About This Book
Today's hottest urban fantasy authors come together in this delicious brew that crackles and boils over with tales of powerful witches and dark magic!
In Charlaine Harris' "Bacon," a beautiful vampire joins forces with a witch from an ancient line to find out who killed her beloved husband. In "Seeing Eye" by Patricia Briggs, a blind witch helps sexy werewolf Tom Franklin find his missing brother--and helps him in more ways than either of them ever suspected. And in Jim Butcher's "Last Call," wizard Harry Dresden takes on the darkest of dark powers--the ones who dare to mess with this favorite beer.
For anyone who's ever wondered what lies beyond the limits of reality, who's imagined the secret spaces where witches wield fearsome magic, come and drink deep. Let yourself fall under the spell of this bewitching collection!
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Lia de Croissets, half-human, half-Were, isn't considered an ideal employee. But her bosses at the War Mage Corps, the supernatural community's version of a police force, have found the solution-- make her the mentor to a group of raw recruits. It's a thankless job designed to keep her busy, useful and out of trouble. And it seems to be working--until Lia receives an early morning visit from her suddenly homicidal students.
The mages may be young, but they know enough to be deadly. Lia soon finds her house in pieces and herself and her Were boyfriend, Cyrus, in little better shape. In the end, though, it's one of the students who lies dead on the ground--from Lia's own spell. An investigation uncovers the unsettling fact that the students were acting under a powerful illusion cast by someone with a long-standing grudge against Lia's family. Even worse, the spell hasn't been affected by the cadets' defeat, and if it isn't lifted soon they may all die.
Only the mage who cast the spell can lift it, forcing Lia to track down an assassin with the abilty to weave terrifying and very real illusions. Her Were heritage offers her some protection against these, but Lia is half-human, too. Can she find the killer before her own mind betrays her?
