

A Taint in the Blood
Author: S. M. Stirling
Series: Shadowspawn #1
Narrator: Todd McLaren
Unabridged: 13 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 05/17/2010
Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Contemporary
Synopsis
Now, in the twenty-first century, they rule the world again in secret; only the Brotherhood fights them, in a clandestine war of terror and assassination, of Wreaking and silver-inlaid knives. Adrian Breze was born into that war, but he defected to the side of humanity, and for decades he was the Brotherhood's most effective fighter, just as his twin sister Adrienne is the Council of Shadow's strongest. Now he has retired, weary of the endless struggle, but Adrienne has her own purposes, and they don't include letting her brother live quietly in his mountaintop retreat near Santa Fe. To force him out, she kidnaps his human lover, Ellen Tarnowski, and the war is on again—with the future of humanity at stake. For the Council of Shadows is ready to emerge into the light, with a plan that will reduce humans once again to the harried prey of the creatures of darkness.