BY THE HORNS by Ruby Dixon

RUBY DIXON leaves her Ice Planet and returns for the second book of the ROYAL ARTIFACTUAL GUILD series in BY THE HORNS. Imagine a world where Mancers wielded magic freely and every day objects were enchanted for use by all citizens. Then the civilization was destroyed in a catastrophic event. In the present day, magic is banned and the Royal Artifact Guild searches the ruins below for valuable magic objects to sell to wealthy landholders. Every year, the Guild recruits new prospects to apprentice under Masters in teams of five.

Servant Gwynna travelled to the Capital City so the bookish daughter of the local Lord could follow her dream of joining the Guild. Now that Aspeth has married a Taurian (Minotaur) and become an archivist with the Guild, Gwynna awaits her chance to attain more than emptying chamber pots and cleaning windows. But she has a secret skill that she can’t control and must hide from her fellow fledglings, including sexy Taurian, Raptor, who has his own hidden investigation.

No one is better than Dixon for unique world-building and spicy monster
romance. Hope there are more books in the series to come.

In a world of magical artifacts and fantastical beings, a woman with a deadly magic secret needs the help of the minotaur she’s trying to forget in the sizzling sequel to Ruby Dixon's New York Times bestseller Bull Moon Rising.

Gwenna has always considered herself a normal person. A former servant, she wants nothing more than to land a steady job with the Royal Artifactual Guild so she can make some steady coin to send home to her mother. She's not special. She's certainly not a necromancer. That would be impossible, given how necromancing (or any 'mancing) is forbidden upon penalty of death. So if the dead keep talking to her? Well, she's going to keep on ignoring them. They're not going to stand in the way of her dreams.

Also standing in her way? One big, arrogant, far-too-flirty Taurian named Raptor. They slept together once, and now he wants more . . . but she doesn’t have time for that. Her focus is on being a fledgling, a trainee for the Royal Artifactual Guild. But Raptor won't go away. He's on a secret mission for the guild to find an artifact thief.

Problem is, he thinks the thief is Gwenna.

How can she convince Raptor that he's got the wrong girl when all the signs point to her? And how do you tell a Taurian you can't date him because you hear dead people and it might cost you your life?

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