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In New Orleans, the most dangerous things wear a shine—and Evelyn Wight can see every last one of them.

Evelyn is a witch-for-hire with a rare gift: she sees magic the way other people see moonlight. It's made her the best magical thief in the city. It's also a secret that has made her very, very good at working alone. When her latest job lands her a book radiating the darkest magic she's ever encountered, she does something spectacularly bad for business—she refuses to hand it over. Now ...
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In New Orleans, the most dangerous things wear a shine—and Evelyn Wight can see every last one of them.

Evelyn is a witch-for-hire with a rare gift: she sees magic the way other people see moonlight. It's made her the best magical thief in the city. It's also a secret that has made her very, very good at working alone. When her latest job lands her a book radiating the darkest magic she's ever encountered, she does something spectacularly bad for business—she refuses to hand it over. Now she's holding the most wanted object in New Orleans, the world's oldest coven is hunting her, and her only way out is down.

Beneath the streets of New Orleans lies the Dark City, a magically-sustained underworld where a mad king holds court in an eighteenth-century Bavarian ballroom, strange creatures offer rides through cotton-candy kingdoms, and ancient magic that should have died in the Dark Ages is very much alive. Her reluctant companion is Valen, her client's annoyingly competent head of security, and a man she trusts approximately as far as she could throw him. Which, given his size, is not far at all.

Evelyn has survived this long by needing nobody. But some dangers are too old, too hungry, and too personal to face alone—and the price of survival might be the one thing she's never been willing to do.

Darkly funny, relentlessly paced, and set in a New Orleans that will swallow you whole, The Book Witch is perfect for fans of Ilona Andrews and T. Kingfisher. Start the series today.
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