History Literature / CassandraPalmer

* SecretIdentity: Pritkin [[spoiler:is, in fact, Merlin]]
[[spoilers:Cassie's mother is Artemis, making Cassie a demigod]]

# ''Ride the Storm'' (expected April 2016)

* SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler:The mages sealed the ancient gods (in fact, powerful beings from another dimension) away centuries ago. Unfortunately, Apollo finds a way back.]]
* SecretIdentity: Pritkin [[spoiler:is, in fact, Merlin]].

* SweetTooth: Cassie

* TheUndead: The vampires.

* {{Badass}}: Mircea, Pritkin, and Louis-Cesare, to start with. Most vampires and mages fall into this category too. And Cassie's mother, [[spoiler:who turns out to be Artemis, the goddess of death]].

# ''Reap the Wind'' (expected November 2014)

* {{Geas}}: The Geis is like a love spell, a magical claim that warns off any would-be suitors and compels the the two people to be attracted to each other. [[spoiler:Due to Cassie's meddling with time, she and Master Vampire Mircea find themselves saddled with one, until they manage to break it.]]

[[caption-width-right:316:''Touch the Dark'']]''Cassandra Palmer'' is an urban fantasy novel series by Karen Chance, starring Cassandra "Cassie" Palmer, an orphaned clairvoyant raised by a vampire mob boss. Cassie ran away from him three years ago after she discovered he killed her parents when she was a child. But at the start of ''Touch the Dark'', Tony has found her and Cassie finds herself forced to accept the help of the Vampire Senate, which does not come free. Cassie is to be the next Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant, time guardian and ultimate judge of the supernatural world; and Cassie is the first Pythia in centuries that has not been indoctrinated since birth by the mages' Silver Circle and is thus free of their control. And they do not like that, not at all. If the Pythia is not under their control, then they will make sure the power passes on to someone they can control. But there are other players in this game nobody knows about yet.

* HotDad: Mircea is one, even if he and Dorina don't get along so well.

* BelligerentSexualTension: Cassie and Master Vampire Mircea[[spoiler:, even after they consummate it]]. Cassie and Pritkin also apply.

[[caption-width-right:316:''Touch the Dark'']]''Cassandra Palmer'' is an urban fantasy novel series by Karen Chance, starring Cassandra "Cassie" Palmer, an orphaned clairvoyant raised by a vampire mob boss. Cassie ran away from him three years ago after she discovered he killed her parents when she was a child. But at the start of ''Touch the Dark'', Tony has found her and Cassie finds herself forced to accept the help of the Vampire Senate, which does not come free. Cassie is to be the next Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant, time guardian and ultimate judge of the supernatural world. And Cassie is the first Pythia in centuries that has not been indoctrinated since birth by the mages' Silver Circle and is thus free of their control. And they do not like that, not at all. If the Pythia is not under their control, then they will make sure the power passes on to someone they can control. But there are other players in this game nobody knows about yet.

[[caption-width-right:316:''Touch the Dark'']]''Cassandra Palmer'' is an urban fantasy novel series by Karen Chance, starring Cassandra "Cassie" Palmer, an orphaned clairvoyant raised by a vampire mob boss. Cassie ran away from him three years ago after she discovered he killed her parents when she was a child. But at the start of ''Touch the Dark'', Tony has found her and Cassie finds herself forced into a accept the help of the Vampire Senate, which does not come free. Because Cassie is to be the next Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant, time guardian and ultimate judge of the supernatural world. And Cassie is the first Pythia in centuries that has not been indoctrinated since birth by the mages' Silver Circle and is thus free of their control. And they do not like that, not at all. If the Pythia is not under they control, then they will make sure the power passes on to someone they can control. But there are other players in this game nobody knows about yet.

* MeaningfulName: ''Cassandra'' Palmer. [[spoiler:The original Cassandra was the first pythia and the one who betrayed Apollo--and Cassie ends up burning the spell that would Apollo back onto Earth rather than giving it to him]].

* PsychicPowers: Cassie is a clairvoyant, she can through both time and space (enabling her to shift when in some pretty tight spots). Vampires have some psychic abilities, too.

* TheBerserker: Dorina, when she blacks out, and her vampire half--who's a lot more powerful, takes over, [[spoiler:which is because Mircea manipulated her mind so that her vampire and human halves would be separate and not kill each other while growing into their power]].

* TheBerserker: Dorina, when she blacks out, [[spoiler: which is because Mircea manipulated her mind so that her vampire and human halves would be separate and not kill each while growing into their power]].

* {{Badass}}: Mircea and Pritkin, to start with. Most vampires and mages fall into this category too.

* ManipulativeBastard: Mircea, who [[spoiler: found out Cassie was a candidate for the pythia, created a geis on her to keep her a virgin so the power would consider going to her, made the counter for the geis sex so that she would fully become Pythia afterwards, and kept her in Tony's court, so the mages wouldn't find out about her being harbored by vampires too early, and kept tabs on her with her vampire roommate Tomas, when she ran away from Tony.]]

