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Werehunter  Mercedes Lackey
 
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real peopleor incidents is purely coincidental.Copyright © 1999 by Mercedes Lackey
“Werehunter” copyright © 1989 (
Tales of the Witch World 
); “SKitty” copyright © 1991 (
Catfantastic
, Andre Norton, ed.); “A Tail of Two SKittiescopyright © 1994 (
Catfantastic 3
, Andre Norton & Martin Greenberg, eds.); “SCat” copyright © 1996 (
Catfantastic 4,
Andre Norton & MartinGreenberg, eds.); “A Better Mousetrap” copyright © 1999 (
Werehunter 
, Baen Books); “The Last of the Season” copyright ©
 American FantasyMagazine
; “Satanic, Versus …” copyright © 1990 (
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Fall 1990
); “Nightside” copyright © 1990 (
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Spring 1990
); “Wet Wings” copyright © 1995 (
Sisters of Fantasy 2
, Susan Shwartz & Martin Greenberg, ed.);“Stolen Silver” copyright © 1991 (
 Horse Fantastic
); “Roadkill” copyright © 1990 (
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, Summer 1990
);“Operation Desert Fox” copyright © 1993 (
 Honor of the Regiment: Bolos, Book I,
eds. Keith Laumer & Bill Fawcett); “Grey” copyright © 1997 (
Sally Blanchard’s Pet Bird Report 
 
October 1997 
); “Grey’s Ghost” copyright © 1999 (
Werehunter 
, Baen Books)
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form.A Baen Books OriginalBaen Publishing EnterprisesP.O. Box 1403Riverdale, NY 10471ISBN:
0-671-57805-7
Cover art by Bob EggletonFirst printing, April 1999Distributed by Simon & Schuster 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020
Typeset by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NHPrinted in the United States of America
 
TWO OUT OF THREE AIN’T BAD . . .
Something very large occluded the light for a moment in the next room, then the lights went out, and DianaTregarde distinctly heard the sound of the chandelier being torn from the ceiling and thrown against the wall. Shewinced.
There go my Romance Writers of the World dues up again
, she thought.“I got a glimpse,” Andre said. “It was very large, perhaps ten feet tall, and— 
cherie
, looked like nothing somuch as a rubber creature from a very bad movie. Except that I do not think it was rubber.”What shambled in through the door was nothing that Diana had ever heard of. It was, indeed, about ten feettall. It was covered with luxuriant brown hair—all over. It was built along the lines of a powerful body-builder,taken to exaggerated lengths, and it drooled. It also stank, a combination of sulfur and musk so strong it wouldhave brought tears to the eyes of a skunk.Di groaned, putting two and two together and coming up with— 
Valentine Vervain cast a spell for a tall, dark and handsome soul-mate, but she forgot to specify “human.”
“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?”The other writer nodded. “Tall, check. Dark, check. Long hair, check. Handsome—well, I suppose in somecircles.” Harrison stared at the thing in fascination.The thing saw Valentine and lunged for her. Reflexively, Di and Harrison both shot. He emptied his cylinder and one speed loader. Di gave up after four shots. No effect. The thing backhanded Andre into a wall hardenough to put him through plasterboard. Andre was out for the count. There are some things even a vampire hasa little trouble recovering from.“Harrison, distract it, make a noise, anything!” Diana pulled the atheme from her boot sheath and begancutting Sigils in the air with it, getting the Words of Dismissal out as fast as she could without slurring thesyllables.The thing lunged toward Harrison, missing him by inches, just as Di concluded the Ritual of Dismissal.To no effect. . . . —from “Satanic, Versus …”
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