Artemis Shelter

Location: Spanish Harlem, Manhattan

Samantha Turner has suffered brutality at the hands of men too many times in her life. First a husband who beat her and made her lose her unborn child. Then a vampire who rapes her in a New Orleans back alley and enslaves her with his band of marauding vampires.

Samantha finds the courage to escape this violence and vows to do what she can to help other women avoid it as well. After nearly 140something years of hard work and learning the ropes about grants and endowments, Samantha manages to buy this brownstone in Spanish Harlem and opens the Artemis Shelter.

The Artemis Shelter houses a few women and their families and provides a halfway house until they are able to break free from their violent homes and find their own way.

It is near the steps of the Artemis Shelter that violence will strike again in the nature of a drive-by shooting that kills some local youths. This violence will introduce Samantha to NYPD Detective Peter Daly in TEMPTATION CALLS.

As the Artemis Shelter is just up the block from Ricardo Fernandez’s botanica in DEVOTION CALLS and Sara Martinez’s apartment, you will see it again in DEVOTION CALLS.

It’s possible the ARTEMIS SHELTER will make appearances in future THE CALLING novels as well.