The Dead, the Damned, and the Forgotten is a novelette, #0.6 in Jocelynn Drake's Dark Days urban fantasy series. I don't know this series. I got the number from the author's website.

In this alternate Earth there are nightwalkers (vampires), lycanthropes (werewolves, also called shapeshifters), and magic users. The nightwalkers are ruled by the Coven, which is in Venice. There are four Elders, only two of whom are named in this story. One is Macaire. The one named Jabari is missing. The nightwalkers have domains, kept by one nightwalker. Our heroine is Mira, Keeper of the Domain of Savannah, Georgia. Macaire has hated Mira since Jabari became her mentor 500 years ago.

The nightwalkers, lycanthropes, and magic users have their enemies among the humans, some of whom have formed the Daylight Coalition. The coalition wants to kill the supernatural creatures, but have managed kill about as many of their own kind as the real thing. I loved this description from chapter 3: 'The rest of the human world thought they were a bunch of crackpots who had watched Van Helsing one too many times. I tended to agree.'

A nightwalker has been murdered in Savannah, and it looks as if it's the work of the Daylight Coalition. Worse for Mira, Macaire's emissary, Bishop, is in town. If Mira doesn't solve the case and prove she's still in charge, Bishop is going to take her back to the Coven. Remember that missing Elder? He's the one who helped Mira escape from them centuries ago.

The more Mira and her assistant, Knox, look into the case, the worse things go. Mira is nearly killed more than once. I was not expecting the solution, but it was quite interesting. From the description of the series at the author's website, I'm assuming that hunter Mira agrees to deal with will turn out to be series regular Danaus. Four stars ( )

this one took me a while to warm up to, in fact I had it on my kindle for almost a year before I finally read it!! But it was ok, no romance, acceptable plot (sort of) and decent characters (sort of) I'll read next one.
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Short, fast and interesting. ( )