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License to Ensorcell

Nola O'Grady #1 / 4
by Katharine Kerr
License to Ensorcell (Nola O'Grady #1) by Katharine Kerr
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FIRST IN A NEW URBAN FANTASY SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE DEVERRY NOVELS.

Psychic Agent Nola O'Grady isn't sure returning to San Francisco, and living near her unusual family, is a good idea. Her job, with a psychic agency so obscure even the CIA doesn't know it exists, can be perilous, and she's afraid of the relatives getting involved.

Then the Agency saddles her with Israeli secret agent Ari Nathan, and she has a bigger problem on her hands, because tact and compromise are not Ari's strong points. Their mission is to track down a serial killer obsessed with werewolves. He sees them everywhere and shoots whenever he thinks he has one in his sights. Ari assumes the man's psychotic, but in truth he's murdering actual werewolves. Nola should know. Her younger brother Pat, a lycanthrope, was the first victim.

Can Nola's psychic talents and Ari's skill with guns keep them alive long enough to unravel the greater mystery behind the killings? Can they save the werewolves and the world while stopping Nola's family from running headlong into danger?

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FantasyUrban Fantasy
Release date: January 28, 2011

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Katharine Kerr

Katharine Kerr

In the realm of epic fantasy, few names echo with the same fierce clarity as Katharine Kerr. Best known for her immersive Deverry Cycle, Kerr didn’t just create a world—she wove a tapestry of time, memory, and reincarnation that spanned centuries, yet remained achingly intimate. Her stories pulse with Celtic inspiration, layered timelines, and flawed, deeply human characters who evolve across lives and generations.

But Kerr’s journey to fantasy legend wasn’t charted from childhood. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she was more interested in jazz and science fiction than medieval swords and sorcery. It wasn’t until she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area—where myth and counterculture have long danced together—that her path bent toward high fantasy. A longtime fan of roleplaying games, she began designing complex worlds for tabletop campaigns before ever writing a novel. That attention to internal logic and continuity became a hallmark of her fiction. Unlike many traditional fantasy epics, the Deverry books don’t rely on prophecy or fate. They depend on choices—some noble, many terrible—and the way consequences echo through lifetimes.

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Her prose is deliberate and lyrical, often laced with an almost folkloric cadence that sets her apart in the genre. Kerr never shied away from moral ambiguity, nor did she sanitize the brutality of her imagined world. Yet even in the darkest corners of Deverry, there's a thread of compassion running through—the quiet possibility of redemption.

Over the decades, her work has earned a fiercely loyal readership, not through marketing hype, but through the depth of her worldbuilding and the emotional resonance of her characters. Critics have lauded her for reimagining the genre’s possibilities, threading reincarnation into epic fantasy in a way that feels not only plausible, but inevitable.

As Kerr once noted in an interview, “If you remember who you were, can you really be who you are now?” That single question, perhaps more than any sword or spell, captures the soul of her storytelling.

For readers new to her work, the Deverry series is an experience of discovery—a puzzle across lifetimes, a meditation on cause and consequence, and a masterclass in immersive fantasy that rewards patience with wonder.

Nola O'Grady

Nola O'Grady consists of four books. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

License to Ensorcell (Nola O'Grady #1)
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Water to Burn (Nola O'Grady #2)
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Apocalypse to Go (Nola O'Grady #3)
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Love on the Run (Nola O'Grady #4)
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