Cassandra Palmer World

## Genre Information

Urban Fantasy
Ghost Whisperer

Paranormal Romance
Vampires

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## About the Series

* **Genres:** Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Ghost Whisperer, Clairvoyant, Time Travel
* **Theme:**
* **Narrative style**: First person narrative told by Cassie Palmer, *the* Pythia and protagonist.

## Series Description

Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits—talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren’t usually dangerous; they just like to talk…a lot.

The undead are another matter.

Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she’s forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection.

## Books in Series

There is a long span between 8th and 9th books, it appears that she switched publishers, but now she is self-publishing for both series.

### Cassandra Palmer series

1. Touch the Dark (Cassie Palmer Book 1) (2006)
2. Claimed by Shadow (Cassie Palmer Book 2) (2007)
3. Embrace the Night (Cassie Palmer Book 3) (2008)
4. Curse the Dawn (Cassie Palmer Book 4) (2009)
5. Hunt the Moon (Cassie Palmer Book 5) (2011)
6. Tempt the Stars (Cassie Palmer Book 6) (2013)
7. Reap the Wind (Cassie Palmer Book 7) (2015)
8. Ride the Storm (Cassie Palmer Book 8) (2016)
9. Brave the Tempest (Cassie Palmer Book 9) (2019)
10. Shatter the Earth (Cassie Palmer Book 10) (2020)
11. Ignite the Fire: Incendiary (Cassie Palmer Book 11) (2021)
12. Ignite the Fire: Inferno (Cassie Palmer Book 12) (2022)
13. Hijack the Seas (Cassie Palmer Book 13) (TBA)

### Dorina Basarab series

Cassandra Palmer World (on-going series)

1. Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab Book 1) (2008)
2. Death's Mistress (Dorina Basarab Book 2) (2010)
3. Fury's Kiss (Dorina Basarab Book 3) (Oct 2012)
4. Shadow's Bane (Dorina Basarab Book 4) (2018)
5. Queen's Gambit (Dorina Basarab Book 5) (2020)

* *The Cassandra Palmer Collection* (Mar 10, 2020) - A collection of short stories and novellas from the Cassandra Palmer universe

### Shorts, Novellas, Anthologies and Companion books—Cassandra Palmer World

* 0.5. "The Gauntlet" in Mammoth Book of Paranormal Romance 2 (2010) Anthology & eShort, 52 pages (Kit Marlowe) (Free read)
* 0.6. The Queen's Witch () eShort, 26 pages (Kit Marlowe) (Free read)
* 3.1. "The Day of the Dead" in Mammoth Book of Vampire Romance (2008) anthology, eShort, 52 pages (Thomas) (Free read)
* 3.2. "Rogue Elements" in Wolfsbane and Mistletoe (2008) anthology (Lia #1) (War Mage/werewolf Lia & werewolf Cyrus)
* 4.1. "A Family Affair" (2011) ebook, 46 pages (Pritkin PoV, Rozier, Casanova, Ealdris) (Free read)
* 4.2. "Shadowland" (2012) eShort, 54 pages (John Pritkin) (Free Read)
* 4.3. "Masks" (March 18, 2014) (Cassandra Palmer World #4.3) eNovella, 406 pages (Mircea Basarab)
* 4.4. "Vegas Odds" in Strange Brew (2009) anthology (Lia #2)
* 4.7. "Skin Deep" in Inked (2010) anthology (Lia #3, half werewolf war mage Accalia)
* 5.1. "The House at Cobb End" (2011) eShort, 10 pages (John Pritkin)
* 5.5. "Updating Pritkin" (2013) eShort, 10 pages (Pritkin)
* 0.1. "Buying Trouble" in *On the Prowl* (2007) ~ eBook (Dorina)
* 2.1. "In Vino Veritas" in Chicks Kick Butt (2011) ~ anthology (Dorina