!!''Cassandra Palmer'' and ''Dorina Basarab'' provide examples of:

* BelligerentSexualTension: Cassie and Master Vampire Mircea[[spoiler:, even after they consumate it]]. Cassie and Pritkin also apply.

* BlessedWithSuck: Dorina has to be careful, because damphirs are prone to rage attacks and usually don't live long. She has managed to reach five hundred by directing her energy to vampires and demons that deserved to be killed.

* CoolPet: In ''Curse the Dawn'', [[spoiler:Jordan Marsden has a demon-possesed dog]].

** Cassie's parents were killed by Tony, a low-ranked mobster vampire who wanted a seer of his own. When Cassie's mother refused, he killed them and took Cassie. She discovered the truth when a vision hit her on ther fourteenth birthday. She eventually managed to ran away from him. Until he found her again at the start of the series.
** Pritkin [[spoiler:is the offspring of a mother with fae blood and a demon who wanted to run an experimient with him. Pritkin's mother died in childbirth and the villagers left him to fend for himself in the woods because he was a half-demon. Somehow, he survived. Some time later, his father dragged him to hell, but managed to flee a century later.]]

* PsychicPowers: Cassie is a clairvoyant, she can time travel and shift around, a sort of teletransport. Vampires have some psychic abilities, too.

* ManipulativeBastard: Mircea, who [[spoiler: found out Cassie was a candidate for the pythia, created a geis on her to keep her a virgin so the power would consider going to her, made the counter for the geis sex so that she would fully become Pythia afterwards, and kept her in Tony's court, so the silver circle wouldn't find out about her being harbored by vampires too early, and kept tabs on her with her vampire roommate Tomas, when she ran away from Tony.]]

* MasterSwordsman: Louis-Cesare, who is the reigning champion of the European Senate, and who no vampire wants to be fighting ([[spoiler:in fact, the vampire Rasputin creates a war and allies with the Dark Circle to time-travel and stop Louis-Cesare from ever becoming a vampire to not duel him]]).
* MeaningfulName: ''Cassandra'' Palmer. [[spoiler:The original Cassandra was the first pythia and the one who betrayed Apollo]].

* InterspeciesRomance: Cassie is the human Phytia, Mircea is a vampire and Pritkin is a mage. Also, Cassie's parents were [[spoiler:a former Phytia heir and a allegedly former Black Circle Mage]]

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent[=/=]TimeTravel: Only the Phytia, her heir [[spoiler:and mages from an evil organization called the Guild]], can travel in time. Changing anything in the past is extremely dangerous, as Cassie herself learns.

* PowerTattoo, AnimatedTattoo: Cassie has a pentacle tattoo on her back that's a ward that protects her against magical danger. The ward originally belonged to the Phythia Agnes, who lend it to Cassie's mother just before she eloped. Her mother passed it down to her when she was a child.

* SinsOfOurFathers: The fact that her mother eloped and threw away the position of heir to the Phytia, [[spoiler:and to marry a presumptive former Black Circle mage too both]], still taints Cassie in some people's eyes.

The series has a spin-off that stars Dorina Basarab, the dhampir (half-human, half-vampire) daughter of Cassie's love interest Mircea, and the vampire Louis-Cesare.

* OlderThanTheyLook[=/=]Really700YearsOld: Vampires don't age and mages age very slowly. Mircea is over five hundred years old. Pritkin is even older, [[spoiler:since he is immortal, being a half-demon with fae blood who is, in fact, Merlin himself]].

* DrivesLikeCrazy: in ''Cruse the Dawn'', [[spoiler:Marsden is a race freak and drives like one. Pritkin too, since he only learned from watching him and he doesn't even has a permit.]]

''Cassandra Palmer'' is an urban fantasy novel series by Karen Chance, starring Cassandra "Cassie" Palmer, an orphaned clairvoyant raised by a vampire mob boss. Cassie ran away from him three years ago after she discovered he killed her parents when she was a child. But at the start of ''Touch the Dark'', Tony has found her and Cassie finds herself forced into a accept the help of the Vampire Senate, which does not come free. Because Cassie is to be the next Pythia, the world's chief clairvoyant, time guardian and ultimate judge of the supernatural world. And Cassie is the first Pythia in centuries that has not been indoctrinated since birth by the mages' Silver Circle and is thus free of their control. And they do not like that, not at all. If the Pythia is not under they control, then they will make sure the power passes on to someone they can control. But there are other players in this game nobody knows about yet.

''Cassandra Palmer'' is an urban fantasy novel series by Karen Chance, starring Cassandra "Cassie" Palmer, an orphaned clairvoyant who becomes the Pythia, the world's main seer, to everyone's surprise, ever hers. Raised by a vampire mob boss, Cassie ran away from her some years ago, but at the start of ''Touch the Dark'', Cassie finds herself forced into a deal with the Vampire Senate and prosecuted by the mages' Silver Circle. And that's just the start.