Magic Rises (Kate Daniels, #6)

by Ilona Andrews

“Did you read the instructions?” He shook his head. “Why, were you afraid they’d take your man card away?”

I elbowed Curran. “Their castle is bigger.” He winked at me. “Mine is taller. It’s not the size of the castle. It’s what you do with it.”

Go to the Black Sea, meet new people, see beautiful places, get killed by a mutant carnivorous kangaroo goat. One item off my bucket list.

44%

“Are you waiting for a clue to fall on your head?” Derek asked. “Yep. Tell me if you see one coming.”

It could be just a sparring accident. My sword slipped and cut through his aorta. Oopsies. Dreadfully sorry.

I’d managed to find a hobbit in the Caucasus Mountains. I wondered what he would do if I asked him about second breakfast.

“He said that the man must be your husband, because only someone we love very much can make us this crazy.”