Posts Tagged: urban fantasy

Gunmetal Magic by Ilona Andrews

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Gunmetal Magic (Kate Daniels World 1) by Ilona Andrews Some people have everything figured out — Andrea Nash is not one of those people. After being kicked out of the Order of Knights of Merciful Aid, Andrea’s whole existence is in shambles. All she can do is try to put herself back together, something made easier by working for Cutting Edge, a small investigative firm owned by her best friend, Kate Daniels. When several shapeshifters working for Raphael Medrano — the male alpha of Clan Bouda and Andrea’s former lover — die unexpectedly at a dig site, Andrea is assigned… Read more »

Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning

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Darkfever (Fever 1) by Karen Marie Moning MacKayla Lane’s life is good. She has great friends, a decent job, and a car that breaks down only every other week or so. In other words, she’s your perfectly ordinary twenty-first-century woman. Or so she thinks…until something extraordinary happens. When her sister is murdered, leaving a single clue to her death–a cryptic message on Mac’s cell phone–Mac journeys to Ireland in search of answers. The quest to find her sister’s killer draws her into a shadowy realm where nothing is as it seems, where good and evil wear the same treacherously seductive… Read more »

Magic Bleeds by Ilona Andrews

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Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels 4) by Ilona Andrews Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren’t for the magic. When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it rose. Kate Daniels works for the Order of the Knights of Merciful Aid, officially as a liaison with the mercenary guild. Unofficially, she cleans up the paranormal problems no one else wants to handle—especially if they involve Atlanta’s shapeshifting community. When she’s called… Read more »

Magic Strikes by Ilona Andrews

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Magic Strikes (Kate Daniels 3) by Ilona Andrews When magic strikes and Atlanta goes to pieces, it’s a job for Kate Daniels… Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that’s saying a lot. But when Kate’s werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she finds herself with a personal stake and a whole new lrvel of problem. As her investigation leads her to the Midnight Games – an invitation-only, no-holds-barred ultimate… Read more »

Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews

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Magic Burns (Kate Daniels 2) by Ilona Andrews Down in Atlanta, as waves of magic ebb and flow, tempers – and temperatures – are about to flare . As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb and flow across Atlanta like a tide. But once every seven years the city has to deal with a flare, when magic runs rampant, and the danger levels are higher than ever. Kate is tasked with retrieving a set of maps stolen from the pack,  Atlanta’s paramilitary… Read more »

Control Point by Myke Cole

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Control Point (Shadow Ops 1) by Myke Cole Across the country and in every nation, people are waking up with magical talents. Untrained and panicked, they summon storms, raise the dead, and set everything they touch ablaze. Army officer Oscar Britton sees the worst of it. A lieutenant attached to the military’s Supernatural Operations Corps, his mission is to bring order to a world gone mad. Then he abruptly manifests a rare and prohibited magical power, transforming him overnight from government agent to public enemy number one. The SOC knows how to handle this kind of situation: hunt him down–and… Read more »

Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

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Magic Bites (Kate Daniels 1) by Ilona Andrews When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake. Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles. The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can… Read more »