A being who enslaves people with a single bite, then assumes their form and heads out on a murder spree, is now running around the Tri-Cities having come through the door in her garden. Just a few hours later, Mercy is proven right about that concern. Having a door in the backyard means something quite nasty might escape its prison and land right smack in the middle of her lawn.
Only the deadliest survived and they are all trying to get into the human world. Without the ruling council to force them to behave, those creatures roamed freely through the realm, wreaking chaos and destruction, killing each other at will. Centuries ago, when the fae were cast out of their home, they were forced to leave behind some of its nastier, deadlier denizens. When Mercy goes into her yard to give everyone, including herself, a chance to cool down, she makes an unfortunate discovery: Underhill has opened a door to the fairy realm in their landscaping.
Auriele is among the most vocal of those complainers, coming dangerously close to breaking a recently imposed law by Adam that forbids pack members to attack his mate. Those nay-sayers are quick to add their voices to the family discussion. Those in the pack who are friends of Christy also blame Mercy not just for the change of plan but for the fact that as the daughter of a god of chaos she has attracted a lot of trouble, hence their having such powerful enemies. She needs to be somewhere the pack can protect her, which is why she is attending a more local university and not one close to her mom. Over the course of the last few years he has made powerful enemies who are vampires, witches, and werewolves, against whom the human Jesse would stand no chance on her own. Adam’s ex, Christy, blames Mercy for this but Adam knows it is because he is an alpha-werewolf and head of the Columbia Basin Pack. Adam’s daughter Jesse has informed everyone that she will be going to a different university than initially planned. Things have been a bit tense in the Thompson/Hauptman household as of late. I have read everything, which makes this a review by a fan for other fans. You have to really like a series to read that far into it, along with the adjacent narratives ( Alpha & Omega) that make up the Mercyverse and their various short stories. Too much character and world building take place in earlier novels for this story to make sense to anyone who hasn’t read those tales and this volume contains spoilers for the earlier works. Smoke Bitten is the twelfth book in the Mercy Thompson series and can only be read as part of the saga.
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