When Tony Foster relocated to Vancouver with his vampire Henry Fitzroy, he knew it was his chance to get his act together. In an example of art echoing life, Tony landed a job as production assistant for the syndicated TV show, Darkest Night; a series about a vampire detective. And except for his unrequited crush on the show's handsome co-star, Lee Nicholas, Tony was pretty content.

Until everything started to fall apart on the set.

It began with shadows----shadows where they didn't belong, that almost had an existence of their own. Tony tried to ignore it--until he found Nikki Waugh's body, and felt the shadow's touch, and a stunt crash went wrong for no discernible reason--and Tony knew that he had to find out what was threatening everyone on the set.

The Shadows aren't the only threat Tony will confront as he works on Darkest Night.  A turn-of-the-century mansion, used as a filming location for a haunted house, proves to be more realistic than expected. One of the show's stunt people may be more than they appear. And before the end, Tony and his allies will combat an unprecedented demonic invasion, the result of which may determine the fate of the entire world.

In Smoke and Shadows we find Tony hard at work on a cult TV show about a vampire detective, a show which in many ways mirrors his real life. Tony has moved to Vancouver with his friend and former lover, Henry Fitzroy, romance author, bastard son of the King of England and, oh yes, a vampire - his father was Henry VIII. Now Tony is hard at work trying to make a semi-normal life for himself and not give away his attraction to the show’s straight male lead but on the set there are shadows where no shadows should be and they move as no shadow should be able to move. Then first a stunt goes wrong and then the “body of the week” ends up really dead and Tony finds he is battling an entity from another dimension.

Smoke and Mirrors finds Tony and the crew filming in a haunted house with a long history of murder/suicide deaths.  When the house awakens and traps the crew Tony has to call on his nascent wizard powers to figure out what is going on and defeat the entity that is causing the violence and trapping the ghosts. 

Smoke and Ashes has Tony fighting demons alongside Leah, an immortal stunt woman, and several of the TV show’s crew. There is a Demonic Convergence and as various demons pop into our world looking to kill the Leah and unleash her demon lord to destroy earth.

These are very enjoyable urban fantasy. Tony was apparently a minor character in Ms Huff’s Blood book series but apparently was recast as female in the TV series, Blood Ties, based off that series. Here Ms Huff has given us Tony as a main character the Smoke trilogy and I am glad she did.   He is likeable and relatable in his insecurities when it comes to his relationship attractions, the banter on the set is amusing and the non-supernatural characters are very much as I suspect real actors and set people really are.   If gay relationships bother you then this is not the trilogy for you but this straight woman adores Tony and I, for one, would really like to see more of him and Henry. Highly recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon

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