Kitty Norville

Kitty and the Midnight Hour

First edition cover
Author	Carrie Vaughn
Cover artist	Craig White
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Kitty Norville
Genre	Fantasy novel
Publisher	Warner Books
Publication date	2005
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	288 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN	0-446-61641-9 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC	62096687

"Kitty" Norville, a late-night radio DJ, accidentally starts a late-night talk show about werewolves, vampires, and other mythical creatures. The catch is she is a werewolf herself, and the secret is supposed to stay silent.

Kitty Goes to Washington

Author	Carrie Vaughn
Cover artist	Craig White
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Kitty Norville
Genre	Fantasy novel
Publisher	Little, Brown
Publication date	July 2006
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	260 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN	0-446-61642-7 (first edition, paperback)

Some editions of this novel also includes the short story Kitty Meets the Band.

Kitty Takes a Holiday

First edition cover
Author	Carrie Vaughn
Cover artist	Craig White
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Kitty Norville
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Little, Brown
Publication date	April 2007
Media type	Print (Paperback)
Pages	336 pp (first edition, paperback)
ISBN	0-446-61874-8 (first edition, paperback)

After her lycanthropy is captured on film in Washington, Kitty decides to go on vacation. She rents a cabin and decides to write a book of her memoirs. Trouble quickly ensues as slaughtered animals are left outside her door and a visitor from her past arrives with unexpected news.

Kitty and the Silver Bullet

Pre-release Cover
Author	Carrie Vaughn
Cover artist	Craig White
Country	United States
Language	English
Series	Kitty Norville
Genre	Fantasy
Publisher	Warner Books
Publication date	2008
Media type	Print (Paperback)

The fourth book in the Kitty Norville series was released in 2008.

After visiting Cormac in jail, Kitty has a miscarriage. Kitty and Ben are visited by Rick, who tells them he needs to take over as head vampire of Denver and asks them if they will help. Kitty declines and Rick leaves. Later, Kitty is told that her mother may have cancer. Kitty rushes to Denver to see her mother taking Ben with her, and Kitty introduces Ben to her family. Kitty meets a new vampire: Mercedes Cook, an actress. Kitty then meets Carl and Meg again and they add to the problems with Rick and the head vampire problem, Ben becomes worried for Kitty's safety and teaches her how to use a gun. At the end Kitty shoots Meg and Carl is killed by his pack and Kitty and Ben become the Alpha pair of the pack. Ben also proposes to Kitty.

Already the alpha pair of Denver's werewolf pack, Kitty and Ben now plan to tie the knot human-style by eloping to Vegas. Kitty is looking forward to sipping fru-fru drinks by the pool and doing her popular radio show on live TV, but her hotel is stocked with werewolf-hating bounty hunters. Elsewhere on the Strip an old-school magician might be wielding the real thing; the vampire community is harboring a dark secret; and the irresistible star of a suspicious animal act is determined to seduce Kitty.

Sometimes what happens in Vegas doesn't stay in Vegas.

Kitty and Ben flee The City That Never Sleeps, thinking they were finished with the dangers there, but the sadistic cult of lycanthropes and their vampire priestess have laid a curse on Kitty in revenge for her disrupting their rituals. Starting at the next full moon, danger and destruction the form of fire strikes Kitty and the pack of werewolves she's sworn to protect.

She enlists the help of a group of TV paranormal investigators - one of whom has real psychic abilities - to help her get to the bottom of the curse that's been laid on her. Rick, the Master vampire of Denver, believes a deeper plot lies behind the curse, and he and Kitty argue about whether or not to accept the help of a professional demon hunter - and vampire - named Roman, who arrives a little too conveniently in the nick of time.

Unable to rely on Rick, and unwilling to accept Roman's offer of help for a price, Kitty and her band of allies, including Vegas magician Odysseus Grant and Kitty's own radio audience, mount a trap for the supernatural being behind the curse, a destructive force summoned by the vengeful cult, a supernatural being that none of them ever thought to face.

Kitty has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. She's expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt turn into a fight for her life.

The cast members, including Kitty, arrive at the remote mountain lodge where the show is set. As soon as filming starts, violence erupts and Kitty suspects that the show is a cover for a nefarious plot. Then the cameras stop rolling, cast members start dying, and Kitty realizes she and her monster housemates are ironically the ultimate prize in a very different game. Stranded with no power, no phones, and no way to know who can be trusted, she must find a way to defeat the evil closing in before it kills them all.

Kitty is contacted by a friend at the NIH's Center for the Study of Paranatural Biology. Three Army soldiers recently returned from the war in Afghanistan are being held at Ft. Carson in Colorado Springs. They're killer werewolves—and post traumatic stress has left them unable to control their shape-shifting and unable to interact with people. Kitty agrees to see them, hoping to help by bringing them into her pack.

Meanwhile, Kitty gets sued for libel by CEO Harold Franklin after featuring Speedy Mart—his nationwide chain of 24-hour convenience stores with a reputation for attracting supernatural unpleasantness—on her show.

Very bad weather is on the horizon.

Kitty's recent run-in with werewolves traumatized by the horrors of war has made her start wondering how long the US government might have been covertly using werewolves in combat. Have any famous names in our own history might have actually been supernatural? She's got suspicions about William Tecumseh Sherman. Then an interview with the right vampire puts her on the trail of Wyatt Earp, vampire hunter.