## World Building

### Setting

Las Vegas, various time zones and places, Faerie,

### Fantasy Elements

Pythia, vampires, mages, ghosts, seers, witches, nulls, druids, geis, faeries, gypsies, Incubus, half-incubus/mage, demons, pixies, necromancers, alchemy, zombies, Zombie Elvis, gargoyles, clarvoyants, Djinn, dragons, zombies, weres, shape shifters, Greek gods, Rakshasas, Greek mythology, Norse mythology, Hel (Goddess of Death) satyrs, golems, ghost-powered automatons, flying carpets, Ley lines, hybrids, , ,

**BEINGS**: Apollo, Merlin, Rosier, the Morrigan, Graeae, Norse Mythology, Artemis, Hel, Loki,

* Loki's three children: Jörmungandr (Ouroboros), Hel (Artemis), Fenrir ()

**OBJECTS & MAGIC**: Time Travel, magical tattoos, Ley Lines, Ouroboros , Codex Merlini, magical weapons, magical fashion, talking shrunken head,

### World Description

Cassandra Palmer has been in hiding for three years since she escaped Antonio, the master vampire who raised her after he had her parents killed when she was only four. A gifted clairvoyant, Cassandra was Antonio's useful tool until she discovered his complicity in her parents' deaths and fled his estate. Tony has finally caught up with her, but he isn't the only one. The vampire senate is after her, too, and they've sent sexy vampire Tomas, who insinuated himself into her life by pretending to be an abused runaway, to watch over her. After Cassie and Tomas are attacked, he brings her to the senate. There she learns that the mages are gunning for her, too, as is the powerful vampire Rasputin, who is gearing up to challenge the senate. Cassie is in a race against time to save her own life and find out why so many want her dead. Exciting and inventive, with definite series potential. Kristine Huntley. ~ American Library Association

### Protagonist

Cassandra Palmer
Cassie — in her struggles between her passionate need for independence, her burgeoning feelings for Mircea and her conflicts with her new role as Pythia—is a well-rounded character, and the intensity and complexity of the plot puts her through her paces physically, emotionally and psychically.
Cassie can see the future and communicate with spirits-talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren’t usually dangerous; they just like to talk…a lot. The undead are another matter.
Dorina Basarab
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—the feared and hated cross between a vampire and a human—or so she has always believed.
## Book Descriptions

