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Dovey Van Dalen has a gorgeous day planned for her 200th birthday: driving her new Porsche, admiring the cherry blossoms abloom in her adopted city of Washington DC, and a little pampering. But her boss has other ideas. A powerful artifact has been stolen, and he fears it's causing chaos in the unmagical world . . .
The rich and connected Ariti family has suffered a string of suspicious deaths, with no signs of foul play. Yet each member has died in the way they feared most. As the enchanting agent most skilled at blending in with mere mortals, Dovey must find answers and retrieve the dangerous trinket.
There's just one unexpected wrinkle: by the time Dovey arrives at the art gallery where the Ariti patriarch died, FBI agent Grant "Gibs" Bartholomew has taken control of the scene. Dovey needs his cooperation to investigateâbut she'll have to hide her abilities, and her true objective, from a man who uncovers deceptions every day. And as they inch nearer a deadly truth, both will face danger even the spellbound would be lucky to survive . . .
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- ISBN: 9781496742513
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- ISBN: 9781496742513
- File size: 512 KB
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November 1, 2024
Georgetown resident and mystic Dovey Van Dalen has been bound to Elric Ostergaard, the mystic in charge of the North American territory, since she was a teen. After wrapping up an investigation, she is ready to start a day of pampering for her two-hundredth birthday. Instead, Elric assigns an urgent task: find the Pandora trinket, stolen from a visiting diplomat. This trinket, enclosed in a ring box, has the power to compel anyone who looks at it to commit suicide by the means most abhorrent to them. A news flash alerts Dovey to the first victim, an art dealer. He is not a mystic, but an unbound, or mortal--as is the second victim. As Dovey navigates between the mystic world and the unbound world, she works with an FBI agent, trying not to break cover in the rush to end the string of deaths and rescue the trinket. Fans of Carolyn Hart's Bailey Ruth Ghost mysteries will enjoy meeting Dovey in this first in a new series describing a mystic world parallel to our mortal one.COPYRIGHT(2024) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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November 4, 2024
Laurie (the Cat & Gilley Life Coach Mysteries) blends fantasy, mystery, and romance in this wobbly series launch set in an alternate universe where mystics (or âboundsâ) live among ordinary humans (or âunboundsâ). Beautiful bound Dovey Van Dalenâs 200th birthday celebration is interrupted by her boss, bound Elric Ostergaard, for whom she tracks down lost âtrinketsâ imbued with magical powers. He tells Dovey that the dangerous Promise Trinket, which compels those exposed to it to die by suicide, has gone missing. When wealthy Washington, D.C., gallery owner Augustus Ariti dies in a fire and, a short time later, his sister leaps from her penthouse balcony, Dovey fears the Promise Trinket is responsible. Elric sends Dovey to investigate, and she soon meets hunky unbound modelâturnedâFBI agent Grant Barlow, whoâs been assigned to the case. Sparks fly, making Dovey wonder whether itâs worth pursuing a taboo romance between a bound and an unbound. Laurie squanders the promising setup with inconsistent magic rules and overwrought prose (âWatching him was like starting at the aurora borealis, inviting a certain marvel and wonder all its ownâ). Itâs a misfire. Agent: Jim McCarthy, Dystel, Goderich & Bourret.
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