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Chapters Eight AND Nine from THE OTHER HALF OF THE GRAVE, plus new contest alert, and more!

December 6, 2019 by Jeaniene 78 Comments

Lots to cover in this post, so let’s get right to it! First, there’s only about a week left where you can buy the first Night Rebel novel, SHADES OF WICKED, for only $1.99 in ebook. Behold, Ian is festively decorated for the holidays and wants you to bring him home! Note: Ian’s new, bedazzled holiday nipples are courtesy of BFF Ilona Andrews‘ photoshopping skills and twisted sense of humor, so of course, you won’t see them on the actual book. Order yours (#Ad) Amazon,  B&N, Apple Books, Kobo 

Second, a head’s up: Next week, I will be holding new contests giving away signed copies of WICKED BITE, Night Rebel book two, PLUS a box of Godiva chocolate. So, if you want your chance to win, be sure to check out my blog AND–if you haven’t already–sign up for my newsletter before then by clicking HERE because one of those contests will be for newsletter subscribers only.

And now, onto the new Bones pov chapter! In this case, it’s chapters plural because, in the holiday spirit, I’m doubling the content :). Usual reminder: THE OTHER HALF OF THE GRAVE is not an entire book, nor is it a new Cat and Bones novel. For more information and to read the previously-posted chapters, go HERE. There will be new chapters every week from now through January. Disclaimers, sale alerts, bedazzled holiday nipples, and contest head’s up aside, happy reading!

Chapter Eight

It took two weeks for her to stop smelling of fear. Granted, she wore rage and resentment as if they were designer perfumes, but he could hardly blame her. He trained her with the same ruthlessness that the poverty-ridden streets of London had trained him, but instead of the chronic hunger he’d endured as a boy, he gave her boulders strapped to her back while she climbed up the steep terrain in the cave. Instead of running from coppers after he’d been caught stealing to survive, he ran her through the woods until she vomited. And instead of the endless times he was jumped and beaten by older lads who robbed him of his meager belongings, she got hand-to-hand combat with him.

Each day, he wondered if she would quit. She didn’t, constantly impressing him. Part of him had hoped this brutal training would make her rethink hunting vampires altogether. That hope increased the first week, when she threw off the boulders he’d strapped onto her and said, “I’ve had enough!”

“Have you?” Bones replied mildly. “If you no longer want to hunt vampires at all, that is indeed your prerogative. Plenty of other things you can do with your life.”

“I’m not quitting that,” she snapped. “I’m quitting this. I hunted vampires just fine before your back-breaking training techniques, remember? If I’d known what you intended with that stupid bargain, I would have gladly chosen death!”

She would be choosing death, if she insisted on hunting vampires without his training. She might have survived before on sheer luck combined with the element of surprise, but both of those were unreliable. Skill wasn’t, and he’d make damn sure she had it even if now, she didn’t think she needed it. 

That’s why he smiled wide enough to show his fangs. “You’d rather die? Come here and prove it. I’m feeling peckish, anyway.”

She stared at him.

He stared back, knowing her bias would make her believe he’d really drain the life from her without a second thought. After a long moment, she began strapping the boulders onto the harness he’d fashioned for her back. Then she resumed her trek up the cave’s steep incline.

He’d never been so proud of her…or so irritated by her low opinion of him.

By the second week, she’d made remarkable gains with her strength, stamina, speed and–equally important–sense of when to duck. So much that she stopped losing consciousness in the middle of their bouts. She looked rightfully pleased with herself about this…until she realized she would now be awake when he gave her blood to heal her injuries.

“I won’t do it,” she said in her most obstinate tone.

“Two of your ribs are broken, your arm’s dislocated, and your eyes are so black, you can double as a raccoon,” Bones countered. “Going to return home to your family that way?”

Her jaw clenched. “I’ll tell them I was in a car crash.”

“You’d also be breaching our bargain because you wouldn’t be able to continue your training for weeks,” he said, again thrusting his bitten finger toward her. The holes had healed while they argued, but a few drops of his blood remained. “That’s not an option, so quit complaining, open your mouth, and swallow.”

“Don’t you sound like every other guy?” she muttered, but finally popped his bloodied finger into her mouth.

With anyone else, he would have found the quip amusing. With her, jealousy hit him so hard, he was briefly robbed of speech. Her mouth was so warm, so inviting…and how many other blokes had thought the same thing while under much more erotic circumstances?

