Ilona Andrews

[Zealith]

What a tasty little tease.

[Kyria]

George doesn't seem to be much of one for the rules; Klaus may not, either. It might be a general trait of Arbitors. I suspect "Don't get caught" could be the only one they pay more than lip service to.

That is true, but Klaus hasn't been back to visit either of his siblings in years; presumably at least since he became an Arbitrator.  Which tells me that he must have a REASON for breaking the rules now.  Either Dina found something and got in touch with him; Klaus himself found something, and is reaching out to his siblings; or George is being meddlesome and suggested that Klaus might want to check in.

[Janilee]

George being meddlesome? Say it ain't so! 

[BillG]

Certainly he has a reason for this, and we'll just have to wait to find out what it is. BTW, I don't recall any mention before of Maud of Dina knowing that Klaus was an Arbitor. Did George mention who recruited him?

[pondhawk]

She doesn't need to have known he's an Arbitor. She just needs to know it's her brother Klaus. That would be enough. IIRC, Dina just thinks he's tooling around the universe looking for their parents. It's possible that Maud knew, but this is the first POV from her, so it hasn't come up. I kind of doubt that she knew.

[Janilee]

When Klaus recruited George, he informed him that the Arbitor's family is not supposed to be informed. On the other hand, the other Innkeeper family in Texas seems to know their son has the job of Arbitor.

[Kyria]

No, their son is ad hal, a secret keeper, not an Arbitrator.

Dina and Maid don't know-until now - that Klaus is an Arbitrator, but we do. His sisters have thought that he was "traveling"

[Janilee]

O.K.

[BillG]

Mmm, yes. I'd forgotten that the family is to be kept in the dark regarding Arbitrator status.

[BillG]

Rereading the Epilogue, I was again tempted into speculating on the chance that somehow Dina and Sean could get away from the Inn for it, and their being announced ... "Dina DeMille, Innkeeper, and Sean Evans, Alpha werewolf, the Turan Adin, kill count incalculable ..."

[Kyria]

I am completely on board with Sean being introduced at the wedding as Turan Adin!

The reactions of the rest of the vampires... and Arland, just calmly like, nah, we're cool now, totally allies. Friends, even; we have vanquished many enemies together!  We are even sort-of in-laws, since he's planning on sticking with my new sister-in-law, Dina. Have you met Dina? I recommend her Inn. Very invigorating. You should definitely try the coffee...

[BillG]

Oh, yes! Try the delicious native beverage of Earth, coffee!

[Zealith]

I'm loving all the snippets they've been posting since finishing SotB.

[Kyria]

The Authorlords are truly benevolent rulers they're very generous with the snippets. I can't wait for their next book to come out! 

[Zealith]

I will admit to drooling over it a bit.

Alessandro will be making an appearance!