Mercenary

USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Blackstream brings a darker twist to urban fantasy with the latest heart-pounding installment of the Blood Trails series.

Political intrigue is for wizards.

Shade has never agreed with her old mentor's advice more than she does now. But if unraveling a political conspiracy is her only chance to escape the past month of magical boot camp and goblin-sparring, interspersed with seductive attempts by her sidhe master to make their relationship permanent, then so be it.

A government spook saw something he shouldn't have—a glimpse of the Otherworld that's costing him his sanity. All Shade has to do is find out what he witnessed before news of his instability reaches his ruthless employers and renders him a liability. Easy peasy.

Until Shade learns that for a human with no knowledge of the Otherworld, this spook has a lot of monsters pulling his strings. Demons, sidhe, sorceresses, even the vampiric crime lord of Cleveland himself. Any one of them could have frightened the political fixer into madness.

And they'll do much worse to Shade if she threatens to uncover their secrets.

Politics makes strange bedfellows...