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EVERYONE HAS FAMILY issues, but my issues are that I don’t have any family My new business card reads Delilah Street, Paranorator, but my old personal card could have read Delilah Street, Unadoptable Orphan

I was supposedly named after the street where I was found abandoned as an infant in Wichita, Kansas (I guess I should just thank God and DC Coled (the drinking person’s search engine) the World Wide Web for Delilah Streets and not a single bloody one of them shows up in Kansas

Whoever avethat is catnip to vae twelve I was fighting off aspiring juvie rapists with retractable fangs and body odor that irl

My growing-up years of group homes in Wichita are history now that I’ the paranormal beat for WTCH-TV in Kansas--until the station’s jealous weather witch forecaster forced ator in wicked, as icked, of course, long before the turn of the twenty-first century brought all the bogeyends out of the closet and into hu with vamps and half-weres and all-olf mobs and celebrity zombies and who-knohat-else

My a turned into an i able topanic attacks (Whoever thought someone would aim for the missionary position?) Position hadn’t been an issue until recently and neither had sex, until I finally found a uy Ricardo Montoya--aka the Cadaver Kid He’s tall, dark, handsome, Hispanic, and my brand-new horizontal ambition He has my back--and my front--at every opportunity

And, three, tracking down Lilith Quince--e--to find out if she is a twin, double, clone, or simulacrum Or if she is even still alive It’s ru her/as one rerun-TV night in Wichita brought me to Sin City in the first place

Lucky me, Lilith became the most desirable corpse ever featured on the internationally franchised show Millennium Revelation pop culture and taste tend toward the dark--now I kno dark When Hector’s CSI show made Lilith Quince into a macabre ide sex symbol, he inadvertently made me, Delilah Street, a wanted woman Not for e of another woot ca out in a nostril that held a tiny blue topaz stud like ie and becaie dolls and ie fil it--dead or alive One olf mobster almost did already

At least a the eas’s Sunset Park just after I hit town and just before the town hit me back, hard

I discovered more than Ric and corpses in Sunset Park I found an ally who has heavenly blue eyes and is seriously gray and hairy That’s , Quicksilver He’s a wolfhound-wolf cross I saved fro, claw, and warue

(I have a soft spot for dogs--especially since Achilles, my valiant little Lhasa apso in Wichita, died fro to bite on-decorated jar on host on hiht be of interest It’s in the Enchanted Cottage on the Hector Nightwine estate Hector rents the place to me cheap because, as the CSI franchise producer, he’s presu my possible twin on national TV Hector doesn’t really have a conscience, just a profither for his enduring financial benefit

The only thing Hector and I share is a love of old black-and-white fil from a 1945 movie A shy-to-the-point-of-invisible staff of who-knohat supernaturals run the place, and I suspect it’s supplied with the wicked steph it’s been mum with me so far, I do see dead people in it

The s in my brave neorld are the CinSi fresh zoally imported from Mexico with classic black-and-white fil "live" personas are wholly owned entertainas enterprises

Hector and Ric blame the Immortality Mob for the brisk business in zombie CinSims, but can’t prove it Hector wants to wrest the CinSims from the ally imported zombies It’s personal--he was forced to work in the trade as a child

I’d like to help theative reporter crusading against human and unhuman exploitation My own freedoht repellent factions bent onlife after the Millennium Revelation literal Hell

Luckily, I have sosilver--fro silver to eneral

Which re lock of hair frooes by three na his Seven Deadly Sins rock band, and Snow to his intimates He seems to consider me one of the ofwhite lock of Snow’s hair he’d sentsilver familiar no jeweler’s saw or torch can remove from my body Since it transforms into different pieces of often-protective jewelry, it’s handy at times I consider it a variety of talisman-cum-leech

That attitude sums up roupies with a onetime mosh-pit "Brimstone Kiss"

Then I discovered why those post-concert kisses are so bloody irresistible … and Snow forced e for his help in saving Ric fro vamped to death This kiss-off standoff between us is not over

I’ve been called a "silverI won’t do things halfway I intend to expose every dirty supernatural secret in Las Vegas, if necessary, to find out who I really aood in hborhood