The life of a US Marshal in the Paranormal Investigations
Unit can be
exhausting, so Shiloh Harrison is hoping for a break and
some quality
downtime with her current boyfriend, Vincent Ortiz. Shiloh
hasn't
shared her deepest secrets with Vincent, such as she's
half-djinn and
her unit consists of other paranormals, including an
incubus, a skin-
walker, and a dhampir. Unfortunately, her downtime is
canceled when
vampires take an entire trailer park hostage. The Master
Vampire,
Woodrow Tennyson, needs the help of the Para-Marshals to
save his
vampires. Meanwhile, Shiloh's human boss is missing, leaving
her in
charge. Will Shiloh and her team uncover what is scaring
vampires
enough that they are willing to come out of hiding and hold
a trailer
park hostage?
Kelly Meding drops us headlong into her action-packed urban
fantasy
world as the pace doesn't let up!
STRAY
MAGIC is one of those books you'll want to read in one
sitting as
there really are no slower "stopping points" and yes, I lost
more than a
little sleep reading it! I like that we get to see the world
building
develop over the course of the book as we have some idea of the
various paranormals that exist simply from the nature of
Shiloh's team.
However, we begin to see more pieces of Shiloh's world
emerge as the
story progresses.
However, it is the characters who blew me away in
STRAY MAGIC ! I'm not usually a fan of books
where
there is sexual tension between the heroine and more than
one other
character, but Meding does a great job making you love all
of her
characters, so much so that you can understand Shiloh being
attracted
to more than one of the males we meet in STRAY MAGIC . Tennyson makes me love vampires all
over again, but the very yummy and oh-so-loyal Jaxon
Dearborn stole
my heart, even as I want to know more about his skin-walking
abilities.
STRAY MAGIC is the first
book in
Meding's Strays series and oh
wow, what a fantastic start it is! I don't know how I've
missed
reading anything else by Kelly Meding but I'll definitely be
correcting
this oversight in the near future. Strays is kick-butt urban fantasy at its finest,
with a strong
heroine willing to sacrifice anything to save others. Oh,
and the
cliffhanger... I can't wait for the next installment! If you
love urban
fantasy, don't miss out on STRAY
MAGIC !
Shiloh Harrison was hoping for a few days off to recover
from a particularly nasty assignment, preferably with the
help of the talented hands (and, well, the rest of his body
too) of her sexy boyfriend, Vincent. But when a group of
vampires takes an entire trailer park hostage, there's
nothing to do but make her apologies and get to the
scene.
Such is the life of a Federal Marshal in the
Paranormal Investigators Unit.
Yet this isn't like
her typical track-and-nab case: something is going on that
has vampires scared, and it takes all her strength
not to imagine what could frighten such powerful
creatures. Unfortunately, she doesn't have that option. Her
boss is MIA, someone is snatching vampires, and there's a
ticking clock that can only end one way: a
bloodbath.
Unless she can stop it.
The first
book in a new series, Stray Magic is a dark and
sexy mystery, with enough twists and curves to keep you on
the edge of your seat until the very end.
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