Three years. That's how long Bella Hexley has been managing her feelings for Jack Payne — the reaper who keeps turning up when she needs him, looks at her like she's a problem he's already decided to solve, and can't, for reasons involving thirty years of sacred vows and institutional rules, do a single thing about it.
She has a policy. The policy is sensible. The policy is working beautifully.
Then Jack shows up on her doorstep at six in the morning, wrinkled, exhausted, and in serious legal trouble — because two souls have vanished on his watch, a half-demon with a grudge is targeting everyone she loves, and the Terminal Assembly has decided Jack is responsible.
Obviously, she's taking the case. She's a witch attorney in Coven Hill, Chicago's magical community, and she has never lost anything that mattered. She's also never worn her best ankle boots to a demon prison negotiation before, but there's a first time for everything.
As she digs into reaper law, demon contracts, and the journal of a man who has spent decades building a very personal vendetta, the evidence keeps pointing somewhere inconvenient. The rules that kept her and Jack at arm's length for three years are about to become the least of her problems. And her policy — the sensible, carefully maintained, absolutely-not-romantic policy — is not going to survive this case.
She's fairly sure about that last part.
Genre: Urban Fantasy
She has a policy. The policy is sensible. The policy is working beautifully.
Then Jack shows up on her doorstep at six in the morning, wrinkled, exhausted, and in serious legal trouble — because two souls have vanished on his watch, a half-demon with a grudge is targeting everyone she loves, and the Terminal Assembly has decided Jack is responsible.
Obviously, she's taking the case. She's a witch attorney in Coven Hill, Chicago's magical community, and she has never lost anything that mattered. She's also never worn her best ankle boots to a demon prison negotiation before, but there's a first time for everything.
As she digs into reaper law, demon contracts, and the journal of a man who has spent decades building a very personal vendetta, the evidence keeps pointing somewhere inconvenient. The rules that kept her and Jack at arm's length for three years are about to become the least of her problems. And her policy — the sensible, carefully maintained, absolutely-not-romantic policy — is not going to survive this case.
She's fairly sure about that last part.
Genre: Urban Fantasy