“Disgusting,” she garbled as she swallowed his blood. “How can you things live off that?”

Things. His patience stretched to the breaking point.

“Necessity is the mother of all appetites,” he said in a curt tone. “What you need in order to survive, you learn to love.”

“All this blood better not turn me into a vampire. That was not our deal,” she said, tipping her head back so his finger slid out of her mouth. Then she looked at the moistened digit, looked at him, and blushed as if picturing something other than his finger sliding out of her mouth. 

Lust strafed the unexpected jealousy that still had him in its grip. Never before had she looked at him that way. Finally, she saw him as a man, and judging from that blush, a man she was having naughty thoughts about.

It took all his control to wipe his finger as if nothing had occurred. She wasn’t ready to act on the thought. From her expression, it was already gone, but it had been there. At last. 

“Trust me, luv, you aren’t having nearly enough blood to turn you into a vampire,” he said, ignoring the new tension between them despite every part of him wanting to explore it. “Since you fret about it all the time, however, I’ll tell you how it works. First, I’d have to drain you to the very point of death. There’s a trick to that, taking enough blood without taking too much. Then, stuffed full of your blood, I’d let you drink it right back out of me. All of it, and then some. There’s a trick to that, too. New vampires are harder to get off a vein than a starving babe off a juicy teat. These measly drops of blood I’m feeding you aren’t doing much more than healing your injuries. They’re probably not even enough to enhance your strength. Now, will you stop griping every time you have to lick a few bits off my pieces?”

Her face turned scarlet, and not from imagining anything personal between the two of them this time. She simply couldn’t handle even mild sexual innuendo without obvious discomfiture. How she’d slain sixteen vampires by pretending to want to shag them was beyond him.

“That’s another thing you have to stop doing,” he said, addressing it head-on. “You turn red as a sunset at the slightest hint of innuendo. You need to be playing the part of an aggressive, horny woman! No bloke’s going to believe that when he says boo and you faint from embarrassment. Your virginity’s going to get you killed.”

“I’m not a virgin,” she countered.

Now insane jealousy slammed into him. For a few moments, he couldn’t think past the overwhelming urge to kill any man who’d touched her. Right then, he was every inch the monster she’d repeatedly accused him of being.

“…change the subject,” she was saying. “We’re not girlfriends at a slumber party. I don’t want to be discussing this with you.”

Nor should she. Her sexual past was her business, not his. But when he opened his mouth, none of those reasonable statements came out. Only his maddened jealousy did, inflamed by his feelings for her and the seething territoriality all vampires had over people they considered theirs.

“Well, well, well. Kitten’s catted around, has she? The way you act, I’m surprised.”

Shut it, fool! the sane part of him urged. Stop!

But he didn’t. “Chap waiting patiently for you to finish your training? Must be quite a lad, to get you all hot and bothered.  Again, didn’t peg you for the experienced type, but then you did offer me a taste when we first met. Makes me wonder now if you planned on staking me before or after you got your itch scratched. What about the other vampires? Did they die with a smile on their-”

She slapped him. He’d never deserved it more. He caught her wrist, though, because her violence fed the beast he was now using all his strength to contain. She whipped her free hand at his cheek. He caught that, too. Then the expression on her face tore through his insanity. If anyone else had caused her that level of hurt, he’d rip them to pieces.

“Don’t you dare talk to me that way.” Her voice shook. “I’ve heard enough of that crap growing up. Just because my mother had me out of wedlock, our stupid, old-fashioned neighbors thought that made her a slut, and me too, by default. And not that it’s any of your business, since you’ve probably raped villages full of women, but I’ve only been with one person. He dropped me like a bad habit right afterward, so that was enough to cure me of any desire I had to duplicate the sexual escapades of my peers. Now, I mean it, I don’t ever want to talk about this again!”

Rage and humiliation had turned her breathing into pants, and her pulse lashed him with its every rapid beat. He barely even registered the rapist insult. He was too gutted for causing her such pain. 

“Kitten, I apologize,” he said, knowing that wasn’t nearly enough. He also couldn’t explain the reason behind his sudden, unhinged attack. Besides, his lack of control was his problem, not hers. So, he went with the logic that had failed him before.

“I had no right to say that to you. No one does. But just because your ignorant neighbors took their bigotry out on your, or some pimply-faced teenager pulled a one-nighter-”

“Stop it,” she interrupted, tears brightening her eyes. “Just stop it. I can do the job, I can fake sexy, whatever. But we are not discussing this.”

