Tantalize

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Authors: Cynthia Leitich Smith

Tags: #Speculative Fiction

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or, if real, are used fictitiously.

Copyright © 2007 by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Cover photograph copyright © 2007 by Photodisc Red/Getty Images

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, transmitted, or stored in an information retrieval system in any form or by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, taping, and recording, without prior written permission from the publisher.

First electronic edition 2010

The Library of Congress has cataloged the hardcover edition as follows:

Smith, Cynthia Leitich.
Tantalize / Cynthia Leitich Smith. — 1st ed.
p.   cm.
Summary: When multiple murders in Austin, Texas, threaten the grand reopening of her family’s vampire-themed restaurant, seventeen-year-old, orphaned Quincie worries that her best-friend-turned-love-interest, Kieren, a werewolf-in-training, may be the prime suspect.
ISBN 978-0-7636-2791-1 (hardcover)
[1. Supernatural — Fiction. 2. Restaurants — Fiction. 3. Vampires — Fiction.
  4. Werewolves — Fiction. 5. Orphans — Fiction. 6. Austin (Tex.) — Fiction.]
I. Title.
PZ7.S64464Tan 2007
[Fic] — dc22      2005058124

ISBN 978-0-7636-4059-0 (paperback)
ISBN 978-0-7636-5152-7 (electronic)

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Innocenza

Fangs Are Us

Man or Wolf-Man, the Boy Was Mine

Questioning

Every Dog Has His Day

Blood Relations

Blood Pressure

The Facts of Life

Twice Shy

Watch Dog

The Scene of the Crime

I Vant to Suck Your Blood

From Blah to Bite

The Monster Maker

School and Other Sucky Things

Fang Shui

All the World’s a Stage

Moon Lite

Home Work

Metamorphoses

No Rest for the Wicked

Faith

Mystery

Poof!

Playing Dead

Playing Dumb

Bat Man

Prey or Predator

Everybody’s Got a Dark Side

Forever Young

Brad the Impaler

Carpe Noctem

The Prince of Transylvania

“I Could Have Danced All Night”

Little Freddie Munster

“In a Glass Darkly”

Tipsy

The Morning After

My Own Free Vill

Sheep’s Clothing

Dragons and Dungeons

Pillow Talk

Baby Got Bite

Dental Care

Angel MIA

Dead Woman Running

“Nightwing”

High Protein, Low Carb

Cat and Louse

The Silver Bullet

Hearts at Stake

This Side of Heaven

A Drinking Problem

This Side of Hell

Author’s Note

Acknowledgments

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