Red Headed Stepchild 9781849182119 The biography of an idea:

The biography of an idea: that many of the problems we face from teenage delinquency to traffic jams behave like epidemics and are capable of sudden and dramatic change due to their inherent volatility

and when you're down here with me

Urban fantasy with romance

But then the monsters Johnson claims to fight turn out to be very real indeed

’ - Jared Diamond

Red Headed Stepchild 9781849182119 The biography of an idea:In a world where being of mixed blood is a major liability, Sabina doesn't really fit in. And being an assassin the only profession fit for an outcast doesn't help matters. But she's never brought her work home. Until now. Her latest mission is uncomfortably complex and threatens the fragile peace between the vampire and mage races. As Sabina scrambles to figure out which side she's on, she uncovers a tangled political web, some nasty facts about her