As if he cared about the bloody job! “Look, luv-”

“Bite me,” she spat, and stalked off.

He watched her go, feeling every inch the cad she thought he was.

Chapter Nine

When the last echoes from her footsteps ceased, he was still in the same spot. Stalactites on the ceilings of the limestone antechamber caught the additional lights he’d set up for her and reflected them back at him. He’d also gotten a couch for her to sit on, a table so she had something to set her belongings on, a telly to watch if she ever stayed past her training schedule–-she hadn’t, but one day she might–and space heaters so she would no longer shiver in the cave’s chilly temperature. Now, every item seemed to mock him with her absence, and when the extended silence confirmed that she was truly gone, he felt more alone than he had in decades.

Everything that mattered most to him had just left.

He took another minute to feel every bit of the blame, regret, and loneliness that his actions had wrought. Then, he resolved to fix it.

Advice would help. He was hardly the first vampire to fall victim to jealousy mixed with preternatural possessiveness, after all. Bones pulled out his mobile, scrolled until he saw his best mate’s name, then hit “call.”

Charles answered on the second ring. “Crispin! How goes it? Still in New Orleans?”

“I’m in Ohio now,” Bones replied, used to Charles calling him by his birth name. He did the same despite Charles long ago renaming himself Spade-– the tool he’d been assigned when they were both prisoners at the New South Wales penal colonies in the late seventeen hundreds. 

“’Fraid this isn’t a social call, Charles. I need some advice. I’m in over my head with a particular situation.”

His friend let out an indulgent laugh. “Indeed? What are the lovely lasses’ names? Or are there too many for you to remember?”

A grim smile stretched Bones’s lips. “It’s only one lass, and I’m more than a little in love with her.”

A car horn blared through the line. Charles muttered something, then said, “Sorry, mate. I’m on my way to London, and traffic is murder. You were saying something about her being little in size and you loving it?”

“That’s not what I said.” Now Bones made sure to enunciate each word. “I said I’m more than a little in love with her.”

“What?” The screech made Bones hold his mobile further away from his ear. Still, he heard the rest clearly. “How? Who is she? And why didn’t you tell me before now? We spoke only four weeks ago!”

“I hadn’t met her four weeks ago.”

“Crispin.” Charles’s tone changed from loud shock to the softer, calm one he normally reserved for people teetering on the edge of sanity. “You’re telling me you’ve fallen for a woman you’ve known less than a month?”

“What did you tell me, way back when I said something similar to you about Giselda?” Bones replied. “You said, ‘you never have to wonder if you’re in love. When you are, you’ll know it.’ I know it, Charles. The length of time I’ve known her doesn’t matter.”

Silence. Bones didn’t know if it was more doubt on Charles’ part, or because he’d mentioned Giselda. Even a century later, Charles hadn’t gotten over her death. Bones used to think that amount of grief was excessive. Now, he understood.

“Then I couldn’t be happier for you,” his friend finally replied. “Tell me about her. I want to know everything.”

Bones closed his eyes. “Her name is Cat, and she’s an exceptionally strong, brave woman who’s two hundred years too young for me, hates all things vampire, has already tried to kill me twice, and currently loathes the very ground I walk upon.”

He heard a screech of brakes, several horn blasts, and then finally, Charles’s laughter. “Sorry, mate, accidentally ran the car off the road. Now that I’m safely in a ditch, do repeat yourself because you didn’t just say the object of your shocking devotion hates you.”

“You heard me,” Bones said dryly. “I haven’t even gotten to the best part. She’s also half-vampire.”

Longer stretch of silence. Bones broke it with a sharp laugh. “I know. Impossible, right? If I hadn’t seen the proof of it myself, I wouldn’t believe it, either. But she is, and she’s been taught to hate our kind–and herself-–because of it.”

“Oh, Crispin.” Charles’s voice was a sigh. “Leave it to you to take the hardest possible road yet again.”

“Someone has to walk it,” Bones said, knowing Charles meant more than his new love interest. His best mate had long fretted that Bones’s line of work would kill him one day, but someone had to stop the worst among their kind, and vampire law only afforded one loophole.   

Kill a vampire protected by a powerful Master for moral reasons, and your line and theirs would likely go to war. But kill a vampire protected by a powerful Master because you took the contract someone had put out on the sod’s life, and that was simply the cost of business in a free market society.

