The Scent of Shadows
The First Sign of the Zodiac
By Vicki Pettersson
(Harper Voyager, Mass Market Paperback, 9780060898915, 464pp.)
Publication Date: March 2007
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback
Categories: Fantasy - Dark/Horror
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When she was sixteen, Joanna Archer was brutally assaulted and left to die in the Nevada desert.
By rights, she should be dead.
Now a photographer by day, she prowls a different Las Vegas after sunset—a grim, secret Sin City where Light battles Shadow—seeking answers to whom or what she really is . . . and revenge for the horrors she was forced to endure.
But the nightmare is just beginning—for the demons are hunting Joanna, and the powerful shadows want her for their own . . .
The New York Times bestselling author of the Signs of the Zodiac series and The Taken, and a former showgirl, Vicki Pettersson was born and raised—and still lives—in Sin City, where a backyard view of the Strip regularly inspires her to set down her martini and write.
“The Scent of Shadows came out of nowhere and slapped me silly. … You’re going to love this.”
-Kim Harrison
“...Read at your own risk —it’ll keep you up past your bedtime.”
-Charlaine Harris











