Other Preternaturals

Anita Katherine Blake
"I was wearing black jeans, knee-high boots, and a crimson blouse. My hair was made to order for the outfit, black curling just over the shoulders of the red blouse. The solid nearly black-brown of my eyes matches the hair. Only the skin stands out, too pale, Germanic against the Latin darkness."

"There's a rather neat knife scar on my right arm, nothing too dramatic. My left arm is a mess. It had only been a little over a month since a shapeshifting leopard had opened my arm. A nice doctor had sitched it back, together, but there is only so much you can do with claw marks. The cross-shaped burn scar that some inventive vampire servants had put on me was now a little crooked because of the claws. The mound of scar issue at the bend of my arm where a vampire had bitten through the flesh and gnawed the bone dribbled white scars like water."

Dorcas Bouvier
"She had the same thick chestnut hair, but it was tied back from her face in a severe ponytail, high and tight on her head. The long, shining hair swung as she moved, like it was alive. Her face, free of hair and makeup, was triangular, exotic, catlike. Her eyes were the same startling seawater green as Magnus's."

Dorcas is a human and fairy hybrid, her family has looked after Bloody Bones, both the faerie creature and bar. She appears in Bloody Bones.

Elvira Drew
"Her nail polish was clear, making her fingertips glint like abalone shell' colorless until the light hit it. The rest of her was just as tasteful. Her dress was that interesting color that looked blue one minute and green the next. Blue-green they called it, but it wasn't accurate. The dress was almost green. For cloth to have that shimmer, almost a life of it's own like fur, it had to be expensive. Her long yellow hair spilled down her back in an elegant line." "When she raised her eyes to meet mine, I knew why she'd spent so much on the dress. Her eyes were the same startling blue-green. The combination was breathtaking."

Elvira is a shape shifting witch that is arrested at the end of The Lunatic Cafe for killing and skinning shapeshifters.

John Burke
"Tall, dark, handsome, vaguely villianous. It was the little goatee that did it." "John was tall, slender, dark complected. His short hair was perfectly black with a broad white streak in front."

John is a necromancer that begins to work at Animators, Inc. in Circus of the Damned. He went on a few dates with Anita but couldnt handle that she was a female version of him.

Lawrence Kirkland aka Larryr
"His short, curly hair was a red so bright, it was nearly orange. His eyes were blue and soft as a spring sky. Larry had that milk-pale complexion of some redheads. A thick sprinkling of golden freckles completed the look. He looked like an overgrown Howdy Doody puppet. I mean that in a cute way. Being short, really short for a man, I was sure he wouldn't like being called cute."

Melanie the Lamia
"A woman walked up the hallway towards us, coming from deeper in the house. She swayed on bare feet, toenails painted a bright scarlet that matched her fingernails. The belted dress she wore matched the nail polish. Her legs were long and pale, but it was that kind of paleness that promised to tan if it ever got enough sunlight. Her hair fell past her waist, thick and absolute black. Her Her makeup was perfect, her lips scarlet. She smiled at me; fangs showed below her lips." "She hissed at me, a violent explosion of air that no human throat ever made. The tongue that flicked out was forked."

In her lamia form she was "From the waist down she was ivory-white with zigzags of pale gold. The long belly scales were white speckled with black."

Melanie is Mr. Olivers pet until Anita kills him, then she starts working at Circus of the Damned.