So, when Bones could strike a blow for the better, he did. Getting paid afterward was merely the icing on the cake.    

“We’re not having that old argument,” Bones said. “I need to know what you did to stop yourself from going barking mad whenever jealousy hit. Just now, I found myself berating her for not being a virgin. Can you believe I, of all people, did that?”

“Crickey,” Charles muttered.

“Exactly,” Bones said with more dryness.

Charles sighed again. “You can’t learn to feel it any less. At least, I didn’t. But you can learn not to take it out on her. When it strikes, force yourself to walk away while remembering that what you’re feeling is only a chemical surge despite it being turbo-charged by our supernatural natures. Or force yourself to walk away while making the phrase ‘bite your tongue’ a reality. Or walk away while punching yourself very hard in the face. Anything except giving voice to that out-of-control emotion.”

Sound advice, indeed. “Thanks, mate. I owe you.”    

“No, you don’t.” Sadness edged Charles’s tone now. Bones could almost picture him running a weary hand through his spiked black hair. “I’m still in your debt and ever will be. But enough of that. When do I get to meet this wonder of biology and thief of previously-hard hearts?”

“When she won’t try to kill you on sight,” Bones replied, his mouth curling at Charles’s instant laugh. “I’m not joking. She might look harmless, but her fighting skills are quite impressive. Soon, she’ll be equal to a strong vampire.”

“She wants you dead, and you’re training her to be better equipped to carry out that objective?” Spade snorted. “Unless you have a death wish, you’re going about this all wrong.”

“On the contrary,” Bones replied in a light one. “I’ve never had more reason to live. But until she stops seeing all vampires as the enemy, you can’t meet her, and for obvious reasons, don’t tell anyone about her.”

Charles grunted. “If the past is prologue, when other vampires learn what she is, half will want to claim her while the other half might want to kill her.”

Bones’s fangs shot out, and he nearly crushed his mobile from his fists instinctively clenching.

No one would hurt her or take her from him. He’d slaughter the lot of them first!

But, practicing the techniques Charles had just suggested, Bones said none of that. Instead, he bit his tongue until the taste of blood calmed him.

“Another reason it’s important that she learn to be at her fighting best,” he replied in a very controlled tone.

“You, too,” Charles said softly. “When Ian hears of her-”

“I’ll be free from his line by then,” Bones said, his tone hardening. “And I’ll take all who are mine with me.”

Charles grunted. “And if Ian objects to your bid for freedom?”

Bones’s jaw tightened until Charles should have heard the cartilage crack. “Doesn’t matter. If Ian refuses to grant my freedom, I’ll challenge him and take it.”

Pause.

Then, “I hope you know what you’re doing, Crispin.”

Never more so.

“Thanks, mate. Until again.”

He hung up before Charles could say anything else. There was no need. Bones knew the risks. They didn’t matter. Only protecting her did. To do that, he’d have to repair the hurt he’d caused, and also resume hunting the cartel he’d been chasing. Now, he had another compelling reason to stop them. If the cartel had set up their new base in Ohio, as Bones suspected, there would be bodies here, just as there had been in Bennington, Vermont, and in Juarez, Mexico. 

Find the dead, follow the money, find the killers. Same formula he’d used many times before, though normally, he had to find the dead by scouting out various sites according to rumor and whispers, and then keep digging until he hit graves.

But Cat’s lineage straddled both sides of the grave, so with her, he might have a short cut…

***

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  1. Dasha says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:14 am

    This is too good to wait for next friday!!!

    Reply
    • Ashley says

      December 6, 2019 at 2:29 pm

      This is killing me!!! I have been reading this since day one!!! Please say you will make this into an ebook at least when it’s all done! I would so buy it, or even a paperback to add to all the others I own!!!

      Reply
      • Samantha says

        December 9, 2019 at 6:02 am

        This is sooo good. I can not wait till Friday. I read every chapter with a smile on my face.
        I love Cat and Bones so much.

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      • Sharon Talavera says

        December 10, 2019 at 8:41 pm

        I told myself I’d wait til it was more or less completed but I couldn’t help myself 😩 now I gotta waitttt.

        Eagerly awaiting the next chapter 💕

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      • Tamye Whitener says

        December 18, 2019 at 5:18 am

        I love reading Bones POV. Now I want to go read Halfway to the Grave.
        Please keep these coming.

        Reply
      • paige says

        December 29, 2019 at 10:55 am

        I would totally buy it too paperback or ebook !!!!!

