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Unquiet (Unquiet Series, Book 1) by Kay Camden
Unquiet
Unquiet Series Book 1
Adult, New Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Thriller
Kay Camben
March 21,2019
Kindle, Paperback
346
Unquiet spirits. A gathering underground war. And a love that complicates everything.
In Mick’s quiet Missouri town, strangers stand out—especially mysterious women who vandalize cars in front of the local grocery store. It’s strange, but none of Mick’s business … until he notices the woman’s busted lip. The right thing to do is offer her a ride and a place to hide out—which is how he ends up with her knife against his throat in his own apartment.
Waapikoona has nearly reached her quota of bodies to raise her sister from the dead. When it’s this easy to take her next valuable soul, she can’t say no. But she stalls killing Mick, sensing another regret she’ll have to carry in her already dark world.
Old bones are stirring underground, changing Mick. Waapikoona has crossed the circle of time, made a pact with a powerful underworld demon, and angered the thunderbirds. Mick can’t escape his new calling: stop Waapikoona and the unquiet she’s dragged into his town.
Totally Captivating…
Kay Camden’s Unquiet was another PennedCon find for the QueenBee and I. It was the striking cover that caught my attention and motivated me to approach her author table. Kay was very pleasant to visit with and quickly sold me on checking out her first book in the Unquiet Series, a paranormal thriller based on Native American legends and set in southern Missouri. Bonus, it is currently available for free on 
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The first thing that caught my attention was that the main character in Unquiet, Mick, is a 20-something, working class mechanic who also holds down a second job in a convenience store to help support his single-mother sister and her three kids, whom he adores. While male protagonists are commonly seen in literature, it is not so common in paranormal, romance stories. Mick is a really likable, down-to-earth guy and it’s easy to empathize with his struggles. His life is this never ending slog, between work and sleep, to make ends meet until he encounters Sarah/Waapikoona, who is mysterious and trouble and flips Mick’s life on its head. The dichotomy of these two and their “stories” makes for a fascinating connection and the lead-in to an enthralling tale.
I loved Unquiet. It was a change of pace for me from the paranormal romances I’m used to reading. I also enjoyed delving into a book whose setting is in familiar territory. I live in Missouri and have been in the caves in the Ozarks, visited the Cahokia Mounds, 
and frequent St. Louis (plug – its also the host city for PennedCon). The best part of Unquiet is that the great characters and Missouri setting are part of a totally captivating but full of surprises thriller. You will not want to put this book down once you start. This is the first installment in a series so the story does not end, but there is enough resolution to leave the reader satisfied to wait for the next book.
Tanya’s love for books has been a lifelong passion that she likes sharing with others. Reading is also the thing that relaxes her after a day of juggling the many responsibilities that come with being being wife to an amazing man, mother to four great kids spread around the world, business manager, and farm hand on their place in southwest Missouri; home to Akaushi cattle and a menagerie of pygmy goats, horses, chickens, dogs and cats.
