own. No offense to the
Twilight
fans out there, but the writing from Chloe Neill is IMMENSELY better than that from Stephenie Meyer.…I loved it entirely and am now very anxious to read more from Ms. Neill.”
—Pink Is the New Blog
OTHER NOVELS BY CHLOE NEILL
T
HE
C
HICAGOLAND
V
AMPIRES
N
OVELS
Some Girls Bite
Friday Night Bites
Twice Bitten
Hard Bitten
Drink Deep
T
HE
D
ARK
E
LITE
N
OVELS
Firespell
Hexbound
Charmfall
A CHICAGOLAND VAMPIRES NOVEL
COLD
CHLOE NEILL
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
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Copyright © Chloe Neill, 2012
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of the author’s rights. Purchase only authorized editions.
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA:
Neill, Chloe.
Biting cold: a Chicagoland vampires novel/Chloe Neill.
p. cm.
ISBN: 978-1-101-59042-3
1. Merit (Fictitious character: Neill)—Fiction. 2. Vampires—Fiction. 3. Chicago (Ill.)—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3614.E4432B58 2012
813’.6—dc23 2012013109
Set in Caslon 540
Printed in the United States of America
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
The publisher does not have any control over and does not assume any responsibility for author or third-party Web sites or their content.
ALWAYS LEARNING
PEARSON
“Love is a familiar; Love is a devil.
There is no evil angel but Love.”
—William Shakespeare
COLD
Chapter One: On the Road Again
Chapter Three: An Orderly Home
Chapter Five: Gnome Sweet Gnome
Chapter Eight: Home is Where the Shower is
Chapter Nine: The Cabbage Cure
Chapter Eleven: Lost and Found
Chapter Twelve: His Library? Well Stocked
Chapter Thirteen: Every Time a Bell Rings…
Chapter Fourteen: You Light up My Life
Chapter Fifteen: Performance Evaluation
Chapter Sixteen: You Take the Good, you Take the Bad
Chapter Seventeen: She’s Got a Way
Chapter Eighteen: Deep Dishing
Chapter Twenty: The Fairy Tale
Chapter Twenty-one: Twelve Colonies
Chapter Twenty-two: The Firm and Good Charm
Chapter Twenty-three: Soldiers Wisely Led
HAPTER
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