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      • debb lavoie says

        January 2, 2020 at 10:38 am

        Love the character, Charles.

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    • Gina Johnson says

      December 6, 2019 at 3:28 pm

      I loved this series.

      Reply
    • Kat says

      December 6, 2019 at 7:26 pm

      Two chapters!!!! So happy, you ROCK!!! Can’t wait to read more!! I’m marking the days off til wicked bite!! I need me some Ian!!! Much luv and forever fangirl Kat v.💋💋💖

      Reply
    • Megan Shannon-Marshall says

      December 8, 2019 at 7:18 am

      Can’t wait for the next one. On the edge of my seat.

      Reply
    • Sharon Talavera says

      December 10, 2019 at 8:41 pm

      I told myself I’d wait til it was more or less completed but I couldn’t help myself 😩 now I gotta waitttt.

      Eagerly awaiting the next chapter 💕

      Reply
    • Carolyn Greenwald says

      June 20, 2020 at 11:40 pm

      I just got a tablet and started checking out all the authors I read/like and just discovered these extra chapters.Bones is my favorite character.( Ian and Vlad are close seconds)These chapters are excellent.Really funny.Thank you and well done!

      Reply
  2. Diane Maglioli says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:17 am

    I really, really miss Cat and Bones and all of Bones’ friends. They were a unique group because your imagination took us to a whole new world of vampires/ghouls/shifters/ghost, etc. Thank you.

    Reply
  3. Sherri Sirwaitis says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:26 am

    Thank you Jeaniene for your gift of more insight into Cat and Bones relationship. I can never get enough of your writing and look forward to this every week! 🙂

    Reply
    • Donna says

      December 9, 2019 at 3:16 am

      I love it ssooo much please say that you are going to make it into an ebook pretty please?

      Reply
      • Jeaniene says

        December 10, 2019 at 11:24 am

        If I ever finish it, I probably will :).

        Reply
  4. Jen says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:28 am

    Love these. I’m here every day looking for wicked bite excerpts, and getting this fresh retake of Cat and Bones is helping to curb my hunger.

    Reply
    • Rayanne says

      December 7, 2019 at 7:39 pm

      Super feliz… Em ter os pensamentos de Bones.

      Reply
  5. Jenni says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:28 am

    OMG! The conversation between Spade and Bones is FANTASTIC! I love seeing more in depth into their friendship as well. This is all just so wonderful!!! Please dont ever stop!

    Reply
  6. Aleks says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:33 am

    😍

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  7. Shannon from Texas says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:36 am

    Thank you, Jeaniene, I’m so enjoying this. I hope you have a great weekend!

    Reply
    • Evonna says

      December 7, 2019 at 8:04 pm

      Oh my gosh! What a great treat to have two chapters! It is so great to see how Bones deals with things and him calling his best friend for advice and support. Looking forward to the next chapter!

      Reply
  8. Mag says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:37 am

    OMG! Love it, every bit of it!

    Reply
  9. Kera says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:43 am

    I sincerely hope(wish) you continue out the entire series from Bone’s perspective lol. I’m loving the other side of things here. I’d so buy the entire series again from Bone’s view. Love your work, btw.

    Reply
  10. TheDonkeyHotey says

    December 6, 2019 at 11:46 am

    I’m glad to see Bones made a mistake and was pissed with himself for doing so. It’s so tricky with the ‘I’m in love with you but hiding it’ trope to give the non POV character good motivations while they are being a jerk. But having Bones just be jealous and flawed seems far more real. Please keep going!

    Reply
  11. Ginna says

    December 6, 2019 at 12:05 pm

    I really miss Bones and Cat. Is it next Fri yet?

    Reply
  12. Harley says

    December 6, 2019 at 12:07 pm

    You should write the books again from Bones POV there is no much more to the story then we thought and it’s amazing. I’d be running out to get them as soon as they were on the shelves!!

    Reply
    • Sara T says

      December 7, 2019 at 11:50 pm

      +1000
      Yes please rewrite all the books from Bones perspective. They would be so amazing.

      Reply
  13. Amy Wright says

    December 6, 2019 at 12:41 pm

    Thanks for sharing this with us!

    Reply
  14. Annie says

    December 6, 2019 at 12:56 pm

    This is fantastic! I loved how we got some new pieces with how they interacted during Cat’s training and later the phone call to Spade. Thank you!

    Reply
  15. Silvia says

    December 6, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    thank you!

