The writing here is nothing really exceptional, but it's perfectly competent and smooth. Oh, and his first assignment is to recruit an old acquaintance, Anna Valmont, Anna's a thief, and her skills are going to be needed for this job, which as it happens is burgling the Greek god Hades' private treasure vault.

He's not happy, well, even less happy, initially, when he finds out he'll be working with a warlock (unlicensed wizard, or something like that), Hannah Ascher, as well as another, even darker, character called Binder. Harry hates Nicodemus, but it's not just his life at stake the parasite will go after everyone he cares about after killing him. If he completes the job successfully and returns alive, then she'll deal permanently with his parasite problem. She's got a temporary fix for Harry's problem, to allow him to function away from Demonreach so that he can do a little job for her-or rather, for Nicodemus, whom she owes a favor to. Then Mab shows up at his Demonreach lair, with such a deal. There's a limited number of people who can help him, and they're not responding to his messages. Harry's immediate problem is that he has a magical parasite in his head that is causing terrible headaches and will eventually kill him. Harry Dresden is a detective, a former cop, a Wizard of the White Council, and Winter Knight to Mab, The Queen of Air and Darkness.Īnd this is his fifteenth adventure, leaving the reader coming in cold working to figure out a great deal of backstory. She lives in California with her husband and a menagerie of pets. Jory has won numerous awards for her writing. When she's not hunched over her computer, lost in the muse and conjuring up new heroes and heroines, she can usually be found reading, riding her horses, or hiking with her dogs. Jory has been writing since childhood and has never outgrown being a daydreamer. Please feel free to contact her, she loves hearing from readers! Michelle lives in Southern Ontario and is the 2010 President of Toronto Romance Writers. She has been on the Waldenbooks/Borders Group romance bestseller list and was the winner of the 2007 Holt Medallion for Best First Book. Michelle Rowen writes paranormal romance, urban fantasy, futuristic romantic suspense, and young adult fantasy. When not writing, thinking about writing, or plotting what to write, Lora, a Kentucky native, enjoys gardening, fishing, and hiking with her husband and children. Most days, Lora can be found in front of her computer weaving daydreams while sipping the ambrosia of the gods, also known as coffee.

Her characters come to her in her dreams, inspiring her with the possibilities of What If. Lora Leigh is known for her deliciously intense and satisfying erotic romance.

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