Cheat the Grave
The Fifth Sign of the Zodiac
By Vicki Pettersson
(Harper Voyager, Mass Market Paperback, 9780061456770, 368pp.)
Publication Date: June 2010
Categories: Fantasy - General
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Las Vegas socialite and otherwordly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she embraced mortalityabandoning her powers and altering her destiny to save a child . . . and a city. Now her former allies are her enemiesand her enemies have nothing to fear.
Yet still she is bound to a prophecy that condemns her to roam a nightmare landscape that ordinary humans cannot see and dare not enter. And a beast is on her trailan insane killer blinded by bloodlust, who's determined to rip much more from Joanna than merely her now-fragile life. Survival is no longer an option in this dark realm where good and evil have blurred into confusing shades of grayunless she can gather together an army of onetime foes and destroy everything she once believed in.
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.
“This fourth book in Pettersson’s Sign of the Zodiac is a wild roller-coaster read. With a kick-ass heroine and characters who blur the line between good and evil, this book will have readers panting for more.”
-Charlaine Harris
“This fourth book in Pettersson’s Sign of the Zodiac is a wild roller-coaster read. With a kick-ass heroine and characters who blur the line between good and evil, this book will have readers panting for more.”
-Romantic Times BOOKclub