### Cassandra Palmer series

1 Touch the Dark (2006)
Cassandra Palmer can see the future and communicate with spirits—talents that make her attractive to the dead and the undead. The ghosts of the dead aren’t usually dangerous; they just like to talk…a lot. — The undead are another matter. Like any sensible girl, Cassie tries to avoid vampires. But when the bloodsucking mafioso she escaped three years ago finds Cassie again with vengeance on his mind, she’s forced to turn to the vampire Senate for protection. The undead senators won’t help her for nothing, and Cassie finds herself working with one of their most powerful members, a dangerously seductive master vampire—and the price he demands may be more than Cassie is willing to pay.
2 Claimed By Shadow (2007)
A recent legacy made Cassandra Palmer heir to the title of Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant. It's a position that usually comes with years of training, but Cassie's circumstances are a little...unusual. Now she's stuck with a whopping amount of power that every vamp, fey, and mage in town wants to either monopolize or eradicate-and that she herself doesn't dare use. What's more, she's just discovered that a certain arrogant master vampire has a geis on her-a magical claim that warns off any would-be suitors, and might also explain the rather ... intense attraction between them. But Cassie's had it with being jerked around, and anyone who tries it from now on is going to find out that she makes a very bad enemy.
3 Embrace the Night (2008)
Recently named the world’s chief clairvoyant, Cassandra Palmer still has a thorn in her side. As long as Cassie and a certain master vampire—the sizzling-hot Mircea—are magically bound to each other, her life will never be her own. The spell that binds them can only be broken with an incantation found in the Codex Merlini, an ancient grimoire. The Codex’s location has been lost in the present day, so Cassie will have to seek it out in the only place it can still be found—the past. But Cassie soon realizes the Codex has been lost for a reason. The book is rumored to contain some seriously dangerous spells, and retrieving it may help Cassie to deal with Mircea, but it could also endanger the world.
4 Curse the Dawn (2009)
Cassandra Palmer may be the all-powerful Pythia now, but that doesn’t mean people have stopped trying to kill her. Most of the supernatural power players don’t want the independent minded Cassie as chief clairvoyant—and they’ll stop at nothing to see her six feet under. The Vampire Senate does support Cassie in her position, but their protection comes with a price: an alliance with the sexy master vampire Mircea, who has claimed Cassie as his own. But even the vampires will have trouble keeping Cassie alive now that the self-styled god Apollo, the source of the Pythia’s power, has it in for her in a big way. To save her life—and the world—Cassie’s going to have to face down her creator once and for all.
5 Hunt the Moon (2011)
Cassandra Palmer recently defeated a god, which you'd think would buy a girl a little time off. But it doesn't work that way when your new job description is Pythia — the world's chief clairvoyant. Cassie is busier than ever, trying to learn about her power, preparing for her upcoming coronation, and figuring out her relationship with the enigmatic sexy master vampire, Mircea.
But someone doesn't want Cassie to become Pythia, and is willing to go to any lengths to make sure the coronation ceremony never happens—including attacking her mother before Cassie is even born. ~ Take A Chance: Hunt the Moon
6 Tempt the Stars (2013)
Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you’re only a half goddess, and you only found out about it recently, and you still don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And when you’ve just used your not-so-reliable powers to burglarize the booby-trapped office of a vampire mob boss. — Yeah, that part sucks.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Cassandra Palmer, aka the Pythia, the freshly minted chief seer of the supernatural world. After all, Cassie still has to save a friend from a fate worse than death, deal with an increasingly possessive master vampire, and prevent a party of her own acolytes from unleashing a storm of fury upon the world. Totally just your average day at the office, right?'
7 Reap the Wind (2014)
You’d think that being Chief Seer for the supernatural world would come with a few perks. But as Cassie Palmer has learned, being Pythia doesn’t mean you don’t have to do things the hard way. That’s why she finds herself on a rescue mission skipping through time—even though she doesn’t entirely understand her dimension-bending new power. Rescuing her friend John Pritkin should have been an in and out kind of deal, but with the near-immortal mage’s soul lost in time, Cassie has to hunt for it through the ages—with Pritkin’s demon dad in tow. He’s the only one who can reverse Pritkin’s curse, but with the guardians of the time-line dead set on stopping anyone from mucking about, Cassie will have to figure out how to get her friend back without ruffling too many feathers—or causing a world-ending paradox or two.
8 Ride the Storm (2015)
Ever since being stuck with the job of pythia, the chief seer of the supernatural world, Cassie Palmer has been playing catch up. Catch up to the lifetime's worth of training she missed being raised by a psychotic vampire instead of at the fabled pythian court. Catch up to the powerful, and sometimes seductive, forces trying to mold her to their will. It's been a trial by fire that has left her more than a little burned.
But now she realizes that all that was the just the warm up for the real race. Ancient forces that once terrorized the world are trying to return, and Cassie is the only one who can stop them...
9 Brave the Tempest (2019)
Cassie Palmer has been chief seer of the supernatural world for a little over four months. In that time, she's battled two gods, fallen in love with two men, and confronted the two sides of her own nature, both god and human. So it's not surprising that she currently finds herself facing two adversaries, although they have a single purpose: to wipe out the supernatural community's newest fighting force, leaving it vulnerable to enemies in this world and beyond.
To prevent catastrophe, the vamps, mages, and demons will have to do the one thing they've never managed before and come together as allies. Cassie has the difficult task of keeping the uneasy coalition intact, and of persuading her own two opposing forces, a powerful mage with a secret and a master vampire with a growing obsession, to fight at her side. She just hopes they can do it without tearing each other apart.
10 Shatter the Earth (Feb. 2020)
Ironically for the time traveling, chief seer of the supernatural world, time has never been on Cassie Palmer’s side. There has always seemed to be too much to learn, too much to master, and never enough hours in a day. But the tables have now turned, and the fluctuating timelines of Earth and Faerie are diverging, slowing time in Faerie relative to Earth, and giving humans an advantage for the first time in their war with the fey. It is one they desperately need, for a literal war of the worlds is about to take place. To win, or even to survive, Cassie and her allies, the powerful vampire senator Mircea Basarab and the formidable war mage John Pritkin, will have to pull off their greatest feat yet. And find a way to become more than the sum of their parts.
Ignite the Fire
Incendiary (Cassie Palmer Book 11) (2021) :Cassie Palmer is the Pythia, chief seer of the supernatural world. John Pritkin is a half demon and a legendary war mage. Mircea Basarab is a first-level master vampire and the general of the World Vampire Senate. Each is formidable enough alone. But they recently discovered that, together, they are far more than the sum of their parts. With their power combined through a perilous spell, they are the closest thing left on Earth to one of the ancient gods.
Ignite the Fire
Inferno (Cassie Palmer Book 12) (2022) :Ignite the Fire: Incendiary struck a match; Ignite the Fire: Inferno brings a firestorm!
Cassie Palmer, once a down on her luck clairvoyant and now the chief seer of the supernatural world, is in the fight of her life. While on a rescue mission in Faerie, she is kidnapped by a king of the fey named Aeslinn. He is her sworn enemy and has every reason to want to kill her, yet instead he offers a trade: her life for that of her lover, John Pritkin.

