Embrace the Night

**Embrace the Night** is **Claimed by Shadow** is book #3 of the Cassandra Palmer series.

## Related Characters, Groups & Places

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* **Cassie Palmer**: the Pythia
* **John Pritkin**: a deadly war mage turned rogue from the Silver Circle, is doing his best to keep her alive.
* **Billy Joe**: is her ghost ally who is supposed to keep an eye on things.
* **Eugenie**: was the governess who taught Cassie so many useful skills.
* **Nick**: is another mage with a preference for research.
* **Mircea**: a first level master vampire, placed a too-adaptable dúthracht geis on Cassie when she was a kid, only he didn’t take time travel into account.
* Rafe: is one of Tony’s vampires who has devolved back to Mercia. A vampire, he was Raphael, a great artist during the Renaissance. Now, he’s struggling to deliver a message.
* **Tony**: When Tony committed treason, Mircea confiscated everything Tony owned, including Dante’s and Casanova
* **Casanova**: an incubus who possessed a vampire. He’s interpreted Mercia’s order to assist Cassie in his own special way.
* **Randy**: is an incubus who works at Dante’s.
* **Horatiu**:, Mercia’s manservant, is a mistake made in gratitude.
* **Alphonse**: is Tony’s right-hand man and chief thug with some scary hobbies.
* **Sal**: is Alphonse's moll with very definite ideas about how Cassie projects herself. She does have a position to fill, after all.
* **Kit Marlowe**: was a famous Elizabethan playwright before he was turned. Now he’s the Consul‘s spymaster.
* **Consul**:
* Empress **Ming-de**: heads up the Asian senate.
* **Radella** is a pixie whom we first met in Touch the Dark, 1, and again in Claimed by Shadow, 2, when she helped free Cassie and troupe in exchange for a precious rune. Now she’s the
* **Saleh** is a djinn who caught the wrong person’s attention.
* **Apollo**: is anxious for Herophile to obtain the Codex.
* **Augustine**: is a dress designer who creates the most marvelous designs: constantly changing embroidery, colors that change to reflect your mood, and more.
* **Francoise**: is a witch from the 1700s who survived her death and slavery, and much prefers hanging with Cassie.
* **Tamika Hodges**:
* Tami’s **Misfit Mafia**
	+ **Tamika Hodges** ran her own homeless shelter for magically endowed kids, which is how Cassie met her.
	+ **Jesse** a Fluke; Tami's fiery son; Jesse brought the misfits who escaped to Cassie for help.
	+ **Jeannie** is clairvoyant;
	+ **Astrid** is a null which helps calm the kids’ powers down; and, one of ’em’s a necromancer.
* **Dark Fae King’s** liaison, there to ensure Cassie and crew look for the Codex Merlini as promised. She also intends to drag Françoise back into slavery.
* **Manassier** is a grandfatherly looking mage with a map.

* **Lord Rosier**: is lord of the incubi—and Pritkin’s dad! The Vixen Vigilante is busy helping imprisoned children escape and blowing up prisons.
* **Vixen Vigilante**: helps imprisoned children escape and blows up prisons

**Organizations**:

* **Silver Circle**: is a group of light magic users who want their own tame Pythia. And if it takes killing off the current Pythia? Well, they’re cool with that.
* **Black Circle**: dark magic users with no scruples about how they obtain what they desire.
* **Crystal Gazing**: magical scadall tabloid

**Supe Elements**:

* **Flukes** and Jinxes
* **Nulls**
* **Scrim**
* **Mages**
* **Vampires**
* **Gargoyles**
* **Fey**
* **Codex Merlini**
* **Dúthracht Geis'**:
* **Djinn**

## Next & Previous Books

* Next Book: Curse the Dawn #4 (2009)
* Previous Book: Claimed by Shadow #2 (2007)

## See Also

* Dorina Basarab series
* Karen Chance
* Full Reading Order List

## External Links

* Book Review: Karen Chance's Embrace the Night - KD Did It Edits
* Embrace the Night - Chance Karen
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* Cassandra Palmer series - Urban Fantasy Wiki
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* Cassandra Palmer series - Wikipedia
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