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This book is an original publication of New American Library.
Copyright © Faith Hunter, 2016
“Wesa and the Lumber King,” “Haint(s),” and “Cajun with Fangs” first appeared in Have Stakes Will Travel (Roc, 2012).
“The Early Years,” “Cat Tats,” “Kits,” and “Blood, Fangs, and Going Furry” first appeared in Cat Tales (Roc, 2011).
“Signatures of the Dead” first appeared in Strange Brew, edited by P. N. Elrod (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2009).
“First Sight,” “Dance Master,” and “Beneath a Bloody Moon” first appeared in The Jane Yellowrock World Companion (Roc, 2013).
“Golden Delicious” first appeared in An Apple for the Creature, edited by Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner (Ace, 2012).
“The Devil’s Left Boot” first appeared in Kicking It, edited by Faith Hunter and Kalayna Price (Roc, 2013).
“Black Water,” “Snafu,” and “Off the Grid” first appeared in Black Water (InterMix, 2014).
“Not All Is as It Seems” first appeared in Temporally Out of Order, edited by Joshua Palmatier and Patricia Bray (Zombies Need Brains LLC, 2015).
“Cat Fight” and “Bound No More” appear for the first time anywhere in this volume.
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eBook ISBN: 978-0-698-19698-8
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA:
Names: Hunter, Faith, author.
Title: Blood in her veins: nineteen stories from the world of Jane
Yellowrock/Faith Hunter.
Description: New York: New American Library, 2016. | Series: Jane Yellowrock | “A ROC book.”
Identifiers: LCCN 2015035983 | ISBN 9780451475756 (softcover)
Subjects: LCSH: Vampires—Fiction. | Shape-shifting—Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION/Fantasy/Urban Life.
| FICTION/Fantasy/Contemporary. | FICTION/Fantasy/Paranormal. | GSAFD: Fantasy fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3608.U59278 A6 2016 | DDC 813/.6—dc23
LC record available at https://protect-us.mimecast.com/s/K2WvBxCGV05luR
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.
