Nadia had come back to herself.Īfter a few minutes, my head cleared, and I was able to sit up. Apart from my physical state, the rest of me was giddy with happiness. I lay still, focusing on breathing slowly and riding out the sloshing waves of nausea. I heard Nadia pull open the door and then shut it again. She squeezed my hand, her grasp lingering for a few seconds before letting me go. But it had been worth it just to see she was okay. “Raphael.” I covered my face with my hands, wishing I’d given myself a few more hours of rest before traipsing around the Station. That had to be a good sign-Nadia was able to worry about someone other than herself. “I’m going to go get that doctor for you. Her brows were drawn together in concern. “Maybe you should lie down.” She pushed my shoulder, and I flopped back on the cot. I could just see her figure bobbing among the spots. “Amid? Was that the Guard?” Nadia went to the door and peered out.

I think I spent all my energy sending Amid away.” I rubbed my eyes, trying to stop the spinning. With Asa by her side, she’ll face not only the supernatural forces arrayed against her but the all-too-human temptation that she fears she can’t resist.Unable to stand any longer, I let her guide me to Ana’s cot and sank onto it. Now, from magic-laced Vegas casinos to the netherworld clubs of Bangkok, Mattie is on a rescue mission. Asa agrees to help find Ben on one condition: Mattie must use her uncommon talent to assist his smuggling operations.

Asa has the power to sense magic, and he realizes Mattie is a reliquary, someone with the rare ability to carry magic within her own body, undetected. It’s wildly addictive, capable of producing everything from hellish anguish to sensual ecstasy almost beyond human endurance.ĭetermined to find out who took Ben and why, Mattie immerses herself in a shadowy underworld and comes face-to-face with the darkly alluring Asa Ward, a rogue magic dealer, infamous hustler…and her missing fiancé’s estranged brother. But when her fiancé, Ben, is violently abducted the next morning, her desperate quest to find him rips her away from small-town life and reveals a shattering truth: magic is real-and Ben is hooked. Mattie Carver’s engagement party should have marked the start of her own personal fairy tale.

Reliquary by Sarah Fine