The various aspects of Donata Santori's life; her job, her
family, her romantic relationships, all are pressuring her
to find answers at the risk of dire consequences if she
fails in VEILED MENACE, the second in Deborah Blake's Veiled
Magic series. Paranormal crimes are on the rise,
making Donata's expanded position with law enforcement just
a little closer to impossible. Add in a new man in her life
who suddenly takes a turn for the creepy, the reappearance
of an artifact she thought safely destroyed and her family
taking a new interest in her career, and it's a bad week
squared. No pressure though, only the entire fate of Earth
and its inhabitants might be hanging on her abilities.
VEILED MENACE starts with a bang and maintains the exciting
action throughout. Although at times the reader can guess
the answers Donata is seeking a bit in advance of the story
revealing them, on the whole, I found it an enjoyable read.
My favorite part is the world Blake has created, full of
paranormal beings both revealed and concealed. The on again
off again nature of Donata's relationships adds a certain
romantic element without having it take over the plot, which
is solidly Urban Fantasy.
Deborah Blake is the author of the Baba
Yaga series, and a new breakaway series from the Baba
Yaga books, Broken
Riders. She has also written many non-fiction
Pagan-based books.
From the author of Veiled Magic and the Baba
Yaga
novels comes an exciting new paranormal romance…
Since Witches came out of the broom closet in the
early
twenty-first century, they have worked alongside humans
as
police officers, healers, stock traders, and more. But
they
aren’t the only paranormal entities in our world…
Witch and police officer Donata Santori is no stranger to
magical mayhem, but lately her life has been unexpectedly
charmed. Her job as a Ghost Yanker now includes the
occasional paranormal investigation, and she’s advancing
her
magical abilities with the help of an ancestor’s
treasured
spell book. And while both of her former love
interests—reclusive half-Dragon art forger Peter
Casaventi
and disgraced Shapechanger Magnus Torvald—are nowhere to
be
found, she’s not averse to being wined and dined by
wealthy
businessman c.
But Eastman isn’t what he seems, and what he wants from
Donata is far more than she’s willing to give. When a
mysterious relic, the Pentacle Pentimento, resurfaces,
along
with Peter’s Dragon father and a shocking Santori family
secret, Donata must fight to save herself, her friends,
and
just maybe the fate of the world from a magic as old as
it
is dangerous…
Includes an exclusive preview of the next Broken Rider
novel, Dangerously Divine
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