Patricia Briggs’s Fair Game, the third book in the Alpha and Omega series, comes out in hardcover next February or March (depending on your sources), and Briggs has just offered the prologue on her forum. The actual prologue does on a lot longer than this, but here are the opening sentences and the last line of the bit.
Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Leslie.
The year she turned eight, two things happened: her mother left Leslie and her father to move to California with a stockbroker; and, in the middle of a sensational murder trial, the fae of story and song admitted to their existence. Leslie never heard from her mother again, but the fairies were another matter.
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Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming — and they ate children and puppies.
The Alpha and Omega series is related to her Mercy Thompson series, so it’s the same world, but focusing on different characters. Here is the blurb:
When the FBI request a pack consultant on a serial killer case they’re following in Boston, Anna and Charles are sent in. They quickly realize that not only the last two victims were werewolves—all of them were. Someone is targeting their kind. And if Charles and Anna can’t get to the bottom of this mystery, they may be next...
