It seemed a natural development from the first book to this friendship built upon their mutual experiences. I loved Margo and D’Agosta’s relationship. I did like having all the characters back and I love the hints of continued relationships after the first book and before this one.
The book was full of this and even continued with the Murphy’s Law stuff after the bad guy was defeated. This is where everything goes wrong for the good guys except for one small thing to defeat the bad guys. If you have read any of my reviews, I also have issue what I call the “Murphy’s Law” syndrome in books. It ups the science, the danger, the beast and everything else that was in the relic to the point that it lost the tension and became a hot mess. This book is a direct sequel to the “Relic”. Too much of a good thing is just too much. With Asa by her side, she'll face not only the supernatural forces arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she fears she can't resist. Now, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is on a rescue mission.
Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations. Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. It's wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.ĭetermined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé's estranged brother. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real-and Ben is hooked. Mattie Carver's engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale.
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