Cirrus@Austlit

'When Cody Pendant, a black market occult dealer, is murdered, no-one is surprised. Cody was a fraud and a conman who had ripped off almost everyone he’d ever done business with. When her address is found on his body, Holly is convinced the killer is closing in. On her.

'Deciding life is better if you’re living, she makes plans. Big plans. Plans such as renovating her house. Baking bread. And exploring exactly why her heart skips more than a beat whenever the sexiest lawman she’s ever seen is near.

'But first she needs to figure out if Cody’s killer is the same supernatural assassin out to get her. Easy, right?' (Publication summary)

'No matter how fast you are, you can’t outrun your past.

'I lost everything when a tragic accident stole my family away. Not caring whether I lived or died, I signed on for the most dangerous job possible, hoping to do some good in the world before I met my maker.

'Flash forward three years, and I’m still at it, protecting our fractured world from the cruelest and most corrupt paranormal entities. But when a band of powerful magical villains team up threatening a supernatural war that could destroy humanity, it shatters the delicate balance between good and evil.

'It’s up to me to stop this apocalyptic nightmare before it can destroy everything good that’s left in the world… no pressure, right?' (Publication summary)

'I don’t use the word ghoulish a lot, but…

'By day, I’m an ordinary girl. At night, though, I moonlight as a vampire hunter, a vigilante hell-bent on ridding my Texas hometown of the fanged menace once and for all. Until I learn that there are far worse things that go bump in the night.

'Unfortunately, a new supernatural evil has come to town, and it doesn’t just want people’s blood. It aims to devour them body and soul, and then to wear the skins and take possession of the lives they snuffed out in the process.

'Dark stuff.

'I never thought I’d find myself working beside my lifelong enemy, but when there are no good choices, you take the lesser of the two evils and pray he doesn’t stab you when your back is turned.' (Publication summary)

'You can run from your demons, but you can’t hide.

'I killed my first vampire at the age of five. They locked me away for years, said I was crazy, that I’d made it all up. But I know what really happened and what could happen again if I don’t play it safe.

'Something dark lives within me, and it’s clawing to get out. I’ve exiled myself to the Alaskan tundra, knowing that as long as I stay out of the heat, there won’t be any wildfires.

'And then a death in the family summons me to the town I fled long ago. Maxxan, Texas. I have memories here—some of them good, most of them bad.

'Now I’m being told I must stay for one whole year to satisfy the conditions of my late grandmother’s will. I’m just about to give up on learning my family’s long-kept secrets and obtaining my sizeable inheritance when I’m found out.

'The Enforcers know who I am; they also know what happened all those years ago.

'And now they want my help…' (Publication summary)

'When it takes everything you've got just to survive, failure is not an option. Abandoned as a baby, I grew up in an orphanage and a slew of foster homes, my strange magical abilities a magnet for trouble until the government plucked me up and turned me into a weapon working on their behalf. I was to hunt down others like me-paranormals who had gone rogue-and I had no choice but to comply...

'For years, they never cared about what I could do, they just needed me to get the job done. But now they're asking lots of questions, and I don't have any of the answers.

'The truth is: nobody knows who or what I am. Not even me.

'If I can't figure it out soon, I'll not only lose my job but possibly end up in prison... or the morgue.' (Publication summary)