Shadowed Demise

Undead Bar Association #2

by Maryanne M. Wells

Enslaved to a house of vampires, law student Maryanne Wells expects her Dallas clerkship to be the summer from hell. Even her educated dread can't prepare her for what she finds: a saxophone-playing Guardian with the power to stop time, a court investigator trained in knives and riddles, a dead enemy begging to be an ally, and a string of murders stretching back fifty years. And the vampires? They've changed tactics. They aren't after blood; they're after Maryanne's mind. From the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to a modern PETA protest, from soaring courtrooms to back alleys and strip clubs, Shadowed Demise is a fast-paced adventure about the long reach of shadowed pasts and the unending fight for justice.

400 pages, Paperback

First published November 26, 2012

About the author

Maryanne Mackenzie Wells is a Texas attorney turned ficiton writer. She lives, works, dreams, and writes in the Texas Panhandle. Through her current fiction series, the Undead Bar Association, Maryanne chronicles the squirmy gray place in life where the law and supernatural collide.

The first Undead Bar Association (UBA) book, Matriculated Death, published in June 2012. The second book is scheduled for release in November 2012. To read samples of other UBA stories, visit the original blog at www.undeadbarassociation.com.

When she's not busy writing, Maryanne applies her legal and business knowledge to solving problems in the corporate world. Occasionally, Maryanne shakes off her pen name and appears in a local theater production or ballet. Her last name, Wells, was inspired by her role in a theatrical production of Dracula