"Using magic meant it used you back.
Forget the fairy tale hocus-pocus,
wave a wand and bling-o sparkles
and pixie dust crap.
Magic, like booze, sex, and drugs,
gave as good as it got."
Everything has a cost. And every act of magic
exacts a price from its user--maybe a two-day
migraine, or losing
the memory of your first
kiss. But some people want to use magic
without paying, and they offload the cost onto
an innocent. When that happens, it falls to a
Hound to identify the spell's caster--and Allison
Beckstrom's
the best there is.
Daughter of a prominent Portland businessman,
Allie would rather moonlight as a Hound than
accept the family fortune--and the many strings
that come with it. But when she discovers a
little boy
dying from a magical offload that has
her father's signature all over it, Allie is thrown
back into the high-stakes
world of corporate
espionage and black magic.
Now, Allie's out for the truth--and the forces
she finds
herself calling on will overturn
everything she knows, change her in ways
she could never imagine...and make her
capable
of things that powerful people will
do anything to control.
In bookstores November 4, 2008
