Dead Heat, Patricia Briggs
Dead Heat, Patricia Briggs
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Dead Heat

Author: Patricia Briggs

Narrator: Holter Graham

Unabridged: 10 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 03/18/2025

Synopsis

Praised for having “the perfect blend of action, romance, suspense, and paranormal”*, #1 New York Times bestselling author Patrica Briggs's Alpha and Omega series now takes readers into the middle of some bad supernatural business…

For once, mated werewolves Charles Cornick and Anna Lantham are not traveling because of Charles’s role as his father’s enforcer. This time, their trip to Arizona is purely personal. Or at least their visit starts out that way... 

Charles and Anna soon discover that a dangerous fae being is on the loose, replacing human children with simulacrums. The fae have started a cold war with humanity that's about to heat up—and Charles and Anna are in the crossfire.

*Rex Robot Reviews

About Patricia Briggs

Montana born author, Patricia Briggs, has worked her way into a very successful author of fantasy novels. She chose to live mostly in the Pacific Northwest which is not typically the hotbed of authors, but she has managed to live a quieter life and still become a New York Times bestselling author. Her most famous series, Mercy Thompson and the Columbia Basin Pack, we're fictional residents of the area in which she resides, the Tri-Cities Washington.

From 1990 on, Briggs has published 17 novels beginning with traditional fantasy, then in 2006 moving to urban fantasy. A unique mark of her novels is that even in a series, each novel can serve as a stand-alone story without leaving the reader to wonder what happens next.

Briggs also writes the Alpha and Omega series, and they are set in the same environment as the Mercy Thomas series. The most recent of that series debuted in 2012, and came in at #4 on the NYT bestsellers list.

Briggs still lives in Washington state with her husband and children. They have a small herd of horses that they enjoy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jo on February 07, 2015

10 Love This Series Stars It was a vacation trip. Visit an old friend who wouldn't be around much longer, buy a horse for Anna's birthday and have a break from the emotional strain that being the werewolves' hitman always puts on Charles. But sometimes trouble finds you even when you least want it and......more

Goodreads review by Anne on June 16, 2019

4.5 stars Fantastic, solid, emotional...everything I've come to expect from one of Briggs' novels. Including a hideous cover. *shrugs* Eh, what can you do? Charles decides to buy a horse for Anna from an old friend, Joseph. He's hoping to use the visit to catch up with him, and finally introduce his wife......more

Goodreads review by JeniReadABook on July 10, 2017

2015 is not nearly soon enough! This series is even better than the Mercy Thompson series. I ADORE Anna and Charles and I hope they go on to have a 10+ book series. This is definitely my new favorite urban fantasy series. The dynamics between Anna and Charles and then Anna and the others she comes i......more

Goodreads review by Christy on November 23, 2018

4 stars!! Dead Heat was another fantastic addition to the Alpha & Omega series. I love Charles and Anna. They are such an amazing couple. My husband and I read these books together and he always says they remind him of us… sigh. Anyway, this book was full of suspense, action, and had so much hear......more

Goodreads review by Carole on March 03, 2015

3/3/15: Now Available! This review can also be found at Carole's Random Life. 5 Stars! This is a fantastic book! I need to be clear up front that I am a huge fan of Patricia Briggs. I have read and enjoyed all of the books in the Mercy Thompson series and the Alpha & Omega series. I enjoy each series b......more

Quotes

“Grade: A.  A definite recommend.”—Dear Author

“Gripping and intense, Dead Heat is everything an urban fantasy novel should be — it doesn’t get better than this!”—RT Book Reviews

“Briggs offers the complete package, a book with interesting world building, lovely characters, and stakes that could not be higher. Dead Heat is a great addition to the series.”—All Things Urban Fantasy

More Praise for the Alpha and Omega Novels

“A terrific saga.”—Midwest Book Review
 
“Briggs has created such a detailed and well thought out world that I am helpless to resist.”—Fiction Vixen
 
“[Briggs] spins tales of werewolves, coyote shifters and magic and, my, does she do it well...If you like action, violence, romance and, of course, werewolves, then I urge you to pick up this series.”—USATODAY.com
 
“Interesting, fast-paced urban fantasy...[An] imaginative writer who always leaves fans anxiously waiting for the next tale.”—Monsters and Critics
 
“Patricia Briggs is amazing…Her Alpha and Omega novels are fantastic.”—Fresh Fiction

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