Hijack the Seas (Cassie Palmer Book 13) (TBA)

### Dorina Basarab series

Midnight's Daughter (Dorina Basarab Book 1) (2008)
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—half-human, half-vampire. Unlike most dhampirs, though, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity. Now Dory’s vampire father has come to her for help— again. Her Uncle Dracula (yes, the Dracula), cruelest among vampires, has escaped his prison. And her father wants Dory to work with gorgeous master vampire Louis-Cesare to put him back there.
Death's Mistress (Dorina Basarab Book 2) (2010)
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir-half-human, half-vampire. Back home in Brooklyn after the demise of her insane Uncle Dracula, Dory's hoping her life is about to calm down. But soon Dory realizes someone is killing vampire Senate members, and if she can't stop the murderer, her friends may be next...
Fury's Kiss (Dorina Basarab Book 3) (Oct 2012)
Dory is used to fighting hard and nasty. So when she wakes up in a strange scientific lab with a strange man standing over her, her first instinct is to take his head off. Luckily, the man is actually the master vampire Louis-Cesare, so he’s not an easy kill.
It turns out that Dory had been working with a Vampire Senate task force on the smuggling of magical items and weaponry out of Faerie when she was captured and brought to the lab. But when Louis-Cesare rescues her, she has no memory of what happened to her.
Shadow's Bane (Dorina Basarab Book 4) (2018)
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir--half-human, half-vampire. As one of the Vampire Senate's newest members, Dory already has a lot on her plate. But then a relative of one of Dory's fey friends goes missing. They fear he's been sold to a slaver who arranges fights--sometimes to the death--between different types of fey.
As Dory investigates, she and her friends learn the slavers are into something much bigger than a fight club. With the Vampire Senate gearing up for war with Faerie, it'll take everything she has to defeat the slavers--and deal with the entirely too attractive master vampire Louis-Cesare....
Queen's Gambit (Dorina Basarab Book 5) (2020)
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir—the feared and hated cross between a vampire and a human—or so she has always believed. She spent most of her life on the fringes of her two worlds, yearning to belong to one or the other, but despised and distrusted by both. Recently, a war in the supernatural community allowed her to get a foothold into her vampire father’s world, one of danger, intrigue, glitz and glamour, where she found not only a home, but a lover, too. For the first time in centuries, life seemed to be going her way. But now, an incident with a dangerous magical device has left her two natures separated into duplicate bodies, both fighting to survive while they search for the truth about their past, and the key to their future.

## References

1. ↑ (Cassandra Palmer Wikipedia
2. ↑ Maryse's Book Blog