A Top Ten Debut of 2011    —American Library Association's Booklist Magazine "Dark and super sexy..."    —Cosmo UK Book of the Week Pick A Reader's Choice—chosen as one of the BEST BOOKS of 2011 by ten major book blogs "A grimly satisfying new twist to a very old tale"    —The Washington Post "The Taker renews the [immortality] genre... and makes it intimate again"    —Locus Magazine

Part historical novel and part supernatural page-turner, The Taker is an unforgettable novel about the power of love not only to elevate and sustain, but to blind and ultimately destroy, and how each person is responsible to find their own path to redemption.

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Read "The Wedding Party", an original short story that is part of The Taker saga. This story originally appeared in the November 2011 issue of Portland Monthly Magazine (PDF)