Frost Burned (Mercy Thompson, #7)

by Patricia Briggs

Paranoia: the gift of the survivor and the burden of the overtired, stressed, terrified coyote.

Coyote never loses, Coyote told me. Because I change the rules of the games my enemies play. What are the rules of your game?

“We’re the good guys. That we’re scary doesn’t mean we’re the villains.”

I was going to fight vampires, and my name wasn’t Buffy—I was so screwed.

“Life is not safe. A man might spend his whole time on earth staying safe in a basement, and in the end, he still dies like everyone else.”