In the world of paranormal stories, werewolves seem to be the most popular form of shape shifter, with were-cats being a close second. Ms. Hart doesn't disappoint with Silver Fire, a story placed in the distant future of 2112. While there is some mention of things that have yet to be invented, Ms. Hart keeps enough of today's gadgets that it doesn't feel like a sci-fi. But don't let that stop you from enjoying a good story.

Faylene Driscol is a psychic for the police department in New York City. She's seen it all twice and has the t-shirt, but even such a jaded woman can experience something new. As she interrogates a Keeper of the Race (the KKK's answer to supernatural beings), she is shocked at the amount of depravity that pours out of the Keepers. They, the Keepers of the Race, are out to destroy anything and everything that is not completely human; and anyone who stands in their way will be dealt with in the same manner. While Faylene is one of the good guys, a cop for crying out loud, the Keepers don't see it that way. The Keepers take their fight right to Faylene's bedroom, literally, when they set fire to her house and try to kill her. Her rescue comes in the form of a werewolf who has a personal agenda in the psychic's fight against the evil the Keepers are trying to spread.

Thaddeus 'Thad' Ma'wrl knows all too well the lengths the Keepers will go to in order to achieve their final goal of all things 'non-human' being destroyed. They are the ones who killed his entire pack, slaughtering the men and torturing the women while he was away. It was a human female who distracted him during the mass slaughter, a woman the Keepers had sent to distract him so he wouldn't answer the calls of those he'd sworn to protect. He swore revenge on the Keepers, and swore off human women, on the graves of his pack. But Faylene is his only hope of making the murderers pay, and he must protect her. What he didn't count on was that she would call to him in a way that no female werewolf had ever been able to.

Falling in love with someone you swore not to makes things difficult. Especially when the person who holds your heart is listed as victim number one on a fanatical group's list of people to gun down. Between the two of them, they will uncover secrets better left hidden, and how easily people are corrupted.

We all fear that the people who swore to uphold the law and protect us will one day decide that we're not worth the effort anymore. We have become jaded when it comes to 'the good guys'. Superman got his cape caught on a thorn bush and Spiderman finally hung up his web, leaving us without a superhero to look up to. While Silver Fire doesn't offer up a hero of such gigantic proportions, it does offer up a hope that, no matter what, there are always good guys around who fight for what they believe in.
 

Reviewed By Marissa
© July 2006