Blood Bound

Its place in Mercy Thompson

Blood Bound is book 2 in the Mercy Thompson series. It follows Moon Called. It is followed by Iron Kissed. See the full Mercy Thompson reading order.

Mercy Thompson is a Volkswagen mechanic in the Tri-Cities of Washington State who also happens to be a walker -- a rare, coyote-shifting skinwalker raised by werewolves after her father died before her birth. She lives next door to the local werewolf pack's Alpha, counts a vampire seethe and a fae reservation among her neighbors, and gets pulled into supernatural politics she'd rather avoid, from pack succession fights to fae treaties to vampire power struggles. Patricia Briggs builds a densely political…