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  1. Rec 9

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    Nines and Gavin are antagonistic partners in the Exclusion Task Force—a science and military branch of the authoritarian government that researches and neutralizes dangerous anomalies in the country-wide Exclusion Zones.

    When Nines’ brother is discovered to have ties to the rebel terrorist group Jericho, secret police converge on them with the intention to bring Nines in for questioning and eliminate Gavin as collateral. They're forced to go underground and on the run: hitchhiking, carjacking, and wandering their way through the long, lonely stretches of highway, surviving on the money they can scrounge up, keeping hidden from government hit squads, and dealing with the eerie anomalies they encounter along the way.

    And, of course, trying not to kill each other.

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    11 Oct 2025

  2. Rec 95

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    It felt like fire racing through his veins, burning him up from the inside. Already the pain had begun spreading beyond the borders of the wound; Geoffrey could feel a feverish restlessness beneath his skin, a sort of desperate nervous energy he couldn't put a name to. Sheer adrenaline, maybe. Panic at the thought of being wounded like this by some worthless leech. But...

    A rare breed of Ekon leaves McCullum with more than a simple bite wound. He needs help only a vampire can provide—and no matter how much he hates it, there's only one vampire he can trust to help.

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    18 Sep 2025

  3. Rec 37

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    Jonathan is persuaded to attend a charity masquerade ball. McCullum doesn't have an invitation, but that doesn't stop him making an appearance.

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    17 Sep 2025

  4. Rec 42

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    It started with a simple enough assertion: McCullum looked him in the eye and said, "That doesn't work on me, leech."

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    17 Sep 2025

  5. Rec 24

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    Jonathan hesitates, but Geoffrey's ultimatum is evidently a persuasive one, because despite Jonathan's obvious discomfort he nevertheless attempts to explain: "Chemically speaking, saliva has many of the same components as blood. To put a finer point on it, the salivary gland... sieves the blood, and holds back the red blood cells..."

    Geoffrey absorbs this in silence.

    "... So yes, technically it is 'a blood thing'."

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    11 Sep 2025