But her investigations lead her to a clue about enigmatic vampire Roman and the mysterious Long Game played by vampires through the millennia.

Compilation of Kitty Norville short fiction including 2 new stories.

Includes:[1]

• "Conquistador de la Noche", 2009 (the origin story of Denver's Master vampire, Rick)
• "A Princess of Spain", 2007
• "Il Est Né", 2008
• "The Book of Daniel", 2009
• "The Temptation of Robin Green", 2009
• "Looking After Family", 2007
• "God's Creatures", 2010
• "Wild Ride", 2010 (how Kitty's friend T.J. became a werewolf)
• "Winnowing the Herd", 2006
• "Kitty and the Mosh Pit of the Damned", 2006
• "Kitty's Zombie New Year", 2007
• "Life Is the Teacher", 2008 (revisits Emma, the human-turned-unwilling-vampire who serves the vampire Master of Washington, D.C.)
• "You're on the Air", 2011 (about one of Kitty’s callers after he hangs up the phone)
• "Long Time Waiting", 2011 (a novella that reveals what happened to Cormac in prison)

Kitty is set to attend The First International Conference on Paranatural Studies in London with Ben and Cormac/Amelia. While there she meets Ned, head vampire of London, and Caleb, alpha werewolf of London. Kitty learns more about the Long Game while running into old friends and enemies (Joseph Tyler, Luis, Dr. Flemming, Merecedes Cook) along with new allies and enemies.

On the heels of Kitty's return from London, a new werewolf shows up in Denver, one who threatens to split the pack by challenging Kitty's authority at every turn. The timing could not be worse; Kitty needs all the allies she can muster to go against the ancient vampire, Roman, if she's to have any hope of defeating his Long Game. But there's more to this intruder than there seems, and Kitty must uncover the truth, fast. Meanwhile, Cormac pursues an unknown entity wreaking havoc across Denver; and a vampire from the Order of St. Lazarus tempts Rick with the means to transform his life forever.

As Denver adjusts to a new master vampire, Kitty gets word of an intruder in the Denver werewolf pack’s territory, and she investigates the challenge to her authority. She follows the scent of the lycanthrope through the mountains where she is lured into a trap, tranquilized, and captured. When she wakes up, she finds herself in a defunct silver mine: the perfect cage for a werewolf. Her captors are a mysterious cult seeking to induct Kitty into their ranks in a ritual they hope will put an end to Dux Bellorum. Though skeptical of their power, even Kitty finds herself struggling to resist joining their cause. Whatever she decides, they expect Kitty to join them in their plot, willingly or otherwise.

Unlike the other novels in the series, this book follows Cormac, although Kitty appears repeatedly to assist him. Cormac tries to decode the journal given to Kitty by the sorceress in the previous novel. The path leads to western Colorado and the sorceress' aunt, a low-level witch who had introduced her to magic. As a price for helping to decode the journal, the aunt asks Cormac to solve a local hundred-year-old murder, leading him into trouble with his former militia acquaintances.

Following the discoveries made by Cormac in Low Midnight, Kitty and her allies are ready to strike. But, when their assassination attempt on the evil vampire Dux Bellorum fails, Kitty finds herself running out of time. The elusive vampire lord has begun his apocalyptic end game, and Kitty still doesn't know where he will strike.

Meanwhile, pressure mounts in Denver as Kitty and her pack begin to experience the true reach of Dux Bellorum's cult. Outnumbered and outgunned at every turn, the stakes have never been higher for Kitty. She will have to call on allies both old and new in order to save not just her family and friends, but the rest of the world as well.

A collection of short stories published in March 2020.

A Spanish conquistador arrives in the new world, becomes a vampire, and spends the next 500 years defending his friends and territory, eventually meeting Kitty, and then joining the Order of Saint Lazarus of the Shadows.

Don Ricardo de Avila y Zacatecas, the last surviving member of Coronado’s company, Conquistador de la Noche, once the Master of Santa Fe, and until last week the Master of Denver. Also called Rick.

— Carrie Vaughn, "El conquistador del tiempo"

• "Preface" (Rick arrives in Europe after having spent 500 years in North America)
• "Conquistador de la noche" (also published in Kitty's Greatest Hits)
• "El hidalgo de la noche" (no longer the only vampire in North America, Rick has to deal with competition)
• "Dead Men in Central City" (Rick meets Doc Holliday)
• "El conquistador del tiempo" (Rick gets caught at a crossroads fight between the North American vampires and the forces of Dux Bellorum/Roman)

Short story collection published in October 2020.

Contains:

• "Kitty Walks on By, Calls Your Name"
• "It’s Still the Same Old Story"
• "The Island of Beasts"
• "The Beaux Wilde"
• "Unternehmen Werwolf"
• "Kitty and the Full Super Bloodmoon Thing"
• "Kitty and Cormac’s Excellent Adventure"
• "Sealskin"
• "The Arcane Art of Misdirection"
• "What Happened to Ben in Vegas"
• "Kitty and the Super Blue Blood or Whatever Moon Thing"
• "Defining Shadows"
• "Bellum Romanum"
• "Kitty Learns the Ropes"
• "Kitty Busts the Feds"