

Paige Winterbourne is the head of the Interracial Council and runs a law and private investigation firm with her husband, Lucas Cortez. Lucifer is Hope’s father Will is the father who raised her.

Joel Adams is Hope’s brother and Karl’s, sort of, boss at a security company. Nita is their daughter with a thirst for adventure. He’s also a member of the North American Pack of which Noah is the youngest member. Karl Marsten, her husband, is a werewolf clotheshorse (he loves shopping), a retired international jewel thief whose reputation has always been as an honorable man, and Nita’s primary caregiver. The pregnant Hope Adams is an Expisco (chaos) half-demon with a direct line to other people’s chaotic thoughts and is the editor at True News. It’s also a sad hypocrisy of a “bad guy” who is such a good guy, and another character who was raised in wealth and spoiled to death with it, who can betray at the drop of a hat, er, dog. Yet it’s first person protagonist point-of-view from Hope’s perspective, and she can feel how much he misses the challenge of his previous career, and the latest project has him itching. This new novelette is a sweet insight into Karl and his, ahem, reformation. “Counterfeit Magic”, 10.4 with Paige Winterbourne and Lucas Cortez The Stories “Life After Theft” “Zen and the Art of Vampirism”, 9.2 with Zoe “The Ungrateful Dead”, 8.1 with Jaime Vegas

“Forbidden”, 10.3 with Morgan Walsh and Elena and Clay “Life After Theft”, 10.2 with Karl and Hope The fourth anthology in the Women of the Otherworld urban fantasy series comes with an even split of two short stories, two novelettes, and two novellas all revolving around different characters within the series. Other books by this author which I have reviewed include Broken, Personal Demon, Living with the Dead, Men of the Otherworld, Tales of the Otherworld, Frostbitten, Dates from Hell, Exit Strategy, Made to Be Broken, The Reckoning, Aftertaste, Kisses from Hell, Omens, Wild Justice, Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions, Visions, Deceptions, The Masked Truth, City of the Lost, Empire of Night, Forest of Ruin, Betrayals, A Darkness Absolute, Indigo, Rituals, The Unquiet Past, This Fallen Prey, Stolen, Rough Justice, Dime Store Magic, Industrial Magic, Haunted, Broken, Waking the Witch, Portents, Missing, Alone in the Wild, Watcher in the Woods, Wherever She Goes, "The Case of the Half-Demon Spy", "Escape", Otherworld Chills, A Stranger in Town, "Bargain", Hex on the Beach, "Recruit", "Checkmate", "Framed", Cursed Luck, High Jinx, Bitten, Driven, "Forsaken", The Deepest of Secrets It is part of the Women of the Otherworld series and is a urban fantasy in a paperback edition that was published by Plume on Januand has 416 pages. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

I received this book for free from the library in exchange for an honest review.