    Reply
  16. Silvia says

    December 6, 2019 at 1:11 pm

    thank you!
    it is always a pleasure to reread you novels!

    Reply
    • Débora Cabral says

      December 11, 2019 at 9:10 am

      Please don’t stop! I’m falling for bonnes again. I love you Jeaniene, you are the best!! We Brazilian love you!💕💕💕

      Reply
  17. Kat says

    December 6, 2019 at 1:42 pm

    Thank you! I look forward to these every week!

    Reply
  18. Denise E Koontz says

    December 6, 2019 at 1:54 pm

    Thanks Jeanine for writing us another great 2 chapters. It has made my day and now all is right in the world! hahaha

    Reply
  19. Emily says

    December 6, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    Plus one to all comments above!
    Thanks so much!

    Reply
  20. Ines says

    December 6, 2019 at 2:43 pm

    Wooow!
    The best time of the year. Thank you for the very best gift of all. I really hope your publisher will see the huge potencial that comes along with the series from Bones point of view. If there is any chance- your fans will fight for it 🙂
    You are such an amazing author!

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  21. Michelle says

    December 6, 2019 at 2:51 pm

    OMG I love this so much! Reading about how jealous he was just thinking about her with past partners makes me want Bone’s POV from so many other books! Like when she was on assignment with Tate at the carnival to get closer to Patra, and when Bones thought she had slept with Vlad. Thank you for this, even though I want a whole lot more! 😉

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  22. Robin says

    December 6, 2019 at 2:58 pm

    While I have read everything you’ve published, as well as many other series, Cat and Bones will always be my all time favorite couple. I adore reading this from Bone’s point of view. Please please please publish this at some point. And feel free (please do) to do the entire series from Bone’s perspective.

    Reply
  23. Jennifer says

    December 6, 2019 at 3:24 pm

    I can’t believe I have to wait another week! I am addicted!! ❤️

    Reply
  24. Crystal says

    December 6, 2019 at 6:10 pm

    I love this!! Thank you so much!

    Reply
  25. Leeann says

    December 6, 2019 at 7:02 pm

    Good thing I don’t have a remote like it the movie Click to fast forward till next Friday. I can’t wait for more!

    Reply
  26. Bobbi Jo Storfa Gies says

    December 6, 2019 at 7:24 pm

    Cat and Bones are my favorite books. I would buy all of them from Bones point of view..

    Reply
  27. barby says

    December 6, 2019 at 7:40 pm

    Thank you very much!!!!

    Reply
  28. Renee says

    December 6, 2019 at 8:01 pm

    Thank you so much for taking the time to do write this for us every week.

    Reply
  29. Patty Wilcox says

    December 6, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    Love it, love it, love it!!! Thank you so much.

    Reply
  30. Michelle Sanders says

    December 6, 2019 at 10:19 pm

    Love it! What a wonderful pre-birthday gift! Can’t wait to read more!!!!

    Reply
  31. Michelle says

    December 7, 2019 at 4:44 am

    💙💙💙💙. I loved it the 1st time around and am totally loving Bones’ point of view!!!!

    Reply
  32. Wanda says

    December 7, 2019 at 7:28 am

    Your rewrite from Bones’s POV is a great read! I love this world you created and your wonderful books.

    Reply
  33. Sandra Tessier says

    December 7, 2019 at 10:47 am

    I so look forward to the next chapters. I so miss Bones’ wit and Cat’s bantering. Can’t wait for more.

    Reply
  34. Rene says

    December 7, 2019 at 2:55 pm

    How amazing, I really have missed them. Thank you so much!

    Reply
  35. clare says

    December 7, 2019 at 3:24 pm

    Bone’s stream of consciousness as he talks to Cat and the conversation he had with Crispin were flippin’ fantastic. Thanks so much for writing this. Night Huntress has always been one of my favorite series and getting to see it all from Bones perspective, right back where it all began is such a wonderful and generous gift.

    Thank you.

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  36. Kristen Ridley says

    December 7, 2019 at 5:52 pm

    Really, really, REALLY hope your publisher is paying attention to the amount of interest in this new perspective on your NYT best-selling series, and that they will green-light a full book with Bones’ perspective on the story and characters all your readers adore so so much! Fingers and toes crossed, and if there’s someone we should tell let us know.

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  37. Brandy E Autrey says

    December 8, 2019 at 5:46 pm

    Thank you! I look forward to these each time you post!
    Q: Will Timothy’s story ever be revealed?
    2nd Q: Will we see a book from Katie’s pov as an adult?

