Love Bites
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- ¥1,200
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Love Bites is the first book in a snarky supernatural mystery series with a heroine who has her priorities in order: Solve the murder, save the day, but most importantly—feed her cats.
A girl’s gotta eat—and so do her three cats. Recently divorced art history grad student Hanna Harvey has just fibbed her way into a job as the assistant to dangerously drool-worthy art gallery owner Mark Abernathy.
For Hanna, working in the field she desperately loves provides the perfect opportunity to begin putting her life back together. Soon her cheese budget is in the black and her feline life partners are no longer eyeing her like a six-foot can of Fancy Feast.
But when her boss's lady friends start turning up dead, Hanna finds herself in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. Even worse, hunky homicide detective James Morrison fears hers might be the next body he discovers.
With the "help" of the gallery's quirky cast of resident artists, Hanna will have to hunt down the truth about Abernathy’s dark secret—before it hunts her.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this snarky, sexy series opener, St. Aubin (The Summer of Perfect Mistakes) weaves a supernatural suspense tale with the messy beginnings of a love triangle. Desperate for work and at emotional rock bottom following a difficult divorce, Hannalore "Hanna" Harvey parlays her master's degree in art history into a role as art gallery owner Mark Abernathy's personal assistant, only to swiftly discover the job is nothing like she expected. Her mysterious, mercurial, and alluring employer proves unpredictable and possibly even dangerous, though Hanna is initially too busy bringing order to his chaotic world to worry. Then one of Abernathy's many lady friends is murdered and the ruggedly attractive Det. James Morrison takes an interest in both Abernathy and Hanna. Increasingly disturbed by her boss's enigmatic behavior, not to mention the corpses that continue to pop up in his wake, Hanna must decide whom to trust, especially as she comes to suspect that Abernathy may not even be human. Though she's torn between Abernathy and Morrison, Hanna remains able to hold her own—and fiercely devoted to her three cats—in the face of increasingly dangerous circumstances. The humor is wacky and the cast is quirky, but the mystery feels grounded. Though a cliffhanger ending frustrates, it's sure to leave readers eager for more. This is a promising start.
