Carnival Tarot - Kiziah's Reading By Jory Strong Book 2 in the Carnival Tarot series. Three cards lay on black satin. The past. The present. The future. The High Priestess. The Hermit. The Wheel of Fortune. A dream sent Kiziah Stillwell to the carnival and the fortune-teller's tent. Destiny drew her into the world of the vampire and those who serve them. Love and duty warred within Fane Mercier as The Transformation, the time when he would cease being dhampir and became fully vampire, approached. With the change would come The Hunger, The Heat, and the necessity to take a kadine, a mate, in order to produce a new generation of Mercier dhampirs. And yet despite his duty to his race and his murdered parents, Fane's heart and soul longed to share the centuries ahead with another man. Cable Luske had known from the beginning that loving Fane would present challenges, but while Fane's parents and brother had been alive, the possibility of a future together had existed. With their deaths and Fane's Transformation came the realization that Fane would need a kadine. In despair Cable sought a tarot reading and found The Lovers.and Kiziah. .And a way for Fane to claim both a kadine and a male companion.