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    • Emily says

      December 8, 2019 at 9:05 pm

      +1 on Timothy. Will we get more of him?

      Reply
    • Jeaniene says

      December 10, 2019 at 11:25 am

      Actually, you’ll get a peek at Timothy this week, and not in a new OTHER HALF OF THE GRAVE chapter. This will be in a new snippet from WICKED BITE :).

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  38. Bruce R says

    December 8, 2019 at 6:07 pm

    Dear Ms Frost,
    We, your beloved readers, are having a problem with waiting a week between chapters. So I’ve written to the United Nations and they have agreed the issue has international implications nearly as severe as climate change. Therefore, they proposed the following calendar update starting this week:
    Monday, 9 December 2019 will also be known as “Friday”;
    Tuesday, 10 December 2019 will also be known as “Friday”;
    Wednesday, 11 December 2019 will also be known as “Friday”;
    Thursday, 12 December 2019 will also be known as “Friday” …

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    • Brandy E Autrey says

      December 9, 2019 at 6:46 pm

      I whole completely agree with this schedule!

      Reply
    • Jeaniene says

      December 10, 2019 at 11:25 am

      Snort. I’ll get right on this new, “official” schedule!

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      • Bruce R says

        December 10, 2019 at 6:21 pm

        Hope you have wonderful holidays!
        (Glad I could get a “snort” 🙂

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  39. Kay Kaz says

    December 9, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

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  40. Michelle says

    December 9, 2019 at 8:37 pm

    Absolutely brilliant! These are one of the highlights of the week for me. Once done with Kat and Bones from Bone’s pov, will you do Vlad and Frankie from Vlad’s pov? Ohh
    I may be getting a head of myself but ….when Kat goes and stays with Vlad it was so heart aching Bone’s pov of that would be so wonderful to read. Please continue with Bone’s pov with the others . I think you will find many would love to read them . I know I would love to read and own them.

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  41. Jessika says

    December 10, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    I absolutely love how Bones in a moment calls Charles asking for advice as if they were 2 school girls talking about a cute boy. Love seeing this side of Bones, it melts my heart to know he is a sexy bad boy with a caring heart underneath. Roll on the next chapter

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  42. Margaret says

    December 10, 2019 at 3:32 pm

    I love the series and the characters. I enjoy reading the series and these.

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    • Carmela says

      December 10, 2019 at 9:46 pm

      Love the series

      Reply
  43. Jeanne says

    December 10, 2019 at 4:59 pm

    Can’t wait to get the new book let us know when we can preorder unless I win a free copy! Happy Holidays!!

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  44. Georgina says

    December 10, 2019 at 5:20 pm

    ❤️love it! It’s so hard to come to the end of the chapter and have to wait for the next one! But every new post it’s worth the wait. Thank you for keeping Bone and Cat alive for us.

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  45. Stacy says

    December 10, 2019 at 7:10 pm

    Soooooooo good! I can’t wait for the next bit 😁

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  46. Wendy Negron says

    December 10, 2019 at 7:41 pm

    I’m re-reading the whole series in order now. Love them!

    Reply
  47. Jean Brown says

    December 11, 2019 at 9:45 am

    Just…WOW! Every bit as engaging, fascinating, intensely thrilling as Cat’s side of the grave. “Thank you” just does not seem enough, somehow.

    Reply
  48. Christina says

    December 11, 2019 at 1:39 pm

    Love this. This is great! Thank you for writing more. Can’t get enough of Cat and Bones!!

    Reply
  49. Denise King says

    December 14, 2019 at 2:26 am

    Love the peak into Bones and Spade’s friendship!!!!

    Reply
  50. Sydney says

    December 17, 2019 at 3:08 am

    I’m screaming! I love seeing this side of the grave!

    Reply
  51. Annie Figi says

    January 18, 2020 at 5:30 pm

    It always bothered me that Bones takes her “virtue” away by teaching her to be a seductress.
    His comment on her blushing at innuendo. This is what he loves about her and he will take it away. It’s necessary, but I still hate what is coming.

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  52. Catherine Dugan says

    February 6, 2020 at 3:01 pm

    It’s like reading a whole new story. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

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  53. Catherine Dugan says

    March 9, 2020 at 10:02 am

    Reading the story from Bones’ point of view makes me want to read the series, again.

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