Rachel has a hard time with men: if she falls in love with
them, they betray, leave or die on her. She even has a
difficult time with non-humans in male packages: her
business partner, Jenks, keeps telling her what to do, her
gargoyle, Bis, is still so young that he falls asleep
during the day, her "frenemy," Trent, would like to either
kill her or buy her services, and her demon-teacher-master,
Al, well, he wants her eternal servitude.
Maybe Rachel should stick to only hanging out with women,
except that invites a host of other problems: Ivy, her
other business partner, still wants Rachel to be more than
a friend and try to save the living vampire's soul when she
dies, and Brooke and Vivian are two of the witches who head
the coven that has officially shunned Rachel for being a
black witch, even though she doesn't do black magic...
technically. Rachel would do anything to protect her
friends, but the best protection she can give would seem to
be to cross every line she ever drew for herself.
Fans of Kim Harrison's Hollows series will love the
latest installment, and new fans will find themselves
forced to devour all of the previous works. Fast-paced,
emotion-laden, and well-written, BLACK MAGIC SANCTION does
not pull any punches and continues to make readers
exhausted for Rachel and her action-packed life.
In New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s
most complex and emotionally charged adventure yet, bounty
hunter and witch Rachel Morgan faces off against one of her
own kind in a battle that will irrevocably change her—if she
survives. . . .
Rachel Morgan has fought and hunted vampires, werewolves,
banshees, demons, and other supernatural dangers as both
witch and bounty hunter—and lived to tell the tale. But
she's never faced off against her own kind . . . until now.
Denounced and shunned for dealing with demons and black
magic, her best hope is life imprisonment—at worst, a forced
lobotomy and genetic slavery. Only her enemies are strong
enough to help her win her freedom, but trust comes hard
when it hinges on the unscrupulous tycoon Trent Kalamack,
the demon Algaliarept, and an ex-boyfriend turned thief.
It takes a witch to catch a witch, but survival bears a
heavy price.